Helicopter pilots serving aboard the USS George HW Bush (CVN-77) face some of the most dangerous missions in military ...

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.

The military calls Hampton Roads home, and if your sailor goes off to work, you might not get to see what they do every day.

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 ...

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, ...

Ted Williams flashes the pilot's traditional thumb-up sign of OK to his mechanic while taking his attack aviation refresher training in a Corsair Fighter plane at Cherry Point, N.C., on Sept. 4 ...

Stephen Colbert paid tribute to George H.W. Bush on Monday's episode of 'The Late Show.' By Patrick Shanley, ... “Bush served in World War II as a torpedo bomber pilot in the Pacific theater.

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, ...

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 HW Bush: WWII pilot, oilman, ambassador and founder of the United States' foremost political dynasty. After surviving being shot down as a pilot in the Second World War, then making his ...