Phillip Elbert Schmidlapp
MilitaryBack L-R: SSgt. Walter C. Parkins (FG), TSgt. Philip E. Schmidlapp (TT), SSgt. Floyd M. Wingate (FG), TSgt. Arthur E. Brittain (RO), SSgt. Win R. Smalley (BT)
Front L-R: 1st Lt. Gordon K. Stallings (OBS/TG), Capt. Richard T. Carrington Jr. (AC/CP), Capt. Michael H. Smithwick (B), Capt. Raymond P. Ketelsen (P), 1st Lt. Robin Everett Taber (N)
384th Bomb Group collection
The Quentin Bland Collection.
Shot down 12 August 1943 in B-17 #42-3231 'The Inferno', Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
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Units served with
People
Aircraft
Missions
- Date: 4 July 1943
- Date: 29 June 1943
- Date: 28 June 1943
- Date: 26 June 1943
- Date: 22 June 1943
Places
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Graham, IN | 23 July 1919 | |
Deputy, IN | 18 October 1940 | ||
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Zagan, Poland | 12 August 1943 | Stalag Luft 3 Sagan-Silesia Bavaria (Moved to Nuremberg-Langwasser) 49-11 (dates are approximate) |
Died |
Harris County, TX | 7 February 1989 | |
Enlisted |
Albuquerque, NM | 10 February 1989 | Sunset Memorial Park Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, USA Add to Map Plot Sec Add-West, lot 15 |
Other Shot Down/Captured |
Erfstadt, Germany | 12 August 1943 |
Revisions
Added POW Camp info to the POW event from WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA).
Added an association to Stalag Luft 3 per WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA).
Added a "-" to the A/C tail # in the "Summary biography" to aid clarity & consistency.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 287 / MACR 287, http://384thbombgroup.com/_content/_pages/PersonnelSearch.php?LastName=… / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database