Carol M Miller
MilitaryHe 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
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- 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 |
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Born |
Dallas, Texas | 19 November 1923 | |
Died |
23 December 2001 | ||
Buried |
Revisions
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