Last flight of the 'Thunder Mug', famed Consolidated Liberator piloted by Commander Norman M. 'Bus' Miller, USN, of Winston Salem, North Carolina 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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402.Photograph. Consolidated PB4Y-1 Liberator. 'File No: 46579 September 21, 1944 Saga of Bus Miller--- Last flight of the 'Thunder Mug', famed Consolidated Liberator piloted by Commander Norman M. 'Bus' Miller, USN, of Winston-Salem, N.C. Its hydraulic braking system was wrecked by Japanese flak in a raid on Paluwat, the plane ran over the landing strip upon return to its base, and nosed into the ocean. In the plane, Commander Miller had run up a score against the Japs which included 66 Jap ships sunk or damaged and made 55 low-level 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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Enewetak
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11.583
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162.333
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