John Carroll Miller Jr. (December 25, 1912 – July 29, 2000) was a decorated officer in the

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with the rank of Brigadier general. A veteran of the

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, he was wounded twice and received decorations for valor on

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and

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. He remained in the Marines and retired as Brigadier general and Commanding general, Landing Force Training Command, Atlantic.

Early career

John C. Miller Jr. was born on

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1912 at

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, the son of John C. Miller and Hazel Peck. He graduated from high school there in summer 1931 and entered the

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. While at the University, Miller was a member of the

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. He graduated with a

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in June 1935 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant of Infantry in the

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. Miller resigned his reserve commission in order to accept appointment as a second lieutenant in the

on September 10, 1935. He was subsequently ordered to

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at the

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for basic officer training and was a member of the largest Basic School class to that date. This class provided two future Marine Corps Commandants (

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and

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), five lieutenant generals ( Lewis J. Fields, Frederick E. Leek, Herman Nickerson Jr.,

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, Richard G. Weede), five major generals ( William R. Collins, William T. Fairbourn, Bruno Hochmuth,

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, Carey A. Randall) and six brigadier generals ( William W. Buchanan, Odell M. Conoley, Frederick P. Henderson, Roy L. Kline, Miller Jr. and Thomas F. Riley). Miller completed the school in May 1936 and was attached to the Marine Detachment aboard the battleship USS ''New Mexico''. He participated in the patrol cruises to

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until August 1937, when he was ordered to

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for duty with the

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stationed as the part of Brigadier General John C. Beaumont's 2nd Marine Brigade at

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. He served in Shanghai during the outbreak of hostilities between China and Japan and returned with his regiment to the United States in April 1938. He was then stationed at Marine Barracks, San Diego and received a promotion to first lieutenant in October 1938. Miller was transferred to the Marine Barracks at

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in May 1939 and assumed command of local barracks Marine Detachment in October that year. While in this capacity, he also saw temporary additional duty at the receiving ship,

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in connection with Western Division Rifle and Pistol Matches.

World War II

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and

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. In August 1940, Miller joined the 1st Defense Battalion under Lieutenant Colonel Bertram A. Bone in

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and embarked for

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in February 1941, where he was promoted to Captain in November that year. Single detachments of the battalion were emplaced on Midway, Wake, Johnston and Palmyra Atolls. During the Japanese

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on December 7, 1941, Miller participated in the defense of the harbor and later commanded

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detachment at

. While there, he was promoted to Major in May 1942. Miller was ordered to

in February 1943 and joined the newly established 16th Defense Battalion under Lieutenant Colonel Richard P. Ross. He assumed duty as Executive officer of the battalion and was promoted to lieutenant colonel in July that year. He was ordered to

one month later and assumed duty as Area Ordnance Officer,

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, San Diego area under Major General Clayton B. Vogel. He was responsible for the supplying of units in San Diego with weapons and ammunition, including their procurement and maintenance until February 1944, when he was ordered back to

for duty as Commanding officer,

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attached to

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under Major General Thomas E. Watson. John C

After a period of heavy fighting on

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in November 1943, the

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under Lieutenant Colonel John H. Griebel needed rest and refit. Miller spent four months with the intensive training in the mountainous area between the great volcanoes of

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and

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and finally embarked with his battalion for Saipan in late May 1944. Miller took part in the main landing on June 15, 1944 and was badly wounded by mortar fragments during the approach to the beach. He remained in command of his battalion and directed operation of his battalion until he was wounded again and ordered to the rear by his superior officer. For his leadership on Saipan, Miller was decorated with a

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with Combat "V" and two awards of the

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for wounds. He was hospitalized at Naval Hospital, San Diego until January 1945, when he was declared fit for duty and embarked again for Pacific area. Miller joined

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under his old superior officer, now Colonel John H. Griebel, who received his new command following promotion. He served as Regimental operations officer during the period of intensive training at Pavuvu Island,

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, where 5th Marine Regiment was stationed for rest and refit after heavy fighting on

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during September-October 1944. The situation similar with that one with 8th Marines on Hawaii back in early 1944. Shortly thereafter, Miller was attached as an observer to the Army's 7th Infantry Division under Major General Archibald V. Arnold and participated in combat in the

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and

. While on Okinawa, he rejoined 5th Marine Regiment on April 4, 1945, when commanding officer of 3rd Battalion, Major John H. Gustafson, was wounded in action and Colonel Griebel needed replacement. Miller assumed temporary command of the battalion and participated in heavy combat in the Awacha pocket, a Japanese stronghold built into a maze of clifflike ridges and tangled gorges. After repeated Marine attacks with the support of Air, Artillery, tank and naval gunfire support, the Japanese resistance was crushed on May 15, 1945. For his service on Okinawa, Miller received his second

. He was subsequently relieved and returned to the United States.

Postwar service

After a two-month leave, Miller was ordered to the Marine Corps Schools, Quantico, Virginia, where he entered the Command and Staff Course, which he completed in February 1946. He then assumed duty as an Instructor in the Senior Course at the Amphibious Warfare School and remained in that assignment until June 1948. Miller was subsequently ordered to

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, where he joined the staff of

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under Major General Graves B. ERskine and served for two years as Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations and Training. He was ordered to the

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in July 1950 and served as Executive Officer of the Marine Barracks,

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under Rear Admiral Albert M. Bledsoe until February 1951. Upon his return stateside, Miller was promoted to Colonel and attached to the Troop Training Unit, Amphibious Training Command, Pacific Fleet at

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. He served consecutively as Director of Training under Brigadier Generals John T. Selden, William W. Davies and Lewis Burwell

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and also saw temporary duty in

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in 1952 as Chief of Troop Training Team, Amphibious Force, Far East during the

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. In July 1953, Miller was sent back to

for duty as Chief of Staff,

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under Major General Robert H. Pepper and embarked for

the following month as Chief of Staff of the 3rd Marine Division Advance Echelon. He was appointed Commanding officer of 3rd Marine Division's

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stationed at Camp Nara,

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in October 1953. His regiment served as a garrison force in Japan and its assigned mission was that of sharing in the defense responsibilities for southern Honshu and of being ready for rapid transfer to potential hot spots in the Far East. Miller was appointed Divisional Assistant Chief of Staff for Logistics in April 1954. During August that year, General Pepper was promoted to lieutenant general and appointed Commanding general,

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with headquarters on

. Miller followed him as his Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations and Training and served in this capacity also under Pepper's successor, Lieutenant General William O. Brice. Miller was transferred to the

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in July 1956 and assumed duty as a member of the Advanced Research Group, tasked with the development of recommendations on how the

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should evolve structurally to meet the challenges of

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and new technologies such as helicopters and jet aircraft. In July 1957, Miller was ordered to

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and assumed duty as Force Marine Officer on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief,

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under Admiral James L. Holloway Jr. He served in this capacity during the

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, a threat of a civil war between

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and Muslims and also held additional duty as Senior Marine Officer on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Specified Command, Middle East. He returned to Quantico in July 1959 and assumed duty as Deputy Director, Marine Corps Educational Center within the Marine Corps Schools, Quantico under Lieutenant General Merrill B. Twining. Miller was appointed Director of the Center in November that year and promoted to the rank of brigadier general on January 1, 1960. His main responsibility was the Education of Marine Corps officers at each stage of officer's career. The Marine Corps Educational Center consisted of four resident schools and one correspondence or extension school. These are known as

focused on basic training for newly commissioned officers; Junior School for second and first lieutenants; Senior School for Captain and above; Communication Officers School trained selected junior officers in the operational aspects of communications; and Extension School prepared and administered correspondence courses that parallel resident instruction. In September 1961, he was appointed Director of the Marine Corps Landing Force Development Center at Quantico, which was focused on the development and testing of new tactics, equipment and techniques. Miller held that command until June 1962, when he was ordered to

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for duty as Commanding General, Landing Force Training Unit, Atlantic. While in this capacity, Miller's command trained over 46,000 officers and men of the U.S. Military services and over 1,000 members of the armed forces of friendly foreign nations were trained in the various aspects of landing force operations related to amphibious assault. He also held additional duty as Commander, Amphibious Training Command, Atlantic Fleet and served as the director of control group during for exercise Steel Pike I, then-the largest peacetime amphibious exercise ever conducted with more than 55,000 U.S. Navy and Marine Corps personnel, 1,800 Spanish Marines, and 141 ships participating. Miller served at Norfolk until April 1, 1965, when he retired from active duty after 30 years of commissioned service. For his service as Commanding general, Landing Force Training Unit, Atlantic, he was decorated with

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Retirement

Following his retirement from the Marine Corps, Miller settled on

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and remained there until summer of 2000, when he was ordered to the Naval Hospital, San Diego,

for treatment. He died there on July 29, 2000, aged 87, and was buried with full military honors at

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. Miller was married to Margaret Pohlman and had two daughters Susan Hawkins and Jane Moritz.

Decorations

Here is the ribbon bar of Brigadier General Miller:

References

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