Lieutenant General Thomas H. Miller (June 3, 1923 – November 27, 2007), was a United States Marine Corps Naval Aviator and test pilot.
When Student Naval Aviators earned their wings they also received a commission in the U.S. Navy, or the Marine Corps, if they so chose.
When Miller was nearing completion of flight school, he heard a talk from several WWII Marine combat aviators.
In 1960, he served at the Bureau of Aeronautics, later the Bureau of Naval Weapons, Washington, D.C., as a research and development project officer of the F4H-1 (later the F-4B) Weapons System, during which time he set the 500-kilometer Closed Course World Speed Record at 1,216.78 miles per hour at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on September 5, 1960.
[11] In 1965, General Miller was assigned to head the U.S. Marine Corps Air Weapons Systems Requirements section.
In August 1975, he was deputy chief of staff for aviation at Headquarters Marine Corps[13] where he led the successful effort to develop and procure the improved AV-8B Harrier and to obtain funds to launch the unique tilt rotor V-STOL V-22 Osprey Transport.
After retirement, Miller served on the Department of Defense Science Board, the National Academy of Sciences, the Federal Aviation Administration, the National Museum of Naval Aviation, the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation, Washington Airports Task Force, and the Air and Space Heritage Council for the expansion of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.