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MACR No. 07769

1/Lt. Lloyd P. Turner reported: "I was flying Acorn white.  Lt. McMillen was flying White 2.  We had bombed a railroad marshalling yard at Lunneville (s.w. of Nancy) France, and strafed a train south of Nancy, when Major McGinn, Acorn White leader, and Lt. McMillen dove from 5,000 feet to strafe a truck on the highway leading due west from Nancy.  Lt. McMillen apparently started his pull-up a bit late and caught one wing on an obstruction and crashed.  The accident occurred at approximately 0730 hours at 48 degrees 42 minutes north and 06 degrees and zero minutes east on 12 August 1944."

Lt. McMillen is buried in Memorial Park, Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

Reproduced with kind permission of Mr. Robert M. Littlefield from the author's book Double Nickel - Double Trouble