World War II Honoree

Helen Hartnett Miller

Branch of Service

U.S. Army Air Force

Hometown

Peabody, Massachusetts

Honored By

A Grateful American

SERVED AS A FLIGHT NURSE, STATIONED IN THE CHINA-BURMA-INDIA THEATER OF OPERATIONS, SHE FLEW OVER THE HIMALAYAS CARING FOR WOUNDED SOLDIERS. TREATED THE ALLIED PRISONERS AT THE LIBERATION OF THE JAPANESE CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN JAVA, RANGOON AND SINGAPORE. BY WARS END SHE WAS A CAPTAIN.