The Marlborough
Historical Society

    Kenneth was born the 18th of June 1925 in Medford, Massachusetts one of seven children born to John and Anna Miller.  While working at the Navy Yard in Boston, Massachusetts, Kenneth enlisted into the Army the 14th of September 1943.  Assigned to Company C of the 743rd Tank Battalion, Kenneth was trained in the maintenance and operation of the DD drives attached to M4 Sherman tanks in preparation for the amphibious invasion of mainland Europe. 

    On the 6th of June 1944 Kenneth and his fellow soldiers from Company C landed on Dog White and Easy Green sections of Omaha Beach. Ultimately attached to the 30th Infantry Division the 743rd Tank Battalion would remain with them for the remainder of the war.  Supporting the 119th Infantry Regiment, Kenneth and his fellow soldiers fought along the Vire River, and at St. Lo before launching into Germany at the Siegfried Line. 

    On the 18th of October 1944 while engaging German troops and tanks north of Aachen, following combat operations Kenneth and another man were reported Missing in Action and later declared dead.  His name is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing at the Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial at Margraten Netherlands. A cenotaph in his memory is located at Evergreen Cemetery in Marlborough, Massachusetts. 

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