USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Bush served in the U.S. Navy. A pilot assigned to a torpedo squadron in the Pacific Theater, George Bush flew the TBM Avenger, a torpedo bomber capable of taking off from aircraft carriers that would famously see combat during the Battle of Midway on June 4, 1942.

Detailed explanation-2: -On September 2, 1944, future President George Herbert Walker Bush is serving as a torpedo bomber pilot in the Pacific theater of World War II when his squadron is attacked by Japanese anti-aircraft guns. Bush was forced to bail out of the plane over the ocean.