Part of a continuing series of parachute jumps held over a period of years to commemorate his medal-winning parachute-assisted escape from a plane he was piloting over the Pacific during World War II sadly the rest of the crew of the plane, doomed and helpless without their pilot, spun into the sea and perished after their pilot, Lt. George H. W. Bush, son of then Sen. Prescott Bush (R-CT), parachuted to safety. He was picked up in the water, rescued and decorated for his "valor." |
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