[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

I met George Gay at a Smithsonian Institution talk about Midway. He said that after he was shot down and in his life-raft, “he had the best seat in the house” to the battle.

George Bush Sr. was also the sole survivor of a Torpedo plane squadron who attacked the Japanese.

[SunkenCiv]

That there’s a man of arms.

https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/oral-histories/wwii/battle-of-midway/recollections-of-lieutenant-george-gay.html

https://usnhistory.navylive.dodlive.mil/2017/05/25/ensign-george-h-gays-fateful-day-june-4-1942/

https://www.historynet.com/improbable-ensign-george-gay-at-midway.htm

GHW Bush didn’t serve at the Battle of Midway, but was the youngest combat pilot when he began service. The incident with the loss of his crew happened in 1944.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/navy-aviator-george-h-w-bush-and-his-squadron-attacked