10067 - George H. W. Bush U.S. Navy, 1944 WWII German WS Another mounted Indian prepares to

Another mounted Indian prepares to dispatch the wounded buffalo with a well-aimed lance thrust deep into the animal’s body

A son of the Douglas family and a friend of Robert The Bruce (1274-1329) this brave knight wears the colours and symbols granted to the Douglas clan after they took the dead king’s heart (as he had wished) on a crusade to The Holy Land

Facing the enemy this English bowman is about to open fire

One of the “walking wounded” making his way towards the company medic for treatment

By 1939 the first-line combat aircraft of the major powers were all-metal monoplanes with retractable landing gear

10067 - George H. W. Bush U.S. Navy, 1944 WWII German WS Another mounted Indian prepares toGeorge H. W. Bush went to sea in 1944, becoming one of the youngest aviators in the Navy. Assigned to the Pacific theater, he flew a TBF Avenger, a carrier based, torpedo bomber. On one fateful mission over the Japanese island of Chichijima, Bush and his two crew members were hit by enemy fire. He ordered his men to bail out while he completed the mission. He then managed to escape the aircraft but neither his fellow crew members survived. Bush was