1LT, 1252 AAF BASE UNIT WORLD WAR II∼Letter Confirms Death of Lieut. Geo. Schoonmaker
Veteran of Clipper Flights Killed in Air Crash in Germany
On Monday of this week. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Schoonmaker received a letter from the War Department which caused them to cease hoping that the telegram which they received on Nov. 13 that their son Lieut. George B. Schoonmaker, had been killed in an air crash in Germany had been a false report. The confirming letter stated that the aircrash had occurred on November 8 in Gitzenbergen, Germany.
Lieut. Schoonmaker was in active service since July 1944, stationed at Nashville, Tenn. In april, 1945, before going to Homestead, Fla. for special training on C-54s and B-24s in preparation for his overseas work.
George Bernard Schoonmaker was born March 2, 1909, at Keystone,PA. When he was 10 years old hisfamily moved to Smethport where George attended public school and two years of high school. Even in his childhood he got a kick out of living and took part in school activities and had a paper route, selling newspapers and magazines,thus getting acquainted with many residents of Smethport and vicinity.
In 1925 the family moved to Bradford where George graduated from high school In 1927. He then attended Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, graduating in 1930. During summer vacations he worked in the Dresser Mfg. Co. machine shop along with his dad to help finance his college education. Lieut.Schoonmaker and his brother, Master Sergeant Howard Schoonmaker, are both on Dresser company's honor roll and on the honor roll of the Bradford Hill Memorial United Brethren Church, of which he was a member, active in church and Sunday school work while in that city.
He is survived by his parents, a five-year-old daughter, Sharon Kathleen Schoonmaker, of Miami Fla; two sisters, Mrs. Byron Anderson of R.D. No.2, Bradford, and Mrs. Claude Douglas of R.D. 2, Eldred, and one brother, Master Sergeant Howard Schoonmaker, now home on furlough. He has many other relatives in Smethport, Bradford and vicinity.
(McKean County Democrat November 22, 1945)
Buried in Margraten, Holland
Veteran of Clipper Flights Killed in Air Crash in Germany
On Monday of this week. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Schoonmaker received a letter from the War Department which caused them to cease hoping that the telegram which they received on Nov. 13 that their son Lieut. George B. Schoonmaker, had been killed in an air crash in Germany had been a false report. The confirming letter stated that the aircrash had occurred on November 8 in Gitzenbergen, Germany.
Lieut. Schoonmaker was in active service since July 1944, stationed at Nashville, Tenn. In april, 1945, before going to Homestead, Fla. for special training on C-54s and B-24s in preparation for his overseas work.
George Bernard Schoonmaker was born March 2, 1909, at Keystone,PA. When he was 10 years old hisfamily moved to Smethport where George attended public school and two years of high school. Even in his childhood he got a kick out of living and took part in school activities and had a paper route, selling newspapers and magazines,thus getting acquainted with many residents of Smethport and vicinity.
In 1925 the family moved to Bradford where George graduated from high school In 1927. He then attended Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, graduating in 1930. During summer vacations he worked in the Dresser Mfg. Co. machine shop along with his dad to help finance his college education. Lieut.Schoonmaker and his brother, Master Sergeant Howard Schoonmaker, are both on Dresser company's honor roll and on the honor roll of the Bradford Hill Memorial United Brethren Church, of which he was a member, active in church and Sunday school work while in that city.
He is survived by his parents, a five-year-old daughter, Sharon Kathleen Schoonmaker, of Miami Fla; two sisters, Mrs. Byron Anderson of R.D. No.2, Bradford, and Mrs. Claude Douglas of R.D. 2, Eldred, and one brother, Master Sergeant Howard Schoonmaker, now home on furlough. He has many other relatives in Smethport, Bradford and vicinity.
(McKean County Democrat November 22, 1945)
Buried in Margraten, Holland
1LT, 1252 AAF BASE UNIT WORLD WAR II∼Letter Confirms Death of Lieut. Geo. Schoonmaker
Veteran of Clipper Flights Killed in Air Crash in Germany
On Monday of this week. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Schoonmaker received a letter from the War Department which caused them to cease hoping that the telegram which they received on Nov. 13 that their son Lieut. George B. Schoonmaker, had been killed in an air crash in Germany had been a false report. The confirming letter stated that the aircrash had occurred on November 8 in Gitzenbergen, Germany.
Lieut. Schoonmaker was in active service since July 1944, stationed at Nashville, Tenn. In april, 1945, before going to Homestead, Fla. for special training on C-54s and B-24s in preparation for his overseas work.
George Bernard Schoonmaker was born March 2, 1909, at Keystone,PA. When he was 10 years old hisfamily moved to Smethport where George attended public school and two years of high school. Even in his childhood he got a kick out of living and took part in school activities and had a paper route, selling newspapers and magazines,thus getting acquainted with many residents of Smethport and vicinity.
In 1925 the family moved to Bradford where George graduated from high school In 1927. He then attended Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, graduating in 1930. During summer vacations he worked in the Dresser Mfg. Co. machine shop along with his dad to help finance his college education. Lieut.Schoonmaker and his brother, Master Sergeant Howard Schoonmaker, are both on Dresser company's honor roll and on the honor roll of the Bradford Hill Memorial United Brethren Church, of which he was a member, active in church and Sunday school work while in that city.
He is survived by his parents, a five-year-old daughter, Sharon Kathleen Schoonmaker, of Miami Fla; two sisters, Mrs. Byron Anderson of R.D. No.2, Bradford, and Mrs. Claude Douglas of R.D. 2, Eldred, and one brother, Master Sergeant Howard Schoonmaker, now home on furlough. He has many other relatives in Smethport, Bradford and vicinity.
(McKean County Democrat November 22, 1945)
Buried in Margraten, Holland
Veteran of Clipper Flights Killed in Air Crash in Germany
On Monday of this week. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Schoonmaker received a letter from the War Department which caused them to cease hoping that the telegram which they received on Nov. 13 that their son Lieut. George B. Schoonmaker, had been killed in an air crash in Germany had been a false report. The confirming letter stated that the aircrash had occurred on November 8 in Gitzenbergen, Germany.
Lieut. Schoonmaker was in active service since July 1944, stationed at Nashville, Tenn. In april, 1945, before going to Homestead, Fla. for special training on C-54s and B-24s in preparation for his overseas work.
George Bernard Schoonmaker was born March 2, 1909, at Keystone,PA. When he was 10 years old hisfamily moved to Smethport where George attended public school and two years of high school. Even in his childhood he got a kick out of living and took part in school activities and had a paper route, selling newspapers and magazines,thus getting acquainted with many residents of Smethport and vicinity.
In 1925 the family moved to Bradford where George graduated from high school In 1927. He then attended Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, graduating in 1930. During summer vacations he worked in the Dresser Mfg. Co. machine shop along with his dad to help finance his college education. Lieut.Schoonmaker and his brother, Master Sergeant Howard Schoonmaker, are both on Dresser company's honor roll and on the honor roll of the Bradford Hill Memorial United Brethren Church, of which he was a member, active in church and Sunday school work while in that city.
He is survived by his parents, a five-year-old daughter, Sharon Kathleen Schoonmaker, of Miami Fla; two sisters, Mrs. Byron Anderson of R.D. No.2, Bradford, and Mrs. Claude Douglas of R.D. 2, Eldred, and one brother, Master Sergeant Howard Schoonmaker, now home on furlough. He has many other relatives in Smethport, Bradford and vicinity.
(McKean County Democrat November 22, 1945)
Buried in Margraten, Holland
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