Pres. Geo. H.W.Bush DFC

[David_Wolter]

Due to volume in Cecil"s columns, I was advised to submit the following question on the message board in hopes that one of your readers might know how to get the answers:

In WW2 Pres. G.H.W.Bush crashed in the Pacific. I recently learned that two crewmen lost thier lives in that crash. Bush was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross but I’m not aware of even the names of the crew members. Can anyone enlighten me ?

[Arnold_Winkelried]

This post should go into our “General Questions” forum, so I will move it there for you.

[Arnold_Winkelried]

From this site - (note - the article is very critical of George Bush - I do not claim responsibility for any perceived bias):

On September 2, 1944, Bush and three other Avenger pilots, escorted by Hellcat fighter planes, were directed to attack a radio transmitter on Chichi Jima. Planes from the USS Enterprise would also join in the attack. On this mission Bush’s rear-seat gunner would not be the usual Leo Nadeau, but rather Lt. (jg) William Gardner “Ted” White, the squadron ordnance officer of VT-51, already a Yale graduate and already a member of Skull and Bones. White’s father had been a classmate of Prescott Bush. White took his place in the rear-facing machine gun turret of Bush’s TBM Avenger, the Barbara II. The radioman-gunner was John L. Delaney, a regular member of Bush’s crew.

And welcome to the SDMB!

[Brutus]

Radioman Second Class John Delaney, and Lieutenant Junior Grade William White, USNR. Read more about President Bush in WW2 here.