| Hometown | Civilian Occupation |
| Wilmington, Delaware | Furniture salesman |
| Branch | Service Number |
| U.S. Army | Enlisted 32243315 / Officer O-1301348 |
| Theater | Unit |
| European | Company “L,” 330th Infantry Regiment, 83rd Infantry Division |
| Awards | Campaigns/Battles |
| Purple Heart, Combat Infantryman Badge (presumed) | Normandy |
| Military Occupational Specialty | Entered the Service From |
| 1542 (infantry unit commander) | Wilmington, Delaware |
Early Life & Family
Seymour Miller was born in the Delaware Hospital in Wilmington, Delaware, on the afternoon of October 25, 1919. He was the fourth and youngest child of Nathan Miller (a furniture merchant, c. 1884–1967) and Anna Miller (née Schultz, c. 1884–1934). His parents were Jewish immigrants from Russia, now U.S. citizens. His father and uncles operated a furniture business, Miller Brothers, at 9th and King Streets. He had three older siblings: Howard Aaron Miller (who also served in the U.S. Army during World War II, 1906–1994), Richard Miller (1908–1988), and Rosalie Shirley Miller (later Goldman, 1909–1996).
When Miller was born, his family was living at 612 North Broom Street in Wilmington. It appears that the Miller family purchased a house at 703 North Broom Street (currently Mealey Funeral Home) on June 19, 1925. Regardless, they were living at that address at the time they were recorded on the census in April 1930. Miller began attending Wilmington High School in February 1932. Although he was just 12 years when he began high school, Miller repeatedly made the honor roll. He had his bar mitzvah at Adas Kodesch (then located at 6th and French Streets) on October 29, 1932.
He is likely the Seymour Miller mentioned in a February 18, 1934, article in The Delmarva Star who was elected vice president of the new Wilmington Young Judea club. The following month, Miller’s mother died on March 26, 1934. He was 14 years old.
A May 17, 1935, article in the Wilmington Morning News indicated that Miller was a member of the National Honor Society. He graduated fifth in his class at Wilmington High School on June 20, 1935, when he was only 15. That fall, Miller entered Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, majoring first in chemistry and later in zoology. His 1939 college yearbook stated that Miller
does profess a profound interest in one thing, athletics, and is well known as a keen theorist and scientist in sports, constantly devising very tricky and strangely workable plays for many an intramural athletic contest, while his interests in zoology remain in the background.
After graduating from college in 1939, Miller returned to Wilmington. As of April 1940, Miller was living with his father and stepmother, Esther Zucker Miller (1903–1990), at 1508 Pennsylvania Avenue in Wilmington. By that time, Miller was working as a salesman at Miller Bros. When Miller registered for the draft on July 1, 1941, the registrar described him as standing approximately five feet, eight inches tall and weighing 144 lbs., with brown hair and eyes.
Miller married Louise Ruth Zurkow (1920–2012) in Baltimore, Maryland, on November 8, 1941.
Stateside Service
Miller was drafted a few months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He joined the U.S. Army at Fort Dix, New Jersey, on February 27, 1942. On March 11, 1942, Private Miller and 60 other men were attached unassigned by Headquarters 44th Infantry Division to Company “D,” 174th Infantry Regiment, 44th Infantry Division, likely for his basic training. Miller’s wife told the State of Delaware Public Archives Commission that her husband began his training at Fort Lewis, Washington. The location of Company “D” was not mentioned in March 1942 morning reports but subsequent morning reports stated that the unit was in Port Angeles, Washington, from April 1, 1942, through the middle of May, performing guard duty.
On May 15, 1942, Private Miller transferred to Headquarters Detachment, 1st Battalion, 71st Infantry Regiment, 44th Infantry Division, at Longview, Washington. The 71st Infantry Regiment had originally been a New York National Guard unit before entering federal service in September 1940.
Miller’s company moved to Boeing Field, near Seattle, Washington, on May 26, 1942, and to Fort Lewis on June 23. On June 29, 1942, Private Miller was transferred to Headquarters 71st Infantry and attached to Company “C,” 71st Infantry for rations, quarters, and administration, though morning reports indicate this did not take effect until July 1. Company “C” moved to the fairgrounds in Salem, Oregon, on July 6, 1942.
On July 16, 1942, Private Miller was released from attachment to Company “C” and reassigned to Headquarters Company, 71st Infantry Regiment, though a morning report indicates he did not join the new company until 1100 hours the following day. On August 4, 1942, Headquarters Company returned to Fort Lewis by road.
A morning report indicates that Private Miller began a 15-day furlough on August 10, 1942. The following day he was placed on detached service en route to attend Officer Candidate School (O.C.S.) at Fort Benning, Georgia. Per standard practice, his selection as an officer candidate came with a promotion to corporal. The morning reports do not make clear whether the furlough was cancelled or whether Miller simply reported to Fort Benning at the end of his furlough.
On August 29, 1942, Corporal Miller joined 9th Company, 2nd Student Training Regiment at Fort Benning, Georgia, for O.C.S. As a formality, on November 23, 1942, Miller and those classmates who had successfully completed the 90-day course were honorably discharged in order to accept their commissions the following day.
On November 24, 1942, Miller was commissioned as 2nd lieutenant in the Infantry and dispatched to the Infantry Replacement Training Center, Camp Roberts, California. According to his wife’s statement, Lieutenant Miller was stationed at Camp Roberts until February 1943, followed by Gilroy, California, from February 1943 through February 1944.
On February 9, 1943, 2nd Lieutenant Miller joined Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 125th Infantry Regiment. Some records place the 125th Infantry in Gilroy as his wife reported in her statement, though the company morning reports listed Miller’s unit’s location as a short distance southwest of there, at Pinto Lake, California.
The 125th Infantry Regiment had been part of the 32nd Infantry Division until that division was reorganized in 1941 with three infantry regiments instead of four. In the dark days following Pearl Harbor, when invasion of the West Coast appeared possible, had been dispatched to California.
On February 15, 1943, the unit moved to Palo Alto, California, and then to Half Moon Bay, California, on April 19. On May 31, 1943, Lieutenant Miller and two other officers went on a special duty assignment at Fort Ord, California, for a mess inspection course. They returned the following day. Miller and the company moved back to Pinto Lake on June 14, 1943. During July 19–21, 1943, Miller and his unit were at Fort Ord for exercises repulsing a simulated invasion force.
Curiously, the August 1943 morning reports list Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 125th Infantry Regiment’s station as Gilroy though the morning reports’ records of events describe the unit as being at nearby Pinto Lake until August 16, when it moved to Palo Alto. Miller went on leave during August 18–20, 1943.
On August 20, 1943, 2nd Lieutenant Miller went on detached service to Arcadia, near Los Angeles, California. The following day, he was attached as a student officer at the Ordnance Officers Replacement Pool, Camp Santa Anita, California. He completed this assignment on September 18, 1943, and two days later he rejoined Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 125th Infantry, at Fort Ord.
Miller was promoted to 1st lieutenant effective October 1, 1943. His unit moved to Gilroy around October 5, 1943. On October 11, 1943, Miller transferred to Company “F,” 125th Infantry Regiment.
An October 15, 1943, article in the Wilmington Morning News announcing Miller’s promotion stated that Louise Miller was able to accompany her husband to his assignment at Gilroy. 1st Lieutenant Miller went on leave on October 25, 1943. He returned to duty on November 9, 1943. In the fall of 1943, the Millers prepared to welcome their first child. Sadly, their daughter, Susan Dee Miller, was born prematurely on December 20, 1943, and died 10 days later at the Delaware Hospital in Wilmington. There is no indication that he was able to attend her funeral.
Shortly thereafter, on January 3, 1944, 1st Lieutenant Miller went on detached service at the Commando Combat School, Fort Cronkhite, California. On January 17, 1944, he was hospitalized. After his release from the hospital, on February 16, 1944, Miller began a three-week convalescent leave.
Lieutenant Miller rejoined Company “F” on March 8, 1944, at Camp Maxey, Texas. His unit had changed drastically while he was away. By early 1944, it was clear that a Japanese invasion of the West Coast would never happen. With combat casualties overseas already mounting and the opening of a new front in France imminent, the Army decided to use the orphaned 125th Infantry to retrain men from extraneous units as infantrymen. Most of the unit’s enlisted men transferred out, leaving a small cadre to train groups of attached trainees.
On March 15, 1944, 1st Lieutenant Miller transferred back to Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 125th Infantry Regiment, assuming the duty of motor transport officer. On April 21, 1944, Miller was ordered to accompany a trainload of men being transferred from Camp Maxey to the Army Ground Forces Replacement Depot No. 1, Fort George G, Meade, Maryland. They departed on or about April 25, 1944.
Louise Miller wrote that he was stationed at Camp Maxey until May 1944. Miller’s last visit home to Wilmington occurred around June 2, 1944, when he granted his wife power of attorney in Wilmington. Lieutenant Miller went overseas as a replacement soon after. His wife wrote that he went overseas in June 1944 and arrived in England in June or July 1944.
Combat in Normandy
1st Lieutenant Miller was briefly with the 41st Replacement Battalion overseas until July 19, 1944, when he joined Company “L,” 330th Infantry Regiment, 83rd Infantry Division, then in reserve at La Barre, Normandy.
Miller’s new unit had arrived in Normandy on June 22, 1944, about two weeks after D-Day. The terrain, with its thick hedgerows, benefitted the German defenders. Although Company “L” had entered combat with six officers and 182 enlisted men, by the time Miller joined, the company had already taken over 50% battle casualties. Morning reports reveal that in just over three weeks, the company lost approximately 21 men killed in action or died of wounds and about 77 men wounded or injured. Another 27 men or so suffered from illness, combat exhaustion, and non-battle injuries. During July 6–9 alone, half of the company’s officers became casualties. Three new lieutenants joined Company “L” as platoon leaders on July 9, one of whom was killed one week later. Only the influx of replacements like Lieutenant Miller kept the unit combat effective. Although Miller’s duty was not recorded in his company morning reports, he was most likely a platoon leader.
On July 25, 1944, the Allies launched Operation Cobra with the goal of finally breaking out of Normandy. That morning, a massive aerial bombardment—including B-17s and B-24s designed for strategic rather than tactical bombing—saturated the German front line. 2nd and 3rd Battalions led the 330th Infantry’s attack.
The regimental after action report stated that
Regt began attack at 1110 [hours] coordinating with 9th [Infantry] Div on left. […] Attack made slow progress toward PERIERS – LESSAY road, [coordinates] 365692. Heavy fire from all arms encountered. Flanking fire from [Marchésieux], 356719, area being effective against us.
An entry in the regimental journal at 1130 hours stated: “L Co advanced from LD [line of departure], K Co on line with L Co; nothing received so far but small arms fire; K Co 800 yds beyond the LD; movingforward [sic] in spite of small arms fire[.]”
Another entry timestamped 1215 hours stated that the 3rd Battalion commanding officer “reports Co L and K held up by small arms fire on objective A; did not desire to move I Co forward on account of lack of cover[.]”
Lieutenant Miller was killed in action on July 25, 1944, one of 273 casualties suffered by the 330th Infantry Regiment that day. According to a digitized hospital admission card under his service number, Lieutenant Miller was killed by an artillery shell.
On July 28, 1944, Lieutenant Miller was buried at the U.S. Military Cemetery Blosville, located in Carquebut, France.
Operation Cobra was successful, leading to the breakout from Normandy and in short order, the liberation of France, though much hard fighting remained.
Lieutenant Miller’s family had learned of his death by August 21, 1944, when the news was printed in Journal-Every Evening. Miller was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart.
After the war, Miller’s family requested that his body be repatriated to the United States. After services at the Chandler Funeral Home in Wilmington on May 14, 1948, Lieutenant Miller was buried near his mother and daughter in the Jewish section of the Lombardy Cemetery in north Wilmington. His father was also buried in the section, now known as the Jewish Community Cemetery, after his death.
Lieutenant Miller is honored at Veterans Memorial Park in New Castle, Delaware, and on a memorial at the Jewish Community Cemetery for local Jewish servicemembers killed during World War II.
His widow, Louise, remarried in Dover, Delaware, on June 30, 1950, to Harold David Koffsky (1914–2010), with whom she raised two sons.
Notes
Parents
Most records have Nathan Miller as born in 1884, although his World War I draft card lists 1883 instead. Anna Miller’s date of birth is also unclear. Different ages were recorded in census records, though she was described as 50 years old when she died.
Name
Curiously, Miller’s birth certificate listed his name as Seamoor Irwin Millie. Most records including all known military records list him as Seymour Miller with no middle initial. His 1937 college yearbook listed his name as Seymour Irving Miller, but the 1939 yearbook just listed him as Seymour Miller.
Stepmother
After his wife’s death, Nathan Miller remarried to Esther Zucker in Baltimore, Maryland, on March 12, 1940. The couple had one daughter together, born after Seymour Miller’s death.
Brother’s Military Service
Howard A. Miller, a lawyer, was stationed at the Antiaircraft Artillery Training Center at Camp Stewart, Georgia. Initially serving as an enlisted man, a July 5, 1944, Journal-Every Evening article reported that he had been appointed as a warrant officer (junior grade). An article in the same paper printed on November 4, 1944, reported that Miller was assisting foreign-born American soldiers with applying for U.S. citizenship and that “Miller has been in charge of the Camp Stewart naturalization division since [its] inception.” Because not all the soldiers initially met the requirements, “Miller formed a class of three refugees and taught them English and American history during his spare time. He was so successful that his class expanded until he was teaching an average of 50 aliens in three different groups.”
Join Date for Company “L,” 330th Infantry Regiment
In the original version of this article published in 2021, I speculated that Lieutenant Miller went overseas in May 1944 and joined Company “L” in England. At that time, digitized morning reports for the company for June and July 1944 were already online on the excellent 83rd Infantry Division Documents website. None of these reports mentioned Lieutenant Miller prior to his death. Unlike rosters, which no longer exist for most U.S. Army units during the years 1944 and 1945, morning reports only mentioned a soldier if there was some change in status.
Although I acknowledged that I was unable to explain why his wife stated that Miller went overseas in June 1944 and how a notary, Samuel F. Keil, asserted that Miller personally appeared in person in Wilmington on June 2, 1944, I incorrectly believed these documents were probably in error. Service summaries that families provided to the State of Delaware Public Archives Commission in the 1940s often contain errors, both big and small, and Louise Miller’s was no exception. In retrospect, of course, I should have given more weight to the notary’s statement.
During a visit to the National Archives in St. Louis in 2023, I examined Company “L” morning reports for May 1944 with negative results, which potentially pushed Lieutenant Miller’s arrival date back to April 1944. In the fall of 2024, the National Archives uploaded morning reports through April 1944, which established that Lieutenant Miller was still stateside at least as late as April 25, 1944.
Scouring the June 1944 Company “L” morning reports on the 83rd Infantry Division Documents site again, I noticed that the morning report for July 20, 1944, and the first page of July 21, 1944, were missing. During that time, the number of 1st lieutenants increased by one. I contacted Myra Miller, one of the main researchers focusing on the 83rd Infantry Division in World War II, with my theory that his arrival was on a morning report that was inadvertently missed when the month was digitized. She quickly located the missing morning report on the original microfilm reel at the National Archives in St. Louis.
The missing morning report proved that Lieutenant Miller joined his final unit on July 19, 1944, not in May 1944. Of course, this completely changes my summary of Miller’s combat career. He did not fight in Normandy for a month as I had originally posited, and he was most likely not his company’s executive officer, as I had suggested might be the case. Instead, he was killed immediately after going into combat for the first time. Discovery of the error was both a humbling experience and a reminder of the major challenges in accurately reconstructing soldiers’ histories in the aftermath of the 1973 National Personnel Records Center fire, which destroyed most U.S. Army personnel files.
Duty in Company “L”
Under the table of organization and equipment for an infantry rifle company, each company had six officers. All six had the military occupational specialty (M.O.S.) of 1542 (infantry unit commander) but their assigned duties varied. The company commander was a captain. One 1st lieutenant served as executive officer, while the other commanded the weapons platoon. The three rifle platoons were supposed to be commanded by 2nd lieutenants. However, with Miller’s arrival, Company “L” had three 1st lieutenants instead of two, meaning that one of the 1st lieutenants had to have been commanding a rifle platoon.
Circumstantial evidence suggests that Miller was a platoon leader. First, two of the three 1st lieutenants in the company had to have been commanding platoons. Second, although Miller’s duty was not recorded, he was a replacement for a platoon leader who had become a casualty. Third, the company commander would probably have kept a more experienced 1st lieutenant as his executive officer rather than selecting a newly arrived officer without combat experience. Finally, that Miller was killed so soon after going into combat is consistent with the fact that the duty of platoon leader was more hazardous than that of executive officer.
Hospital Admission Card
Hospital admission cards were filled out even when a casualty did not survive to make it to an aid station. Lieutenant Miller’s status was killed in action rather than died of wounds, indicating that he was killed instantly or died soon after, before reaching medical care.
Miller Brothers
A Delaware property record mentioned that Miller Brothers was incorporated in 1905. The company purchased property at 9th and King Streets on December 19, 1914. That’s consistent with an August 23, 1977, column by Bill Frank stating that Miller Brothers was at 9th and King Streets from around 1915 until 1977, when the main store moved to Concord Pike. Miller Brothers (later Miller’s Furniture Industries, Inc.) went through several moves and expansions. The last of the family’s businesses—Miller Carpet One Floor & Home at 500 West Basin Road in New Castle—closed in 2014.
Acknowledgments
Special thanks to the late Danna Miller Levy, the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College, and to the Delaware Public Archives for the use of their photos of Lieutenant Miller. Thanks also go out the Jewish Historical Society of Delaware for putting me in touch with the Miller family. Finally, let me express my appreciation to Bill Conley for identifying his father in one of the photos and providing information about Sergeant Conley’s service, and to Myra Miller at Footsteps Researchers for locating a morning report that establishes when Miller joined his final unit.
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Morning Reports for Company “F,” 125th Infantry Regiment. October 1943 – November 1943. U.S. Army Morning Reports, c. 1912–1946. Record Group 64, Records of the National Archives and Records Administration. National Archives at St. Louis, Missouri. https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/partners/st-louis/rg-064/85713825-wwii/85713825_1943-10/85713825_1943-10_Roll-0152/85713825_1943-10_Roll-0152-22.pdf, https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/partners/st-louis/rg-064/85713825-wwii/85713825_1943-11/85713825_1943-11_Roll-0434/85713825_1943-11_Roll-0434-21.pdf
Morning Reports for Company “L,” 330th Infantry Regiment. June 1944. U.S. Army Morning Reports, c. 1912–1946. Record Group 64, Records of the National Archives and Records Administration. National Archives at St. Louis, Missouri. https://83rdinfdivdocs.org/documents/330th/MR/MR_330_Co_L_JUN1944.pdf
Morning Reports for Company “L,” 330th Infantry Regiment, July 1944. U.S. Army Morning Reports, c. 1912–1946. Record Group 64, Records of the National Archives and Records Administration. National Archives at St. Louis, Missouri. https://83rdinfdivdocs.org/documents/330th/MR/MR_330_Co_L_JUL1944.pdf
Morning Reports for Headquarters 125th Infantry Regiment. February 1943. U.S. Army Morning Reports, c. 1912–1946. Record Group 64, Records of the National Archives and Records Administration. National Archives at St. Louis, Missouri. https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/partners/st-louis/rg-064/85713825-wwii/85713825_1940-01-thru-1943-07/85713825_1940-01-thru-1943-07_Roll-1715/85713825_1940-01-thru-1943-07_Roll-1715-03.pdf
Morning Reports for Headquarters Company, 71st Infantry Regiment. July 1942 – August 1942. U.S. Army Morning Reports, c. 1912–1946. Record Group 64, Records of the National Archives and Records Administration. National Archives at St. Louis, Missouri. https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/partners/st-louis/rg-064/85713825-wwii/85713825_1940-01-thru-1943-07/85713825_1940-01-thru-1943-07_Roll-1656/85713825_1940-01-thru-1943-07_Roll-1656-36.pdf
Morning Reports for Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 125th Infantry Regiment. August 1943 – October 1943. U.S. Army Morning Reports, c. 1912–1946. Record Group 64, Records of the National Archives and Records Administration. National Archives at St. Louis, Missouri. https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/partners/st-louis/rg-064/85713825-wwii/85713825_1943-08/85713825_1943-08_Roll-0019/85713825_1943-08_Roll-0019-08.pdf, https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/partners/st-louis/rg-064/85713825-wwii/85713825_1943-09/85713825_1943-09_Roll-0218/85713825_1943-09_Roll-0218-14.pdf, https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/partners/st-louis/rg-064/85713825-wwii/85713825_1943-10/85713825_1943-10_Roll-0152/85713825_1943-10_Roll-0152-20.pdf
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