Theodore Ross Milton KBE (29 December 1915 – 24 August 2010) was a United States Army and Air Force (USAF) officer and pilot.

[2] After graduating from the US Military Academy in 1940, he entered United States Army Air Corps pilot training and earned his aviator badge in March 1941.

[4] From 1943 to 1945 during World War II, Milton served in the Eighth Air Force in England aboard Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses.

Milton was leading 330 B-17Fs and 329 Republic P-47 Thunderbolts out of the United Kingdom to attack the well-defended Nazi synthetic oil production facilities at Gelsenkirchen.

Milton refused aid and remained at his post through the mission's completion, and did not step down until every plane in the large formation had successfully landed at diversion airports.

After two years as 13 AF/CC, Milton was chosen as deputy chief of staff, plans and operations, to the United States Pacific Command commander-in-chief at Camp H. M. Smith, Hawaii.