Milford Elvin Andrews
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
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Object Number - UPL 23168 - Milford Elvin Andrews
Shot down 12 May 1944 in B-17 #4297167. Killed in Action (KIA).
Purple Heart
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 12 May 1944
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Station 138
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Houston, Texas, USA | 1 September 1818 | |
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Died |
12 May 1944 | ||
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Other Killed in Action (KIA) |
Germany | 12 May 1944 | |
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Buried |
Revisions
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Per their notation of the Plane data: Serial number: 42-97167, Type B-17G, Destination: Brux, Czech Republic, Mission: Combat, MACR: 4858.
From fellow WWII soldier, Paul Sersland, who served as a gunner on the B-17 (although not with Milford), the mission was bombing the oil refineries.
From fellow WWII soldier, Paul Sersland, who also served as a gunner on the B-17 and who researched my cousin's mission
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 4858 / MACR 4858; Snetterton Falcons, pg 148 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
