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Personal info

Full name
MILLINER, James Michael
Date of birth
22 January 1917
Age
27
Place of birth
Grayson, Carter County, Kentucky
Hometown
Carter County, Kentucky

Military service

Service number
35479495
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
B Company,
612th Tank Destroyer Battalion
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
17 December 1944
Place of death
Honsfeld, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
C 13 7

Immediate family

Members
James M. Milliner (father)
Martha E. (Johnson) Milliner (mother)
Clara E. Milliner (sister)
Florence L. Milliner (sister)
Joseph A. Milliner (brother)
John R. Milliner (brother)

More information

Pvt James Milliner enlisted on 13 May 1942 at Louisville, Kentucky.

On 17 December 1944, at the beginning of the Battle of the Bulge, the 612th TDB was defending Honsfeld when they were overrun by Kampfgruppe Peiper of the 1st SS Panzerdivision Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler. James Milliner tried to surrender but, together with five of his comrades, he was shot in cold blood.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Carla Mans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1930 Census / Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, The Courier Journal - 3 April 1942, www.ancestry.com - Public Member Photos