Miller, Albert Studley

ALBERT STUDLEY MILLER of Cambridge, Massachusetts, on February 7th, 1945, was killed in France. Albert's ambulance and a French truck collided, instantly killing Miller and seriously injuring a French officer and a stretcher bearer, who were riding with him. Upon learning of Albert Miller's death, the Chief of the French Military Mission in the United States wrote, "I am sure I need not tell you that France is gratefully aware of the great assistance given the war effort by the splendid work of the volunteers of the American Field Service, and feels a personal loss in the passing of one of its members."

__ AFS Letters No. 35

The Cornimont show lasted 3 weeks, during which time there was little or no enemy action. Nevertheless, we met with a disturbing amount of pathos and ill fortune. It started to snow soon after our arrival, and it continued to do so for more than 10 days. Though our mess was warm, it was small; we were vastly overcrowded at meal-times. The food took an atrocious turn. We were billeted in several houses along the road, but the bedrooms had no stoves in them. Temperatures dropped to zero. Fuller, MacArthur, Miller, Smith, and Greenough went to the hospital with various degrees of pneumonia. C. B. Alexander and Fugitt permanently left our circle to command new sections. Mase and Mac, while plowing through a snowdrift, wandered off the road and got the car hopelessly entrenched; it took a week before a wrecker got through to pull it out with a winch. Hope and France lost all their belongings when their car struck a mine and burned to the ground. And then the terrible road accident occurred which claimed the life of Al Miller. All misfortunes converged while wind-swept snow mounted on a bleak and despicable countryside. At Cornimont we were driven into a state of real depression.

__ George Rock. Chapter 14. "Victory 3. The Return to France (March 1944- July 1945)" History of the American Field Service, 1920-1955. New York 1956.