Did Joe Biden's uncle fall victim to cannibals in New Guinea? US President shares story
Iran-Israel war LIVE Updates In a seperate event, Biden again repeated the story of his uncle in response to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's 2020 remark that "suckers and losers" perish in battle. However, Biden's comments does not match to the US government's record of missing persons.
The government's record does not does not attribute Finnegan's death to hostile action or indicate cannibals were any factor. According to the Pentagon's Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Biden's uncle, died on May 14, 1944, while a passenger on an Army Air Forces plane that, “for unknown reasons," was forced to ditch in the Pacific Ocean off the northern coast of New Guinea.
“Both engines failed at low altitude, and the aircraft’s nose hit the water hard," the agency states in its listing of Finnegan. “Three men failed to emerge from the sinking wreck and were lost in the crash." Milestone Alert!
Livemint tops charts as the fastest growing news website in the world
