Julius H Schultz
Military11-Mar-44 Shot down by AA fire in B-17G 42-97484, 447BG/710BS while serving as Tail Gunner. Aircraft crashed in the North Sea off Haamstede, Holland on a mission to Munster, Germany. Most aircrew landed on sandbank at low tide, but their pleas for help to German workers and soldiers as tide came in were ignored and they all drowned. After war searches for those responsible failed. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 447th Bomb Group 710th Bomb Squadron
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Died |
11 March 1944 | ||
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Germany | 11 March 1944 - 29 April 1945 | Held at Stalag Luft 3, Sagan-Silesia, (now Poland). Liberated by Soviet forces on 27-Jan-1945. |
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Other Last Report Date (Discharged) |
25 June 1945 | Last report date - discharged in the US. | |
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Born |
Blacksburg, Virginia, USA |
Revisions
Lee Cunningham 23-Feb-2016. Added crew position to Summary Biography per MACR 3188.
Lee Cunningham 23-Feb-2016. Added Last Report Date event per NARA WWIII POW database record.
Lee Cunningham 23-Feb-2016. Edited Summary Biography with loss details per "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" Stan Bishop and John A. Hey MBE; Added POW event note per NARA WWII POW database.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3188 / MACR 3188, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database