Willis (Al) Myrel Mills, 91, passed away peacefully on January 9, 2017. After enlisting in the California National Guard in 1943, he joined the U.S. Navy in 1944 and saw action during the Pacific Campaign aboard the U.S.S. Calvert. The Calvert was one of the first ships to land at Nagasaki, Japan after the atomic bomb on August 9, 1945. He married Donna Crockett in 1945, and she preceded him in death in 2010. During most of his lifetime, he was employed in materials management at Rohr Aircraft, Dunham Bush Manufacturing and retired from ASU in 1987. He is survived by one sibling, three children and six grandchildren. Services were private.