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LOCAL AIRMANREPORTED DEADI!j Sergt. Jacob W. Shin nick I Was Shot Down Over j Germany Year AgoThe War Department, in a letter ’ | received Wednesday- by Mrs. Bes- j ■ sie ML Shinnick. 231 East Church ij street officially declared her son.j j' Sergt Jacob Worthington Shin-; nick. 20, AAF. de2d as the result | of action over Slechammer. Ger-j many, September 14 1944.| He had been '‘missing in action” j since the date his plane was shot j down over the same target whose ! anti-aircraft batteries knocked his ! brother S/Sergi. Lawrence Shin-I nick into a German prison camp | | hospital in July 1944. “Larry j Shinnick is now on convalescent Ileave at home here, having beenj rescued when Germany was invad- :jed. i Sergt “Jack“ Shmnxck was ai bail turret gunner on a S-IT s bomber on his fatal thirteenth. i mission. His mother said she is | i advised the entire crew of her!— — *son's bomber, were lost with him j on the daylight bombing run. She |had received his personal effects i ! from his base commander, several i i months ago. !! Over “Hot Spoti 3 'Sergt. “Larry** Shinnick said[ that the target where he and his j brother were shot down was con-j sidered a *’hot spot with heavy* azk-ack covering it Blechammeri was the site of large Nazi synthetic | ; oil refineries. The repatriated j ; brother mads 32 missions before he j { was shot down and imprisoned. i i Death and survival of -brothers j | in military combat at the same j• scene, is not a new story to the ;r ■. Shinnick family. Mrs. Sh'nnick j said. Fishiing with the Union !’ army at Gettysburg during * the i • Civil War. the Shinnick brothers' I; sreat grand father. Sergt. Peter M ji _Eader and creat grand-uncle. j Lieut Charles Eader. were togelh-i er in Co. 1 of the Potomac Home \ i Brigade. Lieut, Eader was killed j | at Gettysburg. ]• Serzt. Shinnick was unmarried.' I He left Frederick High School in 1 ‘ bis senior year to enlist in the U- | j S. Armv Air Forces. He was has- j . ed in Italy from where he had;I» made twelve successful missions it before the one from which he fail-;s ed to return,
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The Frederick News Post
Frederick, Maryland, US
Thu, Sep 20, 1945
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