Evening star., 1945-06-07
On the Roll of Honor
Missiino

Missing
Rogers Bernard Young, Fireman
l/c, U. s. NJ, whose mother, Mrs
Charlotte Young Smith, lives at 624
Maryland avenue NE, is missing
IN action. it was disclosed by the
Navy today.
Liberated
1st 1t. Francis L. Miller, former
Navy Yard machinist, has been lib
Grated from German Imprisonment
the War Department disclosed. He
is the son Of Mrs. Lille G. Miller,
III Second street, Laurel, Md.
Captured September %, 1914, when
the Bit he was plotting was shot
down over Germany, 1t. Miller's
co-pllot was killed and the other
crew members were injured slightly,
he wrote his mother. He did not say
whether he was injured. He was in
Stalag Luft /, on the Baltic, his
mother said. The first word she
had of his liberation was a letter
from him dated May 10 in Ger
many. He now is in France await
ing transportation home.
The 22-year-old pilot was born in
Laurel and is a graduate of ST.
Mildreds Academy there. He and
his brother, 1st 1t. Robert Joseph
Miller, 20, enlisted together in the
Army Air Forces in March, l941.
His brother is stationed at Orlando,
Fla, after completing 81 missions
over Germany as a Bit pilot, his
mother said.
S/Sergt. Richard N. Thompson, 25-
year-old Ranger. now is in London
after Is months as a Nazi prisoner
and he has written his mother that
although he was hospitalized for
while "the doctors couldn't find
anything wrong" with him. His
mother is Mrs. Lille N. Thompson,
sol Twelfth street NE.
Sergt. Thompson, formerly with
the 1st and 4th Ranger Battalions,
fought across North Africa, in Sicily
and up through Italy In his three
years overseas.
He told his mother he managed
to get out of prison camp, Stalag
2-B, by We day and believed he
then was in the toughest engage
ment of his army career. "I was
kissed by 1.100 girls. Is babies and
nine old men with whiskers," he
wrote.
A graduate of Eastern High
School, he attended Strayer Col
lege and Columbia Tech. He was
employed by the Farm Credit Ad-
ministration before he entered the
Army In September, 1941. His lib
Grafton was announced officially to-
day.
Pvt. William E. Milstead. 27, a |
prisoner of Germany since October
26, 1914, was liberated from Stalag
IA on May l and is now home
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. B.
w. Milstead. IA Hillside avenue,
Parkland, Md.
An infantryman with the 85th Di-
vision he arrived in New York Sun
day evening and came home last
night. according to his mother. He
has been in the Army since Septem-
Der, 1943, and overseas since March,
1914.
Pvt. Milstead's wife, Mrs. Eliza
beth Milstead, and 22-month-o
son, William, live at the Park
land address. The infantryman was
born in Charles County, Md, and is
a graduate of Maryland Park High
School. He previously was a fore
man with the Fries, Beall & Sharpe
Co. here His father is employed
by the Standard Oil Co.
Pvt. Milstead has three brothers
in the service, Corpl. Cornelius Mil
stead, chemical warfare, in Italy;
Sergt. Warren Milstead, Medical
Corps, IN England, and Pfc. Donald
Milstead, infantry, now ii a con-
valescent hospital In the Philip
pines.
After 6o-day furlough Pvt. Mil
stead will report to Asheville, N. c.,
for reassignment, his mother said.
Pvt. Edward A. Richards. infan-
try, a graduate of st. Johns Col
lege, was liberated as a prisoner of
Germany, the War Department has
informed his father, Arthur j. Rich
ards, 311 New Jersey avenue Sc.
Pvt. Richards first was reported
in action in Belgium on
6. He was in Stalag IA,
according to his brother, j. A. Rich
ards. Pvt. Richards is a native of
the District. He entered the Army
in November, 1941, and went over
seas in January, 1914, his brother
said. He participated in the in
vasion of France.
Flight Officer Gerald E. Tyner, Is,
whose sister, Mrs. Louise Karasek,
lives at % Seventh street Sc, now
IS in England after liberation from
5talag Luft 3 in Germany. He was
taken prisoner May 10, 1914, after
ne bailed out of his plane over
Austria. His release was announced
.oday by the Army.
Flight Officer Tyner, who lived
with his brother, now 1st 1t. Robert
R. Tyner, CAT pilot with the Air
Transport Command in Italy, at
Ill Massachusetts, avenue NE,
worked at the Navy Yard before he
was inducted in February, 1912. He
was in Army ordnance before be-
ing transferred to the air force,
according to his sister. Another
brother, Pvt. Gene Tyner. AAF, is
at Lowry Field, Colo.
Born in Oklahoma City, Flight
Officer Tyner was graduated from
high school in Ramona, Okla. He
and his brother lived here about !
a year.
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