Marvin J. Miller, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Luke Kelly, June 11, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 242

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Marvin J. Miller Jun 11 2 01 I n ver did g t my KP a signment. But they put a st p to that. n aft rn n th y ga\ c me my KP assignment early and I drew the only 1n ss hall n bas that didn't ha an aut n1ati potato peeler. We had to peel three hundred pounds of potatoes. hat was n fun. And th n on top of that we peeled a sack of onions. That night I wasn't privileged. I was assigned to a B-24 crew and was sent down to Biggs Field, El Pa o T xas. ne of the fellows that was assigned on our crew was already down there. But he'd gone over th border celebrating. He was quite a nice young man; well built, a pretty good scrapper. It seems that one of his buddies got in a fight, and he helped hi1n out, and when we got there they had to bail him out from the military police. We spent some time at Biggs Field. This was in February or March, and we were down there fro1n March until sometime in June when we completed our training. We would go on flight training missions and we had assignments. There were targets on the ground. And the only targets you could fire at were from the waist guns. So, that's where we did our firing. We had a fellow that was assigned to our flight crew-he was a minister. And he used to kneel by his bed and pray. One morning he was very e1nphatic. He said, "Oh, Lord, make me suffer. Oh, Lord, make me suffer." Well, his prayer was answered because we were flying a low-level mission that day, a training mission, and I've never seen anyone get so airsick in my life. I don't know how many paper bags he filled, but he suffered. Well, he got a transfer and we got a new radioman. As we were winding up our training, we were on a low level flying mission. I was 11