Posted on 09/24/2013 7:50:40 PM PDT by grundle
God bless your father!
Yes, GHW Bush was the second-youngest Navy pilot to qualify carrier landings in the WWII.
In the South Pacific he flew off both conventional (large) carriers and escort carriers as a scout/search torpedo bomber pilot.
I read up on it a few years ago.
From what I could find, Johnson’s service was brief and not particularly impressive, and he certainly did not deserve the Silver Star he was awarded, but what service he had was both honourable and useful. He was already a member of Congress when the war started, and, for that reason, he was kept relatively safe whether he wanted to be or not. The inspection tours he carried out did provide some valuable information.
He was no hero, but he did the duty he was ordered to do, until President Roosevelt ordered all members of Congress to return to the United States, to do the job they had been elected to do.
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