B-17 navigator First Lieutenant Neil 'Dutch' Schrader served with the 398th Bomb Group based at Podington and later at Nuthampstead.



'Dutch' Schrader joined the US Army in 1941, and initially served with the infantry. He was sent to England in April 1944 and flew 10 combat missions as a navigator from Podington, Bedfordshire and Nuthampstead, Hertfordshire and Essex. Ill-health led to his transfer to another job in Air-Sea Rescue, and he left the forces after the war ended. He went on to become a Professor of English and taught at Hiram College in his native state of Ohio from 1955 until his death in 1961.