(Kelly  reports again from the Library.) As a pilot in this branch of the service, Bush was shot down near the island of Chichi Jima on Sept. 2, 1944, and rescued by the crew of the Finback
The Navy 
submarine USS Finback rescued him just offshore of Chichi Jima, and he spent ... 
George Bush Presidential Library and Museum .... 2, 1944, when I was shot down
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