[presidio9]

Bush was shot down on 2 september, 1944...five months before the Iwo landings.

You'll have to take the matter up with respected WWII histortian James Bradley, author of this account, Flags of our Fathers, and Imperial Cruise. To be honest, I'm not sure what you're disputing here, but past experience tells me that you tend to feel entitled to your own facts to go with your curious opinions.

[wtc911]

You'll have to take the matter up with respected WWII histortian James Bradley, author of this account, Flags of our Fathers, and Imperial Cruise. To be honest, I'm not sure what you're disputing here, but past experience tells me that you tend to feel entitled to your own facts to go with your curious opinions.

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A correction is not a dispute. And facts are neither yours nor mine.

You may rely on a novelist for what you think are the facts...some of us prefer to do our own work and have read the USN's own account which is available on line.

http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq10-1.htm