On September 2, 1944, the crew of USS Finback (SS-230) rescued a young lanky pilot who had bailed out of his flaming Grumman TBM Avenger after the plane was hit by flak while attacking Japanese installations. LTJG George H. W. Bush would go on to be the 41st president of the U.S. (Courtesy: US Naval Institute, Twitter) | MEAWW

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6K views · 184 reactions | Lucky to be alive: Search and rescue mission continues in Mai Mahiu. More bodies are being recovered with death toll in excess of 50 Survivors narrate how they escaped the tragic incident. A man watched as his wife, children, were swept away #Tonight | Citizen TV Kenya | Facebook

66K views · 1.6K reactions | #OTD in 1944, the crew of USS Finback (SS-230) rescued a young lanky pilot who had bailed out of his flaming Grumman TBM Avenger after the plane was hit by flak while attacking Japanese installations. LTJG George H. W. Bush would go on to be the 41st president of the United States. | U.S. Naval Institute | Facebook

USS Finback SS-230 (Submarine)

The Day America Almost Lost a President (True Story) The 20-Year-Old Pilot Who Became President: The Miracle at Chichijima 🇺🇸 He was alone, bleeding, and floating in a tiny yellow raft in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Enemy boats were closing in. He had no idea that he was the only one left alive. In September 1944, a young George H.W. Bush was shot down over the island of Chichijima. While he was miraculously rescued by a US submarine, his 8 fellow pilots faced a fate too horrific to imagi