Milton J Balog

Military

One of crews assigned after Kassel losses.

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Units served with

A pathfinder B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-51681) of the 453rd Bomb Group flies in formation with a fellow Liberator of the 453rd and and a pathfinder Liberator of the 445th Bomb Group. Image via Alan Rowsell.

445th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Places

Signal Squares on the airfield at Tibenham, B-24 Liberators of the 398th Bomb Group are visible in the background. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Tibenham Signal Squares.'

Tibenham

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Tivetshall

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Cleveland, Ohio 4 September 1923

Enlisted

Valdosta, Georgia 3 February 1943 Moody Army Air Field

Died

Clarksville, Maryland 23 November 1962 Died while piloting United Airlines Flight 297 United Airlines Flight 297, a Vickers Viscount 745D, was a scheduled flight from Newark International Airport (EWR/KEWR) in Newark, New Jersey to Washington, D.C. with 17 people on board. On November 23, 1962 at approximately 12:24 P.M. EDT, it crashed just northwest of what is now Columbia, Maryland[1] after striking a flock of whistling swans while cruising at 6,000 feet (1,800 m). The bird strike caused the horizontal stabilizer to separate, leading to loss of control and the crash which killed all on board. The crew were Captain Milton J. Balog, Copilot Robert J. Lewis, and Stewardesses Mary Kathryn Kline and Kaaren G. Brent. Captain Balog had been with Capital Airlines, which had operated Viscount N7430 (s/n 128) prior to Capital's merger with United. Four crewmen and 13 passengers were killed, including six off-duty United employees.

Buried

Norfolk, Virginia 30 November 1962 Forest Lawn Cemetery Norfolk, Norfolk City, Virginia, USA Add to Map Plot Maple Lawn Blk I Sp 34
New Castle, Pennsylvania 118 Charter Street
Norfolk, Virginia 406 Warren

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Sources

Birsic, SO #267 HQ 70TH REPL DEP 23 SEPT 44, History of the 445th Bomb Group by Rudolph Birsic / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia