walked up dazed kind of. i mean, still scared, i guess. and went up to the tower and then the bells range and down we went. >> bush was safe, but his fears about his crew members were confirmed. radio man john delanie and gunner ted white had gone down with the plane. eyewitnesss had seen one other parachute, but neither body had ever found. crushed, bush wrote his parents from on board the finback. >> there was no sign of dale or ted anywhere around. i looked as i floated down, and afterwards i kept my eye open for the raft, but to no avail. the fact that our planes didn't seem to be searching anymore showed me pretty clearly that they had not gotten out. i'm afraud i was pretty much of a cisse about it, because i sat in my raft and sobbed for a while. >> decades later bush still