Doyle Allen Miller was born Aug. 7, 1920, in Arkansas. His mother, Eva Doyle Miller, was a homemaker and his father, George F. Miller, a farmer.
The family mostly lived at Aplin, a community of about 270 people in the central part of the state.
Doyle, the only son among four children, enlisted in the Navy on Oct. 4, 1939. He was a coxswain third class on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
Mr. Miller's father served in the Army in World War I.
Sources: The Arkansas Gazette; Census; Navy muster rolls; U.S. Veterans Administration; Arkansas death certificate.
(From the USS Arizona Mall Memorial Facebook Page)
Doyle Allen Miller was born Aug. 7, 1920, in Arkansas. His mother, Eva Doyle Miller, was a homemaker and his father, George F. Miller, a farmer.
The family mostly lived at Aplin, a community of about 270 people in the central part of the state.
Doyle, the only son among four children, enlisted in the Navy on Oct. 4, 1939. He was a coxswain third class on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
Mr. Miller's father served in the Army in World War I.
Sources: The Arkansas Gazette; Census; Navy muster rolls; U.S. Veterans Administration; Arkansas death certificate.
(From the USS Arizona Mall Memorial Facebook Page)
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Entered the service from Kansas.
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