john bushby:  

CLASS OF 1966
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Westfield, NJ

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John is from Flanders, New Jersey. John is single. John's schools include Westfield High School. John later attended Rider University (Business Management). He has an MBA from the Wharton School. He is a retired US Navy Lieutenant Commander with 67 combat missions in Vietnam. He has worked in 30 countries as an international financial services executive. He has 5 children and two g...Expand for more
randchildren He is currently the Chief Operating Officer for the New Jersey Center for Biomaterials at Rutgers University.. John has published 5 novels: Shadow Soldiers, The Warszaw Express, The Rhinemaiden's Song, Prowler Ball, and The Last Voyage of the Paramaribo Queen. He is working on his sixth novel, The White Raven. John enjoys cycling, fly-fishing, gardening and travel
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Another Great Review for Prowler Ball

"Good read for those of us who were WestPac Sailors during Vietnam. November 25, 2015

I may be partial as I was in the Tonkin Gulf the same time as the author. To me it was a good loo
Clouds in My Coffee

It is early on a December morning and the line Clouds in My Coffee, immortalized by Carly Simon in her song You’re So Vain seemed to sum up my mood. Yesterday’s rain that had streaked my windows like gr
What Happened to Agata?

A reviewer recently bemoaned the fact that I never fully explained what happened to Nawoj, Harry Braham’s lover in The Warszaw Express. She simply disappeared in the fog of war. In his mind, I seem
Another Five Star Review for Prowler Ball

Five Stars March 22, 2016
"Great Story on Naval Aviators during Vietnam."
Summer of ‘64

Hadley field 
Sunny day 
Silent breeze 
Throb of an engine 
Clouds drifting over throwing patches of shade on the ground 
Wild daisies tossing in the high grass 
How far can this runway take me? 
The blue rid
Golf–Teeing Off into the Sunset

For years, when someone asked me if I played golf, I would respond with my rapier wit with, “no I learned that I stand to close to the ball after I hit it.” Well last year, as I envisioned m
Starting tomorrow get a free Kindle copy of Prowler Ball - A Yankee Station Sea Story at Amazon.com
Quimby Street Westfield circa 1900
Many Summers ago at Oskosh
August Haze
August in the Garden State is usually a soupy mix of heat and humidity. This year has been no exception. By midday, the temperature is in the 90s and the humidity is right up there with it. Some days we get a br
Great day at the PGA
Coming in September!!

In 1938, the tropical waters of the South China Sea and its myriad of islands are unknown to most Americans. All the while Tokyo’s militarists are working on how to seize those isolated atolls from wh
Another 14 inches!
Ready for summer
Pop, Heather & Autumn 6/27/14
Miss Layla Jane
I am giving a lecture next month at Mount Olive Public Library
Walter safely delivered to his friend Chris. Start of a new adventure in Asheville
House in Flanders
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