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ALPHONSE I. MILLER

    Cadet Alphonse I. Miller was a deck major aboard the SS Esso Gettysburg.  The tanker ship was torpedoed by the German Submarine U-66 (Markworth) at 1400 EWT on June 10, 1943 about 100 miles southeast of Savannah, GA while en route alone Altreco, TX to Philadelphia, PA with 120,000 barrels of crude oil.  37 crew members including Cadet Miller along with 20 Navy men were lost.