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On this day in history, September 2, 1944, George H.W. Bush is shot down during World War II
Yahoo ^ | 09/02/2024 | Erica Lamberg

Posted on 09/04/2024 12:12:03 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

While off the Japanese island of Chichijima on this day in history on Sept. 2, 1944, then-future President George H.W. Bush was the only survivor after his aircraft was shot down by enemy fire, according to the National WWII Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana.

At the time, Lt. Junior Grade George Bush was a pilot with Torpedo Squadron Fifty-One (VT-51) aboard the aircraft carrier USS San Jacinto (CVL-30), a light carrier that was deployed in the North Pacific, according to U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command.

Bush’s squadron was conducting a bombing mission when it encountered heavy anti-aircraft fire, according to records from the U.S. Navy.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; History; Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: 19440902; bush; chichijima; godsgravesglyphs; history; shot; worldwareleven; wwii
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He is a hero for his service. I have always wondered what a different trajectory are country would have been on if he won a second term and no Clinton?
1 posted on 09/04/2024 12:12:03 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Same graft. Different beneficiaries. Slightly slower timeline to the decline.


2 posted on 09/04/2024 12:20:12 PM PDT by txeagle
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To: txeagle

Very true


3 posted on 09/04/2024 12:21:46 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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Then GHWB returned to civilian life and became a member of the
Deep State.


4 posted on 09/04/2024 12:22:16 PM PDT by ABStrauss (I miss Rlush!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The elder Bush was a good guy. Things went downhill with W.
The bad HW reelection campaign against Clinton was a disaster.


5 posted on 09/04/2024 12:22:44 PM PDT by Williams (Let's Focus On Electing President Trump)
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To: Williams

I looked up to Reagan and Bush big time when I was young


6 posted on 09/04/2024 12:23:39 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Good man but got co-opted by the borg and new ideologies he failed to understand


7 posted on 09/04/2024 12:24:52 PM PDT by wardaddy (Thank you God for saving president Trump from murder)
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I don’t think he understood the Reagan revolution


8 posted on 09/04/2024 12:26:40 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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Mr. NWO read-my -hips was not a good guy.


9 posted on 09/04/2024 12:27:24 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (Trump/Vance 2024 or GFY)
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His hips did lie.


10 posted on 09/04/2024 12:28:14 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Anyone who flew planes into battle in that war gets my respect. Flying off a ship? That’s just crazy ballsy.


11 posted on 09/04/2024 12:29:58 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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12 posted on 09/04/2024 12:31:59 PM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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I don’t think he understood the Reagan revolution

He did not. I, and many others, hoped that he had learned from it. Then he broke the "no new taxes" pledge, and is was all downhill from there.

He was the most recent combat veteran to be elected President.

13 posted on 09/04/2024 12:32:26 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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Pray that he didn’t. He made Klinton POTUS.


14 posted on 09/04/2024 12:33:08 PM PDT by Rappini ("No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in it's preservation" MacArthr)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I thank him for his military service (even though I didn’t care much for his presidency).


15 posted on 09/04/2024 12:33:16 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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GHWB shot down/ditched nearby the Japanese controlled island Chichi Jima. The aviators picked up offshore by sub were lucky. The ones that drifted over/captured were killed by the war criminal commander of the island, (he ate their livers).


16 posted on 09/04/2024 12:34:55 PM PDT by A strike ("Rise Peter, kill and eat.")
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It was only after his death that details were released on the other two aircrews who weren’t rescued.

Japanese captured them, and the Jap island commander ordered those American aircrewmen EATEN...!

Post-war testimony disclosed captured Americans were tied to trees and “fresh” pieces cut off as needed.


17 posted on 09/04/2024 12:40:26 PM PDT by Does so (Why is our print-media being crafted by foreigners? 🇺🇦.....)
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My sons and I watched In Harms Way the other nite

Otto Preminger film

It wasn’t bad

Last of black and white wwiii flicks


18 posted on 09/04/2024 12:43:15 PM PDT by wardaddy (Thank you God for saving president Trump from murder)
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Some reporters did ask him why he broke his no new taxes promise while he was out jogging and the scumbag arrogantly replied “Read my hips”.

I have hated the Bushes ever since.

19 posted on 09/04/2024 12:45:11 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (Trump/Vance 2024 or GFY)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A bonified hero and there were cameras there to capture the moment... Pretty amazing. And then he got beat by a left wing lunatic who dodged Vietnam, because a dude named Ross Perot wanted to be President... And he had the cash to do it.


20 posted on 09/04/2024 12:45:34 PM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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