American War Hero · Korean War · Notice Nearby
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Nick Milus
July 23, 1921 – unaccounted for since November 5, 1950
Born Erie, Weld County, Colorado
Loss location: Formosa Strait / China Sea area (loss location; PBM-5 Mariner 84765)
Aviation Power Plant Mechanic Chief (ADC), U.S. Navy; Patrol Squadron 46 (VP-46); crew, PBM-5 Mariner bureau number 84765, Formosa Strait patrol, November 5, 1950
Missing in action — DPAA lists ADC Nick Milus as Unaccounted For (Deferred), profile a0Jt0000006RrSrEAK (verified 2026-09-25). Crew member of PBM-5 Mariner 84765 that departed Sangley Point on November 5, 1950 for a Formosa Strait patrol with recovery planned at Buckner Bay; last routine position report near the south end of the strait; aircraft and twelve-man crew never arrived; extensive searches found nothing. Memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific and on the Korean War Veterans Memorial Wall. Birth date from Korean War Project public casualty profile; Erie, Colorado, in contemporaneous Colorado casualty lists; DPAA home of record California. Deferred is an analytic category, not a recovered grave.
Nick Milus was born July 23, 1921, and is tied in the public casualty line to Erie, Colorado, though DPAA records his home of record as California. By November 1950 he was an Aviation Power Plant Mechanic Chief flying with Patrol Squadron 46 — the long-range Mariners that worked the China coast from Sangley Point and the tender circuit at Buckner Bay.
On November 5 his PBM-5, bureau number 84765, took off from Naval Station Sangley Point with twelve aboard for a Formosa Strait patrol, recovery planned at Okinawa. Weather was bad: heavy cloud and rough seas. The Mariner made a routine position report near the south end of the strait and then vanished. It never reached Buckner Bay. Searches found no wreckage that closed the file and no man from that crew.
DPAA profile a0Jt0000006RrSrEAK still lists him Unaccounted For, analytical category Deferred. He is on the Courts of the Missing in Honolulu and on the Korean War Veterans Memorial Wall. An aircraft that did not come home is not a grave this country has brought home.
- Publication
- NN-HERO-1950-020
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