Albert L Schlegel (1919 - 1944)

Born 1919 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States

Ancestors

Died 28 Aug 1944 at about age 25 in Valmy, France

Biography

KIA

He had scored 13 1/2 confirmed and 2 1/2 probables. He had earned the Distinguished Flying Cross with four Oak Leaf Clusters, and the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters.

His name is on the Tablets of the Missing at Lorraine American Cemetery. In January 2016, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency exhumed the remains of an Unknown Soldier buried in Plot B Row 5 Grave 66 at Epinal American Cemetery with the belief that an identification could be made. Laboratory analysis and circumstantial evidence were used to positively identify the remains as belonging to Capt. Albert L. Schlegel.

His name remains permanently inscribed on the Tablets of the Missing. When an individual’s remains have been accounted for by the U.S. Department of Defense, a rosette is placed next to the name on the Wall/Tablet/Court of the Missing to mark that the person now rests in a known gravesite.

A ceremony for Captain Schlegel will be held Wednesday morning, March 29, at 10 at the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force. Schlegel will be buried Thursday in the Beaufort National Cemetery.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Remains of Mighty Eighth Flying Ace returned home, by Russ Riesinger, WTOC News, Mar 27, 2017 04:00 PM

• "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD1J-VDW : accessed 7 December 2017), Abert L Schlaegel in household of Albert L Schlaegel, Garfield Heights, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States; citing ED 549, sheet 15A, line 33, family 304, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1375; FHL microfilm 1,821,375.

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KW6G-FTX : accessed 7 December 2017), Albert Schlegel in household of Lillian Schlegel, Ward 1, Garfield Heights City, Garfield Heights City, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 18-134, sheet 7A, line 16, family 128, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3053.

• "United States Border Crossings from Canada to United States, 1895-1956," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XP3Y-3MJ : 27 November 2014), Albert Louis Schlegel, 27 Apr 1941; from "Border Crossings: From Canada to U.S., 1895-1954," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2010); citing Ship , arrival port Niagara Falls, New York,, line , NARA microfilm publication M1480, Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, RG 85, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 134.

• "New York, Northern Arrival Manifests, 1902-1956," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV9W-ND2Y : 20 May 2016), Albert Louis Schlegel, 1941; citing NARA microfilm publication M1480 and M1482 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); roll 134, FHL microfilm 1,283,833.

• American Air Museum in Britain Albert L Schlegel

• legacy.com Obituary of Captain Albert Schlegel

• Find A Grave Captain Albert Schlegel, memorial# 56660489

• Omaha World Offutt Air Force Base Laboratory identities remains of missing airman

• American Battle Monuments Commission

• Albert Schlegel, local air ace of World War II who lay unidentified for 72 years, gets final salute (photos, video)

• American Air Museum in Britain