John Philip Schuman (KIA WW II) enlisted as an Aviation Cadet in the Army Air Corps on 8 November 1941 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Awarded the Distinguished Service Cross (Posthumously) to John P. Schuman (0-437472), Second Lieutenant (Air Corps), U.S. Army Air Forces, for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy while serving as Navigator of a B-26 Medium Bomber of the 18th Reconnaissance Squadron, 22d Bombardment Group (M), FAR EAST Air Force (Detached), in aerial action against enemy surface forces on 4 June 1942, during an engagement near the Midway Islands.

"Lieutenant Schuman displayed extraordinary heroism during a torpedo-bombing mission against the Japanese Navy. The success of the mission was dependent entirely upon the skill, courageousness and unfaltering devotion to duty of the crew members of the airplanes participating, who unhesitatingly entered into the attack at great personal risk to their lives in the face of concentrated gunfire of Japanese Naval forces and fighter planes."

During this, the first torpedo attack ever carried out by the Army Air Forces, the airplane on which Lieutenant Schuman was the navigator, was lost.

John P Schuman