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Miller, Floyd Oliver

Individual Personnel Data
Name Miller, Floyd Oliver   
Rank Staff Sergeant
Serial Number 14151511   
Unit Assignments
  • Assigned to the 546th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), per AAF Station 106 Special Orders #46 dated 10 July 1943, effective 8 July 1943.
  • Transferred to a non-384th unit, per 546th Bomb Squadron Morning Report - to Headquarters & Headquarters Squadron, 1st CCRC GP, Bovington, effective 1 December 1943.
Duty Flexible Gunner
Last Duty Date 1 December 1943
Results Transferred
Additional Information
  • Date of Birth: 13 July 1903
  • Miller was featured in an article appearing in the August 1943 issue of PLANE NEWS.
  • Promoted to Staff Sergeant per AAF Station 106 Special Orders #107 dated 1 October 1943.
  • VOCO placing EM on Temporary Duty at Brockwood Cemetery near London for approximately two days of Official Business on or about 4 October 1943 is hereby confirmed and made of record per AAF Station 106 Special Orders #117 dated 13 October 1943.
  • After being transferred from the 384th Bomb Group, Floyd Oliver Miller was assigned to the 401st Bomb Group, 613th Bomb Squadron. He was Killed in Action on 28 May 1944. MACR 5305




Missions, Aircraft, Crews
This individual was credited with 3 Combat Missions.
Number Date Target Position Aircraft Mission/Sortie Information
10 25 July 1943 Target: Blohm & Voss Aircraft Works and Shipyard
Type: Industry
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Waist (Flexible) Gunner 42‑30030 Aborted Mission After Taking Off
High Squadron Deputy. Turned back at 1435 hrs at Splasher 5 because prop on #2 engine ran away.
Sortie Report
13 30 July 1943 Target: Aircraft Assembly Plant
Type: Aircraft Industry
Location: Kassel, Germany
Waist (Flexible) Gunner 42‑30196 Combat Mission Credit
Aborted Mission After Taking Off
Turned back 62 miles into Belgium because hydraulic fluid was coming down into the ball turret, which was inoperative, the left waist gun and left top turret gun were out of order, and the tachometer on one engine was oscillating wildly.
Sortie Report
15 15 August 1943 Target: Poix-en-Picardie and Amiens-Glisy Airfields
Type: German Air Force (Luftwaffe)
Location: Poix-de-Picardie & Amiens, France
Waist (Flexible) Gunner 42‑29651 Aborted Mission After Taking Off
Ground Spare Aircraft; replaced 42‑29703. Turned back for unknown reasons.
Sortie Report
16 16 August 1943 Target: Le Bourget Airport & Air Depot
Type: German Air Force (Luftwaffe)
Location: Paris, France
Waist (Flexible) Gunner 42‑3440 Aborted Mission After Taking Off
Turned back at Splasher 11 at 0830 hrs because of an excessive amount of oil coming from #2 engine, which was then feathered.
Sortie Report
30 9 October 1943 Target: Aircraft Factories
Type: Aircraft Industry
Location: Anklam, Germany
Waist (Flexible) Gunner 42‑5086 Combat Mission Credit
Sortie Report
31 10 October 1943 Target: Railroad Marshalling Yards
Type: Transportation
Location: Münster, Germany
Waist (Flexible) Gunner 42‑5086 Combat Mission Credit
Crew bailed out near Ipswich; aircraft continued in flight and crash-landed at Eye, Suffolk, killing a cow.
Sortie Report

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