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Personal info

Full name
SCHADE, Earl Samuel
Date of birth
19 November 1924
Age
19
Place of birth
Hazleton, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Harleigh, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
13128319
Rank
Sergeant
Function
Ball Turret Gunner
Unit
367th Bombardment Squadron,
306th Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
22 February 1944
Place of death
Rieferath, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Plot Row Grave
D 10 57

Immediate family

Members
Harry W. Schade (father)
Catherine E. (Paisley) Schade (mother)
Harry C. Schade (brother)
Anna A. Schade (sister)
Kenneth F. Schade (brother)
Andrew Schade (brother)
John D. Schade (brother)
Ruth Schade (sister)

Plane data

Serial number
42-31670
Data
Type: B-17G
Nickname: Caught in the Draft
Destination: Bernberg, Germany
Mission: Bombing of the Junkers Motoren-Werke aviation industry
MACR: 2654

More information

Earl S. Schade graduated from Hazle Township High School in 1942.

He volunteered for the Air Corps of the Army of the United States in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on 25 November 1942.

The airplane was attacked by enemy fighters and cracked in the air, went into a spin and crashed.

Six crew members survived and ware taken prisoner. Four men were killed. They were initially buried at the cemetery of Herchen on 25 February 1944.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil / Family Trees, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.fold3.com - MACR, www.newspapers.com - The Plain Speaker 

Photo source: Bonnie Lynn / http://www.ancestry.com/, Peter Schouteten, www.newspapers.com - The Plain Speaker