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United States Navy pilots of World War II

  • George H. W. BushOn the 9th of June 1943, George Herbert Walker Bush became one of the youngest pilots ever commissioned in the United States Navy, a distinction that would…
  • Alan ShepardAlan Bartlett Shepard Jr. was born on the 18th of November 1923, at 64 East Derry Road in Derry, New Hampshire. His father worked in the Derry National Bank…
  • George H. W. BushOn the 12th of June 1943, a young man named George Herbert Walker Bush stood on the deck of the USS San Jacinto. He was only nineteen years old and had just…