Miller, Wilfred Handel

Nationality:: British (1801-present, Kingdom)

Biography

Miller and his observer, Fred Bone, were shot down over Jouswier/Friesland, the Netherlands on August 13th, 1944. Just like Bone, he spent the rest of the war as a POW.

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Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC)

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: Flying Officer
Unit:: No. 169 Squadron, Royal Air Force
Awarded on:: June 13th, 1944

Citation:
"As observer and pilot respectively, these officers have participated in many sorties. They have displayed a high degree of skill and cooperation
and have destroyed 8 enemy aircraft at night, 3 of them in one sortie in May, 1944. Their achievement on this occasion merited the greatest praise. These officers have set a fine example of devotion to duty."

Awarded simultanuously to Frederick Bone and to the pilot, Wilfred Miller

Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC)

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: Flying Officer
Unit:: No. 169 Squadron, Royal Air Force
Awarded on:: June 13th, 1944

Citation:
"'These officers, as pilot and observer repectively, have completed many sorties. They have displayed a high degree of skill and co-operation, and their keenness to engage the enemy has been most evident. They have destroyed 10 hostile aircraft'

Second DFC awarded as a bar for on the ribbon of the first DFC.
Awarded simultanuously to Wilfred Miller and Frederick Bone, radar operator.

Sources

- Fourth Supplement to The London Gazette Issue 36560 published on the 9 June 1944
- Fourth Supplement to The London Gazette Issue 36728 published on the 29 September 1944
- Dix Noonan Webb
- Luchtoorlog 1940-1945