Carol M Miller

Military

He flew 13 missions with the 401st BG. He joined the 306th BG in June 1945 and left April 1946. He was an Army master sergeant assigned to the Office of Strategic Service. He was wounded during one of the missions to Schweinfurt, GR. He was also a liberator of the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald [according to obituary]. His talents included performing as a magician and ventriloquist. He entertained troops during WWII, and during the summer of 1945, he performed for Harry Truman, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference [according to obituary].



DFC, PH,



Miller qualified as a pharmacist then owned camera stores in the Dallas area.

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Units served with

Official insignia of the 306th Bomb Group, approved 6 January 1943, and updated 2 October 1951.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment
A pathfinder B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-8258) of the 401st Bomb Group. Image by Robert Astrella. Written on slide casing: '48258 14 A, Mount Farm.'
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Places

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Konzentrationslager Buchenwald

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Dallas, Texas 19 November 1923

Died

23 December 2001

Buried

Revisions

Date
ContributorHelen
Changes
Sources

306th Echoes July '94

Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources

306th BG Association Directory, 1 September 1999 Edition, 306th Echoes Jully 1994 Vol 19 No. 3 pg. 3, 306th BGA Collection / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia