Wilton Bernie Buller was born in 1923 in Louisiana. He was the son of Dillard Jackson Buller and Pearl Lilly Day Buller. He was married to Pearl Day Buller. He was a graduate of Ville Platte High School in 1940 and Soule Business College in 1942, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps on February 11,1943. He received military training at Keesler Field, Mississippi; Buckley Field and Lowry Field, Colorado; Kingman Army Air Field, Arizona; and Alamogordo, New Mexico, where he completed his final training and earned his gunner's wings. He served in the 787th Bombardment Squadron, 466th Bombardment Group, Heavy, as a Sergeant and Ball Turret Gunner of B-24H #41-29354 during World War II.

On February 14, 1944, B-24H Liberator #41-29354 was lost at sea while ferrying a new aircraft from the United States to Dakar, Senegal, as part of the 466th Bombardment Group's deployment to the European Theater of Operations. Approximately 100 miles off the U.S. coast, the crew transmitted a distress message reporting serious engine trouble and indicating that they were abandoning the aircraft and taking to life rafts. Some accounts suggest that the aircraft may have run out of fuel, although the exact cause of the incident remains uncertain. Despite the distress call, neither the aircraft nor its crew was ever recovered. All crew members were subsequently declared Killed in Action.

Sgt Buller was declared Missing in Action, and his name is memorialized in the Tablets of the Missing in the North Africa American Cemetery and Memorial, Carthage, Délégation de Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia.

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