Irvin H. Miller
Service ID: 33489435.
Entered the service from Pennsylvania.
Rank: Private First Class, U.S. Army
Unit: 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion
Date of Death: 01 October 1944, killed when the plane he was a passenger on crashed somewhere between Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea (now part of Indonesia) and Finschhafen Airfield, Territory of New Guinea (now Papua, New Guinea).
Status: Missing in Action
Memorialized: Manila American Cemetery – Tablets of the Missing – United States Army and Army Air Forces
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Irvin H Miller was born and raised in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. He was the son of William Albert Miller and Matie P. Herner. His father was a coal miner.
1930 United States Federal Census (23 April 1930): Hegins Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania (sheet 15A, family 326) – Irvin Miller (7 Pennsylvania).
His mother died on 04 April 1935 as a result of an "incomplete septic abortion."
1940 United States Federal Census (08 April 1940): Klingerstown, Upper Mahantango Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania (sheet 3B, household 52, Route 53047) – Irvin Miller (17 Pennsylvania, laborer, coal mine). His family had lived in Valley View, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania in 1935. Irvin had completed 2 years of high school.
Irvin H. Miller (19 21 Nov 1922, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania) a resident of Klingerstown, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, signed up for his World War II Draft Registration Card (Serial No. N-175, Order No.11,489) on 30 June 1942 in Klingerstown, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. He was employed by the Troutman Brothers. Irvin listed his father, Mr. William A. Miller as the person who would always know his address. He was described as 5'7" in height, 135 lbs., with a light complexion, brown eyes and brown hair.
BD. 8 MEN WILL LEAVE JAN. 29TH
Board No. 8 has announced the following men as selected for induction into the Army, leaving the Legion building at Tower City at 7 a.m. on January 29 for Allentown: ... Irvin H. Miller, Klingerstown ... Source: Pottsville Republican (Pottsville, Pennsylvania) Friday, 15 January 1943, page 14.
Irvin H. Miller (1922 Pennsylvania), a resident of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania enlisted as a Private (S/N 33489435) in the U.S. Army on 29 January 1943 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He was single, had completed Grammar School and had been working as "Skilled meatcutters, except in slaughtering and packing houses."
Marriage Licenses
Kathryn Klock, 21, Pitman, and Irvin H. Miller, 20, Klingerstown, native of Valley View, a soldier. Source: Lykens Register (Lykens, Pennsylvania), Friday, 17 September 1943, page 4.
He married Kathryn Klock on 11 September 1943 in Valley View, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Howard J. Klock and Beulah Erdman. Irvin and Kathryn had one daughter, Dorothy I. Miller Liewellyn (04 October 1943 - ?).
Private First Class Irvin H. Miller (S/N 33489435) was assigned to Battalion Headquarters Company, 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, U.S. Army and sent to Australia and then on to New Guinea in May of 1944.
01 October 1944
Private First Class Irvin H. Miller was passenger on a U.S. troop carrier plane (a Douglas C-47A-DK Skytrain with Serial Number 42-92062) that took off at 5:47 a.m. on 01 October 1944 from Cyclops Drome near Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea (now part of Indonesia) on a flight bound for Finschhafen Airfield, Territory of New Guinea (now Papua, New Guinea). Aboard were four flight crew from the 70th Troop Carrier Squadron. Also aboard were passengers from the U.S. Army (including 5 others from the 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion), two from the U.S. Navy and seven Australians. Although the weather conditions were clear, with occasional scattered thunderstorms, and visibility was good, the plane failed to arrive at its destination. A search for the plane was made over the next few days without results. Nothing is known of what happened to it and no trace of the plane has ever been found. All 27 (4 crew and 23 passengers) were listed as missing in action.
Crew from the 70th Troop Carrier Squadron:
Pilot 1st Lt. (posthumously promoted to Captain) Russell Andrew Morrison, (S/ N 0-740880), De Leon, Texas.
Co-Pilot 2nd Lt. Kenneth E. Wirth, (S/ N 0-772242), Lincoln, Nebraska.
Aerial Engineer T/Sgt. John F. Semmens, (S/ N 12123113), Harrington Park, New Jersey.
Radio Operator S/Sgt. Frank M. Staker, (S/ N 39529923), California.
Passengers:
Lt. (jg) John Hartwell "Jack" Fezler, D-V (G), USNR (S/ N 0-228365), Mobile Explosives Investigation Unit One (MEIU #1), Navy 134, Oklahoma.
COM(AA) V-6 William Cecil Meadville, USNR (S/N 6048993), Aviation Chief Ordnanceman (AA), Mobile Explosives Investigation Unit One (MEIU #1), Navy 134, Pennsylvania.
Col. Oscar D. McNeely, S/ N O7325, Headquarters, 25th Anti-aircraft Artillery Group, Oklahoma.
Cpt. (posthumously promoted to Major) Hal Sayre, III, S/ N O355966, 821st Engineer Battalion, Aviation, Denver, Colorado.
Cpt. Boothe C. Haltom, S/ N O366455, 146th Anti-aircraft Artillery Operations Detachment, Mississippi.
2nd Lt. (posthumously promoted to 1st LT) John R. Riisoe, S/ N O2036215, Headquarters, Far East Air Force, Kansas.
1st Lt. Harry E. Petersen, S/ N O1640812, 93rd Signal Battalion, Minnesota.
1st Lt. William L. Pilgrim, S/ N O1289620, 151st Infantry Regiment, 38th Infantry Division, South Carolina.
1st Lt Claude "Alvin" Reese, Jr. , S/ N O1288619, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division, Fort Worth, Texas.
1st Lt. George D. Steel Jr. , S/ N O2036224, Headquarters, Far East Air Service Command, Wyoming.
Pfc. Paul E. Almon, S/ N 39197973, 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Washington.
Pvt. Francis J. Benson, S/ N 38363676, 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Texas.
T/5 Alfred G. Daigneau, S/ N 15376994, 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Ohio.
Pfc. William Hardaway Hatch, Jr. , S/ N 34466193, 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Pfc. Irvin H. Miller, S/ N 33489435, Battalion Headquarters Company, 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Pennsylvania.
T/5 John L. Zajicek, S/ N 37181290, 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Mississippi.
Cpt. Clement Loughlin Schrader, S/ N SX9339, 2/7th Field Regiment Royal Australian Artillery, Cowandilla, Australia.
Lt. Peter Ogilvie Graham, S/ N QX26597, 2nd Marine Logistic Group, attached to 1st Australian Corps Headquarters, Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia.
Joseph Engel, S/ N TC 10622, Australia.
Arthur Hawley, S/ N TC 7041, Australia.
Roland Ince, S/ N TC 2405, Australia.
John Mignot, S/ N TC 10720, Australia.
Dennis Rawson, S/ N TC 9730, Australia.
All U.S. Army crew and passengers were officially declared dead the day of the mission. The U.S. Navy passengers were officially declared dead on 02 October 1945, one year and one day after the plane went missing.
Private First Class Irvin H. Miller is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing – United States Army and Army Air Forces at the Manila American Cemetery.
He also has a cenotaph in Indiantown Gap National Cemetery, Annville, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania
His widow, Kathryn Klock Miller never remarried.
Service ID: 33489435.
Entered the service from Pennsylvania.
Rank: Private First Class, U.S. Army
Unit: 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion
Date of Death: 01 October 1944, killed when the plane he was a passenger on crashed somewhere between Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea (now part of Indonesia) and Finschhafen Airfield, Territory of New Guinea (now Papua, New Guinea).
Status: Missing in Action
Memorialized: Manila American Cemetery – Tablets of the Missing – United States Army and Army Air Forces
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Irvin H Miller was born and raised in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. He was the son of William Albert Miller and Matie P. Herner. His father was a coal miner.
1930 United States Federal Census (23 April 1930): Hegins Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania (sheet 15A, family 326) – Irvin Miller (7 Pennsylvania).
His mother died on 04 April 1935 as a result of an "incomplete septic abortion."
1940 United States Federal Census (08 April 1940): Klingerstown, Upper Mahantango Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania (sheet 3B, household 52, Route 53047) – Irvin Miller (17 Pennsylvania, laborer, coal mine). His family had lived in Valley View, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania in 1935. Irvin had completed 2 years of high school.
Irvin H. Miller (19 21 Nov 1922, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania) a resident of Klingerstown, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, signed up for his World War II Draft Registration Card (Serial No. N-175, Order No.11,489) on 30 June 1942 in Klingerstown, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. He was employed by the Troutman Brothers. Irvin listed his father, Mr. William A. Miller as the person who would always know his address. He was described as 5'7" in height, 135 lbs., with a light complexion, brown eyes and brown hair.
BD. 8 MEN WILL LEAVE JAN. 29TH
Board No. 8 has announced the following men as selected for induction into the Army, leaving the Legion building at Tower City at 7 a.m. on January 29 for Allentown: ... Irvin H. Miller, Klingerstown ... Source: Pottsville Republican (Pottsville, Pennsylvania) Friday, 15 January 1943, page 14.
Irvin H. Miller (1922 Pennsylvania), a resident of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania enlisted as a Private (S/N 33489435) in the U.S. Army on 29 January 1943 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He was single, had completed Grammar School and had been working as "Skilled meatcutters, except in slaughtering and packing houses."
Marriage Licenses
Kathryn Klock, 21, Pitman, and Irvin H. Miller, 20, Klingerstown, native of Valley View, a soldier. Source: Lykens Register (Lykens, Pennsylvania), Friday, 17 September 1943, page 4.
He married Kathryn Klock on 11 September 1943 in Valley View, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Howard J. Klock and Beulah Erdman. Irvin and Kathryn had one daughter, Dorothy I. Miller Liewellyn (04 October 1943 - ?).
Private First Class Irvin H. Miller (S/N 33489435) was assigned to Battalion Headquarters Company, 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, U.S. Army and sent to Australia and then on to New Guinea in May of 1944.
01 October 1944
Private First Class Irvin H. Miller was passenger on a U.S. troop carrier plane (a Douglas C-47A-DK Skytrain with Serial Number 42-92062) that took off at 5:47 a.m. on 01 October 1944 from Cyclops Drome near Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea (now part of Indonesia) on a flight bound for Finschhafen Airfield, Territory of New Guinea (now Papua, New Guinea). Aboard were four flight crew from the 70th Troop Carrier Squadron. Also aboard were passengers from the U.S. Army (including 5 others from the 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion), two from the U.S. Navy and seven Australians. Although the weather conditions were clear, with occasional scattered thunderstorms, and visibility was good, the plane failed to arrive at its destination. A search for the plane was made over the next few days without results. Nothing is known of what happened to it and no trace of the plane has ever been found. All 27 (4 crew and 23 passengers) were listed as missing in action.
Crew from the 70th Troop Carrier Squadron:
Pilot 1st Lt. (posthumously promoted to Captain) Russell Andrew Morrison, (S/ N 0-740880), De Leon, Texas.
Co-Pilot 2nd Lt. Kenneth E. Wirth, (S/ N 0-772242), Lincoln, Nebraska.
Aerial Engineer T/Sgt. John F. Semmens, (S/ N 12123113), Harrington Park, New Jersey.
Radio Operator S/Sgt. Frank M. Staker, (S/ N 39529923), California.
Passengers:
Lt. (jg) John Hartwell "Jack" Fezler, D-V (G), USNR (S/ N 0-228365), Mobile Explosives Investigation Unit One (MEIU #1), Navy 134, Oklahoma.
COM(AA) V-6 William Cecil Meadville, USNR (S/N 6048993), Aviation Chief Ordnanceman (AA), Mobile Explosives Investigation Unit One (MEIU #1), Navy 134, Pennsylvania.
Col. Oscar D. McNeely, S/ N O7325, Headquarters, 25th Anti-aircraft Artillery Group, Oklahoma.
Cpt. (posthumously promoted to Major) Hal Sayre, III, S/ N O355966, 821st Engineer Battalion, Aviation, Denver, Colorado.
Cpt. Boothe C. Haltom, S/ N O366455, 146th Anti-aircraft Artillery Operations Detachment, Mississippi.
2nd Lt. (posthumously promoted to 1st LT) John R. Riisoe, S/ N O2036215, Headquarters, Far East Air Force, Kansas.
1st Lt. Harry E. Petersen, S/ N O1640812, 93rd Signal Battalion, Minnesota.
1st Lt. William L. Pilgrim, S/ N O1289620, 151st Infantry Regiment, 38th Infantry Division, South Carolina.
1st Lt Claude "Alvin" Reese, Jr. , S/ N O1288619, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division, Fort Worth, Texas.
1st Lt. George D. Steel Jr. , S/ N O2036224, Headquarters, Far East Air Service Command, Wyoming.
Pfc. Paul E. Almon, S/ N 39197973, 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Washington.
Pvt. Francis J. Benson, S/ N 38363676, 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Texas.
T/5 Alfred G. Daigneau, S/ N 15376994, 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Ohio.
Pfc. William Hardaway Hatch, Jr. , S/ N 34466193, 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Pfc. Irvin H. Miller, S/ N 33489435, Battalion Headquarters Company, 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Pennsylvania.
T/5 John L. Zajicek, S/ N 37181290, 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Mississippi.
Cpt. Clement Loughlin Schrader, S/ N SX9339, 2/7th Field Regiment Royal Australian Artillery, Cowandilla, Australia.
Lt. Peter Ogilvie Graham, S/ N QX26597, 2nd Marine Logistic Group, attached to 1st Australian Corps Headquarters, Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia.
Joseph Engel, S/ N TC 10622, Australia.
Arthur Hawley, S/ N TC 7041, Australia.
Roland Ince, S/ N TC 2405, Australia.
John Mignot, S/ N TC 10720, Australia.
Dennis Rawson, S/ N TC 9730, Australia.
All U.S. Army crew and passengers were officially declared dead the day of the mission. The U.S. Navy passengers were officially declared dead on 02 October 1945, one year and one day after the plane went missing.
Private First Class Irvin H. Miller is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing – United States Army and Army Air Forces at the Manila American Cemetery.
He also has a cenotaph in Indiantown Gap National Cemetery, Annville, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania
His widow, Kathryn Klock Miller never remarried.
Irvin H. Miller
Service ID: 33489435.
Entered the service from Pennsylvania.
Rank: Private First Class, U.S. Army
Unit: 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion
Date of Death: 01 October 1944, killed when the plane he was a passenger on crashed somewhere between Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea (now part of Indonesia) and Finschhafen Airfield, Territory of New Guinea (now Papua, New Guinea).
Status: Missing in Action
Memorialized: Manila American Cemetery – Tablets of the Missing – United States Army and Army Air Forces
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Irvin H Miller was born and raised in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. He was the son of William Albert Miller and Matie P. Herner. His father was a coal miner.
1930 United States Federal Census (23 April 1930): Hegins Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania (sheet 15A, family 326) – Irvin Miller (7 Pennsylvania).
His mother died on 04 April 1935 as a result of an "incomplete septic abortion."
1940 United States Federal Census (08 April 1940): Klingerstown, Upper Mahantango Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania (sheet 3B, household 52, Route 53047) – Irvin Miller (17 Pennsylvania, laborer, coal mine). His family had lived in Valley View, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania in 1935. Irvin had completed 2 years of high school.
Irvin H. Miller (19 21 Nov 1922, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania) a resident of Klingerstown, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, signed up for his World War II Draft Registration Card (Serial No. N-175, Order No.11,489) on 30 June 1942 in Klingerstown, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. He was employed by the Troutman Brothers. Irvin listed his father, Mr. William A. Miller as the person who would always know his address. He was described as 5'7" in height, 135 lbs., with a light complexion, brown eyes and brown hair.
BD. 8 MEN WILL LEAVE JAN. 29TH
Board No. 8 has announced the following men as selected for induction into the Army, leaving the Legion building at Tower City at 7 a.m. on January 29 for Allentown: ... Irvin H. Miller, Klingerstown ... Source: Pottsville Republican (Pottsville, Pennsylvania) Friday, 15 January 1943, page 14.
Irvin H. Miller (1922 Pennsylvania), a resident of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania enlisted as a Private (S/N 33489435) in the U.S. Army on 29 January 1943 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He was single, had completed Grammar School and had been working as "Skilled meatcutters, except in slaughtering and packing houses."
Marriage Licenses
Kathryn Klock, 21, Pitman, and Irvin H. Miller, 20, Klingerstown, native of Valley View, a soldier. Source: Lykens Register (Lykens, Pennsylvania), Friday, 17 September 1943, page 4.
He married Kathryn Klock on 11 September 1943 in Valley View, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Howard J. Klock and Beulah Erdman. Irvin and Kathryn had one daughter, Dorothy I. Miller Liewellyn (04 October 1943 - ?).
Private First Class Irvin H. Miller (S/N 33489435) was assigned to Battalion Headquarters Company, 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, U.S. Army and sent to Australia and then on to New Guinea in May of 1944.
01 October 1944
Private First Class Irvin H. Miller was passenger on a U.S. troop carrier plane (a Douglas C-47A-DK Skytrain with Serial Number 42-92062) that took off at 5:47 a.m. on 01 October 1944 from Cyclops Drome near Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea (now part of Indonesia) on a flight bound for Finschhafen Airfield, Territory of New Guinea (now Papua, New Guinea). Aboard were four flight crew from the 70th Troop Carrier Squadron. Also aboard were passengers from the U.S. Army (including 5 others from the 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion), two from the U.S. Navy and seven Australians. Although the weather conditions were clear, with occasional scattered thunderstorms, and visibility was good, the plane failed to arrive at its destination. A search for the plane was made over the next few days without results. Nothing is known of what happened to it and no trace of the plane has ever been found. All 27 (4 crew and 23 passengers) were listed as missing in action.
Crew from the 70th Troop Carrier Squadron:
Pilot 1st Lt. (posthumously promoted to Captain) Russell Andrew Morrison, (S/ N 0-740880), De Leon, Texas.
Co-Pilot 2nd Lt. Kenneth E. Wirth, (S/ N 0-772242), Lincoln, Nebraska.
Aerial Engineer T/Sgt. John F. Semmens, (S/ N 12123113), Harrington Park, New Jersey.
Radio Operator S/Sgt. Frank M. Staker, (S/ N 39529923), California.
Passengers:
Lt. (jg) John Hartwell "Jack" Fezler, D-V (G), USNR (S/ N 0-228365), Mobile Explosives Investigation Unit One (MEIU #1), Navy 134, Oklahoma.
COM(AA) V-6 William Cecil Meadville, USNR (S/N 6048993), Aviation Chief Ordnanceman (AA), Mobile Explosives Investigation Unit One (MEIU #1), Navy 134, Pennsylvania.
Col. Oscar D. McNeely, S/ N O7325, Headquarters, 25th Anti-aircraft Artillery Group, Oklahoma.
Cpt. (posthumously promoted to Major) Hal Sayre, III, S/ N O355966, 821st Engineer Battalion, Aviation, Denver, Colorado.
Cpt. Boothe C. Haltom, S/ N O366455, 146th Anti-aircraft Artillery Operations Detachment, Mississippi.
2nd Lt. (posthumously promoted to 1st LT) John R. Riisoe, S/ N O2036215, Headquarters, Far East Air Force, Kansas.
1st Lt. Harry E. Petersen, S/ N O1640812, 93rd Signal Battalion, Minnesota.
1st Lt. William L. Pilgrim, S/ N O1289620, 151st Infantry Regiment, 38th Infantry Division, South Carolina.
1st Lt Claude "Alvin" Reese, Jr. , S/ N O1288619, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division, Fort Worth, Texas.
1st Lt. George D. Steel Jr. , S/ N O2036224, Headquarters, Far East Air Service Command, Wyoming.
Pfc. Paul E. Almon, S/ N 39197973, 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Washington.
Pvt. Francis J. Benson, S/ N 38363676, 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Texas.
T/5 Alfred G. Daigneau, S/ N 15376994, 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Ohio.
Pfc. William Hardaway Hatch, Jr. , S/ N 34466193, 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Pfc. Irvin H. Miller, S/ N 33489435, Battalion Headquarters Company, 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Pennsylvania.
T/5 John L. Zajicek, S/ N 37181290, 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Mississippi.
Cpt. Clement Loughlin Schrader, S/ N SX9339, 2/7th Field Regiment Royal Australian Artillery, Cowandilla, Australia.
Lt. Peter Ogilvie Graham, S/ N QX26597, 2nd Marine Logistic Group, attached to 1st Australian Corps Headquarters, Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia.
Joseph Engel, S/ N TC 10622, Australia.
Arthur Hawley, S/ N TC 7041, Australia.
Roland Ince, S/ N TC 2405, Australia.
John Mignot, S/ N TC 10720, Australia.
Dennis Rawson, S/ N TC 9730, Australia.
All U.S. Army crew and passengers were officially declared dead the day of the mission. The U.S. Navy passengers were officially declared dead on 02 October 1945, one year and one day after the plane went missing.
Private First Class Irvin H. Miller is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing – United States Army and Army Air Forces at the Manila American Cemetery.
He also has a cenotaph in Indiantown Gap National Cemetery, Annville, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania
His widow, Kathryn Klock Miller never remarried.
Service ID: 33489435.
Entered the service from Pennsylvania.
Rank: Private First Class, U.S. Army
Unit: 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion
Date of Death: 01 October 1944, killed when the plane he was a passenger on crashed somewhere between Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea (now part of Indonesia) and Finschhafen Airfield, Territory of New Guinea (now Papua, New Guinea).
Status: Missing in Action
Memorialized: Manila American Cemetery – Tablets of the Missing – United States Army and Army Air Forces
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Irvin H Miller was born and raised in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. He was the son of William Albert Miller and Matie P. Herner. His father was a coal miner.
1930 United States Federal Census (23 April 1930): Hegins Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania (sheet 15A, family 326) – Irvin Miller (7 Pennsylvania).
His mother died on 04 April 1935 as a result of an "incomplete septic abortion."
1940 United States Federal Census (08 April 1940): Klingerstown, Upper Mahantango Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania (sheet 3B, household 52, Route 53047) – Irvin Miller (17 Pennsylvania, laborer, coal mine). His family had lived in Valley View, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania in 1935. Irvin had completed 2 years of high school.
Irvin H. Miller (19 21 Nov 1922, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania) a resident of Klingerstown, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, signed up for his World War II Draft Registration Card (Serial No. N-175, Order No.11,489) on 30 June 1942 in Klingerstown, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. He was employed by the Troutman Brothers. Irvin listed his father, Mr. William A. Miller as the person who would always know his address. He was described as 5'7" in height, 135 lbs., with a light complexion, brown eyes and brown hair.
BD. 8 MEN WILL LEAVE JAN. 29TH
Board No. 8 has announced the following men as selected for induction into the Army, leaving the Legion building at Tower City at 7 a.m. on January 29 for Allentown: ... Irvin H. Miller, Klingerstown ... Source: Pottsville Republican (Pottsville, Pennsylvania) Friday, 15 January 1943, page 14.
Irvin H. Miller (1922 Pennsylvania), a resident of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania enlisted as a Private (S/N 33489435) in the U.S. Army on 29 January 1943 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He was single, had completed Grammar School and had been working as "Skilled meatcutters, except in slaughtering and packing houses."
Marriage Licenses
Kathryn Klock, 21, Pitman, and Irvin H. Miller, 20, Klingerstown, native of Valley View, a soldier. Source: Lykens Register (Lykens, Pennsylvania), Friday, 17 September 1943, page 4.
He married Kathryn Klock on 11 September 1943 in Valley View, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Howard J. Klock and Beulah Erdman. Irvin and Kathryn had one daughter, Dorothy I. Miller Liewellyn (04 October 1943 - ?).
Private First Class Irvin H. Miller (S/N 33489435) was assigned to Battalion Headquarters Company, 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, U.S. Army and sent to Australia and then on to New Guinea in May of 1944.
01 October 1944
Private First Class Irvin H. Miller was passenger on a U.S. troop carrier plane (a Douglas C-47A-DK Skytrain with Serial Number 42-92062) that took off at 5:47 a.m. on 01 October 1944 from Cyclops Drome near Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea (now part of Indonesia) on a flight bound for Finschhafen Airfield, Territory of New Guinea (now Papua, New Guinea). Aboard were four flight crew from the 70th Troop Carrier Squadron. Also aboard were passengers from the U.S. Army (including 5 others from the 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion), two from the U.S. Navy and seven Australians. Although the weather conditions were clear, with occasional scattered thunderstorms, and visibility was good, the plane failed to arrive at its destination. A search for the plane was made over the next few days without results. Nothing is known of what happened to it and no trace of the plane has ever been found. All 27 (4 crew and 23 passengers) were listed as missing in action.
Crew from the 70th Troop Carrier Squadron:
Pilot 1st Lt. (posthumously promoted to Captain) Russell Andrew Morrison, (S/ N 0-740880), De Leon, Texas.
Co-Pilot 2nd Lt. Kenneth E. Wirth, (S/ N 0-772242), Lincoln, Nebraska.
Aerial Engineer T/Sgt. John F. Semmens, (S/ N 12123113), Harrington Park, New Jersey.
Radio Operator S/Sgt. Frank M. Staker, (S/ N 39529923), California.
Passengers:
Lt. (jg) John Hartwell "Jack" Fezler, D-V (G), USNR (S/ N 0-228365), Mobile Explosives Investigation Unit One (MEIU #1), Navy 134, Oklahoma.
COM(AA) V-6 William Cecil Meadville, USNR (S/N 6048993), Aviation Chief Ordnanceman (AA), Mobile Explosives Investigation Unit One (MEIU #1), Navy 134, Pennsylvania.
Col. Oscar D. McNeely, S/ N O7325, Headquarters, 25th Anti-aircraft Artillery Group, Oklahoma.
Cpt. (posthumously promoted to Major) Hal Sayre, III, S/ N O355966, 821st Engineer Battalion, Aviation, Denver, Colorado.
Cpt. Boothe C. Haltom, S/ N O366455, 146th Anti-aircraft Artillery Operations Detachment, Mississippi.
2nd Lt. (posthumously promoted to 1st LT) John R. Riisoe, S/ N O2036215, Headquarters, Far East Air Force, Kansas.
1st Lt. Harry E. Petersen, S/ N O1640812, 93rd Signal Battalion, Minnesota.
1st Lt. William L. Pilgrim, S/ N O1289620, 151st Infantry Regiment, 38th Infantry Division, South Carolina.
1st Lt Claude "Alvin" Reese, Jr. , S/ N O1288619, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division, Fort Worth, Texas.
1st Lt. George D. Steel Jr. , S/ N O2036224, Headquarters, Far East Air Service Command, Wyoming.
Pfc. Paul E. Almon, S/ N 39197973, 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Washington.
Pvt. Francis J. Benson, S/ N 38363676, 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Texas.
T/5 Alfred G. Daigneau, S/ N 15376994, 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Ohio.
Pfc. William Hardaway Hatch, Jr. , S/ N 34466193, 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Pfc. Irvin H. Miller, S/ N 33489435, Battalion Headquarters Company, 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Pennsylvania.
T/5 John L. Zajicek, S/ N 37181290, 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Mississippi.
Cpt. Clement Loughlin Schrader, S/ N SX9339, 2/7th Field Regiment Royal Australian Artillery, Cowandilla, Australia.
Lt. Peter Ogilvie Graham, S/ N QX26597, 2nd Marine Logistic Group, attached to 1st Australian Corps Headquarters, Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia.
Joseph Engel, S/ N TC 10622, Australia.
Arthur Hawley, S/ N TC 7041, Australia.
Roland Ince, S/ N TC 2405, Australia.
John Mignot, S/ N TC 10720, Australia.
Dennis Rawson, S/ N TC 9730, Australia.
All U.S. Army crew and passengers were officially declared dead the day of the mission. The U.S. Navy passengers were officially declared dead on 02 October 1945, one year and one day after the plane went missing.
Private First Class Irvin H. Miller is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing – United States Army and Army Air Forces at the Manila American Cemetery.
He also has a cenotaph in Indiantown Gap National Cemetery, Annville, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania
His widow, Kathryn Klock Miller never remarried.
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