Bow-on view of Commander Norman M. 'Bus' Miller's Consolidated Liberator 'Thunder Mug' on Eniwetok in September 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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401.Photograph. Consolidated PB4Y-1 Liberator. 'File No: 46583 September 21, 1944 Saga of Bus Miller--- 'Bow-on' view of the four motored Navy Consolidated Liberator 'Thunder Mug' in which Commander Norman M. 'Bus' Miller, USN made the majority of his astounding tally of 'scalps'-66 Jap [Japanese] ships sunk or damaged being the top item-after the huge plane came to the end of the road. Its hydraulic braking system destroyed by Jap flak during a raid on Puluwat, the Liberator ran over the landing strip, nosed into the ocean. Commander and his crew were soon flying in another Lib.' 21 September 1944
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The Charles Ives Collection consists of 719 photographs from the Pacific Theater of WWII. Many of the photographs were taken between 1944 and 1945. Mr. Ives inherited the photographs from a friend from Marblehead, Massachusetts who served as an aviator in the Army Air Corps and discharged as a Major in 1945.
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Enewetak
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11.583
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162.333
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