Sergeant Fred A. Braemer
- First name: | Fred |
- Middle name: | Anthony |
- Last name: | Braemer |
- Nickname: | - |
- Rank Doolittle raid: | Staff Sergeant |
- Last rank: | Captain |
- Service number: | 6875923 |
- Date of birth: | 31 January 1918 |
- Place of birth: | Seattle, Washington |
- Date of death: | 02 February 1989 |
- Place of death: | Niangu, Missouri |
- Place of the cemetery: | Lincoln, Nebraska |
- Name of the cemetery: | Calvary cemetery |
Additional info
His father was Edward Braemer his mother Marian Braemer ad he was the husband of Lucille Braemer (Sintek) Because of privacy reasons I don't publish more.
Braemer had 4 children. He also had one sister named Gretchen.
Fred Braemer was born on January 31, 1918, in Seattle, Washington. He enlisted in the U.S. Army on September 16, 1935, and served in the Infantry and Military Intelligence until September 17, 1938, when he left the service for a year. He enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps on September 16, 1939, and was trained as a bombardier. As you can read in his profile Braemer was the bombardier on the first B-25 to take off from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet on April 18, 1942
Fred Braemer died of a heart attack 2 February 1989. His wife when he died was Lucille Sintek. She was born on 29 March 1923 in Scotia, Greeley County, Nebraska, USA and died on 30 March 2015.
The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 2, 1926, takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Staff Sergeant Fred Anthony Braemer (ASN: 6875923), United States Army Air Forces, for extraordinary achievement as Bombardier of a B-25 Bomber of the 1st Special Aviation Project (Doolittle Raider Force), while participating in a highly destructive raid on the Japanese mainland on 18 April 1942. Sergeant Braemer with 79 other officers and enlisted men volunteered for this mission knowing full well that the chances of survival were extremely remote, and executed his part in it with great skill and daring. This achievement reflects high credit on himself and the military service.
Braemer in China, crew picture below, Doolittle with members of his flight crew and Chinese officials in China after the attack. From left to right: Fred A. Braemer, bombardier; Paul J. Leonard, flight engineer/gunner; Chao Foo Ki, secretary of the Western Chekiang Province Branch Government, Richard E. Cole, copilot; Doolittle; Henry H. Shen, bank manager; Henry A. Potter, navigator; General Ho, director of the Branch Government of Western Chekiang Province
Picture below, letter of gratitude of the Chinese government to honor the Doolittle Raiders - Copyright @ nara-usa - public domain
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The Heroes of Doolittle's raid on Japan in april 1942
by Mr. Geert Rottiers
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