Sgt. Donald L. Schubert, 11138661, was the Right Waist Gunner on B-29A #42-94034, Assigned to the 20th AAF, 29th BG(VH), 6th BS. Stationed at Guam. It departed from the North Field on a low level bombing mission to Kawasaki, Japan on 16 April 1945. A crew of 11 and 1 passenger, They were attacked by both ground anti-aircraft fire and Japanese fighter planes. They were shot down and crashed into the sea off Enoshima Island, Fujisawa-shi, Kanagawa-ken, Japan. Sgt. Schubert was one of three crewmen known to have parachuted and survived and became POW's of the Japanese Army. He was being held in the Shibuya POW Camp when on 26May 1945. Allied bombers fire bombed Tokyo. The Japanese guards kept the POW's trapped in their cells and could not escape the inferno. Remains were recovered in 1949 and sent to the U.S. He was memorialized on the Court of the Missing, Court 7. National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii. He was awarded the Air Medal and the Purple Heart. MACR 14271.
Sgt. Donald L. Schubert, 11138661, was the Right Waist Gunner on B-29A #42-94034, Assigned to the 20th AAF, 29th BG(VH), 6th BS. Stationed at Guam. It departed from the North Field on a low level bombing mission to Kawasaki, Japan on 16 April 1945. A crew of 11 and 1 passenger, They were attacked by both ground anti-aircraft fire and Japanese fighter planes. They were shot down and crashed into the sea off Enoshima Island, Fujisawa-shi, Kanagawa-ken, Japan. Sgt. Schubert was one of three crewmen known to have parachuted and survived and became POW's of the Japanese Army. He was being held in the Shibuya POW Camp when on 26May 1945. Allied bombers fire bombed Tokyo. The Japanese guards kept the POW's trapped in their cells and could not escape the inferno. Remains were recovered in 1949 and sent to the U.S. He was memorialized on the Court of the Missing, Court 7. National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii. He was awarded the Air Medal and the Purple Heart. MACR 14271.
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