461st plaque

461st Bombardment Group (H)

Byron Dean Mills Album

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Sgt. Byron Dean Mills

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Sgt. Byron Dean Mills

Mills headstone

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Sgt. Mills headstone

Mills & Queenie

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Mills holding Queenie, the masqot

Long & Mills

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Thomas C. Long (L) and Byron Mills (R)

Knapp & Mills

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John J. Knapp (L) and Byron Mills (R)

Mills & friends

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L-R: James T. Freeman, Jr.; Charles D. Farrow; Byron Mills; Herbert H. Sokol; James P. Strano; Leonard O. Watkins

Old Softball Team

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Standing L-R: ?????; Byron Mills; ?????; ?????/ ?????

Squatting L-R: ?????; ?????; ?????

Mills & Shawcross

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Byron Mills (L) and John H. Shawcross

Herling

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Harold H. Herling

Name on the P-51 is Gerry

Herling

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Harold H. Herling next to P-40

Straut

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Lt. Straut

Fitzpatrick & Mills

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John J. Fitzpatrick (L) and Byron Mills (R)

Mills @ Home

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Byron Mills in front of his tent

Mills on B-24

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Mills on B-24 with view of hard stands

Mills & Long

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Byron Mills (L) and Thomas C. Long (R) with girls in Foggia

Mills & Johnston

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Byron Mills (L) and Marshall Johnston (R) with girl in Foggia

Home from work

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Standing L-R: ?????; ?????; ?????

Squatting L-R: Byron Mills; ?????

Waiting for planes

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Standing L-R: Leonard Watkins; ?????; Harold Herling

Sitting L-R: James Strano; Troy D. Dendy; Herbert Sokol

Armorers

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Armorers ready to go to the line

Refueling #25

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Refueling #25

Mills & She Wolf

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Byron Mills and the She Wolf (#26)

Visit to catacombs in Rome

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Frank Martinus, Raymond H. Dunn and Byron Mills visit the catacombs in Rome

Mills is standing 12th from the left

Ground station

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Ground station

Ground station

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Ground station

Guard duty

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Byron Mills on guard duty

Transmitter room

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Transmitter room for ground station

Mess hall

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765th Mess Hall

John Knapp

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John Knapp in front of tent

Mills

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Byron Mills with crashed B-24 in background

Dress Parade

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Dress parade for the 2nd Unit Citation

Unit Citation

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Tent area

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Tent area north side

Tent area

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Tent area west side

Sokol, Strano & Herling

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Buddy Sokol (Herb's brother), James Strano and Harold Herling

Harold Herling

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Harold H. Herling

Girls

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Byron Mills' "Wow-Wow" girls

Freeman & Strawcross

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James Freeman and John Shawcross - the "Sawdust Twins"

Barker

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Russell Barker

Mills

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Byron Mills hunting on a day off

Dunn

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Raymond Dunn hunting on a day off

Co-workers

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Standing L-R: Raymond Dunn; Byron Mills; Thomas Long

Squatting L-R: John Shawcross; Nathan Baumgardner

After finishing packing equipment to return to States

VE-Day

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VE-Day

Dunn

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Raymond Dunn with local farmer family

Italian worrkers

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Italian workers - guy in back is in charge

Foggia

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Gate into the town of Foggia

Kitchen

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Mess kitchen and laundry

Polish tanks

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Polish tanks in Foggia

Italian army

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Italian Army

Polish tank

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Polish tank in Foggia

Mills

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Byron Mills

Two miles up that road is the base.

Bombed Foggia

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Scene of bombed out Foggia

Bombed Foggia

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Scene of bombed out Foggia

Bombed Foggia

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Scene of bombed out Foggia

Chow time

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Chow time

L-R: Calver Eason; Albert Hall; John Butzu; John Knapp; Melvin Manke; Harold Herling

Destruction in Foggia

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Destruction in Foggia

Commando

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A commando

Destruction in Foggia

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Destruction in Foggia

Engine change

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Clockwise: Peter Tampas; Moore; Fox; Jacob Genuardi; Fox; Innocent Perisico

Crash near Torretta

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Pilot and co-pilot were killed

Crash near Torretta

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Crash landed - navigator killed

Crash near Torretta

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Came back with a load of bombs and blew up while landing

Crash near Torretta

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Pilot and co-pilot killed

Crash near Torretta

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Landing gear collapsed

Crash near Torretta

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Pilor and co-pilot killed

Crash near Torretta

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Pilot and co-pilot killed

Crash near Torretta

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"Cover Girl" - a forced landing in a rutted field.  Pilot received a Silver Star.

Gillette and Mills

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John Gillette and Byron Mills

Gillette, Beutke and Mills

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John Gillette, John Beutke and Byron Mills

Gillette and Mills

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John Gillette and Byron Mills

Beutke and Gillette

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John Beutke and John Gillette

Beutke and Mills

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John Beutke and Byron Mills

Christmas 1944

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1944 Christmas card

Driver proficiency

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Mills driving proficiency

Postcard

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Postcard from Cerignola

Postcard

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Postcard from Cerignola

Postcard

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Postcard from Cerignola

Postcard

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Postcard from Cerignola