Richard H Schoenberger
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
“23094 AC – Left to right : 2nd Lt. Orval H. Mickelson, Hot Springs, S.D.; 2nd Lt. Albert C. Naum (unknown); 2nd Lt. Robert E. Nelson, Riverside, calif.; 2nd Lt. Richard Schoenberger, Miamisburg, Ohio.” (Awards ceremony in Egypt – photo sent on 3 March 1943 by Lt. Tom Prideaux, from 9th Combat Camera Unit, Cairo, Egypt.) Note : There are five men on the photo and four names in the caption, but comparing photo 23094 AC with 23095 AC, one can determine that in this photo, Albert C. Naum is indeed 2nd from left and Richard Schoenberger, 4th from left.
Added photo
Object Number - UPL 20448 - Original USAAF photo caption : “23094 AC – Left to right : 2nd Lt. Orval H. Mickelson, Hot Springs, S.D.; 2nd Lt. Albert C. Naum (unknown); 2nd...
Richard Schoenberger was the Navigator on B-24 #41-24025 'Satan's Chariot' on the 31 March 1943 mission to Rotterdam. The plane was last seen heading for England and was lost in the North Sea. Killed in Action (KIA). Still listed as Missing In Action (MIA)
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 409th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 35259633
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 409th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16019012 and O-442942
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 409th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 14057097
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 409th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 11044159
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 409th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16023523
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Satan's Chariot
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 409th Bomb Squadron
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Born |
Ohio, United States | 22 July 1918 | the son of Henry and Florence Schoenberger |
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Enlisted |
Patterson Field, Fairfield, Ohio, United States | 11 June 1941 | as a Private in the Air Corps |
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Other Missing In Action (MIA) |
North Sea | 31 March 1943 | On board B-24 # 41-24025 when it was lost in the North Sea |
| Miamisburg, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States | |||
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Other Memorialized |
Cambridge American Cemetery And Memorial, Coton, Cambridge, United Kingdom | Memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing at the Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial | |
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Other Memorialized |
Hill Grove Cemetery, Miamisburg, Ohio, United States |
Revisions
NARA WWII Enlistment records
ABMC website
US 1940 Census
ABMC, Roll of Honor, Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. 1 by Bishop and Hey, p. 94, Ted's Travelling Circus by Carroll (Cal) Stewart, p. 89 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia
