John
Henry Schramm
Photo: AS
25 MAY 2015 Updated:
15 FEB 2018
1948 -
Ardennes, BELGIUM
Airman: u096080.htm
Surname: Schramm Init: J H Rank: Sgt Service: USAAF
Sqdn: 755P_link: p278.htm
Plane: B24 42-52432 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Venslev
Crash_d: d090444 Buried_d: b300444
C_link: c096.htm At_Next: Svinø
Sgt. E.W. Cisek blev begravet på Svinø Kirkegård
11/4 1944 sammen med Sgt. Stilles og Sgt. Sheren.
Ball Turret Gunner Sgt John Henry Schramm, som blev fundet da flyvraget
blev taget bort,
blev begravet på Svinø 30/4 1944.
Alle amerikanske flyvere begravet på Svinø blev
gravet op og hjemført i 1948. (Kilder: FAF
og AOD)
Han er dog stadig begravet på
Ardennes American
Cemetery
i Belgien.
Plot B Row 40 Grave 51. Hæderstegn:
Purple Heart,
Air Medal.
Han kom i tjenesten fra Vermont. (Kilde:
ABMC)
De andre 6 medlemmer af besætningen overlevede.
På Venslev Kirkegård blev der 2/9 1945 rejst en
mindesten for de faldne, som er
begravet
på Svinø Kirkegård.
Se Monument for 46 amerikanske flyvere.
Se også Photo of Crew 68 of 755th
Squadron, 458th Bombardment Group, MACR, links to Reports, list of Missions and
account from
Pilot, 2nd Lt B.E. Logie.
10 flyvere.
Sgt. E.W. Cisek was buried in Svinø
Churchyard on
11 April, 1944 together with
Sgt. Stilles and Sgt. Sheren.
Ball Turret Gunner Sgt John Henry Schramm, who was found when the
wreck of the plane was taken away,
was buried at Svinø on 30 April, 1944. The other 6 members of the crew survived.
(Sources: FAF and AOD)
See Monument to 46 American airmen.
In 1948 he and other
American airmen from Svinø were taken to
Ardennes American
Cemetery in BELGIUM. He stills rests
there.
He entered the Service from Vermont. Buried at
Plot B Row 40 Grave 51. Awards:
Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster,
Purple Heart
(Source: ABMC)
A memorial stone commemorating the fallen, who are buried
in Svinø Churchyard, was
erected on Venslev Churchyard on 2 September 1945.
See Photo of Crew 68 of 755th
Squadron, 458th Bombardment Group, MACR, links to Reports, list of Missions and
account from
Pilot, 2nd Lt B.E. Logie.
This B-24 Liberator belonged to
755 BS, 458
BG, 96 CBW, 2 BD. It took off from
Royal Air Force
Station Horsham St Faith USAAF Station 123. 10 airmen.
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