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  • Capt. John Joseph Sherdel USAAC
  • Foil: 9 Panel: 2 Column: 1 Line: 70

    Wall of Honor Level:
    Air and Space Friend

    Honored by:
    Ms. Susanne Schaub

    Seventeen years military service with; US Army, Army Air Corp,
    Air National Guard, Air Force Reserve, and US Army Reserve.
    Became Army Air Corp, Pilot, 1944, and assigned US 8th Air Force,487th Bombardment
    837th Bombardment Squadron, located; Lavenham, England.
    Flew 18 combat missions over, France and Germany, until end of war,1945.
    Served, New York Air national Guard, out of Floyd Bennett Field,
    and Army National Guard, Miller Army Air Field, Staten Island.
    Flew, Stearman PT-17, BT-13, Curtis AT-9, Fortress B-17, Douglas B-26 T-33, L-19
    Cessna 172, Cessna 182.
    Combat Crew Robert S Kidd Co-Pilot
    Wiliam Kebea Bombardier Boyd P Denevan Navigator Lenard H Eseltine Engineer Robert S Rogers Radioman
    John C Barscz Ball Gun
    William H Whittington Waist Gun Rex B Adamson Waist Gun
    William J Sheehan Tail Gun

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