Joe Biden appeared to suggest that his uncle encountered cannibals after being shot down in World War II, contradicting military records.
, Biden twice recalled the story of his uncle, Ambrose Finnegan, who served in the U.S. Army Air Forces in the Pacific theater of World War II. The president claimed that he was shot down over Papua New Guinea in an area infested with cannibals.
President Joe Biden meets with law enforcement before boarding and departing on Air Force One from Pittsburgh International Airport, Wednesday, April 17, 2024, in Pittsburgh. “He flew single-engine planes, reconnaissance flights over New Guinea. He had volunteered because someone couldn’t make it. He got shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals in New Guinea at the time,” Biden said. “They never recovered his body, but the government went back when I went down there, and they checked and found some parts of the plane.
Military records contradicted nearly every detail of Biden’s story about his uncle, instead noting that Finnegan’s plane crashed in the ocean due to engine failure. “For unknown reasons, this plane was forced to ditch in the ocean off the north coast of New Guinea,” afrom the Department of Defense’s POW/MIA Accounting Agency said. “Both engines failed at low altitude, and the aircraft’s nose hit the water hard. Three men failed to emerge from the sinking wreck and were lost in the crash. One crew member survived and was rescued by a passing barge. An aerial search the next day found no trace of the missing aircraft or the lost crew members.
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