American Decades
Bush, George 1924-
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
(1989-1993)
Early Years.
George Herbert Walker Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, on 12 June 1924, and was raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. His father, Prescott Sheldon Bush, was an investment banker and later a U.S. Senator from Connecticut (1952-1963). The younger Bush was in his last year of high school when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. Like many young men of his generation, he joined the military at his first opportunity, enlisting in the U.S. Navy on his eighteenth birthday in 1942. He went to flight school and won his wings to become the youngest pilot in the Navy. He served in the Pacific and flew in fifty-eight combat missions against the Japanese. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for actions taken after his plane was shot down over the water where he was eventually rescued by a submarine. After he came back to the United States early...
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1990's Government and Politics
