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Milton Trecek

Graduating Class of 1941
Served in World War II
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Captain
Milton Trecek

Army
873rd Bombardment Squadron
498th Bomber Group
Very Heavy

Hometown

Blue River, WI

Date of Birth

Location of Death

Unknown

Date of Death

Location of Burial

Unknown

More About Captain Trecek

Captain Trecek was the Aircraft Commander pilot of U.S. Army Air Corps B-29-40-BW Superfortress #42-24645.

Captain Trecek was killed in action when the bomber had one engine catch fire and another engine fail while returning from a mission over Japan and had to ditch. He is memorialized at the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu, Hawaii.