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Ernest B. Miller Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2001.98

Content Description

Materials include papers, framed photographs, rolled photographs, books, pamphlets, and other items that relate to E.B. Miller's service in the 194th Tank Battalion and his experiences as a POW during WWII. Also included are materials relating to his promotion as a Brevet Brigadier General and information on his book "Bataan Uncensored."

Box 1:

Scrapbook, wood cover. 97.50.21

Scrapbook, red cover. Bataan Uncensored and other newspaper clippings.

Photos. Maurine. National Maerican Legion Commander S. Perry Brown. National Maerican Legion Commander Paul H. Griffith.

3-star window flag. Blue, gold, and silver. 1991.117

Miller portrait, The American Historical Company Inc NY.

Legal-size document folder:

correspondence, articles, speeches, military documents, certificates, Silver Star certificate,

Photo print from digital file: 194thTank_Battalion2_tm.TIF Co A- 194th Tank Battalion - Brainerd, Minn. Feb 18, 1941

Pay rosters 1943.

Box of pocket knives and religious pocket materials

Surveying manual, 1915.

Loose photos and postcards removed from magnetic photo album.

Reel film in box labeled Manila Philippines, 1941. From Maj Miller, 194th Tank Bn, Fort Stotsenburg, PI.

Box 2:

Publications. American Legion State Convention program, 1992. Brainerd Service Album. Minnesota Poll, A Decade of Minnesota Opinion, 1944-45. National Guard magazine, Nov 1991. The XPW Directory (Ex-Prisoners of War), Dec 1951. The American Legionnaire in the Philippines, Bataan Day 1955. Fragments from France by Capt Bruce Bairnsfather cartoon magazine 1919.

Civil Defense.

Tank Tracks newsletter, 194th Regiment

Misc. Miller Silver Star orders, General Orders, 1916 Roll of Honor roster, Armed Forces Officers Mess Roster for 1951, Miller biography, military documents, correspondence

Christmas cards. hand-drawn

Photos. 8x10"

Newspapers. Brainerd Dispatch "Brainerd Greets 194th." etc.

Bataan Uncensored materials.

American Legion.

Personal Correspondence.

Western Union telegrams. Notification of POW and POW repatriation.

E.B. Miller Memorial, 1991 (sic).



Box 3:

POW diaries and documents

Metal photo printing plates

Miller's pocket notebooks

Topographic Committee

Personnel documents

Holiday greeting cards

Certificates

Documents. correspondence, personnel records

Framed photos.



Box 4: artifacts.

Assorted Oversize 22: Certificates, Mid-Week Pictorial magazine, Feb 13 1919.

Vinyl Records Collection Box 3: Vinyl record albums. American Legion, 5 albums, parts 1-6. Labeled "Dad's part on Florence Murphy's program." 97.50.25

Dates

  • 1930s-1989

Biographical / Historical

Col. Ernest Brumaghim Miller, 194th Tank Battalion, POW, WWII

Extent

6 Linear Feet (Two grey banker's boxes.)

Language of Materials

English

Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Minnesota Military & Veterans Museum Repository

Contact:
Minnesota Military and Veterans Museum
Camp Ripley
15000 Highway 115
Little Falls MN 56345 United States