Japanese officers cannibalized four American POWs on a Pacific island in 1944
by Ellsworth Toohey from Boing Boing on (#76A4P)
In September 1944, nine American pilots were shot down during bombing raids on Chichijima, the largest island in the Bonin chain. Eight were captured. The ninth, who evaded capture, was 20-year-old George H. W. Bush.
The eight captured airmen - Lloyd Woellhof, Grady York, James Dye, Glenn Frazier Jr., - Read the rest
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