Wayne Milan Boord was born in 1924. He was the son of Frank Cline Boord and Edna DeSha Wickersham Boord.

On 18 March 1944, two B-24 Liberators from the 392nd Bomb Group, 576th and 577th Bomber Squadrons, were involved in a horrific mid-air collision over the Oise department in France. Amblin Oakie, Aircraft #41-29174, on its 25th mission, and Aircraft 41-28651 (no nickname) on its 9th mission both took off from the UK at around 10am on 18 March 1944, along with 26 other aircraft, on a bombing mission to Friedrichshafen. Amblin Oakie was caught in violent propeller wash from the other craft as it fell out of formation. The collision occurred at 1253. On Amblin Oakie a section of the right wing torn off behind the #4 engine as well as a portion of the tail assembly. The other plane lost its left tail section and both wings. Boord was a machine gunner in the Aircraft 41-28651 and was killed just outside Le Ployron, France in a crash. He died on March 18, 1944 and is now buried in the Epinal American Cemetery, Dinozé, France. He also has a cenotaph located in the Grove Hill Cemetery, Hanoverton, Columbiana County, Ohio.