Missing information?

Do you have any additional information you would like to share about a soldier?

Submit

Personal info

Full name
PETERS, Milford Frank
Date of birth
9 January 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Alexander, Franklin County, Iowa
Hometown
Dows, Wright County, Iowa

Military service

Service number
37651155
Rank
Sergeant
Function
Left Waist Gunner
Unit
735th Bombardment Squadron,
453rd Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
8 May 1944
Place of death
Hildesheim, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Plot Row Grave
B 42 40

Immediate family

Members
Ernest M. Peters (father)
Katherine Peters (mother)
Kenneth H. Peters (brother)
Alfa M. (Golackson) Peters (wife)

Plane data

Serial number
42-50327
Data
Type: B-24H
Nickname: Gypsy Queen
Destination: Brunswick, Germany
Mission: Industrial Area
MACR: 4592

More information

Sgt Milford F. Peters enlisted at Camp Dodge, Iowa on 18 December 1942.

The airplane was shot down by a German fighter.

He is remembered at the Fairview Cemetery in Dows, Wright County, Iowa with a memorial marker.

Source of information: Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, www.fold3.com - MACR, www.newspapers.com - The Mason City Globe-Gazette

Photo source: www.findagrave.com, www.americanairmuseum.com, www.findagrave.com