Name:
Reginald H. Miller
Rank:
Aviation Machinist's Mate First Class
Serial Number:
2685439
Unit:
U.S.S. Ranger
Date of Death:
1943-10-04
State:
Florida
Cemetery:
Cambridge American Cemetery, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Plot:
Tablets of the Missing
Row:
Grave:
Decoration:
Purple Heart
Comments:
Reginald H. Miller was the son of Clayton Galveston Miller and Eunice Jones Miller. At the time of his death, AMM1C Miller was serving in the VT-4 Squadron aboard the USS Ranger. He was Killed in Action on October 4, 1943, during the Operation Leader in Bodo, Norway. A crew member of an aircraft piloted by Lt(JG) John H. Palmer, ART1C Zalom was killed in the crash of their plane after being hit by anti-aircraft fire.
Miller's body was never found. His name is memorialized on Tablets of the Missing, Cambridge American Cemetery, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Source of information: www.findagrave.com, www.abmc.gov, www.history.navy.mil