[GreyFriar]

In Chronological order:

George McGovern was a USAAF B-24 Liberator bomber pilot in WW2, flying missions out of Italy.

George H. W. Bush was a Navy pilot flying the Grumman TBF/TBM Avenger Torpedo plane, it also carried bombs but was not designed as a dive bomber (i.e. like the Douglas Dauntless) off the the aircraft carrier San Jacinto.

McCain flew the Douglas A4 Skyhawk attack aircraft.

George W. Bush, Texas ARNG, flew the Convair F-102 Delta Dagger interceptor. It was a fighter designed to intercept and shoot down enemy bombers flying over the US. It was a dangerous plane to fly. A squadron or wing of F-102’s were deployed to Vietnam around 1965, but were withdrawn after it was decided the North Vietnamese didn’t have an air threat to South Vietnam. G. W. Bush did all of his flying in the US.

[RWGinger]

Thank you. Nice reporting
All Were brave pilots

[Zhang Fei]

[George H. W. Bush was a Navy pilot flying the Grumman TBF/TBM Avenger Torpedo plane, it also carried bombs but was not designed as a dive bomber (i.e. like the Douglas Dauntless) off the the aircraft carrier San Jacinto.]

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There’s also the fact that he almost ended up on the dinner table - as the main course:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichijima_incident#Incident

Newsweek called him a wimp, for not being man enough to become a liberal.

https://news.yahoo.com/called-george-bush-wimp-cover-newsweek-wrong-140012335.html

To prove that he wasn’t a wimp in the liberal sense, Bush went back on his “Read my lips, no new taxes” pledge. He paid the price in 1992.