Who is George McGovern?
From Wiki: He volunteered for the United States Army Air Forces during World War II and served as a B-24 Liberator bomber pilot in the Fifteenth Air Force, flying 35 missions over enemy territory from bases in North Africa and later Italy, often against heavy anti-aircraft artillery. McGovern was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for saving his crew by crash landing his damaged bomber on a small Mediterranean island.Likely he flew in formation, and since the primary threat was AAA, the key to survival was luck. Of course, his plane did get shot up and he had to crash land. But WW2 era AAA isn’t exactly SAMs. What stikes about McCain’s Vietnam experience is his behaviour as POW; not taking the commies up on the “go home now” plan, but staying with fellow POWs despite his wounds, despite torture. His expertise in defense is more related to his subsequent career in the military as squadren leader, and his more recent experience with forign policy, including the surge.
Who is George McGovern?