[The G Man]

An unbelievable story. The book tells the tale of the mission that Bush was on in WWII when he was shot down. As it turns out, the other 8 men on the mission were believed all these years to have been MIA / KIA. It turned out they were taken prisoner by the Japanese on one of the islands next to Iwo Jima as that battle was taking place. They were kept alive for a week or so before the Japanese beheaded them!

The Japanese captors were tried for War Crimes and the records of this incident were sealed as classifed for 50 years. Upon their declassification, Bradley was tipped off to this incident by an attorney who was a staffer at Nuremberg so he checked it out, and out of it comes this book.

It turned out that the Bush and the families of all these men had no idea this had all taken place. They all assumed they never survived the crash, etc.

Had Bush not been pulled from the sea, he would have shared their fate.

[Poohbah]

Bush, IIRC, went into the water--the others must have come down on land.

And the course of history changed. We might have gotten Michael Dukakis in 1988 and (Thank God we didn't) Al Gore in 2000.

Hell, we'd probably be under sharia by now with THAT lineup...

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

Had Bush not been pulled from the sea, he would have shared their fate.

Predicted liberal spin: "Elitist, privileged Bush weasels out of death, leaving his friends to die in his plance."

[MEG33]

How interesting.The brutality of the Japanese cannot be exagerrated.

[Semper Paratus]

I heard the part where Lt. Bush was in the water heading to the island and certain death and the japenese were watching and waiting until the sub popped up and rescued him.

George Bush Sr. never ever used this in his campaigns unlike Kerry who is moving his former crew around like on a road tour.

[SamKeck]

I recall that back during the 1988 campaign, a man from X41's old Navy squadron popped up and, thanks to help of the Dukakis' campaign staff, was very public and very critical of GHWB because "he hadn't done everything he could have done to save the life of one of the other squadron members" (or statements to that effect) on that particular mission. I wonder what he thinks about those statements today.

[CMClay]

Had Bush not been pulled from the sea, he would have shared their fate.

I thought Bush 41 crashed and skidded off the ship deck due to hydraulic failure, it seems highly unlikey he would be taken prisoner 20 yards from an American aircraft carrier?

[Johnny Gage]

Bumpity Bumpity Bumpity

[soozla]

I think George Bush the sr. was the youngest aviator in WWII. I'm quite sure he was ONLY 17 OR 18 YEARS OLD AT THE TIME.......!!!!

Quite a tribute to our military......stories like these and the heroic acts (most of which go unheralded in today's leftist, elite media reporting) of our soldiers occurring right now as we speak, all around the world, shows how, like my dad always said, "the service will make a man out of ya"!

[Question_Assumptions]

From what a friend's father who served in the Pacific tells me (he was a PBY radio operator), Chichi Jima was by passed by the Americans and cut off from supplies and there was some cannibalism of prisoners involved, as well. Not sure if that's true but that's what he told me.

[nutmeg]

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