Make A Difference Minute: WWII Veteran Billy Mills Turned 100 Years Old

I saw the banner in a front yard in Bay Minette, Alabama, so we stopped. The sign on the front door read to go to the back door, so I walked around the back of the house. A lady came to the door and I asked if there had been a parade or if Mr. Billy lived there. She said he lived there and I asked if I would be able to talk with him. The lady went back inside and a couple of minutes later, Mr. Billy came outside. Mr. Billy, last name “Mills,” said he turned 100 on May 30th. For his birthday, Mr. Billy said there was a celebration with a “bunch of old people” in downtown and he shook a lot of hands.
Born in Tuscaloosa, his dad owned a lumber yard in Moundville. Mr. Billy began flying at 14 years old and tells me that at one time was the youngest flight instructor in the country at just 16 years old serving in the Air Force during WWII. He was an instructor in various places around the country. After the war, Mr. Billy went back to working with his dad in the lumber yard.

Oddly enough, I actually did not mean to end up in Bay Minette, but I never would’ve seen the banner or met Mr. Billy Mills, so it was well worth it.

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