The Navy paid honor last week to one of its hard bitten heroes of the long Pacific air war:
Commander Norman ("Bus") Miller commanded the Liberator squadron known as "Miller's Reluctant Raiders." His own patched, scarred bomber, decorated with a painting of a chamber pot and named "Thunder Mug," is covered with the record of his missions.
In seven and a half months his squadron sank 43 Jap ships, probably sank or damaged 91 others. But Miller's most brilliant record is his own. He himself definitely sank 20 of those ships, totaling 35,500 tons, among them a destroyer and a 10,000-ton tanker;...
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