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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nUSAFRetired sends us a link to the news<\/a> that Captain Albert Schlegel is coming home. Hondo told us last year that his earthly remains had been identified by DPAA<\/a>.<\/p>\n The ace of Cleveland, Ohio. <\/p>\n He was a local legend who had been declared killed in action in 1944 after flying a mission over France. He was 25 when he died.<\/p>\n Schlegel will be buried with full military honors in Beaufort National Cemetery at the end of March. The ceremony was organized by the only living family member to remember Schlegel \u2014 his nephew, Perry Nuhn.<\/p>\n Nuhn, 84, lives on Callawassie Island and is a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and decorated pilot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n You’ll notice in the picture above, Schlegel is wearing two sets of aviator wings, that’s because he joined the Canadian Royal Air Force before the US entered WWII and then transferred to the US Air Corps when they went to war. He had 15 kills as an air ace.<\/p>\n On Aug. 28, 1944, Schlegel was flying with his squadron over Strasbourg, France, on a mission to strafe German trucks, trains and oil on the ground. The weather was poor, and the P-51D flew low.<\/p>\n Schlegel radioed that he had been hit by anti-aircraft fire and disappeared into the clouds. <\/p>\n Back home, his family received a series of notices: missing in action in 1944; killed in action in 1945; body unrecoverable in 1949.<\/p>\n […]<\/p>\n Along with the car crash injuries, pictures of Schlegel\u2019s skull show a bullet hole in the top of the head and a large exit wound in the back.<\/p>\n Witnesses had reported seeing an American seated in a car with several Germans headed toward a train station on the evening Schlegel went missing. <\/p>\n Another witness later reported hearing two gunshots behind the station about dusk, according to the report from the federal agency.<\/p>\n […]<\/p>\n The remains showed evidence of a beating. <\/p>\n After taking flak, freeing the bubble canopy of the P-51D and parachuting to the ground, Schlegel had apparently been captured and executed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n He’ll be laid to rest in Beaufort National Cemetery, South Carolina on March 30 after three days of ceremony;<\/p>\n His casket will arrive in Savannah on March 27 and be transferred to Nuhn during a short ceremony by an Air Force Honor Guard. <\/p>\n A set of Schlegel\u2019s medals recommissioned for his burial and an Army uniform will go to the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force in Pooler.<\/p>\n A memorial service at the museum March 29 will end with a flyover of four F-15s from Schlegel\u2019s 335th Fighter Squadron out of Goldsboro, N.C. The jets will form the \u201cmissing man\u201d formation, with one aircraft peeling off in the fallen pilot\u2019s memory.<\/p>\n \u201cThey are tremendously proud of their aces,\u201d said retired U.S. Air Force Col. Jack Berry, who lives in Goldsboro, worked for Nuhn at the Pentagon and helped facilitate the flyover. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"