{"id":59136,"date":"2015-04-08T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59136"},"modified":"2015-04-08T07:46:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T11:46:09","slug":"ghw-bush-escaped-being-a-meal-for-japanese-captors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59136","title":{"rendered":"GHW Bush escaped being a meal for Japanese captors"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Everyone knows the story of President George Herbert Walker Bush’s narrow escape from capture when he was forced to ditch his aircraft into the Pacific when it was shot down during an air raid on Japanese forces at an island named Chichi Jima. American pilots drove off the Japanese boats that were steaming out to capture the 20-year-old future president and he was ultimately rescued by the submarine USS Finback. <\/p>\n

The UK’s Telegraph<\/a> reveals newly uncovered, unclassified, and grisly details of some of the other pilots’ fates in his flight who weren’t so fortunate.<\/p>\n

The former President George Bush narrowly escaped being beheaded and eaten by Japanese soldiers when he was shot down over the Pacific in the Second World War, a shocking new history published in America has revealed.<\/p>\n

The book, Flyboys, is the result of historical detective work by James Bradley, whose father was among the marines later photographed raising the flag over the island of Iwo Jima.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

The horrific fate of the other eight “flyboys” was established in subsequent war crimes trials on the island of Guam, but details were sealed in top secret files in Washington to spare their families distress.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The details of the rest of the article are pretty gruesome, so you shouldn’t read the story at the link after a meal. I had two great-uncles who fought in the Pacific. I still won’t buy a Japanese car or television because of the stories they told me when I was younger. Yeah, I hold a grudge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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