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Originally Posted by usshelena725
So did my father, he was too young to enlist in the USA, Canada would take you if you were younger. By the time he arrived to Canada, they were no longer taking Americans, so he went back to the USA. Took him so long to get home that he was then old enough to enlist. Was in the Army Air Corps.
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The way I understand it, Bush was enlisted in the US army but as we know the US didn't join WW2 formally until after Pearl Harbour. George wanted to get in the fight early.
I think there were ~9000 American soldiers that fought for Canada in WW2.