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The truth about how George W. Bush escaped cannibals in World War II comes out!
2024-04-21 20:10:44 / BOTA
US President Joe Biden's account of his uncle Ambrose J. Finnegan, a World War II hero, who was shot in an area he said was "known to have cannibals," caused a sensation.
But Joe Biden may not have been wrong, implying that his uncle was never found because he fell victim to cannibals. In 2003, the world learned of a similar, horrific incident in World War II involving a future US president who would be the only one of his comrades not to be eaten by his opponents.
The "Chichijima Incident" occurred on the morning of September 2, 1944, when the nine American planes that bombed the Japanese base on Chichijima Island, 1,000 kilometers from Tokyo, crashed. Eight of them were captured, tortured, executed and eaten, after being cooked, by the Japanese garrison of the island. The ninth, who was rescued after fierce fighting, would later become the 41st president of the United States.
At dawn that day, the bombers took off to destroy the small but important radio base at Chichijima, while the fighting on Iwo Jima was raging. Among the pilots was the youngest pilot in the US at the time. The 20-year-old George Bush was registered at the age of 17, immediately after the disaster at Pearl Harbor, writes Protothema.
Over Chichijima, the bombers unleashed an inferno of fire, but received the same in return. Bush's plane may have bombed the communications tower, but it was hit by anti-aircraft fire and burst into flames. Bush thought it would be disastrous to crash into Chichijima and moved it as far offshore as possible so that it would crash into the sea and not be captured. And there, of course, Japanese patrol boats picked up American crews.
Bush was the only one who was not captured and left to float on a raft of the sunken plane. For the rest, a terrible fate awaited them. A radioman was forced to dig his own grave, blindfolded, ordered to march, and beheaded with a sword. Several others were stabbed to death. Another was beaten with sticks until he breathed his last, another was pierced with bamboo sticks. But the horror had not yet begun...
Japanese General Yoshio Tachibana thought that the torture suffered by American soldiers was not enough. He ordered one of them to be killed and used as meat. In his drunken state, he insisted that his soldiers prove they had "fighting spirit enough to eat human flesh". And so it happened.
Base surgeons removed the soldiers' livers and gluteal muscles and gave them to the cooks. They, in turn, served the Japanese officers on plates of soy sauce, hot sauce and vegetables. Admiral Kinizo Mori would later testify that he ate the liver of one of the American soldiers with bamboo sticks and soy sauce, adding that it was... "delicious" and that they thought it would be "good for our stomachs." Major Sweo Matoba, who was among the senior officers who cannibalized the American soldiers, later defended their actions, arguing that they were angry and hungry—as supplies had run out and they were being heavily surrounded by the U.S. military— of.
“These incidents,” he testified, “occurred when Japan was experiencing one defeat after another. The staff was angry, depressed and seething with uncontrollable rage. We were hungry. I don't know what happened after that, but we weren't cannibals."
Meanwhile, the ninth of the Americans, George Bush, was fighting for his life in the middle of the sea. When the plane crashed, he said: "I thought I was done." However, the Japanese ships surrounding her failed to capture her as American aircraft attacked and pushed them away.
"I was crying, jumping and swimming like crazy," Bush recalled. "I could have won the Olympics that day as I was trying to escape." The American submarine Finback appeared right next to him and Bush thought he was hallucinating. There, the camera captured a historic moment: that of saving the man who, a few years later, would become the 41st president of the USA. In the years since, the US Army has sealed the case as top secret, as it was believed that the trauma the families of the dead would experience upon learning that their men had been eaten by their enemies would be unmanageable.
Even Bush himself did not believe it. He asked himself "why me?" Why am I blessed? Why am I alive?” he didn't know what had happened on the island while he was fighting for his life. And Japanese officers who committed cannibalism were only punished with the sentence of never being buried with military honors, since cannibalism was not on the list of war crimes.
The story became known when the American writer James Bradley brought it to light in 2003 with the publication of his book "Flyboys: A True Story of Courage". The writer recalls Bush's confession as he listened in silence, with a lost look, shaking his head at what fate had written him not to experience that day, 74 years before his death. A little later, the names of other Americans who never left Chichijima became known.
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