Ssgt Robert L. Miller KIA
Bitburg, Germany
29 September 1944
The plane flown by Lt. Nordstrom took a direct hit and the airplane exploded, breaking in half. Only one chute emerged, that of Ssgt Gossett.
The following is from a posting by Sam Thompson of Evening Shade, Arkansas on the Aviation Enthusiasts Corner web site:
"My first cousin, Robert Miller, was shot down over Germany Sept.
29, 1944 in an A-20. He was missing until some time in 1946. His body
and
that of one other crew member was found in a German cemetery after the
war.
One crew member parachuted and became a pow. My aunt gave me all the
papers
relating to Robert and pictures of the crew. He was returned in 1949
and
buried at Claremore, OK. I went to the funeral. His biological father
had
Robert returned.I believe his father was N. Jackson Miller. My uncle,
Hurley
Barnett, was Robert's step father. I was younger but knew Robert well
before
the war. And saw the agony on Aunt Thelma's face while her son was
missing.
Her only child. I think Robert was called a gunner/engineer. The pilot
was
killed, too. Identified in 1946 by numbers on shorts. Robert was in the
1943 class of Muskogee Central High School. He trained in Miss."
"Goin' Home" courtesy of the U.S. Air Force Band