Modified Funeral Honors with Funeral Escort are Conducted for U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Pvt. 1st Class Charles Miller in Section 60

The 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) Caisson Platoon; a trumpeter and drummer from “The President’s Own” Marine Band; and Marines from the Marine Barracks, Washington, D.C. (8th and I) conduct modified military funeral honors with funeral escort for U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Pvt. 1st Class Charles Miller in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, October 23, 2020. Miller was killed in the Tarawa Atoll during World War II at age 19. From the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) press release: In November 1943, Miller was a member of Company A, 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, which landed against stiff Japanese resistance on the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll of the Gilbert Islands, in an attempt to secure the island. Over several days of intense fighting at Tarawa, approximately 1,000 Marines and Sailors were killed and more than 2,000 were wounded, while the Japanese were virtually annihilated. Miller died on the third day of battle, Nov. 22, 1943. He was reported to have been buried in Row D of the East Division Cemetery, later renamed Cemetery 33. In 1946, the 604th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company

Date

2020

Photographer / author

Arlington National Cemetery

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Wikimedia Commons

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photograph

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