Nov 09, 2016
Alice Miller, 95, of Old Fort tells her experience serving in the Navy Nurse Corps during World War II on the USS Solace. Miller made seven trips on the Navy hospital ship from Okinawa to Guam on a ship transported over 400 patients. "These were just kids," Miller says to describe her patients aged mostly 18-20 years old. Miller treated patients in the burn unit. Men were injured after kamikaze planes dove into ships that exploded, tossing them into the sea and burning oil.