I accidentally stumbled across this video on youtube about Japan's Chichijima Island:
The Japanese captured eight of the American airmen, killed them, and in some cases, they ate them! President H. W. Bush narrowly avoided being captured with the other eight.
Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichijima_incident
According to the Wikipedia link:
So apparently, that wasn't the only time the Japanese practiced cannibalism on captured Americans during World War II. Where else is this known to have happened?
The Japanese captured eight of the American airmen, killed them, and in some cases, they ate them! President H. W. Bush narrowly avoided being captured with the other eight.
Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichijima_incident
According to the Wikipedia link:
Quote:
In the best-selling book Flyboys: A True Story of Courage, American author James Bradley details several instances of cannibalism of World War II Allied prisoners by their Japanese captors Bradley claims that this included not only ritual cannibalization of the livers of freshly killed prisoners, but also the cannibalization-for-sustenance of living prisoners over the course of several days, amputating limbs only as needed to keep the meat fresh.
So apparently, that wasn't the only time the Japanese practiced cannibalism on captured Americans during World War II. Where else is this known to have happened?