Name:
Jerome Schary
Rank:
Private
Serial Number:
Unit:
Date of Death:
1945-05-23
State:
New York
Cemetery:
Montefiore Cemetery, New York
Plot:
Block 16
Row:
006R
Grave:
7
Decoration:
Comments:
Jerome Schary served in the US militray as a Private during World War II. On May 23, 1945, he was a passenger on Flight C-46D (4-77507) which was taking 41 American soldiers that were ill, injured, or repatriated prisoners of war to hospitals in the Paris, France area and was then eventually going to take them all back to the United States. This flight occurred after Germany's surrender on May 7, 1945. However this C-46, for unknown reasons, developed a fire in one of it's two engines and crashed near the village of Taillefontaine, near Paris. All men aboard were killed in the crash. PVT Schary is now buried in the Montefiore Cemetery, Springfield Gardens, Queens County, New York, USA.