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Eight POWs Eaten, One Future President Swims Away

In September 1944, nine American pilots were shot down during bombing raids on Chichijima , the largest island in the Bonin chain. Eight were captured. The ninth, who evaded capture, was 20-year-old George H. W. Bush. The eight captured airmen Lloyd Woellhof, Grady York, James…