Joseph Phillips (later Miruki), of Chicago, served in the U.S. Army during the Philippine Insurrection and had the special distinction of being a five-year veteran of the Legion before the advent of World War I. He was killed in action on April 18, 1917, while leading his squad against a German machine-gun position during the Champagne-Aisne offensive.
~~ Walt Brown, Jr., An American for Lafayette: The Diaries of E.C.C. Genet, Lafayette Escadrille. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1981), p 22.
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