George Hebert Walker Bush was in Milton, Massachusetts on 12 June, 1924. His father, Prescott Bush was a managing partner in a Wall Street investment firm and was a US senator for Connecticut from 1952 to 1962. His mother Dorothy Walker Bush was the daughter of another prominent Wall Street investment banker, George Herbert Walker and the founder of the international golfer competition, the Walker Cup.
Bush attended the Greenwich Country Day School and Phillip Academy, both exclusive private schools, where he was a model student, both in the classroom and the athletic field. Following the attack on Pearl Harbour, Bush enlisted in the US Navy, receiving a commission as an ensign in the US Naval Reserve, he was the youngest naval aviator to that date. He saw action in the Pacific, serving on the USS San Jacinto, he was involved in attacks against Japanese installations on Chichijima. During the attack, Bush's aircraft was hit by flak, forcing him to bail out, he was adrift on a raft for four hours before been rescued by the lifeguard submarine USS Finback. He later returned to the San Jacinto and participated in operations in the Philippines.
Through 1944, he flew fifty-eight combat missions, for which he received the Distinguished Flying Cross, three Air Medals and the Presidential Unit Citation awarded to the San Jacinto. On his return from the war, he married his fiancée Barbara Pierce and took his place that he had gained prior to the war in Yale University, he joined an accelerated programme, graduating with a degree in economics within three years. He also captained the Yale baseball team and competed in two College World Series.
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