The big bands of Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw and Benny Goodman blared on car radios, sharing time with commentators who told people about the war and who was winning. Men and women customarily wore hats.

WASHINGTON -- "I'm just glad to be apart of this, really," said Lt. Jordon Loy. Loy stood out to WUSA9 because he was standing along Wisconsin Ave NW in a pilot bomber jacket. He was freezing, but ...

Among the youngest pilots, Lt. George H.W. Bush flew 58 combat missions ... was the same sort of plane that George H.W. Bush flew. The Avenger was a light bomber that carried a crew of three.

Ted Williams flashes the pilot's traditional thumb-up sign of ... the names of future President George H.W. Bush and Boston Red Sox slugger Theodore Samuel Williams were typed on the same page ...

His new nonfiction book is To Risk It All: Nine Conflicts and the Crucible of Decision And so passes George Herbert Walker Bush ... as a carrier-based bomber pilot, serving with deep courage ...

Stephen Colbert paid tribute to George H.W. Bush on ... He first reflected on Bush’s time in the military. “Bush served in World War II as a torpedo bomber pilot in the Pacific theater.

The passing of George H.W. Bush has brought forth so many anecdotes ... it was accompanied by a signed picture of Bush in his bomber jacket. I remembered the frames on my dad’s office wall ...

After a brilliant war record – he was at one time the youngest pilot in the US ... had supported him when Bush was ridiculing him. open image in gallery George HW Bush in the Rose Garden of ...

George HW Bush was the youngest Navy pilot during World War II. He is seen here in the cockpit of the Avenger. (AAP) A document from a post-war trial listed some of the atrocities committed by ...

George H.W. Bush and his wife ... 1945 at the First Presbyterian Church in Rye, New York, while Bush was on leave as a Navy pilot in World War II. The bride first met her future husband during ...