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Personal info

Full name
MILLER, Le Moyne
Date of birth
7 September 1925
Age
19
Place of birth
Butler, Butler County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Butler, Butler County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
33920597
Rank
Sergeant
Function
Tail Gunner
Unit
322nd Bombardment Squadron,
91st Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Purple Heart,
Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Missing in Action
Date of death
8 April 1945
Place of death
Stendahl, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Walls of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
John T. Miller (father)
Justina A. (Smith) Miller (mother)
Edna N. Miller (sister)
Ruth M. Miller (sister)
Selma I. Miller (sister)
Henry A. Miller (brother)
Dana M. Miller (brother)
Wayne B. Miller (brother)
Eugene Miller (brother)

Plane data

Serial number
42-31333
Data
Type: B-17G
Nickname: Wee Willie
Destination: Stendahl, Germany
Mission: Bombing of the marshalling yard
MACR: 13881

More information

Sgt Le Moyne Miller enlisted in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania on 18 February 1944.

Statement from S/Sgt George Little, crew member of another B-17 in the same group:
"We were flying over the target at 20,500 feet altitude when I observed aircraft B-17G, 42-31333 to receive a direct flak hit approximately between the bomb-bay and the No. 2 engine. The aircraft immediately started into a vertical dive. The aircraft fuselage was on fire and when it had dropped approximately 5,000 feet the left wing fell off. It continued down when the fuselage was about 3,000 feet from the ground it exploded, and then exploded again when it hit the ground. I saw no crew members leave the aircraft or parachutes open."

All nine crew members were killed.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, www.91stbombgroup.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, Newspaper article, www.fold3.com - MACR, www.ancestry.com - Veteran Compensation Application File / 1930 Census

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Gerrie Franken - SOHE