{"id":2224796,"date":"2024-04-18T22:03:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T02:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-claims-uncles-body-was-never-found-after-ww2-plane-crash-because-of-a-lot-of-cannibals\/"},"modified":"2024-04-18T22:05:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T02:05:22","slug":"biden-claims-uncles-body-was-never-found-after-ww2-plane-crash-because-of-a-lot-of-cannibals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-claims-uncles-body-was-never-found-after-ww2-plane-crash-because-of-a-lot-of-cannibals\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden suggests uncle&#8217;s body was not found after WW2 crash due to \u2018many cannibals"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-claims-uncles-body-was-never-found-after-ww2-plane-crash-because-of-a-lot-of-cannibals%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2224796&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden shared \u200da story about his uncle&#8217;s disappearance in WW2,\u2062 suggesting \u200dhe \u200cwas eaten by cannibals in Papua New Guinea. However, official records indicate the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-details-emerge-about-boeing-737-that-nosedived-into-ground-a-battle-for-control-of-the-plane\/\" title=\"New Details Emerge About Boeing 737 That Nosedived Into Ground: \u2018A Battle For Control\u2019 Of The Plane\">plane crashed due<\/a> to mechanical\u200b failure, with three \u200cmen drowning. Biden recounted this\u2062 during a visit to Scranton, \u2062Pennsylvania, sparking debate over the accuracy of his\u200d claims.\u2062 President Joe Biden recounted \u2063a story about his uncle&#8217;s disappearance in\u2062 WW2, \u200dimplying he was eaten by\u2063 cannibals in \u2064Papua New Guinea. Despite\u200c Biden&#8217;s account,\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-arizona-election-hearing-shows-enough-fraud-and-voting-irregularities-to-change-election-outcome\/\" title=\"Trump Says Arizona Election Hearing Shows Enough \u2018Fraud and Voting Irregularities\u2019 to Change Election Outcome\">official records show<\/a> the plane crashed due to mechanical failure, resulting in the \u2064drowning\u200d of three men. This story, \u200cshared during a visit to Scranton, \u2064Pennsylvania, has raised questions about\u200d its factual accuracy.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Biden<\/a> embellished details while telling a story about the disappearance of his uncle during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/world-war-ii\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World War II<\/a>, suggesting that he had been eaten by \u201ccannibals\u201d after getting \u201cshot down\u201d in Papua New Guinea. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Biden, who made the comments during a Wednesday visit to Scranton, Pennsylvania, was referring to his uncle <a href=\"https:\/\/dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil\/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000001nzWi4EAE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ambrose Finnegan<\/a>, a second lieutenant who served in the Fifth Air Force during the war. Finnegan went missing on May 14, 1944, while on a flight from Los Negros Island to Nadzab Airfield in New Guinea. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cHe got shot down in New Guinea and they never found the body because there used to be \u2014 there were a lot of cannibals, for real, in that part of New Guinea,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/04\/17\/us-news\/biden-suggests-uncle-eaten-by-cannibals-in-new-guinea-but-military-says-his-wwii-plane-lost-at-sea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> during his speech to steelworkers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Biden, 81, told a similar story earlier in the day when visiting a World War II memorial in Scranton. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cHe got shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals at the time,\u201d the president said. \u201cThey never recovered his body, but the government went back when I went down there and they checked and found some parts of the plane.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s comments about the disappearance of his uncle do not align with official government records about the crash, which suggest that the plane went down due to mechanical failure and that three of the men onboard drowned.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cFor unknown reasons, this plane was forced to ditch in the ocean off the north coast of New Guinea,\u201d a U.S. military <a href=\"https:\/\/dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil\/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000001nzWi4EAE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> on the incident says. \u201cBoth engines failed at low altitude, and the aircraft\u2019s nose hit the water hard. Three men failed to emerge from the sinking wreck and were lost in the crash. One <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-suggests-unfounded-idea-about-his-uncle-and-cannibals-in-world-war-ii\/\" title=\"Biden floats unsubstantiated claim about his uncle and 'cannibals' during WWII\">crew member survived<\/a> and was rescued by a passing barge. An aerial search the next day found no trace of the missing aircraft or the lost crew members.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>New Guinea was a key battleground during World War II as the Japanese sought to control the island for access to Australia, prompting fierce fighting through the island\u2019s remote jungles. The island also has a history of cannibalism, with Michael Rockefeller, the son of Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2014\/03\/15\/how-a-young-rockefeller-died-at-the-hands-of-cannibals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly<\/a> being eaten by a tribe of cannibals on the island in 1961.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1712932862202000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0plT8RRdMy9XUpIhocnjQS\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">His remarks on Wednesday were not the first time he had made up details related to his relatives\u2019 military service. During a speech in December 2022, Biden said that he got his uncle, Frank Biden, the Purple Heart\u00a0for service during World War II.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Biden claimed that as vice president, he awarded his uncle the Purple Heart for action during World War II in the Battle of the Bulge, saying the ceremony took place with his father and uncle. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, both Biden\u2019s father and uncle had been dead for years before Biden became vice president in 2009. There was also no evidence that Biden\u2019s uncle had been awarded the Purple Heart for his service. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a visit to Scranton, Pennsylvania, President Joe Biden exaggerated details of his uncle&#8217;s disappearance in WW2, implying he was eaten by &#8220;cannibals&#8221; after being shot down in Papua New Guinea. The comments were about his uncle Ambrose Finnegan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":2224797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-2147888448.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2224796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-2147888448.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2224796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2224797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2224796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2224796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}