Milton Joel
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
Object Number - UPL 17074 - Major Milton Joel, USAAF 55FG/38FS (CO of 38FG)
Killed in Action (KIA) on 29-Nov-43 in P-38H 42-67020 while on a mission to escort bombers attacking at Bremen, Germany. His aircraft was attacked near Oldenburg, Germany by German fighters. He was able to elude the attackers but his aircraft was damaged. MAJ Joel attempted to fly the aircraft back to England but he and the aircraft crashed into the North Sea and he was killed. He was the Commanding Officer of the 55FG/38FS at the time.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
- Unit: 55th Fighter Group 38th Fighter Squadron
Missions
- Date: 29 November 1943
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
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Other Commemorated |
Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial, Madingley Road, Coton, Cambridgeshire CB23 7PH, UK | Commemorated on the Wall of the Missing, Cambridge American Cemetery. | |
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Other Killed in Action (KIA) |
Bremen, Germany | 29 November 1943 | Killed attempting to fly his battle damaged aircraft back to England from a mission escorting bombers attacking Bremen, Germany. Aircraft crashed into the sea off the Dutch coast. |
Revisions
Milton Joel was my grandmother's best friend growing up in America. He was always called Gummy because he chewed chewing gum all the time. My grandmother passed away over 10 years ago but we recently visited Gummy's listing in the book at St. Paul's. My mother knows more about him.
Major Milton Joel was my cousin, on my father's side of the family. Older than my father, he served in the 38th Fighter Squadron of the 55th Fighter Group in Nuthampstead. Major Joel was from Richmond, Virginia. He was the youngest Major in the Us Army Air Force at the time he served. He was shot down over Bremen, while escorting bombers.
More information can be found here:
http://www.55th.org
Lee Cunningham 16-Jul-2015 Added Commemorated date and WOH location per American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) records.
Lee Cunningham 16-Jul-2015. Corrected Name to Joel Milton from Milton Joel; MAde connections to Place and Mission wihtin existing website data; Added MIA event per MACR 1429; Added Description based on "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces", Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 1429 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list
