POW Corporal Harold O. Schroeder-WWII

According to the Conclusions of the Missing Crew Report:

"Colonels King and Brugge, Major Goldsworthy, Lieutenant Warde, Sergeants Goffery, Wells and Wright and Corporal Schroeder all bailed out safely and were captured by the Japanese. Colonel King, Colonel Brugge, Major Goldsworthy, Sergeant Goffery and Corporal Schroeder were taken to the same Japanese Federal Prison in downtown Tokyo, and remained there for several months."

POW Corporal Schroeder was released at the end of the war.

Please read the information below which contains more details about Corporal Schroeder.

Goldsworthy's Crew #101, 881st Squad of the ROSALIA ROCKET Crew Picture taken 10/9/44

Pictured Left to Right Standing 1/Lt. Walter J. PATYKULS-Bombardier 1/Lt. Benjamin F. EDWARDS-Navigator Maj. Robert F. GOLDSWORTHY-Commander 2/Lt. Robert E. SOLLOCK (replaced by Col. Richard T. KING on that fateful flight)-Pilot 1/Lt. Henry W. WARDE-Flight Engineer Knelling Sgt. Thomas M. GOFFERY-Rt. Gun. S/Sgt. James P. CORRIGAN-Tail Gun S/Sgt. Carl T. WELLS-Radar Cpl. Harold J. SCHROEDER-Lft. Gun. Cpl. Robert E. ABEL-Ring Gun. W Sgt. John A. WRIGHT-Radio

Click on their individual picture to read more about them (links will open into a new browser window.)

Although Robert Sollock (he was a part of the original crew) is pictured above, click his picture to read about Richard King, who replaced him that fateful flight.

Not pictured but present on flight that went down on 12/3/1944 were Col. Byron Brugge, as Observer.

Click here to read the Missing Crew Report

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