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 [1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12] |
Gender |
Male |
Residence |
1930 |
Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA [1] |
Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son |
Residence |
1935 |
Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA [3] |
Residence |
1 Apr 1940 |
Mechanicsburg, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA [3] |
Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son |
Died |
10 Jul 1944 |
Taroa, Central Pacific Ocean [4, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14] |
Residence |
3 Apr 1950 |
Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [6] |
Buried |
Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA [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 , d. 7 Jan 1980, Palm Beach County, Florida, USA (Age 93 years) |
Relationship |
natural |
Mother |
Jacobs, Etta, b. 26 Jan 1897, Norfolk, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA , d. 28 Nov 1954, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 57 years) |
Relationship |
natural |
Married |
23 Jul 1914 |
Haslett, Gates, North Carolina, USA [16, 17, 18, 19] |
Alt. Marriage |
26 Jul 1914 |
Kings County, New York, USA [20] |
Family ID |
F7889 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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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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