BARBARA'S BROTHER JIM INTERRUPTED Author interview with BPB.
"ARE YOU POPPY BUSH?" Ibid.
JIM PIERCE HAD AN INVITATION BB, 17.
"TO MY HORROR" Ibid.
AFTER RYE WON THE SCRIMMAGE Ibid.
BUSH MET THE PIERCE CLAN Ibid.
THE BUSH FAMILY'S OLDSMOBILE Ibid. See also Schweizer and Schweizer, Bushes, 68.
THAT HE HAD "BEGGED" BB, 17.
"FOR YEARS HE HAS" Ibid.
AT SPRING VACATION Hyams, Flight of the Avenger, 27.
THEY DOUBLE-DATED TO A MOVIE Ibid. See also Schweizer and Schweizer, Bushes, 6869.
"DEAR POPPY" Barbara Pierce to GHWB, bk. 12, Bush Scrapbooks.
OVER THE PROM WEEKEND BB, 17.
KISSED HER ON THE CHEEK "IN FRONT" Ibid., 18.
"I FLOATED INTO MY ROOM" Ibid.
"PRESSY AND I SHARE A VIEW" ATB, 3031.
A LIGHTHEARTED BUT FAIRLY DETAILED ACCOUNTING GHWB letter to author, April 28, 2009.
FUESS AND OTHERS ARGUED Hyams, Flight of the Avenger, 31.
A POINT HENRY STIMSON ECHOED Author interview with GHWB.
PRESCOTT BUSH RAISED THE ISSUE Ibid. See also Schweizer and Schweizer, Bushes, 69, and Hyams, Flight of the Avenger, 32.
THE ANSWER WAS NO Author interview with GHWB.
HE WAS "HEADSTRONG" Ibid.
FROM HIS ROOMS AT DAY HALL AT ANDOVER Lieutenant F. T. Donahue, USNR, to GHWB, Andover, Massachusetts, May 18, 1942, bk. 12, Bush Scrapbooks. This letter was in reply to Bush's of the 15th. (Ibid.) WITH A FOUNTAIN PEN, PRESCOTT HAD FILLED Enlistment papers of GHWB, USNR, May 1942, bk. 12, Bush Scrapbooks.
THE CHIEF OF POLICE OF GREENWICH John M. Gleason, Chief of Police, Greenwich, Connecticut, to GHWB, May 26, 1942, bk. 12, Bush Scrapbooks.
"ONE OF THE ABLEST BOYS" Claude M. Fuess, "To Whom It May Concern," May 26, 1942, bk. 12, Bush Scrapbooks.
AFTER THE COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES Notes on GHWB's World War II naval service provided by the GBPL archives staff to the author.
HE WAS MET THERE BY WALTER LEVERING Walter Levering, Naval Aviation Cadet Selection Board, Boston, Massachusetts, to GHWB, June 17, 1942, bk. 12, Bush Scrapbooks.
BARBARA WAS WORKING THAT SUMMER BB, 18.
AS A FAREWELL PRESENT BUSH BOUGHT HER Hyams, Flight of the Avenger, 33.
SHE PINNED IT ON HER DRESS Ibid.
WITH A GOLD BOW SET Ibid.
"I DON'T BELIEVE" ATB, 30.
HIS FATHER SAW HIM OFF Author interview with GHWB. Also see Hyams, Flight of the Avenger, 33.
"SO OFF I WENT" Author interview with GHWB.
Part II: War and Marriage, 1942 to 1948 MUM, IT'S A VERY FUNNY THING ATB, 25.
BAR, YOU HAVE MADE MY LIFE Ibid., 38.
SIX: Off I Zoomed I KNEW, OF COURSE BB, 19.
MOVED INTO 317 LEWIS HALL GHWB to Claude M. Fuess, circa September 14, 1942, Phillips Academy Files.
THE CURRICULUM WAS A COMBINATION Ibid. See also Hyams, Flight of the Avenger, 37; and ATB, 24.
CADETS ALSO HAD TO BE ABLE Lou Grab, "Flyboy" (unpublished manuscript, March 4, 1997), 3, Miscellaneous Navy Materials, Post-Presidential Materials, GHWB Collection, GBPL.
"AT SOME MEALS" GHWB to Claude M. Fuess, circa September 14, 1942, Phillips Academy Files.
"FELLOWS HAVE PASSED OUT" Ibid.
FROM REVEILLE AT HALF PAST FIVE Daily Routine: Monday Through Friday, U.S. Navy Preflight School, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, June 8, 1942, in bk. 12, Bush Scrapbooks.
"I HAVE MAINTAINED" GHWB to Claude M. Fuess, circa September 14, 1942, Phillips Academy Files.
"I HAVE NEVER APPRECIATED" ATB, 2324.
THERE WAS A FIVE-HOUR HIKE Ibid., 24.
"AFTER HAVING BEEN HERE" Ibid.
A WALKER IN-LAW, GEORGE H. MEAD, JR. Ibid., 25. See also "George H. Mead, Jr.," Military Times Hall of Valor, http://projects.militarytimes.com/citations-medals-awards/recipient.php?recipientid=8212.
ACCORDING TO THE POSTHUMOUS CITATION "George H. Mead, Jr.," Military Times Hall of Valor, http://projects.militarytimes.com/citations-medals-awards/recipient.php?recipientid=8212.
ALONE, MEAD MADE HIS WAY Ibid.
"HE DIED THE WAY" ATB, 25.
A "GRAND IDEA" Ibid., 26.
HE MET HER AT THE CAROLINA INN Ibid., 2526. Mrs. Bush also recalled the day in an interview with the author.
"SHE LOOKED TOO CUTE" ATB, 25.
ADMITTED HE WAS "SELF-CONSCIOUS" LF, 31.
TO "STRETCH THE CALENDAR" Ibid.
THEY HAD A SANDWICH ATB, 25.
"WE LAUGHED AT EVERYTHING" Ibid., 26.
HE REPORTED BACK TO TRAINING Ibid.
BARBARA BOARDED A BUS Ibid.
"IF SHE 'FLUFFED ME OFF'" Ibid., 33.
IN THE AUTUMN BUSH HEADED NORTH Hyams, Flight of the Avenger, 38.
A BOEING N2S-3 STEARMAN (A BIPLANE) Ibid., 41.
NOTICED THAT HIS LEGS ATB, 26.
TAKING OFF IN FOGGY WEATHER Ibid.
HE SUCCESSFULLY EXECUTED Ibid.
ROARING OFF INTO Ibid., 2627.
"PRETTY ROUGH" Ibid., 27.
THE INSTRUCTOR, ENSIGN J. A. BOYLE Ibid., 2627.
"FOR A MINUTE I WAS LOST" Ibid., 27.
"OKAY, TAKE IT UP YOURSELF" Ibid.
THE BLOCKS ("CHOCKS") Ibid.
THE STEARMAN AIRCRAFT, PAINTED YELLOW Hyams, Flight of the Avenger, 41.
NICKNAMED "THE YELLOW PERIL" Ibid.
"THE WASHING MACHINE" Ibid.
"OFF I ZOOMED" ATB, 27.
"EVERYTHING SEEMED SO FREE AND EASY" Ibid.
"IT WAS THE FIRST TIME" Author interview with GHWB.
"I HAVE GOTTEN TO KNOW" ATB, 24.
"MOST FELLOWS HERE" Ibid., 31.
THE BUSHES SENT HIM Ibid., 29.
SHE WAS ALSO KNITTING HIM SOCKS Ibid., 28.
ON A NIGHT FLIGHT IN MINNEAPOLIS Ibid., 3132.
HE WAS COMING IN TO LAND Ibid., 32.
WHEN HIS PLANE'S WHEELS SCRAPED A TREE Ibid. See also Hyams, Flight of the Avenger, 43. As Bush himself described it to his mother, "Suddenly I heard this scraping noise-I had hit a tree-Well you can imagine my feelings." (ATB, 32.) "I JUST THANKED" ATB, 32.
NEXT STOP: THE NAVAL AIR STATION AT CORPUS CHRISTI Hyams, Flight of the Avenger, 4344.
BECAME AN OFFICER OF THE UNITED STATES NAVAL RESERVE Ibid., 47; notes on GHWB's World War II naval training provided to the author by the archivists at the GBPL.
A NAVY BAND PLAYED Grab, "Flyboy," unpublished manuscript, 5.
HIS PARENTS SENT HIM Author interview with GHWB.
THE YOUNGEST FLYING OFFICER IN THE NAVY ATB, 34.
HIS ASSIGNMENT Hyams, Flight of the Avenger, 5153, 7173.
A SEVENTEEN-DAY LEAVE BB, 19.
"I GUESS MRS. BUSH" Ibid.
REFERRED TO BARBARA AS "BOBSIE" ATB, 24.
"I DO STILL LOVE" Ibid., 33.
A THREE-AND-A-HALF-WEEK PERIOD Ibid., 34.
"SCARING ME TO DEATH" BB, 19.
THE GATHERING OF WALKERS AND BUSHES Ibid.
"THE TEASING WAS ENORMOUS" Ibid.
"WHEN THEY WERE COURTING" Author interview with Jonathan Bush.