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Schneider Waldo B.

Name:
Waldo B. Schneider
Rank:
First Lieutenant
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Date of Death:
1944-12-07
State:
Kansas
Cemetery:
Sunset Cemetery, Manhattan, Kansas
Plot:
24-G-26-N
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Waldo B. Schneider was born on December 6, 1918 in Manhattan, Riley County, Kansas. He was working at Caterpillar Tractor Co., and was with the 130th National Guard Unit before he enlisted in Peoria on March 5, 1941 as a Sgt. and was able to get his commission as a 2nd Lt. at Fort Knox, Kentucky. He was in an Armour Division before he transferred to the Air Corps as a Navigator.

Lt. Schneider was lost in action over China after returning from a raid on the Mukden Aircraft Factory in China on December 7, 1944, when the plane hit the side of a mountain, while serving with the 468th Army Air Force Bomb Group of the 20th Bomber Command flying as a left gunner on a B-29 Bomber, "Party Girl".

This group was flying out of Pengshan, China at the time, and their Commander was Colonel James V. Edmundson, {1944-1946}. Their main base of Operations was out of Kharagpur, India.

1Lt Schneider is now buried in the Sunset Cemetery, Manhattan, Riley County, Kansas, USA. He was one of over 2000 Americans who lost their lives defending China from their Japanese invaders from 1941-1945. He is commemorated on the The Monument to the Aviation Martyrs in the War of Resistance Against Japan in Nanjing, China.

Source of information: www.findagrave.com