A file photo taken in 1944 of U.S. Navy pilot George H. W. Bush in the cockpit of his Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bomber.

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 ...

Pierce Bush speaks about his grandfather, 41st President George H.W. Bush, below a TBM Avenger torpedo bomber aircraft, similar to the one George H.W. Bush flew, during the dedication of the ...

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 ...

President George H.W. Bush, who died on Nov. 30, survived two crashes while in the Navy. ... He saw significant combat across the Pacific as a carrier-based bomber pilot, ...

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 ...

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.

After surviving being shot down as a pilot in the Second World War, then making his fortune in oil, George HW Bush went on to become – briefly – the most popular president since the invention ...

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, who was in office ... Some 18 months later, they became engaged, shortly before he began to train as a Naval torpedo bomber pilot. Bush won his commission in June 1943 at age 18, ...