Sgt. Frederick Schmidt
Born: 30 November 1924 – Maywood, Illinois
Parents: Solomon Schmidt and Amalia Schneider-Schmidt
Siblings: 2 sisters, 2 brothers
Home:
– 507 South Eleventh Avenue – Maywood, Illinois
Education:
– St. Paul Lutheran School – Melrose Park, Illinois
– Proviso Township High School
– Class of 1942
Employment: Carl Bunning Company – Chicago, Illinois
Selective Service Registration: 29 December 1942
Contact Person: Amalia Schmidt – mother
Inducted:
– U.S. Army Air Corps
– March 1943
Serial Number: 36739281
Training:
– Sheppard Army Airfield, Wichita Falls, Texas
– Lincoln Army Airfield, Lincoln, Nebraska
– waist gunner
– Peterson Airfield, Colorado Springs, Colorado
– combat crew training school
– Liberator bomber
Unit: 755th Bomb Squadron, 458th Bomb Group (Heavy), 8th Air Force
Stationed:
– 31 July 44 – Horsham St. Faith, England
Plane: B-24 – “Chicago Shirl”
– member of 1st Lt. Frank H. Morris’s crew – crew photo
Engagements:
– 1st Mission – 12 August 1944
– airfield – Mourmelon, France
– three bombing missions between 12 August 1944 to 25 August 1944
– Last Mission – 25 August 1944
– Dornier Aircraft Factory – Lubeck, Germany
– Killed in Action:
– 25 August 1944
– his plane was hit by flak over Fahretoft, Germany
– the plane stayed level for five minutes allowing crew members to bail out, but the plane blew up before Schmidt and two other crew members could bailout
Buried:
– 26 August 1944 – Cemetery Leck, Germany
Reburied:
– 14 June 1949 – Mount Auburn Cemetery – Stickney, Illinois
Note: – 2 May 1944 – His brother, David, was also reported Missing in Action
– 20 July 1945 – David was declared dead
