Miller Aviation Field, Staten Island, N.Y.

Miller Aviation Field, Staten Island, N.Y. [hangars, planes in air and on field]

Miller Field, U. S. Air Service New Dorp, Staten Island, N.Y. [hangars, other buildings in distance, bi-plane in sky] 

Lake and Mansion, Vanderbilt Estate, Miller Field, Staten Island, N.Y.

Source: From the New York Public Library

Miller Field was a United States Army facility on Staten Island, New York, in New Dorp. It was founded in November 1919 and completed in 1921. It was named after Captain James Ely Miller (1883–1918), commanding officer of the 95th Aero Squadron in the Air Service of the AEF, who died in combat on March 9, 1918 over Rheims in World War I. He was the first United States aviator killed in action while serving with an American military aviation unit. Before World War I Miller had been vice president of the Columbia Trust Company of New York and manager of its Fifth Avenue office who trained at his own expense to earn his pilot's license and Reserve Military Aviator rating with the Governors Island Training Corps in 1916. He was also an organizer, along with Major Raynal Bolling, of the 1st Reserve Aero Squadron, the first unit of what would eventually become the Air Force Reserve Command.

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