[JimVT]

But Mr. Dean is not Mr. McGovern in a more important way.

....In more than one important way...

McGovern, a South Dakota preacher's son, was a 19-year-old college sophomore when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He immediately volunteered for service and less than three years later was piloting one of the big, unwieldy B-24 Liberator bombers. Completing 35 missions over Europe, McGovern went on to earn a Distinguished Flying Cross for his service.

[Guillermo]

He never completed 35 combat missions, because the war ended.

If my memory serves me correctly, he flew 22 of the required 25. If not, he flew 32 of 35.