Paul Clair Schommer
Military
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UPL 45468
Standing L-R Herbert Jahnke, Paul Schommer
Kneeling L-R Sterling O Jones, Dexter B Jordan
Kneeling L-R Sterling O Jones, Dexter B Jordan
Assigned to 7BS, 34BG, 8AF USAAF. ETD
Awards: GC, 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
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: The Near Sighted Robin
- Unit: 34th Bomb Group 7th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 34th Bomb Group 7th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 34th Bomb Group 4th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Gallipolis Special, Sweet Seventeen
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: RAF Mendlesham
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Saint Paul, Ramsey County, MN | 21 January 1923 | Son of Peter Paul and Alice Frances [Woiwode] Schommer. |
Enlisted |
Fort Snelling, Minnesota | 12 December 1942 | Fort Snelling Minnesota |
Other Discharged USAAF |
10 October 1945 | Honourable discharge. | |
Died |
Saint Paul, MN | 7 March 2001 | |
Buried |
Fort Snelling National Cemetery Minneapolis, Hennepin County, MN | 10 March 2011 | Fort Snelling National Cemetery Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota |
Based |
Mendlesham | Assigned to 7BS, 34BG, 8AF USAAF. |
Revisions
ContributorAl_Skiff
Changes
Sources
https://www.fold3.com/image/617284374
https://www.fold3.com/record/63521969-paul-c-schommer
https://www.fold3.com/record/84678152-paul-c-schommer
https://www.fold3.com/record/625100765-paul-schommer-1923
http://valortovictory.tripod.com/CrewChiefs.htm
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/66763456/paul-clair-schommer
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources
1996 34th BG Roster / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia