Robert Frank Miltner

Military ROLL OF HONOUR

Assigned to 714BS, 448BG, 8AF USAAF. 9 x combat missions. Hit by flak while bombing the target of Friedrichshafen on 18-Mar-44 and rapidly losing fuel, B-24 42-100284 turned towards Switzerland crash landed at Dubendorf. Died later of flak injuries. Died of Wounds (DOW). MACR 3341



Awards: PH.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 448th Bomb Group.

448th Bomb Group

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

People

Robert W Carroll

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 448th Bomb Group 714th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-680173
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

42-100284

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Unit: 448th Bomb Group 714th Bomb Squadron

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Pittsburg, Pennsylvania 1 January 1915 Son of William Henry and Lucinda [Atkinson] Miltner.

Enlisted

Salt Lake City, UT 30 January 1942 Salt Lake City Utah

Other

Hospitalised

Zurich Switzerland 18 March 1944 - 26 March 1944 Hospitalised, paralysed from neck wound caused by flak.

Died

Zurich Switzerland 26 March 1944 Died from complications from his wounds.

Buried

Munsingen, Switzerland 27 March 1944 Interred Munsinger, Switzerland

Buried

Allegheny Cemetery Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA Re-Interred Allegheny Cemetery Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

Based

Killed in Action (KIA)

Seething 18 March 1944 Assigned to 714BS, 448BG, 8AF USAAF.

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3341 / MACR 3341, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database