This is what he said:
"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," Mr Biden told reporters afterwards. "They never recovered his body."
What's you problem?
FYI:
A well-known case of mortuary cannibalism is that of the
Fore tribe in New Guinea, which resulted in the spread of the prion disease kuru. Although the Fore's mortuary cannibalism was well-documented, the practice had ceased before the cause of the disease was recognized.
Now was it likely that happened... No...
The president seemed to suggest that cannibalization explained why his relative’s remains were never found.
www.thedailybeast.com
It is a family story passed through the family and it got a bit of legs along the way. These are Irish families and they like nothing better than adding a bit here and there... There is a great one in my locality about my father meeting the Edge from U2...
It is more about could it be plausible... Biden didn't say he was eaten by Cannibals but he could have been... Makes it a good story..