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PVT Jerome Schary

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PVT Jerome Schary Veteran

Birth
Rockaway Park, Queens County, New York, USA
Death
23 May 1945 (aged 26)
Taillefontaine, Departement de l'Aisne, Picardie, France
Burial
Springfield Gardens, Queens County, New York, USA Add to Map
Plot
Block: 16 Row: 006R Grave: 7 Section: Plot: Society Name: INDEPENDENT BRISKER YOUNG MEN
Memorial ID
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U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #12122104

Jerome Schary is listed as Died Non-Battle in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Kings County, New York.

New York, New York, U.S., Birth Index, 1910-1965 lists birth date of 30 Aug 1918 in Queens, New York City, New York.

U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 lists his residence as 605 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York. Contact person listed as Ben Schary (Father) of same address. Place of birth listed as Rockaway Park, New York on 08/30/1918. Middle initial listed as M. Employed by American Diamond Company, 68 Nassau Street, New York, New York as of 10/16/1940 registration date.

Information below gleaned from: https://www.uswarmemorials.org/html/people_details.php?PeopleID=25942

Jerome Schary served in the US military 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. 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.

The crew of C-46D #44-77507:
Pond, Rex L - 1st Lt, Pilot, Utah
Weid, Claude H - 1st Lt, Co-Pilot, Illinois
Hill, Herbert H - Tech/3, Medical Team, Iowa
Vermillion, Edward V, Jr - Sgt, Medical Team, Virginia

41 passengers on C-46D #44-77507:
Barton, Graham J - Maj, Mississippi
Bordelon, Eugene A - Pvt., Louisiana
Brancati, Vincent J - Pvt., New York
Branstetter, George O - Pfc, Oklahoma
Callihan, Richard - Tec/5, Kentucky
Carpenter, Carl L - Tec/5, Georgia
Carter, Leonard S - Pfc, South Carolina
Cote, Wilfred S - T/Sgt., New Hampshire
D'Amico, Floyd - Pfc, New York
Davis, Homer P - Tec/4, Missouri
Doyon, Joseph O - Pfc, Maine
Eagan, Leonidas E - Pfc, Colorado
Erlich, Maurie - Pfc, Missouri
Farris, William C - Pfc, Oklahoma
Garrity, Jack M - Tec/5, California
Gorrell, Denver, Jr - Pvt., Ohio
Gronkowski, Edward M - Pvt., Illinois
Hutchings, Walter S - 1st Lt, Illinois
Icenhour, Eugene J - T/5, Pennsylvania
Jankowski, Henry E - Pfc, New York
Kittrell, Floyd A - Tec/4, Florida
Maron, Joseph P - Tec/5, Ohio
Martel, Arthur R - Corp, Maine
Martin, James A - Pfc, Florida
McDonald, George S - S/Sgt., Kentucky
McGill, James P - Pvt., North Carolina
McNeal, Robert - Pfc, Georgia
Owens, Woodrow W - Pfc, Tennessee
Perkins, Richard W - Corp, New Jersey
Plante, Amos A - Capt., New Jersey
Quillin, William H - 1st Lt
Ronn, Eric L - Pfc
Runolfson, Loren A - Pfc, Washington
Sanderfur, James M - Tec/5, Indiana
Schary, Jerome - Pvt., New York
Shaw, Charles H - Pvt., California
Sheppard, Marion W - Pfc, Virginia
Smith, Wilson F - Corp, California
Sysock, Peter - Pfc, New York
Thibeault, Emmett A - Pfc, Michigan
Zell, Wayne L - Tec/4, Indiana
U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #12122104

Jerome Schary is listed as Died Non-Battle in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Kings County, New York.

New York, New York, U.S., Birth Index, 1910-1965 lists birth date of 30 Aug 1918 in Queens, New York City, New York.

U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 lists his residence as 605 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York. Contact person listed as Ben Schary (Father) of same address. Place of birth listed as Rockaway Park, New York on 08/30/1918. Middle initial listed as M. Employed by American Diamond Company, 68 Nassau Street, New York, New York as of 10/16/1940 registration date.

Information below gleaned from: https://www.uswarmemorials.org/html/people_details.php?PeopleID=25942

Jerome Schary served in the US military 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. 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.

The crew of C-46D #44-77507:
Pond, Rex L - 1st Lt, Pilot, Utah
Weid, Claude H - 1st Lt, Co-Pilot, Illinois
Hill, Herbert H - Tech/3, Medical Team, Iowa
Vermillion, Edward V, Jr - Sgt, Medical Team, Virginia

41 passengers on C-46D #44-77507:
Barton, Graham J - Maj, Mississippi
Bordelon, Eugene A - Pvt., Louisiana
Brancati, Vincent J - Pvt., New York
Branstetter, George O - Pfc, Oklahoma
Callihan, Richard - Tec/5, Kentucky
Carpenter, Carl L - Tec/5, Georgia
Carter, Leonard S - Pfc, South Carolina
Cote, Wilfred S - T/Sgt., New Hampshire
D'Amico, Floyd - Pfc, New York
Davis, Homer P - Tec/4, Missouri
Doyon, Joseph O - Pfc, Maine
Eagan, Leonidas E - Pfc, Colorado
Erlich, Maurie - Pfc, Missouri
Farris, William C - Pfc, Oklahoma
Garrity, Jack M - Tec/5, California
Gorrell, Denver, Jr - Pvt., Ohio
Gronkowski, Edward M - Pvt., Illinois
Hutchings, Walter S - 1st Lt, Illinois
Icenhour, Eugene J - T/5, Pennsylvania
Jankowski, Henry E - Pfc, New York
Kittrell, Floyd A - Tec/4, Florida
Maron, Joseph P - Tec/5, Ohio
Martel, Arthur R - Corp, Maine
Martin, James A - Pfc, Florida
McDonald, George S - S/Sgt., Kentucky
McGill, James P - Pvt., North Carolina
McNeal, Robert - Pfc, Georgia
Owens, Woodrow W - Pfc, Tennessee
Perkins, Richard W - Corp, New Jersey
Plante, Amos A - Capt., New Jersey
Quillin, William H - 1st Lt
Ronn, Eric L - Pfc
Runolfson, Loren A - Pfc, Washington
Sanderfur, James M - Tec/5, Indiana
Schary, Jerome - Pvt., New York
Shaw, Charles H - Pvt., California
Sheppard, Marion W - Pfc, Virginia
Smith, Wilson F - Corp, California
Sysock, Peter - Pfc, New York
Thibeault, Emmett A - Pfc, Michigan
Zell, Wayne L - Tec/4, Indiana

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