Word: giegerich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Pilot Scott's crash, Mitchel Field's Chaplain Paul J. Giegerich visited the next day attended the funeral as Air Forces representative. Because the Kramers are Orthodox Jews he advised fellow officers to send no flowers in keeping with Orthodox custom. But flowers were sent to the funerals of the two other victims of the crash, who were Roman Catholics. The request for a so-called damage-to-property report was routine, if undiplomatic at the time. It called for no waiver of damage rights...
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