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. George Bush Presidential Library and MuseumAfter he was shot down in World War II , George H.W. Bush narrowly avoided the Chichijima Incident . At dawn on Sept. 2 , 1944 , a chemical group of American pilots oppose in the Pacific theater of World War II took to the skies ....