Biden lets loose an unhinged rant consisting almost exclusively of baseless lies.
He claims his uncle was a WW2 pilot who got shot down over New Guinea and eaten by cannibals, and that he has personally seen the plane wreckage, while every single claim is directly contradicted by historic record
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2024/04/18/joe-biden-claims-cannibals-ate-uncle/Biden claims cannibals ate his uncle
US president’s theory of 2nd Lieut Ambrose J Finnegan’s death contradicted by official war records
“He flew single-engine planes, reconnaissance flights over New Guinea,” Mr Biden said of his maternal uncle, 2nd Lieutenant Ambrose J Finnegan.
“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.
“They never recovered his body. But the government went back, when I went down there, and they checked and found some parts of the plane and the like.”
In fact, official war records dispute all of Mr Biden’s assertions about his uncle’s fate during the flight on May 14, 1944.
Lt Finnegan was not flying the plane, nor was it shot down.
Moreover, investigators found no evidence he emerged from the wreckage, let alone encountered cannibals or indeed any other inhabitants in the Pacific islands.
“For unknown reasons this plane was forced to ditch in the ocean off the north coast of New Guinea,” according to records held by the Pentagon’s Prisoners of War/Missing in Action (POW/MIA) Accounting Agency.
A report on the missing A-20 Havoc was filed to the US war department on May 17, 1944, according to the National Archives, which collates historical US government documents.
It registers three crew and one passenger, identified as Lieutenant Finnegan, on board.
