Glennon Schlueter was a navigator serving on a B-24 Liberator in the US Army Air Corps during WWII. He parachuted when his plane was shot down near Vienna, Austria, during a bombing raid. He commented that he was fortunate that the German soldiers rounded him up, as the local farmers, who were angry at the destruction from the bombers, were known to kill his fellow American Airmen with their pitchforks.
He was captured and held as a POW at Stalag Luft 1 at Barth, Germany until liberation by the Russians in May, 1945.
His family resided during the war and later in Glen Crossing, Illinois, which is located about three miles directly south of Edwardsville, Illinois.
After the war, Glennon Schlueter obtained a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois, and worked many years for a major agricultural products company in Chicago and Kansas City.
He died of cancer in the summer of 1995 and was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
--Bio provided by Find A Grave contributor Truman Bratteli
He was captured and held as a POW at Stalag Luft 1 at Barth, Germany until liberation by the Russians in May, 1945.
His family resided during the war and later in Glen Crossing, Illinois, which is located about three miles directly south of Edwardsville, Illinois.
After the war, Glennon Schlueter obtained a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois, and worked many years for a major agricultural products company in Chicago and Kansas City.
He died of cancer in the summer of 1995 and was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
--Bio provided by Find A Grave contributor Truman Bratteli
Glennon Schlueter was a navigator serving on a B-24 Liberator in the US Army Air Corps during WWII. He parachuted when his plane was shot down near Vienna, Austria, during a bombing raid. He commented that he was fortunate that the German soldiers rounded him up, as the local farmers, who were angry at the destruction from the bombers, were known to kill his fellow American Airmen with their pitchforks.
He was captured and held as a POW at Stalag Luft 1 at Barth, Germany until liberation by the Russians in May, 1945.
His family resided during the war and later in Glen Crossing, Illinois, which is located about three miles directly south of Edwardsville, Illinois.
After the war, Glennon Schlueter obtained a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois, and worked many years for a major agricultural products company in Chicago and Kansas City.
He died of cancer in the summer of 1995 and was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
--Bio provided by Find A Grave contributor Truman Bratteli
He was captured and held as a POW at Stalag Luft 1 at Barth, Germany until liberation by the Russians in May, 1945.
His family resided during the war and later in Glen Crossing, Illinois, which is located about three miles directly south of Edwardsville, Illinois.
After the war, Glennon Schlueter obtained a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois, and worked many years for a major agricultural products company in Chicago and Kansas City.
He died of cancer in the summer of 1995 and was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
--Bio provided by Find A Grave contributor Truman Bratteli
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