page_title: Wayne F. Miller
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Wayne F. Miller / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Crewmen aboard USS Saratoga lift AOM Kenneth Bratton, USNR, out of a TBF Avenger's rear turret after a raid on Rabaul on 5 November 1943. The aircraft and a friendly F6F Hellcat successfully fought off eight attacking Zeroes, downing three. Bratton and pilot Commander Henry Caldwell survived. Photographer's Mate Paul Barnett was killed in action.
context_page_description: Wayne Forest Miller was an American photographer known for his series of photographs The Way of Life of the Northern Negro. Active as a photographer from 1942 until 1975, he was a contributor to Magnum Photos beginning in 1958.
context_section_description: Miller was born in Chicago, Illinois., the son of a doctor and a nurse, who gave him a camera as a high school graduation present.  He went on to study banking at the University of Illinois at Urbana, while also working on the side as a photographer. From 1941 to 1942 he studied at the Art Centre School of Los Angeles. He then served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy where he was assigned to Edward Steichen's World War II Naval Aviation Photographic Unit. He was among the first Western photographers to document the destruction at Hiroshima.
caption: Wayne F. Miller Grumman TBF wounded crew member Nov 1943
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