363 TRG / 160 SQN
2LT SCHMITZ, HOWARD W.
From Annandale, Minnesota

MIA 28-11-1944 as pilot of F-6D / #44-13931 / 'Isabel' / MACR 10501. Hit by flak on a recce mission to Mersch. Crashed near Julich, Germany.

Lt Schmitz is commemorated on the Margraten Cemetery Walls of the Missing. Also see https://www.fieldsofhonor-database.com/…/44163-schmitz…

Source of the portrait photograph: Pilot Class Book 44-A, Curtis Field, Texas. Courtesy of my Fields of Honor Database colleague Ria who indexed this class book

Source:

USAAF Class Book Project ABMC American Cemeteries

_This story is part of the Stories Behind the Stars project _https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org/. This is a national effort of volunteers to write the stories of all 400,000+ of the US WWII fallen here on Fold3. Can you help write these stories? Related to this, there will be a smart phone app that will allow people to visit any war memorial or cemetery, scan the fallen's name and read his/her story.

Howard W Schmitz