Robert Eugene Bush

Robert Eugene Bush was an American military during World War II. He was serving as a hospital corpsman for the United States Navy. Het was honored with a Medal of Honor for his brave actions during the Battle of Okinawa.
Life.
Bush was born on October 4, 1926, in Tacoma, Washington. In 1944 he joined the navy as a young boy.
During the invasion of Okinawa he got wounded on May 2, 1945, during an attack on a rifle company that he was on patrol.
At 18 years of age he was awarded for his braveness by President Truman in a White House with the Medal of Honor.
After the war, he returned to finish high school. Then he went on with a study in business administration at the University of Washington.
After he finished study, he founded the Bayview Lumber Company at South Bend, Washington in 1951 and Bayview Redi-Mix at Elma, Washington.
Tom Brokaw, a television personality and journalist, wrote a chapter about Bush in his World War II book "The Greatest Generation" (1998).
Robert and Wanda Bush were the parents of three sons and a daughter. He died from cancer on November 8, 2005, in Olympia, Washington when he was 79 years old.