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  Captain Wayne Lucas "Shanty" Schandelmeier
(1916 - ) was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania to George and Sarah Schandelmeier. He
graduated from Altoona High School in 1933 and after some odd jobs joined the Army as an
enlisted man in March 1941. He initially joined for a one year hitch, but after Pearl
Harbor he was in the army indefinitely. While in the Ordnance Department at Fort Devins he
was looking at a bulletin board and saw where Aviation Cadets were needed, so he signed
up. He was accepted and reported to flight training at San Antonio, Texas by way of
Nashville, Tennessee. After attending Preflight, he continued to Primary Training at
Cuero, Texas and finally Advanced / Basic at Waco, Texas. He graduated from Class 43I and
was told to report to Pensacola, Florida to be trained on the OA-10A. After collecting is
gold wings from the Navy, he reported to Gulfport, Mississippi where he joined the Second
Emergency Rescue Squadron before they left for overseas duty.He flew with the Second ERS until early 1945, when he was transferred back stateside and became an instructor pilot at Shellman Field, Monroe, Louisiana. After the war was over, he joined the reserves, and took a job at the Albert F. Goetze meat packing plant in Baltimore, Maryland where he was a traffic manager. (truck dispatcher) He stayed there until they went out of business in the early 1970's. He took odd jobs around Baltimore. |
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