Charles Miller
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 388th Bomb Group
Assigned to 563BS, 388BG, 8AF USAAF. ETD
Awards: WWII Victory, EAME.
Military
Assigned to 563BS, 388BG, 8AF USAAF. 31 x combat missions. Failed to Return (FTR) Warnemunde in B-17 42-107076; Hit by flak, crashed into sea seven miles SE of Nykobing, near Boto, Denmark. 9-Apr-44 Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 3656
Awards: AM, PH (OLC).
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 388th Bomb Group
Assigned to 563BS, 388BG, 8AF USAAF. ETD
Awards: WWII Victory, EAME.
Military | Lieutenant | Pilot | 388th Bomb Group
Shot down 9 April 1944 in B-17 #42107076. Killed in Action (KIA).
DFC/ AM w/ 3 Oak Leaf Cluster
Group
The 388th Bomb Group flew strategic bombing mission from Knettishall, Suffolk from June 1943 to the end of the war. During this time, though, detachments were sent to Fersfield, Norfolk to conduct Aphrodite missions. In these Aphrodite missions veteran...
Squadron
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Tulsa 14/2/44; Presque Is 6/3/44; Assigned 563BS/388BG Knettishall 9/3/44; Missing in Action Warnemunde 9/4/44 with Vince Sundstrom, Co-pilot: John Vlymen, ng-S/Sgt Manuel Weintraub, Bombardier: Alex Bruce, Flight engineer/top turret gunner:...
9 April 1944
Military site : airfield
Knettishall was built to Class A standard for an American Bomb Group that would be bringing up to forty heavy bombers with them in three or four Squadrons. The 388th Bomb Group, which stayed at Knettishall for their entire service in the ETO, flew B-17...
Event | Location | Date |
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Born | Wisconsin, USA | 16 June 1921 |
Enlisted | Chicago, IL | 1 October 1942 |
Chicago, Illinois. |
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Based | Knettishall | December 1943 – 9 April 1944 |
Assigned to 563BS, 388BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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Died | 7 miles SE of Nykobing, Denmark | 9 April 1944 |
Failed to Return (FTR) Warnemunde in B-17 42-107076; Hit by flak, crashed into sea. 9-Apr-44 Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 3656 |
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Buried | Wieck Ruegen, Germany | 27 May 1944 |
Interred |
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Buried | Rock Island National Cemetery Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL | 1948 |
Re-Interred |
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13 December 2021 14:58:01 | Al_Skiff | Changes to biography, awards and events |
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https://www.fold3.com/record/702698033/budzbanowski-eugene-s-us-wwii-hos... |
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08 July 2020 14:00:40 | millebr | Changes to middlename |
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Ancestry.com |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
16 April 2019 16:39:01 | Al_Skiff | Changes to nickname, service number, biography, events, person associations, unit associations, place associations, aircraft associations and mission associations |
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https://www.fold3.com/image/55704573 |
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27 September 2014 18:09:26 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3656 |