The color pic of the damaged prop seems a bit out of place for one that might/supposedly have been taken somewhere in the Pacific in WWII? And the hit came from the rear making me suspicious that it was being demilled. If that thing had been spinning when hit like that the tip would be gone.
And I expect that’s not even Bush’s plane. He flew a TBF Avenger as I recall, which uses a 3-blade prop. The pic looks like the front end of a Corsair which used a 4-blade just like a B-29. The BS fakter is hard to fight.
Is that what you meant to say by use of the phrase "BS fakter" (sic, 'factor' in Creole)?
GHWB was known to have mostly flown the Avenger, 'tis true, but every pilot would have experience in at least a small number of different planes. He might have simply horned in on some unknown crew's pranked photo opportunity, even if he'd never flown that type of plane.
I have to believe there was a risk of punishment for participants willfully damaging a good propeller, if it had been found out. Being front and center amidst the evidence pretty well puts a person in line for such punishment, unless a person believed himself to be in a protected class, as GHWB likely would have.