Preserving The Oral HistorIES of Combat Veterans
4:40 | Hugo Parkman recounts, in detail, the rescue of downed aircraft pilot George H. W. Bush on Sept. 2, 1944, and befriending the future president.
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After getting fast-tracked into on-the-job training aboard the USS Finback submarine in the East China Sea, Hugo Parkman recalls rescuing downed aircraft pilots, including one future president, in September of 1944.
As a submarine officer in the East China Sea in 1944, Hugo Parkman remembers an airstrike on the islands of ChiChi Jima and Iwo Jima, and the grizzly fates of seven downed pilots.
Hugo Parkman, a submarine officer, describes a close call with an enemy bomb on March 8, 1944.
Hugo Parkman recounts, in detail, the rescue of downed aircraft pilot George H. W. Bush on Sept. 2, 1944, and befriending the future president.
Hugo Parkman retells the story of a fellow submarine crew on a clandestine mission into Japanese territory during World War II.
