In his time with the 20th. Reihmer claimed 1/2 Me-109 (air,) 1 Ju-88 (ground) and 2 He-111s (ground.) About his final ground victory Reihmer recently wrote:
"The second He-111 I destroyed was on my final mission when I got shot down, therefore it was not recorded the day of he mission because I was not there and my P-51 was at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. I was floating in my dinghy and would be for the next 30 hours. I was picked up by a Swedish freighter returning to Stockholm from the German port of Lubeck. They were picking their way through a mine field and had scads of lookouts looking out for mines. They had learned that a Finish ship had hit a mine and gone down. They thought I must be a survivor. It was around midnight and I had the little red sail between me and the very bright moon. It was so bright it hurt my eyes. I heard the noise of the ship plowing through the water and pulled back the sail only to see this ship bearing down on me. All I could do is call to God for help and the bow wave washed me away from the ship's path. I yelled for help and they responded by giving five or six blasts from the ship's horn, stopping and by launching a boat to pick me up. The rest is a story in itself.

"Gosh, it's hard to believe that happened almost 57 years ago. When I was at Randolph Field, at Christmas time in 1942, I went to Austin to visit some friends and met a man who had flown fighters in WW 1. That was only 24 years previous!"
He was awarded the Air Medal with three clusters, purple heart and 1 cluster and the Dinstinguished Flying Cross with 1 cluster. He resides today in Pennsylvania.