Malok was the son of John and Anna Malok.
Malok was the flight engineer on a B-17E bomber assigned to the 10th Air Force, 7th Bombardment Group, 9th Bombardment Squadron. On June 4, 1942 Malok's and another plane flew a daylight mission to bomb shipping in the Irrawaddy River in Burma. One crewman was killed and the plane suffered heavy damage from a squadron of enemy fighters. The crew was forced to bail out at a low altitude before the pilot and co-pilot finally crash landed the aircraft. Malok and five of his crewmates were captured by the Japanese and held as prisoners of war in Rangoon prison. On November 29, 1943 he was killed in an allied bombing raid.
Malok was from Northampton County PA. He was awarded the Silver Star and the Purple Heart.
Because his body was not recovered, he is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing.
On May 17, 1946 a C-47B cargo plane took off from Rangoon carrying the remains of Malok and approximately forty other service men who died as prisoners of war. They were to be returned to the United States, however the plane crashed in a storm in India, killing the three man crew as well as the eight passengers from the American Graves Registration Service. The wreckage was discovered by Clayton Kuhles in 2009, and efforts are being made to return the remains to the US.
Malok was the flight engineer on a B-17E bomber assigned to the 10th Air Force, 7th Bombardment Group, 9th Bombardment Squadron. On June 4, 1942 Malok's and another plane flew a daylight mission to bomb shipping in the Irrawaddy River in Burma. One crewman was killed and the plane suffered heavy damage from a squadron of enemy fighters. The crew was forced to bail out at a low altitude before the pilot and co-pilot finally crash landed the aircraft. Malok and five of his crewmates were captured by the Japanese and held as prisoners of war in Rangoon prison. On November 29, 1943 he was killed in an allied bombing raid.
Malok was from Northampton County PA. He was awarded the Silver Star and the Purple Heart.
Because his body was not recovered, he is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing.
On May 17, 1946 a C-47B cargo plane took off from Rangoon carrying the remains of Malok and approximately forty other service men who died as prisoners of war. They were to be returned to the United States, however the plane crashed in a storm in India, killing the three man crew as well as the eight passengers from the American Graves Registration Service. The wreckage was discovered by Clayton Kuhles in 2009, and efforts are being made to return the remains to the US.
Malok was the son of John and Anna Malok.
Malok was the flight engineer on a B-17E bomber assigned to the 10th Air Force, 7th Bombardment Group, 9th Bombardment Squadron. On June 4, 1942 Malok's and another plane flew a daylight mission to bomb shipping in the Irrawaddy River in Burma. One crewman was killed and the plane suffered heavy damage from a squadron of enemy fighters. The crew was forced to bail out at a low altitude before the pilot and co-pilot finally crash landed the aircraft. Malok and five of his crewmates were captured by the Japanese and held as prisoners of war in Rangoon prison. On November 29, 1943 he was killed in an allied bombing raid.
Malok was from Northampton County PA. He was awarded the Silver Star and the Purple Heart.
Because his body was not recovered, he is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing.
On May 17, 1946 a C-47B cargo plane took off from Rangoon carrying the remains of Malok and approximately forty other service men who died as prisoners of war. They were to be returned to the United States, however the plane crashed in a storm in India, killing the three man crew as well as the eight passengers from the American Graves Registration Service. The wreckage was discovered by Clayton Kuhles in 2009, and efforts are being made to return the remains to the US.
Malok was the flight engineer on a B-17E bomber assigned to the 10th Air Force, 7th Bombardment Group, 9th Bombardment Squadron. On June 4, 1942 Malok's and another plane flew a daylight mission to bomb shipping in the Irrawaddy River in Burma. One crewman was killed and the plane suffered heavy damage from a squadron of enemy fighters. The crew was forced to bail out at a low altitude before the pilot and co-pilot finally crash landed the aircraft. Malok and five of his crewmates were captured by the Japanese and held as prisoners of war in Rangoon prison. On November 29, 1943 he was killed in an allied bombing raid.
Malok was from Northampton County PA. He was awarded the Silver Star and the Purple Heart.
Because his body was not recovered, he is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing.
On May 17, 1946 a C-47B cargo plane took off from Rangoon carrying the remains of Malok and approximately forty other service men who died as prisoners of war. They were to be returned to the United States, however the plane crashed in a storm in India, killing the three man crew as well as the eight passengers from the American Graves Registration Service. The wreckage was discovered by Clayton Kuhles in 2009, and efforts are being made to return the remains to the US.
Gravesite Details
Entered the service from Pennsylvania.
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Records on Ancestry
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1930 United States Federal Census
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U.S., Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Unaccounted-for Remains, Group B (Unrecoverable), 1941-1975
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Pennsylvania, U.S., Veteran Compensation Application Files, WWII, 1950-1966
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1940 United States Federal Census
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U.S., World War II and Korean Conflict Veterans Interred Overseas
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