TIME MACHINE: 1959 DISTRESS FOR LOWER SHORE BUT OPENING FOR A FUTURE GAIN.

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January, 1959

As a young Navy pilot former President George H.W. Bush was stationed at  the Chincoteague base for a few months in 1943.  As reported in various published accounts he flew low over an area of Crisfield where a circus had setup nearby and a frightened elephant broke away, in turn frightening nearby residents.  Reports were that Bush's low fly-over was an attempt to impress a young Crisfield woman he had met at a USO dance at Chincoteague.

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