Except for Mother, All of Frank Miles Family Is in Army
DES MOINES, (AP)—Except for mother, the whole Frank Miles family of Des Moines is in the army now.
Capt. Frank Miles, state selective service official and editor of the Iowa Legionaire, disclosed the enlistment of his second son, William B., 18, in the army air corps.
Frank Miles Jr., 20, became an army aviation cadet the day war was declared. Captain Miles has no other children.
William was center on the Drake University freshman team last fall. On Sept. 5, he played center on the west team in the East-West All-Star Iowa high school football game. As center and captain of the Roosevelt high team here in 1940, he received All-State recognition.
Source: The Mason City Globe-Gazette, Friday, January 2, 1942
Christmas 1944
War Correspondent, Frank Miles Sr. and his son, Frank Miles Jr. doing a radio broadcast from Europe for WHO radio in Des Moines, Iowa.
Frank Floyd Miles, Jr. was born Apr. 19, 1921 to Frank Floyd (Sr.) and Ora Estelle Baker Miles. He died Dec. 9, 2012 and is buried in Masonic Cemetery, Des Moines, IA.
Capt. Miles served in World War II with the U.S. Army Air Corps and was awarded the Air Medal with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters.
Source: ancestry.com
