Died Aug.3,1918 North of Chateau-Thiery ,buried nearby Later his body was exhumed and reburied in the Suresnes American Cemetery. In 1928,he was disinterred and on June 4,he was placed in the Lafayette Flying Corps Monument in St.Cloud ,France .[He went by the name Miller]
∼The son of Bernard and Valeska (Hager) Miller, Walter Miller enlisted in France's Service Aeronautique on June 10th, 1917. He underwent his different phases of flying training at Avord, Juvisy, and the G.D.E. from June 16, 1917 through March 1918.
On April 1st, 1918, Miller was transferred into the United States Air Service and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant. According to the book "The Lafayette Flying Corps: The American Volunteers in the French Air Service in World War One," by Dennis Gordon, "On 3 August 1918, Lt. Miller and Lt. James Sykes, his observer, went out on a mission to photograph the region North of Fere-en-Tradnois. They were escorted by a formation of seven chasse planes of the First Pursuit Group. Miller and his comrades met thirty enemy machines between Soissons and Fismes. During the aerial melee which followed, Lieutenant Miller and his observer were shot down and killed in combat north of Chateau-thierry. Five of the chase protection planes were also shot down. Miller's bus crashed into a railroad cut. He and Lt. Sykes were buried nearby. He was 24 years old at the time of his death. Later, Miller's body was exhumed and reburied in the Suresnes American Cemetery. In 1928, he was disinterred and on 4 June he was placed in the Lafayette Flying Corps Monument, St. Cloud."
Died Aug.3,1918 North of Chateau-Thiery ,buried nearby Later his body was exhumed and reburied in the Suresnes American Cemetery. In 1928,he was disinterred and on June 4,he was placed in the Lafayette Flying Corps Monument in St.Cloud ,France .[He went by the name Miller]
∼The son of Bernard and Valeska (Hager) Miller, Walter Miller enlisted in France's Service Aeronautique on June 10th, 1917. He underwent his different phases of flying training at Avord, Juvisy, and the G.D.E. from June 16, 1917 through March 1918.
On April 1st, 1918, Miller was transferred into the United States Air Service and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant. According to the book "The Lafayette Flying Corps: The American Volunteers in the French Air Service in World War One," by Dennis Gordon, "On 3 August 1918, Lt. Miller and Lt. James Sykes, his observer, went out on a mission to photograph the region North of Fere-en-Tradnois. They were escorted by a formation of seven chasse planes of the First Pursuit Group. Miller and his comrades met thirty enemy machines between Soissons and Fismes. During the aerial melee which followed, Lieutenant Miller and his observer were shot down and killed in combat north of Chateau-thierry. Five of the chase protection planes were also shot down. Miller's bus crashed into a railroad cut. He and Lt. Sykes were buried nearby. He was 24 years old at the time of his death. Later, Miller's body was exhumed and reburied in the Suresnes American Cemetery. In 1928, he was disinterred and on 4 June he was placed in the Lafayette Flying Corps Monument, St. Cloud."
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