He rarely ever spoke about it - Inside The Chichijima Incident George H.W. Bush’s Harrowing Escape From Cannibal Enemies During World War II
He rarely ever spoke about it - Inside The Chichijima Incident George H.W. Bush’s Harrowing Escape From Cannibal Enemies During World War II Though he narrowly escaped, almost all of Bush's fellow pilots were tortured, killed, and eaten on that fateful day in September 1944 that became known as the Chichijima Incident. At dawn on Sept. 2, 1944, a group of American pilots fighting in the Pacific theater of World War II took to the skies. Only one would survive their bombing mission to the Bonin Islands — the rest would be tortured, killed, and cannibalized in what became known as the Chichijima Incident For years, the U.S. Navy obscured the horrifying truth of what happened at Chichijima. One lawyer involved in the episode remarked, “The Navy didn’t want people back home to know that their sons were eaten.” As for the survivor? The sole man to escape the awful fate of the Chichijima Incident was a 20-year-old pilot. His name was George H.W. Bush. DETAILED HISTORY OF THE