Burton Miller was out of high school and studying in college, but his brother Wayne was not yet old enough to enlist in the military. "We had to lie a little bit [about Wayne's age]," Burton said.
Wayne's job at Wheeler Air Field at the time of the attack was outfitting men with parachutes, so he was tasked with identifying bodies based on their parachute numbers.
"[Wayne] was down at one of the hangars that they had converted into a morgue, and he was going through looking for his brother," Bruce said.
Burton Miller was stationed in Hawaii for two years after the attack.
"The rest of the two years was like heaven," Burton said. "It rained every other day. It could've been worse, and it was worse in Belgium."
--GreGen
My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
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