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Died. Captain Norman Mickey ("Bus") Miller, 38, the Navy's legendary one-man aerial task force, most decorated Navy flyer of World War II; of tuberculosis; in Corona, Calif. A hard-bitten combat pilot, he took his battle-scarred Liberator bomber, Thunder Mug, into Truk time & again at mast top level, sank or damaged more than 60 Jap vessels...
...motivations of the flyer are not different from those of persons engaged in many other activities. "They fly" for the same reasons "they" report the news. The article from which you quote [TIME, April 29] does not imply that any new or exotic motives exist in the flyer...
...explains how various types and intensities of motivation may succeed or fail to sustain the flyer in his environment. This last point is the entire point of the article. The excerpts which you quoted might convey the impression to some, that all flyers are motivated by what might be termed psychologically unhealthy drives. That is not my opinion. There are some concerning whom this is true in all activities. Aviation has no more than its share...
...Perhaps TIME, in reporting Colonel Anderson, should have included the following from his speech: "Some . . . have charged that a psychopathic personality is a prerequisite in a flyer. It is hardly necessary to refute that charge, but it is probably true that aviation has more than its share of such individuals...
...stations, travelers read the signs that warned of delays, heard loudspeakers blare warnings that arrivals were not guaranteed. But they bought their tickets as usual. Out of Chicago's Union Station chuffed the Pennsylvania's Washington flyer, Liberty Limited, booked almost solid, as usual. In Newark a commuter electric train pulled out for its dank run through the Hudson River tubes to Manhattan. But out went a notice: that would be the last Hudson & Manhattan train to New York City...