Military
Assigned to 450BS, 322BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) repeat raid to power station at Ijmuiden, Holland in B26 41-18086 'Draggin Lady'. Hit by flak on return ditched in North sea, co-pilot ejected from cockpit and sole survivor. Killed in Action (KIA). 17-May-43. MACR 15129.
Awards: AM, PH.
Military | First Lieutenant | Bomber pilot | 322nd Bomb Group
Assigned to 450BS, 322BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) repeat raid to power station at Ijmuiden, Holland in B26 41-18086 'Draggin Lady'. Hit by flak on return ditched in North sea, co-pilot ejected from cockpit and sole survivor. Killed in Action ...
Group
The 322nd Bombardment Squadron (Medium) was activated on 19-Jun-1942 at MacDill Field, Florida with B-26B Marauder aircraft. In late September 1942 the unit moved to Drane Field, Florida. The Ground echelon sailed for the UK aboard the Queen Elizabeth...
Squadron
B-26 Marauder
Assigned to 450BS, 322BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) repeat raid to Ijmuiden, Holland. Hit by flak on return ditched in North sea, co-pilot ejected from cockpit and sole survivor. 1 x POW, 5 x KIA. 17-May-43. MACR 15129.
Military site : airfield
The base was known as Great Saling when construction – by US Army engineers – began in 1942 but was renamed Andrews Field in honour of the memory of Gen. Frank M. Andrews, who was killed when the B-24 he was travelling in crash-landed in Iceland on 3...
Cemetery
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| Born | Tennessee, USA | 1919 |
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Son of John Steve and Inez Othella [Bailey] Littrell. |
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| Lived in | Lauderdale County, AL, USA | 1941 |
| Enlisted | Montgomery, AL, USA | 17 January 1942 |
| Based | Andrews Field | 1943 – 17 May 1943 |
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Assigned to 450BS, 322BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| Died | Nth Sea off Haarlem, Netherlands | 17 May 1943 |
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Failed to Return (FTR) repeat raid to power station at Ijmuiden, Holland in B26 41-18086 'Draggin Lady'. Hit by flak on return ditched in North sea, co-pilot ejected from cockpit and sole survivor. Killed in Action (KIA). 17-May-43. MACR 15129. |
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| Buried | 1946 | |
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Tablets of the missing |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 30 May 2017 12:04:07 | Al_Skiff | Changes to service number, biography, awards, events, person associations, unit associations and place associations |
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https://www.fold3.com/image/310763945/?terms=Milton%20E%20Littrell |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:20:17 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. I by Bishop & Hey p. 126, MACR 15129 |
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