Johnson’s biographer, Robert Caro says:
“The most you can say about Lyndon Johnson and his Silver Star is that it is surely one of the most undeserved Silver Stars in history, because if you accept everything that he said, he was still in action for no more than 13 minutes and only as an observer. Men who flew many missions, brave men, never got a Silver Star.”
This military forum discusses it in more detail:
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?160677-Lyndon-B-Johnson-s-Silver-Star
Basically he hitched a short hop on a bomber and as a congressman pressured others to get him a silver star for it to use when he ran for the Senate after the war.
What a piece of sh*tbird garbage...
Thanks, I will do some research on it. I’d never heard it before.