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Above is another panel of Plymouth countyans in the service. Another panel will appear next Thursday, and with it The Globe-Post exhausts its supply of pictures of men and women in uniform. Some of the pictures have been in this office for some time, but arrangements have now been made to print pictures of those in the service without much delay. Bring or send them in to The Globe-Post, but make sure it is a good print. The average print, taken with a small camera, usually lacks the sharpness and does not make good copy. The Globe-Post photographic department will advise you if the print will reproduce properly. Pictures never leave the office, and can be called for after the picture appears in the paper. Please identify all prints.
Source: LeMars Globe-Post, June 12, 1944 (photo included)
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Army Air Forces, Pacific Headquarters---Staff Sergeant William E. Schuldt of Kingsley, nose gunner on the 7th AAF Liberator, “Bodacious Idjut” has completed 40 bombing missions against the Japanese in the western Pacific with over half of his missions being strikes at Iwo Jima. “We flew to Iwo Jima before, during and after the invasion by the American forces,” said Sergeant Schuldt on his return to Hawaii where is awaiting reassignment.
“One of our best bombing of Iwo Jima came two days after the Marines landed,” he said. “The Japs had coastal guns and supplies in an area where Navy guns couldn’t hit them. We made two bomb runs at 5000 feet, blew up the place and strafed the Japs.”
Sergeant Schuldt also has participated in bombings of Chichi Jima, Haha Jima, Wake, Woleai and Marcus. He has been awarded the air medal with five oak leaf clusters, and wears the Asiatic Pacific theater ribbon with two bronze campaign stars.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Will Schuldt, live on route 2, Kingsley. He was employed as a beef boner at the Swift Packing Company in Sioux City before entering the Army in September 1942. He arrived in the Pacific Ocean area in June, 1944.
Source: LeMars Globe-Post, April 30, 1945
Kingsley Man Back In United States After Forty Missions.
S/Sgt. William E. Schuldt, 23, of route 2, Kingsley, Iowa, has arrived at Army Air Forces Redistribution Station No. 2 in Miami Beach, Fla., for reassignment processing after completing a tour of duty outside the continental United States.
Medical examinations and classification interviews at this post, pioneer of several redistribution stations operated by the AAF Personnel Distribution Command for AAF returnee officers and enlisted men, will determine his new assignment. He will remain at the redistribution station about two weeks, much of which will be devoted to rest and recreation.
As a B-24 Liberator engineer-gunner, Staff Sergeant Schuldt flew 40 missions in the Asiatic-Pacific theater of operations, winni9ng the Air Medal with six oak leaf clusters. His wife, Loretta, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Schuldt, live on route 2, Kingsley.
Source: LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel, Tuesday, June 5, 1945
William Edward Schuldt was born Aug. 6, 1921 to William and Cecelia Della Singer Schuldt. He died Aug. 4, 2014 and is buried in Kingsley Cemetery, Kingsley, IA.
Source: ancestry.com
