over Burma, Thailand and the1o5rf.roartendo5tSrLieut. SchmtisMrAndaman islands. It pointed out that “the devotion.;to duty exhibited in the execution of these assignments and the; co-operation displayed therein, as an essential and vital part of a combat team, has contributed much to the successes characterizing these operations.”Schmiesser was graduated in June, 1942, with,the basic, training class at Merce4, Calif, and took an advanced course to re-, oeive his lieutenant’! commission in the U. S. Army air force. Heenlisted in the airforce in January, 1942. '