Marvin L Milam
Military ROLL OF HONOUR303BG website records do not indicate when he was assigned to the 303BG/360BS and they do not indicate that he was assigned to a regular crew. As is common with Aerial Gunners he may have been assigned to some type of ground duty and only flew missions as a substitute for a regularly assigned gunner on an aircraft.
Shot down 3 January 1943 in B-17F #41-24620 'Snap! Crackle! Pop!' while serving as Left Waist Gunner. Killed in Action (KIA).
Participated in 3 Operations
Purple Heart
Connections
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Wulfe Hound
- Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 360th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Snap! Crackle! Pop!
- Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 360th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Iza Vailable
- Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 360th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 3 January 1943
- Date: 30 December 1942
- Official Description:
- Date: 6 December 1942
- Official Description:
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Other Mission #1, SGT Marvin L. Milam, w/B-17F 41-24585, 303BG/360BS |
6 December 1942 | Served as Right Waist Gunner on B-17F 41-24585 "Wulf Hund", 303BG/360BS on a mission to bomb the carriage and wagon works at Lille, France. RTB OK. | |
Other Mission #2, SGT Marvin L. Milam, w/B-17F 42-2963, 303BG/360BS |
Lorient, France | 30 December 1942 | Served as Left Waist Gunner on B-17F 42-2973 "Iza Vailable", 303BG/360BS on a mission to bomb the U-Boat pens at Lorient, France. RTB OK. |
Other Mission #3, SGT Marvin L. Milam, w/B-17F 41-24620, 303BG/360BS - KIA |
Saint-Nazaire, France | 3 January 1943 | Served as Left Waist Gunner on B-17F 41-24620 "Snap! Crackle! Pop!", 303BG/360BS on a mission to bomb the U-Boat pens at St. Nazaire, France. The aircraft was shot down and he was Killed in Action (KIA). |
Born |
Texas | ||
Buried |
Buried in the Brittany American Cemetery, Plot N, Row 8, Grave 16. | ||
Other Killed in Action (KIA) |
Bois d'Escoublac, 44500 La Baule-Escoublac, France | 3 January 1943 | Killed when aircraft sustained damage from AA fire and enemy aircraft and crashed into the Forest of Escoublac, France west of St. Nazaire. |
Revisions
Added some punctuation in the "Summary biography" to aid readability.
Lee Cunningham 13-Feb-2016. Correcting typo in Summary Biography.
Lee Cunningham 26-Jan-2016 Added Mission #3 event per 303BG website, Gary Moncur, Historian, Mission Report of 3-Jan-43: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/009.pdf
Lee Cunningham 26-Jan-2016 Added Mission #2 event per 303BG website, Gary Moncur, Historian, Mission Report of 30-Dec-42: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/008.pdf
Lee Cunningham 26-Jan-2016 Added Mission #1 event per 303BG website, Gary Moncur, Historian, Mission Report of 20-Dec-42: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/090.pdf
Lee Cunningham 26-Jan-2016. Edited Summary Biography with first paragraph; made connections to Place, Aircraft and Missions per 303BG website, Gayr Moncur, Historian: http://www.303rdbg.com/
Lee Cunningham 15-Jan-2015.Added KIA event per MACT 15464; Added decoration and Burial event per American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) record; added cew position to biography per MACR 15464.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 15464 / MACR 15464, Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs Vol. 1 by Bishop and Hey p. 61,
href="http://303rdbg.com/rost-m.html#M">http://303rdbg.com/rost-m.html#M> / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database