> The cannibalism occurred in late 1944, when Japanese soldiers killed and ate five American airmen on Chichi Jima, in the Bonin Islands.
> 1944, nine US pilots were on a bombing run over the small island of Chichi-Jima. One of the pilots being our future president, George H.W. Bush.
> Little did any of them know that some of those aviators would be captured, and consumed.
> Out of the nine pilots, eight of them would be captured, tortured, and cannibalized by Japanese soldiers.
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Dinner: Long Pork
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They weren’t starving at all, the local garrison was supplied with about 550ml of rice daily, which is not a lot but definitely not starving to the point of cannibalism
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> Author: Madness (2020)
> The cannibalism occurred in late 1944, when Japanese soldiers killed and ate five American airmen on Chichi Jima, in the Bonin Islands.
> 1944, nine US pilots were on a bombing run over the small island of Chichi-Jima. One of the pilots being our future president, George H.W. Bush.
> Little did any of them know that some of those aviators would be captured, and consumed.
> Out of the nine pilots, eight of them would be captured, tortured, and cannibalized by Japanese soldiers.
Dinner: Long Pork
They weren’t starving at all, the local garrison was supplied with about 550ml of rice daily, which is not a lot but definitely not starving to the point of cannibalism
Meat is back on the menu boys!