Explosions hurl smoke and sea water high around two of the Japanese ships attacked by Commander Norman M. 'Bus' Miller, at Kwajalein 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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403.Photograph. Consolidated PB4Y-1 Liberator. 'File No: 46576 September 21, 1944 Saga of Bus Miller--- Explosions hurl smoke and sea water high around two of the Jap ships attacked by Commander Norman M. 'Bus' Miller, USN, of Winston-Salem, N.C. [North Carolina], at Kwajalein, in the Pacific. Assigned to armed reconnaissance, Commander Miller always found time for 'sidelike activity' for his giant Navy Liberator, being credited with 66 Jap ships sunk or damaged and with 55 low-level bombings and strafing attacks on Jap bases.' 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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Kwajalein
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9.250
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167.500
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Bombers--American--Kwajalein
Aerial bombings--Kwajalein
Aerial views
Warships--Japanese--Kwajalein
Explosions--Kwajalein