Paul Edward Miller

Enlisted Minneapolis, MN on 4 December 1942; boot camp at MCRD San Diego with Second Recruit Battalion. Outposted to Signal Battalion, MCB San Diego on 30 January 1943 for comms instruction.

Joined Headquarters Company, First Battalion, 24th Marines at Camp Pendleton on 27 March 1943.

Outfit: HQ/1/24th Marines, communications platoon
Rank: Private First Class
MOS: 650 (Switchboard operator)

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Outfit: HQ/1/24th Marines, communications platoon
Rank: Private First Class
MOS: 641 (Telephone Lineman)
Important Events:
June 15, 1944 – after dark, volunteered to run a phone line between HQ and a line company with Sergeant John Waytow. Found dead in the field three days later with head wounds caused by shrapnel. Date of death determined to be June 16, 1944.

Awarded Bronze Star Medal for actions on this date.

While serving with a battalion of a Marine division in action at Saipan on the night of 15-16Jun44, volunteering to lay a wire from an assault company to the battalion command post, Pfc. Miller fearlessly advanced with a companion across an open area swept by withering, intense enemy small arms and artillery fire to establish needed communications, but was wounded while carrying out his perilous mission.

June 22, 1944 – buried in Plot 3, Row 5, Grave 524, Fourth Marine Division Cemetery.

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