How President Bush was almost captured…..and eaten

[rightwinger]

It was well documented how President George HW Bush was a WWII Navy pilot and was shot down on a bombing mission and rescued by a submarine.
What was not well reported was what happened to the other eight pilots who were shot down that day. Those pilots were captured by the Japanese, tortured, beaten, beheaded and four of them had their body parts eaten by the Japanese.
Bush saw the Japanese boats picking pilots from the water and was desperately trying to paddle away when a US plane came and strafed the Japanese. Bush was later rescued by a submarine.

Chichijima incident - Wikipedia

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[rightwinger]

Nine American pilots escaped from their planes after being shot down during bombing raids on Chichijima, a tiny island 700 miles (1,100 km) south of Tokyo, in September 1944. Eight of the airmen, Lloyd Woellhof, Grady York, James "Jimmy" Dye, Glenn Frazier Jr., Marvell "Marve" Mershon, Floyd Hall, Warren Earl Vaughn, and Warren Hindenlang were captured and eventually executed. The ninth, and only one to evade capture, was future U.S. President George H. W. Bush, also a 20-year-old pilot


After the war, it was discovered that the captured airmen had been beaten and tortured before being executed. The airmen were beheaded on the orders of Lt Gen. Yoshio Tachibana Japanese officers then ate parts of the bodies of four of the pilots

 

[Godboy]

I got to shake his hand during the Reagan/Carter campaign when i was a little kid. Him AND Reagan.

 

[odanny]

His father was rich and connected. He was given preferential treatment that other pilots did not.

It helped to have a father who was well connected.

Prescott Bush - Wikipedia

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[0311]

It was well documented how President George HW Bush was a WWII Navy pilot and was shot down on a bombing mission and rescued by a submarine.
What was not well reported was what happened to the other eight pilots who were shot down that day. Those pilots were captured by the Japanese, tortured, beaten, beheaded and four of them had their body parts eaten by the Japanese.
Bush saw the Japanese boats picking pilots from the water and was desperately trying to paddle away when a US plane came and strafed the Japanese. Bush was later rescued by a submarine.

Chichijima incident - Wikipedia

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The Battle of Leyte Gulf.

 

[rightwinger]

His father was rich and connected. He was given preferential treatment that other pilots did not.

It helped to have a father who was well connected.

Prescott Bush - Wikipedia

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Bush was a Senators son entitled to special treatment

As a pilot he flew 58 combat missions
On the mission he was shot down, he was hit and continued to drop his bombs on target and received a Distinguished Flying Cross.

Even after being picked up by a Submarine he spent 30 days on the Sub and underwent a depth charge attack

 

[AZrailwhale]

His father was rich and connected. He was given preferential treatment that other pilots did not.

It helped to have a father who was well connected.

Prescott Bush - Wikipedia

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Give me a break, the only people who could have given him a break were the Japanese. They didn’t know who was in the water.

 

[rightwinger]

Give me a break, the only people who could have given him a break were the Japanese. They didn’t know who was in the water.

Bush said what saved him was he didn’t eject until he was about a thousand feet off the water. That brought him way off shore.
That decision cost the lives of his two crew members. One didn’t get out and the other jumped but his parachute didn’t open.
Bush blamed himself for years and didn’t learn till many years later what had happened to those the Japanese picked up.

 

[hadit]

His father was rich and connected. He was given preferential treatment that other pilots did not.

It helped to have a father who was well connected.

Prescott Bush - Wikipedia

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What does that have to do with the price of tea in China? He was still shot down and escaped.

 

[odanny]

What does that have to do with the price of tea in China? He was still shot down and escaped.

And 8 other pilots were left to be captured.

 

[rightwinger]

And 8 other pilots were left to be captured.

Who left them?
They had already been picked up by the Japs before the U.S. Airplane came.
How would the plane know who was left in the water?

 

[RetiredGySgt]

His father was rich and connected. He was given preferential treatment that other pilots did not.

It helped to have a father who was well connected.

Prescott Bush - Wikipedia

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you are a retard if you think that had anything to do with his rescue.

 

[odanny]

you are a retard if you think that had anything to do with his rescue.

You're a retard if you think it didn't.

Oh wait, you're a retard no matter what.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

And 8 other pilots were left to be captured.

they were captured before the rescue planes arrived dumbass.

 

[odanny]

they were captured before the rescue planes arrived dumbass.

Do you know anything about the battle for this tiny island?

Can you name a single book you have read that has discussed what happened that day?

I'm just curious, that's all.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

You're a retard if you think it didn't.

Oh wait, you're a retard no matter what.

sure thing I am sure that in a global war that a senator was informed his son was shot down and ordered his rescue. Ohh wait it took days for communications to occur.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Do you know anything about the battle for this tiny island?

Can you name a single book you have read that has discussed what happened that day?

I'm just curious, that's all.

I have read extensively on ww2 I love war history and read it all the time. Your moronic claim is ignorant of facts and reality.

 

[odanny]

sure thing I am sure that in a global war that a senator was informed his son was shot down and ordered his rescue. Ohh wait it took days for communications to occur.

Understanding the type of person you are, it would require a far larger explantion of the situation than I am willing to invest in someone so chronically uninformed.

Sorry.

 

[odanny]

I have read extensively on ww2

I'm not buying it.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

I'm not buying it.

I really dont care what you think. As for the rescue what happened was stated in this thread, perhaps you can explain how the pilots in the fighter and rescue planes knew who was who in the water?