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Ray Milcsik
Date and Place of Birth: October 23, 1922 New Jersey
Died:
June 3, 1994
Baseball Experience: Minor League
Position: Shortstop
Rank: Sergeant
Military Unit: 326th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group USAAF
Area Served:
European Theater of Operations
On January 15, 1943, Milcsik entered military
service with the Army Air Force. He trained as a tail gunner and the
young sergeant was assigned to the 326th Bomb Squadron of the 92nd
Bomb Group at Podington in
On January 4, 1944, Milcsik was part of
Second-Lieutenant Joseph C Hughes' B-17 Flying Fortress crew on a
bomb run to
Milcsik spent the next 18 months as a prisoner of war at Stalag 17B
in Braunau Gneikendorf near
Created January 24, 2008.
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