Lowell Mikles

Military
media-45571.jpeg UPL 45571 B-17G-75-VE #44-8652 "Drive It Home" Code: A
306th BG - 369th BS - 8th AF
Possibly Lowell Mikles (CP) in the cockpit 466th Bomb Group collection

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Object Number - UPL 45571 - B-17G-75-VE #44-8652 "Drive It Home" Code: A 306th BG - 369th BS - 8th AF Possibly Lowell Mikles (CP) in the cockpit

Completed 29 missions from 1944-1945. He was discharged October 1946. Returned to Arkansas and joined Army National Guard in 1947. He was moblized in 1950 and served in Korea and Vietnam. He retired July 1967 at Ft. Sill, OK. Mikles was afterwards a pharmacist.

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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

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 306th Bomb Group 369th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 37679193
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Drive It Home
  • Unit: 306th Bomb Group

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Magazine, AR 29 January 1924

Died

Russellville, AR 9 December 1995

Buried

Booneville, AR 12 December 1995 Oak Hill Memorial Cemetery Booneville, Logan County, Arkansas, USA Add to Map Plot Section 3-3; Row 29; Block

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306th Echoes Oct '96

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Added a connection to A/C #44-8652.

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306th BG Association Directory, 1 September 1999 Edition, Combat Crews pg. 98,

href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14404292">http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14404292> / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia

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