On 20 Oct 2003 23:42:29 GMT, nt (Gordon) wrote:

The
book "Flyboys" is intensely interesting and gives a lot of insight into why the
other airmen were eaten by the Japanese officers, to strengthen their fighting
spirit.

I didn't realize that Bush 41 came so close to being eaten!

I became interested in cannibalism when I was researching Col TSUJI
Masanobu, who was involved in killing an American airman on the
China-Burma border toward the end of the war, and cooking and serving
up his liver to the officers' mess. This was apparently an
indisputable act, with the airman's name known to the Japanese (but
not traced in American records, alas). I posted my notes at
www.warbirdforum.com/tsuji.htm

There was another well-known incident. The Ambon Islands? sticks in my
mind. Perhaps that was near where Bush 41 went down.

(I would think that the Bushes would be rather hard to chew on!
Nothing like as tasty as, say, a Clinton or even a Gore.)

all the best -- Dan Ford
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