Despite official military documents to the contrary, President Joe Biden seemed to imply that his uncle was shot down during World War II and that cannibals ate him.
Speaking with reporters in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, Biden twice recounted the tale of his uncle Ambrose Finnegan, who fought in the Pacific theater of World War II as a member of the US Army Air Forces. The president revealed that he encountered a cannibal-infested area of Papua New Guinea during his shotdown.
He conducted reconnaissance flights over New Guinea in single-engine aircraft. Someone could not make it, so he volunteered. In a region where there were many cannibals in New Guinea at the time, he was shot down, according to Biden. “The government returned when I went down there, and they checked and found some components of the plane, but they never recovered his body.”
In an attempt to subtly criticize Donald Trump, Biden used a dubious anecdote to suggest that the former president disapproved of American soldiers in France and declined to pay them a visit because he believed they were “losers” and “suckers.”
Military records stated that Finnegan’s jet fell in the ocean due to engine failure, which contradicted almost every detail of Biden’s uncle’s narrative.
The Department of Defense’s POW/MIA Accounting Agency reported that “unclear reasons forced this jet to ditch in the seas off the north coast of New Guinea.” At low altitude, both engines failed, causing the aircraft’s nose to crash forcefully into the lake. Three guys perished in the collision and were unable to escape the sinking ship. A passing barge saved the one crew member who made it out alive. The following day, an aerial search turned up no signs of the missing crew or the missing aircraft.
Another description of the aircraft claimed that it was a two-engined A-20 Havoc.
During his speech, Biden added, “When I got down there,” the government searched and discovered pieces of the jet. Actually, when the president canceled his trip to Papua New Guinea last year, he strained relations diplomatically with that country. There is no record of any search that turned up pieces of Finnegan’s jet, and no US president has ever visited the island nation.
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