Obituaries beginning with " Miller only ", LaSalle Parish, Louisiana
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List of names in file:
S/Sgt. Floyd O. Miller

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Copied and Submitted by: Doug McBroom, 902 Kilgore Court, Allen, TX
75013, doug324@aol.com.  (No Relation.)
Date: 24 Nov 2004
Source: From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal; Jena, LaSalle Parish, LA.
Clippings at the LaSalle Parish Library located in Jena, LaSalle
Parish, LA.  Many Thanks to The Times - Signal and to the LaSalle Parish
Library for allowing the following to be added to the Archives.
Date:  July 6, 1944

Headline:  Sgt. Floyd O' Miller's Death Confirmed by War Department

 Confirmation of the death of S/Sgt. Floyd O. Miller, son of Mrs. O.
A. Miller of Jena, La., has been received from the War Department.
According to the message, S/Sgt. Miller was killed in action over
Germany May 28, 1944.  The information came through the International
Red Cross.

 Miller's death brought to a close a colorful career in Uncle Sam's
Army Air Service.  A former linotype operator on The Jena Times - his
hometown newspaper - he volunteered in the Air Corps in November
1942.  Although considered too old for aerial combat duty, Miller,
who was 41 at the time of his death, clung doggedly to his
determination to man a machine gun on a fortress, "worried" his
superior officers into giving him a chance to attend gunnery school,
where he finished with honors and became a waist gunner on a flying
fortress.  Affectionately called "Old Man Miller," by his buddies and
associates, S/Sgt. Miller first broke into print when "The Plane
News," service paper published somewhere in England, carried a
two-column feature article on the aerial gunner in June of 1943.
Later, Bob Considine, International News Service staff correspondent,
wrote an article on Miller which was published in the daily press
throughout the United States.

 On Oct. 12, 1943, S/Sgt. Miller, with others of his group, received
commendations from Winston Churchill, RAF Air Chief Marshall Portal,
General Marshall, Chief of Staff, U. S. Army, General Arnold,
Commanding General, Army Air Forces, Lt. Gen. Ira Eaker, Brig. Gen.
Anderson, and Brig. Gen. Williams.  The commendations were awarded
for a mission over Anklam, Germany, on Oct. 9, 1943, in which German
fighter factories at Anklam and Marienburg were destroyed.

 S/Sgt. Miller was first reported missing in action on June 11.  He
leaves, besides his mother, one daughter, Mona Rose, age 8; a sister,
Mrs. M. O. Williams of Baton Rouge.  His wife, Mrs. Bertha Parker
Miller, died in a New Orleans hospital April 16, 1944.

 (NOTE:  His Mother's name was blurred on the newspaper copy, but it
appeared to be "Mrs. O.A.")
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