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From the wartime photos of William C. "Bill" Schultz, PFC, Peoria, IL (Feb. 25, 1924 -- Aug. 9, 2002), 421st Bombardment Squadron (Very Heavy), 504th Bombardment Group (Very Heavy),  B-17 Flying Fortress (Training), B-29 Superfortress. Bomb Ordinance, Fuel and Supplies Truck Driver, Air Offensive Japan Campaign. Western Pacific Air Offensive Japan Eastern Mandates Campaigns. Northern Mariana Islands; North Field, Tinian and Saipan.
Awarded 3 Bronze Stars, 1945 Good Conduct Medal. Asiatic Pacific Theatre Campaign Ribbon, American Theatre Campaign Ribbon. 421st Distinguished Unit Citations for the bombardment of the industrial center at Yokohama, May 1945 and the mining of the shipping lanes in the Shimonoseki Strait. The 421st also flew a firebombing mission over northeast Tokyo. The 504th participated in bombardments targets at Maug and Iwo Jima, the Truk Islands and the industrial area of Kobe. And the bombardment of the Japanese kamikaze planes airfields during the assault on Okinawa.
Born Feb. 25, 1924, in Oskaloosa, Iowa, to William F. and Adah M. Jenkins Schultz, he married Luella Jean Maxwell on April 19, 1947, in Peoria. William was a member of Teamsters Local 627 and its Retirees Club, he retired from Interstate Motor Freight Co. in 1984 and also had worked for Yellow Transit. He was a 39-year member of the Peoria Moose Lodge. He is buried at the Swan Lake Memory Gardens in Peoria, IL. View full size.

From the wartime photos of William C. "Bill" Schultz, PFC, Peoria, IL (Feb. 25, 1924 -- Aug. 9, 2002), 421st Bombardment Squadron (Very Heavy), 504th Bombardment Group (Very Heavy), B-17 Flying Fortress (Training), B-29 Superfortress. Bomb Ordinance, Fuel and Supplies Truck Driver, Air Offensive Japan Campaign. Western Pacific Air Offensive Japan Eastern Mandates Campaigns. Northern Mariana Islands; North Field, Tinian and Saipan.

Awarded 3 Bronze Stars, 1945 Good Conduct Medal. Asiatic Pacific Theatre Campaign Ribbon, American Theatre Campaign Ribbon. 421st Distinguished Unit Citations for the bombardment of the industrial center at Yokohama, May 1945 and the mining of the shipping lanes in the Shimonoseki Strait. The 421st also flew a firebombing mission over northeast Tokyo. The 504th participated in bombardments targets at Maug and Iwo Jima, the Truk Islands and the industrial area of Kobe. And the bombardment of the Japanese kamikaze planes airfields during the assault on Okinawa.

Born Feb. 25, 1924, in Oskaloosa, Iowa, to William F. and Adah M. Jenkins Schultz, he married Luella Jean Maxwell on April 19, 1947, in Peoria. William was a member of Teamsters Local 627 and its Retirees Club, he retired from Interstate Motor Freight Co. in 1984 and also had worked for Yellow Transit. He was a 39-year member of the Peoria Moose Lodge. He is buried at the Swan Lake Memory Gardens in Peoria, IL. View full size.

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Aircraft information

According to Joe Baugher:

42-63505 Bell-Atlanta B-29-25-BA Superfortress. Delivered to USAAF 27Nov44. Assigned to 25th Bomb Squadron, 40th Bomb Group. Assigned to 25th Bomb Squadron, 40th Bomb Group, Chakulia, India. Transferred to Tinian May45. Departed CONUS for CBI; arrived Chakulia, India 3Jan45. Named ‘Draggin’ Lady’. Declared war weary. Returned to CONUS 15Jul45. To GIA at Sheppard AFB, TX 17Jun54.

The last remark means that the aircraft became a training device for student mechanics.

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