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Goodman, Lt. Miles F. Jr.

Male 1922 - 1944  (22 years)


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  • Name Goodman, Miles F.  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
    Title Lt. 
    Suffix Jr. 
    Born 6 Apr 1922  Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12
    Gender Male 
    Residence 1930  Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son 
    Residence 1935  Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Residence 1 Apr 1940  Mechanicsburg, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son 
    Died 10 Jul 1944  Taroa, Central Pacific Ocean Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14
    Residence 3 Apr 1950  Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Buried Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 8, 15
    Person ID I20591  Our Family | Descendents of Hirsch Westheimer (I6684)
    Last Modified 16 Jan 2024 

    Father Goodman, Miles Franklin,   b. 25 Jan 1886, Norfolk, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Jan 1980, Palm Beach County, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 93 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Jacobs, Etta,   b. 26 Jan 1897, Norfolk, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Nov 1954, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 57 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Married 23 Jul 1914  Haslett, Gates, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [16, 17, 18, 19
    Alt. Marriage 26 Jul 1914  Kings County, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [20
    Family ID F7889  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • WWII Combat in the Marshalls, as told by John Glenn

      VMO-155's job was to keep the Japanese forces suppressed, to prevent them from staging any counter-attacks by air or water. Glenn's first combat mission took place a few days after he landed; it was flak suppression. Fly some Corsairs over Maloelap and blast away at any anti-aircraft installations that opened up. Not exactly glamorous, but very real. On this first mission, Monty Goodman, a wise-cracking flier from central Pennsylvania and one of Glenn's good friends, didn't make it back to the rendezvous point.

      Birth: 1922
      Death: Jul. 10, 1944

      John Glenn's wing man.
      A Marine killed during war in the Marshall Islands.

      At the end of June, they were finally on their way to Marshall Island and the war. His first combat assignment was flak suppression over Taroa Island. He witnessed his first casualty in combat, when a member of his division named Monty Goodman was shot down. They found the place where Goodman's plane had hit the water but never found him. It hit Glenn hard when he saw Goodman's empty parachute bin and, as the division leader and Goodman's friend, he felt obligated to write to the parents.
      On this first mission, Monty Goodman, a wise-cracking flier from central Pennsylvania and one of Glenn's good friends, didn't make it back to the rendezvous point.

      A quote from John Glenn-
      On Glenn's first combat flight he experienced what many people in war do: loss. His wing man and close friend, Monty Goodman, was shot down and killed. Glenn remembers it was not until a scheduled rendezvous that he discovered Goodman was missing.

      "You get the squadron together to see that everybody was OK before you went back home again and back to your own base. And Monty just didn't show up. So we went back in and went up and down. In the water we could see an oil slick off the island a couple miles, and that's apparently where he went in because we never found anything but that, but the oil slick. So that was on the very, very first mission so war making was pretty personal from then on," Glenn said.
      WWII Combat in the Marshalls, as told by John Glenn

      VMO-155's job was to keep the Japanese forces suppressed, to prevent them from staging any counter-attacks by air or water. Glenn's first combat mission took place a few days after he landed; it was flak suppression. Fly some Corsairs over Maloelap and blast away at any anti-aircraft installations that opened up. Not exactly glamorous, but very real. On this first mission, Monty Goodman, a wise-cracking flier from central Pennsylvania and one of Glenn's good friends, didn't make it back to the rendezvous point.

      Birth: «tab»1922
      Death: «tab»Jul. 10, 1944

      John Glenn's wing man.
      A Marine killed during war in the Marshall Islands.

      At the end of June, they were finally on their way to Marshall Island and the war. His first combat assignment was flak suppression over Taroa Island. He witnessed his first casualty in combat, when a member of his division named Monty Goodman was shot down. They found the place where Goodman's plane had hit the water but never found him. It hit Glenn hard when he saw Goodman's empty parachute bin and, as the division leader and Goodman's friend, he felt obligated to write to the parents.
      On this first mission, Monty Goodman, a wise-cracking flier from central Pennsylvania and one of Glenn's good friends, didn't make it back to the rendezvous point.

      A quote from John Glenn-
      On Glenn's first combat flight he experienced what many people in war do: loss. His wing man and close friend, Monty Goodman, was shot down and killed. Glenn remembers it was not until a scheduled rendezvous that he discovered Goodman was missing.

      "You get the squadron together to see that everybody was OK before you went back home again and back to your own base. And Monty just didn't show up. So we went back in and went up and down. In the water we could see an oil slick off the island a couple miles, and that's apparently where he went in because we never found anything but that, but the oil slick. So that was on the very, very first mission so war making was pretty personal from then on," Glenn said.
      WWII Combat in the Marshalls, as told by John Glenn

      VMO-155's job was to keep the Japanese forces suppressed, to prevent them from staging any counter-attacks by air or water. Glenn's first combat mission took place a few days after he landed; it was flak suppression. Fly some Corsairs over Maloelap and blast away at any anti-aircraft installations that opened up. Not exactly glamorous, but very real. On this first mission, Monty Goodman, a wise-cracking flier from central Pennsylvania and one of Glenn's good friends, didn't make it back to the rendezvous point.

      Birth: «tab»1922
      Death: «tab»Jul. 10, 1944

      John Glenn's wing man.
      A Marine killed during war in the Marshall Islands.

      At the end of June, they were finally on their way to Marshall Island and the war. His first combat assignment was flak suppression over Taroa Island. He witnessed his first casualty in combat, when a member of his division named Monty Goodman was shot down. They found the place where Goodman's plane had hit the water but never found him. It hit Glenn hard when he saw Goodman's empty parachute bin and, as the division leader and Goodman's friend, he felt obligated to write to the parents.
      On this first mission, Monty Goodman, a wise-cracking flier from central Pennsylvania and one of Glenn's good friends, didn't make it back to the rendezvous point.

      A quote from John Glenn-
      On Glenn's first combat flight he experienced what many people in war do: loss. His wing man and close friend, Monty Goodman, was shot down and killed. Glenn remembers it was not until a scheduled rendezvous that he discovered Goodman was missing.

      "You get the squadron together to see that everybody was OK before you went back home again and back to your own base. And Monty just didn't show up. So we went back in and went up and down. In the water we could see an oil slick off the island a couple miles, and that's apparently where he went in because we never found anything but that, but the oil slick. So that was on the very, very first mission so war making was pretty personal from then on," Glenn said.

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