Richard Gustave Schmidt
Military
Rear Row L - R : Sgt Clennie C Shults, S/Sgt Armand L Provencher, Unk, Sgt Adrian L Shutes, Sgt Edward Trambitsky, Unk.
Front row L-R : 2Lt Vernon A Arneson, Unk, Unk, 2Lt George J Gilmore Jr.
Unknowns - S/Sgt Frederic E Webb, S/Sgt Richard G Schmidt, 2Lt's John H Dean and Jerome E Kleinburg.
Object Number - UPL 37626 - Lt Vernon Arneson crew, 614BS, 401BG, 8AF. Rear Row L - R : Sgt Clennie C Shults, S/Sgt Armand L Provencher, Unk, Sgt Adrian L Shutes, Sgt Edward...
Assigned to 614BS, 401BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Osccherlsleben in B-17 42-38002; hit by flak, A/C set upon by fighters, 1 x engine dead, controls shotup, crew baled out. Schmidt could not bale out as parachute riddled by bullets, fought of fighters, downing a Me110, damaging a Me109 and a Ju88. Now alone on A/C with dead crewman, regained enough control to belly land A/C in potato field in Alvesse, NW of Brunswick. Captured 21-1-44. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 2661.
Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
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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
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 19083977 / O-741875
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 22 February 1944
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Benefield
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Oak Lawn, Illinois | 5 October 1923 | Son of Gustave Schmidt. |
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Other Belly landed damaged A/C |
Alvesse, Germany | 21 January 1944 | Failed to Return (FTR) Osccherlsleben in B-17 42-38002; A/C set upon by fighters, fought of fighters and belly landed A/C. POW. MACR 2661. |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Tychowo, Poland | 21 January 1944 | Prisoner of War (POW) [POW#1972]. Stalag Luft IV and latterly Stalag Luft VI [Room G4]. |
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Based |
Deenethorpe | 21 January 1944 | Assigned to 614BS, 401BG, 8AF USAAF. |
Revisions
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2661, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces
