Milburn D Scheier

Milburn D Scheier entered the Service from SEDGWICK, FT RILEY KANSAS  on 30 March, 1942.  Milburn "MEL" was born in Kansas  14 May, 1922 and selected the Army Air Corp.  Mel had completed High School and was single when he entered into his Service to our Country... which would lead him through not only all of WW II but 3 total Wars over-seas, That would be WW II, Korea and Vietnam...as well as Conflicts here in our own Country. 

WW II B-25 Mitchell Pilot, Lt Scheier retired a Lt Col, Nov 1st, 1967 (40 Years !)

Personal Stories as related to Barbi Ennis Connolly (57thBW Researcher) Oct.'09 - Relating "Holed-Ships" ....  difficult but successful landing on nothing more than a Wing and  Prayer.  Col Mel is one very Special Friend to me !  xo  Barbi

After your last note I started to think back thru some of my history in
the AF.First I graduated from cadets at William's field.I wanted to fly
the P-38 's but no luck for fighters.There I flew the AT -9 & AT 11.I
lost my first engine in an AT-9 one night.When at Columbia SC I lost an
engine on my first solo cross country,about 100 miles out over the
ocean,had to land in Florida.By that time I had flown so many simulated
single engines at Mather it was old stuff.When test hopping a B-25 In
Greenville SC the nose wheel folded so I ruined two props then.  In a
KC-97 tanker flying from the North pole to Canada to off load some fuel
I had to turn around & go back to the pole on 3 engines.Never lost an
engine in combat.When flying coal in it Berlin during the Air Lift,on my
last mission for that night I couldn't start start #2 so I took the C-54
off on 3 engines & as luck would have it no one squealed on me. So back
to the beginning,I have never thought that from my 21st combat
mission,when I got the144 holes,that luck was going to be the primary
factor for me to get home.You might say that I became a true believer at
that time.To top it all off I left Corsica on the 10th of May to fly a
B-25 G home. So You know what happened on my birthday 14 May to 340th.
Mel

Oct.'09 . . .another Story :) written to Barbi Ennis Connolly, 57thBW Researcher

US State-side Pilot Training tales;  I got my
wings at William's Field in March of 1943 (just south of town &
Luke) guess what,there were noise gripers then also of the P 38, At 9,&
At 17 i think Luke had the At 6 aircraft at that time. A p 22 (the  P 38
trainer) had to make a forced landing in a farmer's field one day & you
would think that the sky had fallen in by the way that the farmer acted
& there were no farm items growing in the field.             Mel

(Part of a discussion regarding the LUKE FOWARD Team I belong to, to keep our Jets flying at Luke. . . and the gripe that they are noisy when they built right up to the fence) 20 July 2011 - Barbara Connolly

In Service to our Country through 3 Wars Over-seas and a few Conflicts in the Lower 48 ! I'm going to be 88 soon also but I only got 144 holes & no injuries to
my crew but some times I feel like 100 but maybe it's because I have
been married almost 67 YEARS.Not only was I in 3 wars that took place
over seas but a few domestic ones also.I guess what saved us was that I
was in SAC for 12 years so I would go to the base & the next day I would
be at the north pole, Gaum ,Alaska or Newfoundland for 45 days or 3
months.The point being is that we had a lot of honeymoons HA.

Col Mel Scheier, USAF Ret. is a very special man, he is thoughtful, encouraging, helpful and just plain FUNNY is some of his tales !  I have "fish-stories" that I am going to assemble in a row one day, being a "Trout" fisher-woman, I could not measure up to some of his stories, but he tells them EXACTLY correct, as I got the "Rest of the Story"... the other side of the coin, so to speak from his sons :)  It has been amazing and fun both to hear the same story told from the father's memory and then from the sons memories!   Thank YOU Col Mel...  Blessings, Barbara