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Re: Aces of the 474th FG
Hello Kocab,
Bob Milliken is alive and well and a very good friend of mine. According to the 429th FS official history "The Retail Gang", Bob was promoted to 1st Lt. on 18 September 1944. Bob would go on to fly 70 combat missions and then onto a tour in Belgium as a tactical controller. To my knowledge, Bob mustered out of the AAC after the war as a 1st Lt.
As for Joseph Miller, I only know that he transferred into the 429thFS/474th FG as a Captain in early 1945. He had previously scored 4 kills with the 48FS/14FG in Italy and scored an Fw190 kill on 13 March 1945 making him the last Lightning ace in Europe. The 429th FS history does not indicate when Miller was promoted to Major. It shows Miller was still a Captain at the end of hostilities. If he was promoted to Major, it had to be after that.
Cheers, Gary Koch (474th FG Association Historian)
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