Muller, Darwin J.
Army Corporal

Darwin J. Muller, age 20, from Dodge County Scribner, Nebraska .

Parents: Otto L. Muller

Service era: World War II
Schools: Scribner High graduate

Date of death: Tuesday, April 24, 1945
Death details: On April 24, 1945, a B-29 Superfortress (serial number 42-94206) with a crew of eleven departed Guam for a bombing mission against enemy installations in Tachikawa, Japan. Just after it dropped its bombs, this plane caught fire and entered a slow downward turn to the right before crashing and burning on the ground. Six members of the crew were killed in the crash. Their remains were later recovered near the crash site and identified. Five members of the crew bailed out and were taken to a military prison in Tokyo, where they later died during an airstrike. The remains of two of those men were later recovered and identified, but the remains of the other three could not be located. Corporal Darin J. Muller joined the U.S. Army Air Forces from Nebraska and served with the 458th Bombardment Squadron, 330th Bombardment Group (Heavy). He was a crew member aboard the B-29A, and was one of the survivors of the crash who died at the Tokyo Military Prison. Attempts to identify his remains following the war were unsuccessful. Today, Corporal Muller is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Evening World Herald (1946)