On this day 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.
http://gpc.glatton.org.uk/about/the-tragic-account-of-the-royal-navys-fourth-hms-glatton
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