Robert Leo Myllykoski
MilitaryIWM, Roger Freeman Collection
Assigned to 423BS, 306, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Hanover in B-17 42-29900 'Unbearable II' 26-Jul-43; flak, crashed Dorrieloh, near Diepholz, Germany. Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 126
Awards: SS, POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
Post War: In 1990, his pilot Norman A. Armbrust and navigator Robert J. Ellwood wrote to get the Silver Star awarded to Myllykoski for his heroic act of retrieving the Ball turret gunner from the turret and helping him into a parachute and bailing out.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group 423rd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: T-000143
- Highest Rank: Flight Officer
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Unbearable ii
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group 423rd Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft III, Sagan, Germany
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Bedford
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Fairport Harbor, Lake County, OH | 2 February 1919 | Son of Jacob O and Jenny E. [Braski] Myllykoski. |
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Furstenberg Brandenburg, Germany | 26 July 1943 | Prisoner of War (POW) at Stalag 3B Furstenberg Brandenburg, Prussia. |
Other Baled out POW |
Diepholz, Germany | 26 July 1943 | Failed to Return (FTR) Hanover in B-17 42-29900 'Unbearable II' 26-Jul-43; flak, crashed Dorrieloh, near Diepholz, Germany. POW MACR 126 |
Died |
Sebastian, FL | 21 November 2012 | |
Buried |
24 November 2012 | Arlington National Cemetery Section 36A, Grave 207 | |
Based |
Thurleigh | 26 July 1943 | Assigned to 423BS, 306, 8AF USAAF. |
Revisions
Added a "-" to the A/C tail # in the "Summary biography" to aid clarity & consistency.
306th BG Association Directory, 1 September 1999 Edition; MACR 126, NARA,
href="http://www.wwiimemorial.com/registry/search/pframe.asp?HonoreeID=204847…">http://www.wwiimemorial.com/registry/search/pframe.asp?HonoreeID=204847…; / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 126 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database