The team included the 442d Infantry Regiment, the 522d Field Artillery Battalion, the 232d Combat Engineer Company, the 206th Army Ground Forces Band and the 100th Infantry Battalion from Hawaii's National Guard. In June 1943, Miller was named Executive Officer of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and the United States entered the war. In 1940, he was transferred to Hawaii, where he served with the 21st Infantry Brigade and later with the 24th Infantry Division stationed on the island of Oʻahu at Schofield Barracks. He married Ann McGoughran the following year and in 1926 returned to Puerto Rico where he served with Puerto Rico's 65th Infantry Regiment at Camp Las Casas. Military Academy and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the infantry in 1924. In 1920, he received an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point from Arthur Yager (1858–1941), who served as Governor of Puerto Rico from 1913 to 1921. During World War I, he served in the Puerto Rico Home Guard, a local militia. Miller and his siblings received their secondary education at El Caribe High School in San Juan.
Paul Gerard Miller, was appointed Commissioner of Education, a position which the senior Miller held until 1921. In 1915, his family moved to San Juan, the capital city of the island, when his father Dr. Virgil Miller was born in San German, Puerto Rico, which is located on the western coast of the island.
He led the 442nd in its rescue of the Lost Texas Battalion of the 36th Infantry Division, in the forests of the Vosges Mountains in northeastern France. Colonel Virgil Rasmuss Miller (Novem– August 5, 1968) was a United States Army officer who served as Regimental Commander of the 442d Regimental Combat Team (RCT), a unit which was composed of " Nisei" (second generation Americans of Japanese descent), during World War II.
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