Soldier Details

Division:

Navy
LCI assigned LST 531

Highest Rank:

Bosum mate (cox)

Theater of Operation:

European

Served:

Mar 26, 1943

Military Honors:

Purple Heart

Honored By:

John Lupp a nephew

Biography

Ralph Miller joined the Navy in 1943. He was in exercise Tiger on LST 531 and was killed the morning of April 28, 1944. Exercise Tiger, or Operation Tiger, was one of a series of large-scale rehearsals for the D-Day invasion of Normandy, which took place in April 1944 on Slapton Sands in Devon. Miller received the purple heart.