Wreckage lines a Japanese airstrip at Puluwat in this picture made from the Navy Liberator piloted by Commander Norman M. 'Bus' Miller on 9 June 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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404.Photograph. 'File No: 46573 September 21, 1944 Saga of Bus Miller--- Wreckage lines the airstrip at Puluwat in this picture in this picture made from the Navy Consolidated Liberator piloted by Commander Norman M. 'Bus' Miller, USN, of Winston-Salem, N.C. , during a raid on the Jap base in which he added to the damage. Assigned to armed reconnaissance, Commander Miller who was known as the 'One Man War' in the Pacific always found extra work in the line of killing Japs. This photograph was made during a June 9 raid on Puluwat a base 'discovered' by Commander Miller some 150 miles west of Truk, and one of his favorite targets.' 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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Chuuk
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War damage--Puluwat
Aerial bombings--Puluwat
Air bases--Japanese--Puluwat