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Want to double down? Go ahead...here's the quote that you first posted.....

"As U.S. Marines in 1945 invaded Iwo Jima some 150 miles away, U.S. warplanes bombed the small communications outpost on Chichi Jima.....Nine crewmen survived after being shot down in the raid. One was picked up by the American submarine USS Finback. His name was Lieutenant George H. W. Bush, who later became the forty-first President of the United States."

As I and others pointed out (with supporting USN links), the raid during which Bush was shot down happened on September 2, 1944 ----- five months before the invasion of Iwo Jima.

If you want to get prissy about facts you should make sure that they are on your side.

You are exactly as silly as I remember you. The bombardment Bush participated was part of invasion any way you want to slice it. The US had no strategic interest in bombarding Chichi EXCEPT as part of the invasion. And if you require actual boots on the ground to qualify an invasion, well, we have that too when the frogman got shot.

I swear I think the only reason you ever log on to FR is to come up with new ways to correct someone. An yet, you're always wrong. Even when your point is semantic.