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  Speaker 1: This story was kept top secret by the US military
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  Speaker 1: until two thousand and four. The story itself is unbelievable,
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  Speaker 1: but it's the twist at the very end that you'll remember.
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  Speaker 1: Chichi Jima is a small Japanese island about five hundred
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  Speaker 1: miles south of the Japanese mainland. During World War Two,
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  Speaker 1: the Japanese put a base on this island and they
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  Speaker 1: put two radio towers at the top of the two
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  Speaker 1: mountains on the island. These radio towers became integral to
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  Speaker 1: the Japanese communication and surveillance operations in the Pacific during
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  Speaker 1: the war, and so at that time the island was
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  Speaker 1: heavily fortified with up to twenty five thousand troops and
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  Speaker 1: huge anti aircraft guns. Because of the island's obvious strategic
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  Speaker 1: value to Japan, the Americans wanted to take it from them,
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  Speaker 1: but American military strategists advised against that, saying that any
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  Speaker 1: amphibious landing of this island would result in massive casualties
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  Speaker 1: for Americans and the Japanese would likely just repel the
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  Speaker 1: attack anyways, and so the Americans decided to go with
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  Speaker 1: the next best thing, which was to attempt to bomb
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  Speaker 1: the two towers and.
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  Speaker 2: Cut out their communications.
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  Speaker 1: So in June of nineteen forty four, American aircraft carriers,
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  Speaker 1: which are those huge, huge ships that planes can take
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  Speaker 1: off of and land on, they headed for the island
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  Speaker 1: of Chichijima, and once the island was completely.
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  Speaker 2: Surrounded, the Americans began launching.
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  Speaker 1: Their pilots to try to take out these towers, but
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  Speaker 1: the Japanese fought back in a major way, and despite
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  Speaker 1: taking heavy casualties on their side, they repelled every American
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  Speaker 1: air raid and kept them from bombing their towers. After
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  Speaker 1: several months of these failed missions over chichi Jima, the
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  Speaker 1: American military leaders were incredibly frustrated. They knew this was
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  Speaker 1: going to be a difficult mission, but they didn't expect
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  Speaker 1: it to be this difficult. However, this island was so
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  Speaker 1: strategically important that the Americans knew they had to just
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  Speaker 1: keep on sending pilots in until they took out these towers,
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  Speaker 1: and so in September of that year, the Americans were
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  Speaker 1: back to planning another raid over Chichijima Island, and one
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  Speaker 1: of the pilots selected to go on this particular raid
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  Speaker 1: was a twenty year old named George, who actually was
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  Speaker 1: the youngest pilot in the United States Navy at the time,
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  Speaker 1: but despite his age, he had actually flown in several
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  Speaker 1: combat missions already and had actually been shot down already
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  Speaker 1: and had to eject into the ocean and was subsequently rescued.
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  Speaker 1: On the morning of this raid, George, along with his
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  Speaker 1: two man crew, which was his radio operator named Dell
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  Speaker 1: and his door gunner named Ted, they boarded the plane
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  Speaker 1: and then at seven point fifteen am, George and his
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  Speaker 1: crew took off, along with dozens.
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  Speaker 2: Of other American aircraft that were part of this operation.
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  Speaker 1: George immediately climbed above eight thousand feet because that would
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  Speaker 1: put them.
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  Speaker 2: Outside of anti aircraft gun.
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  Speaker 1: Range and so the way this mission would work is
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  Speaker 1: all these pilots would fly over the island and then
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  Speaker 1: in order to drop their bombs, they would have to
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  Speaker 1: dive down below eight thousand feet and then manually.
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  Speaker 2: Drop their bombs and then try to get back.
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  Speaker 1: Up above eight thousand feet and out away from the island.
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  Speaker 1: And so George had run missions like this before, and
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  Speaker 1: so he was one of the first to actually make
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  Speaker 1: that dive down to the island.
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  Speaker 2: And as soon as he went below eight.
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  Speaker 1: Thousand feet, the island just erupted with anti aircraft gun fire,
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  Speaker 1: and so all these rounds are coming up, flack is
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  Speaker 1: popping all over the place, and George almost immediately notices
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  Speaker 1: the side of his plane gets hit, but the plane stable.
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  Speaker 2: Enough that he decides he's just going to keep on
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  Speaker 2: dive down and complete the mission.
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  Speaker 1: And he's yelling back to Ted and to Dell to
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  Speaker 1: hold on, and they get all the way down to
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  Speaker 1: three thousand feet when George releases two five hundred pound
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  Speaker 1: bombs that are direct hits on the radio tower he.
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  Speaker 2: Was assigned to bomb.
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  Speaker 1: But at this point George's plane is now engulfed in flames.
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  Speaker 1: It can barely fly, and so George is again yelling
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  Speaker 1: at Ted and Dell to hold on. He's pulling back
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  Speaker 1: on the lever and he begins to turn himself away
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  Speaker 1: from the tower out towards the water, and he manages
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  Speaker 1: to fly away from the island, but he can feel
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  Speaker 1: the plane starting to go down. Now, George had previously
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  Speaker 1: been shot down before, and what he learned from that
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  Speaker 1: is how important it was to fly as far away
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  Speaker 1: from the enemy as you possibly can before you bail
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  Speaker 1: out of your plane, because if you bail too early
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  Speaker 1: and you land in the water right near where the
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  Speaker 1: enemy is, you'll just get captured. And so George was
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  Speaker 1: holding onto that lever and keeping his plane up as
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  Speaker 1: long as you possibly could. And so he's flying and
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  Speaker 1: getting lower and lower and lower and closer to the water,
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  Speaker 1: and Ted and Dell are yelling at him that they
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  Speaker 1: got a out. Meanwhile outside the other planes, that it's
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  Speaker 1: sustained damage. The other American planes, their crews are already
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  Speaker 1: bailing out, But George is saying, no, hold on, and
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  Speaker 1: he keeps going farther and farther until he's so close
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  Speaker 1: to the water that it's practically too late, and then
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  Speaker 1: he gets the order to jump out of the plane.
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  Speaker 2: George abandons his controls.
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  Speaker 1: He leaps out the door and he hits his head
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  Speaker 1: on the back of the plane as he leaps out,
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  Speaker 1: But his chute would open up right before he.
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  Speaker 2: Hit the water and it would save his life.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as George hits the water and he comes
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  Speaker 1: up for air, he's under his parachute, and so he's
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  Speaker 1: trying to get his parachute away to get a breath
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  Speaker 1: of air. He disconnects his parachute from the shoulders, he
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  Speaker 1: clears the parachute, and he's looking around and he sees
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  Speaker 1: his plane that is now being flown by no one
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  Speaker 1: go crashing directly into the water, and so immediately he's
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  Speaker 1: looking around for Ted and Dell's parachute to make sure
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  Speaker 1: they're okay, but he doesn't see any parachutes anywhere. However,
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  Speaker 1: George notices a life raft from his plane had miraculously
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  Speaker 1: just landed like ten feet away from him.
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  Speaker 2: So he swims over to the life raft.
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  Speaker 1: He climbs inside, and once he's in there, all he's
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  Speaker 1: thinking about is Ted and Dell.
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  Speaker 2: So he's yelling for Ted. He's yelling for.
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  Speaker 1: Dell, but he's not getting a response, and so George
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  Speaker 1: turns around in the raft. So now he's facing towards
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  Speaker 1: the island, and to his horror, way off on the horizon,
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  Speaker 1: right near the edge of this island are Japanese patrol
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  Speaker 1: boats that are speeding in his direction. He knows they're
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  Speaker 1: coming to get him and the other people that had
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  Speaker 1: jumped out of these planes, and so George turns back around.
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  Speaker 1: He leaps onto his chest on the front of this raft,
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  Speaker 1: and he starts using his hands to swim as fast
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  Speaker 1: as he can away from this island. The whole time
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  Speaker 1: he's screaming out for Ted and Dell in hopes he's
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  Speaker 1: going to find them. Little did he know that both
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  Speaker 1: of them had not survived the crash. One had not
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  Speaker 1: even jumped out of the plane and had died on impact,
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  Speaker 1: and the other had jumped out but their parachute had
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  Speaker 1: not inflated. And so George is swimming as fast as
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  Speaker 1: he possibly can, and he's yelling out for Dell and
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  Speaker 1: for Ted, and he's looking, but he doesn't hear them,
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't see them, and he knows that not only
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  Speaker 1: is he not going to find his friends, but there's
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  Speaker 1: just no way he's going to outswim these boats, and
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  Speaker 1: so at some point he just turns around and sits
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  Speaker 1: in the raft, and he's looking towards these patrol boats,
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  Speaker 1: and he knows that at some point they're going to
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  Speaker 1: come up here and they're going to capture him. And
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  Speaker 1: all he can think about is how guilty he feels
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  Speaker 1: about Ted and Dell, and he starts second guessing his
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  Speaker 1: decision to keep that blame flying as long as he
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  Speaker 1: did and make them bail out so late, and he's thinking,
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  Speaker 1: I probably got them killed. And then he thought about
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  Speaker 1: his wife, and he wondered if he'd ever see her again.
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  Speaker 1: And then he turned towards these Japanese boats that were
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  Speaker 1: much closer now but still fairly far away, and he
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  Speaker 1: began mentally preparing himself for captivity. But before he could
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  Speaker 1: be captured, American aircraft comes storming in overhead and igls
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  Speaker 1: flying past him towards the island, and they start dropping
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  Speaker 1: bombs and strafing these Japanese boats that were coming out
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  Speaker 1: to get George, and so George is thinking, oh, my goodness,
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  Speaker 1: what luck. He turns around, he gets back on his chest,
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  Speaker 1: and he starts swimming as fast as he can, trying
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  Speaker 1: to get away, knowing that these boats are totally preoccupied
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  Speaker 1: with the aircraft overhead. And for two hours, George used
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  Speaker 1: every ounce of strength he had to swim as far
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  Speaker 1: as he possibly could away from this island. But at
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  Speaker 1: some point he was just so unbelievably exhausted he just
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  Speaker 1: could not paddle any farther. And so he's just laying
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  Speaker 1: on this raft when he hears the sound of something
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  Speaker 1: coming out of the water, and he turns and he
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  Speaker 1: sees the periscope of an American submarine coming out in
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  Speaker 1: the water. And seconds later, the crew of this American
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  Speaker 1: submarine comes right up alongside him. They grab him out
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  Speaker 1: of the raft, they put him in a submarine, and
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  Speaker 1: he was saved. Besides George, Ted and Dell, there were
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  Speaker 1: eight other American airmen that had to bail out of
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  Speaker 1: their aircraft because they were badly.
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  Speaker 2: Damaged following this raid.
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  Speaker 1: And so originally those eight people were not recovered, and
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  Speaker 1: they were believed to have drowned at sea, but that
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  Speaker 1: actually was not true. The US government figured out fairly
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  Speaker 1: quickly what happened to them, but the details of what
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  Speaker 1: happened to them were so gruesome the government decided they
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  Speaker 1: did not want to tell anyone. They especially didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to tell the parents and loved ones of these eight
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  Speaker 1: airmen because they believed if they heard the true account
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  Speaker 1: that would be too traumatic for them, and so they
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  Speaker 1: made the details of these eight deaths totally top secret.
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  Speaker 1: But sixty years later, in two thousand and four, an
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  Speaker 1: author named James Bradley discovered transcripts from a post World
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  Speaker 1: War Two Japanese war crimes trial held in Guam where
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  Speaker 1: Japanese military leaders confess to what they did to these
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  Speaker 1: eight captured Americans. This is the true account. Unlike George,
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  Speaker 1: these eight other airmen bailed out almost immediately after they
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  Speaker 1: got out over the water, and so that placed them
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  Speaker 1: in the water very close to the island, and so
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  Speaker 1: before the American aircraft could come in and save the
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  Speaker 1: day like they did with George, these eight airmen were
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  Speaker 1: scooped up by the Japanese and brought back to the island.
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  Speaker 1: The Japanese soldiers on this island for the past several
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  Speaker 1: months have been getting constantly bombed by American aircraft, inflicting
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  Speaker 1: a very high casualty rate.
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  Speaker 2: And so these soldiers.
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  Speaker 1: Hated the Americans and they they wanted revenge against the Americans.
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  Speaker 1: And so suddenly you have these eight American prisoners on
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  Speaker 1: this island with no one to protect them.
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  Speaker 2: And so what do you think happens?
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  Speaker 1: The Japanese decided they're going to exact their revenge on
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  Speaker 1: these eight men. Within twenty four hours of being captured,
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  Speaker 1: the eight men were kind of huddled up in one
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  Speaker 1: section of the island when one of them, Marv Mershan,
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  Speaker 1: who was nineteen from Long Beach, California, was grabbed by
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  Speaker 1: a Japanese commander. Stood up and moved to this central
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  Speaker 1: area within their military camp, and they tied him to
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  Speaker 1: a tree, and this commander encouraged all of the other
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  Speaker 1: soldiers to beat and kick Marv. And so all day long,
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  Speaker 1: soldiers were coming up and just beating the crap out
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  Speaker 1: of Marv, and Marv is tied to the tree. He
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  Speaker 1: can't do anything, and these seven other prisoners are forced
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  Speaker 1: to just watch because they.
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  Speaker 2: Can't do anything.
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  Speaker 1: And so that night, the same commander comes back and
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  Speaker 1: he unties Marv from the tree and he tells these
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  Speaker 1: seven other prisoners to stay where they are, and this
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  Speaker 1: commander and several other Japanese soldiers they take Marv and
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  Speaker 1: they march him away from the group into the jungle,
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  Speaker 1: and they march him over to this freshly dug grave.
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  Speaker 1: And standing next to the grave that Marv would have
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  Speaker 1: seen is this Japanese soldier carrying a sword.
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  Speaker 2: And so Marv is told to walk up to the
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  Speaker 2: edge of the grave.
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  Speaker 1: They tell him to kneel down in front of this grave,
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  Speaker 1: and they let him smoke a final cigarette. And apparently
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  Speaker 1: Marv very calmly smoked the cigarette, and when he was done,
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  Speaker 1: the man with the sword put a blindfold on Marv
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  Speaker 1: and then told Marv to extend his neck, and as
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  Speaker 1: soon as he did, he was beheaded. Afterwards, they buried
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  Speaker 1: him inside of the grave. That night, one of the
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  Speaker 1: high ranking Japanese generals on the island, a man named
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  Speaker 1: Yoshio Tachibana, who was an alcoholic and was notorious for
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  Speaker 1: his sadistic tendencies with prisoners. He was sitting around drinking
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  Speaker 1: having a good time when he decided that his soldiers
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  Speaker 1: they needed to prove they had what he called the
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  Speaker 1: fighting spirit, and the only way they could show they
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  Speaker 1: had this fighting spirit was by consuming human flesh, and
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  Speaker 1: so Tachibana ordered his soldiers to go exhuom Marv from
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  Speaker 1: his shallow grave. And then Tachibana sent over one of
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  Speaker 1: his surgeons, and he told him to remove Marv's thigh.
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  Speaker 1: So the surgeon goes over, he surgically removes Marv's thai.
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  Speaker 1: He gives it to one of the cooks, and the
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  Speaker 1: cooks they make this huge meal using Marv's thigh, and
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  Speaker 1: they serve it to Tachibana and his other high ranking
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  Speaker 1: officers and some soldiers. And apparently Marv's thai tasted so
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  Speaker 1: good with soy sauce and with sake that Tachibana ordered
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  Speaker 1: his soldiers to go back and cut more meat off
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  Speaker 1: of Marv, which they did. Within a month of Marv's
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  Speaker 1: execution and consumption. Tachibana decided that he wanted to eat
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  Speaker 1: more human flesh, and he wanted his soldiers to eat
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  Speaker 1: more human flesh because he and a number of the
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  Speaker 1: other officers were superstitious that this could make them stronger
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  Speaker 1: and it would be good for their stomach and it
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  Speaker 1: would be good.
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  Speaker 2: For their health.
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  Speaker 1: And so they decide they're going to kill more of
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  Speaker 1: the American prisoners and eat them. And so they brought
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  Speaker 1: these seven remaining American prisoners out to the rifle range.
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  Speaker 1: And once they were all out there, one of the
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  Speaker 1: Japanese officers grabbed twenty five year old Floyd Hall from Missouri.
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  Speaker 1: They pulled him out of the group, and they walked
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  Speaker 1: him over to the middle of this range and they
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  Speaker 1: tied him to a wooden stake in the ground. And
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  Speaker 1: once he was in place, Tachivana, who was there, he
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  Speaker 1: ordered the other Japanese soldiers to work on their bayonet work.
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  Speaker 2: On Floyd Hall.
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  Speaker 1: And so one by one these soldiers would go up
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  Speaker 1: and plunge their bayonets into Floyd Hall's chest, into his stomach,
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  Speaker 1: until he ultimately died. Once he was dead, Tachivana, who
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  Speaker 1: had brought along his surgeons for this very reason, he
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  Speaker 1: sent them out to remove Floyd's liver and his gallbladder
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  Speaker 1: right in front of the now six living prisoners. They're
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  Speaker 1: watching this happen right in front of them. And then
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  Speaker 1: once his liver and gallbladder have been removed and wrapped
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  Speaker 1: in selfane paper to preserve them, these surgeons walked back
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  Speaker 1: and stood on the edge because they knew this was
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  Speaker 1: not the last execution of the day. And so the
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  Speaker 1: other six prisoners are looking around wondering what's next. And
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  Speaker 1: then one of the commanders walked so and he grabs
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  Speaker 1: another one of the prisoners.
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  Speaker 2: His name was Earl Vaughn.
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  Speaker 1: He was twenty two years old from Texas, and as
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  Speaker 1: soon as he was grabbed, he knew he did not
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  Speaker 1: want to face the same fate Floyd did, and so
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  Speaker 1: right away he became defiant. He wanted to die more quickly,
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  Speaker 1: and so he began yelling semper figh at the Japanese,
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  Speaker 1: and he kept extending his neck and pointing up at
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  Speaker 1: his neck, indicating he wanted a clean and quick death.
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  Speaker 2: Behead me.
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  Speaker 1: And so the Japanese they tried to strap him to
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  Speaker 1: this wooden post because they wanted the other soldiers to
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  Speaker 1: work on their bayonets with him, but it was just
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  Speaker 1: too difficult with Earl. He put up such a fight
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  Speaker 1: and he kept putting his neck out that finally one
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  Speaker 1: of the soldiers did pull him down and he was beheaded.
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  Speaker 2: And then again the.
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  Speaker 1: Surgeons came running out into the field and in plain
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  Speaker 1: sight of the now five remaining American captives, they removed
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  Speaker 1: Earl's liver and his gallbladder and then wrapped them in
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  Speaker 1: self and paper to preserve them, and then they took
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  Speaker 1: Floyd and Earl's organs and they went back to the
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  Speaker 1: cooks to have them prepare, and that night all the
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  Speaker 1: high ranking officers on the island feasted on Earl and Floyd.
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  Speaker 2: Within a few days of Floyd.
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  Speaker 1: And Earl's murders, the other five captives were also executed
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  Speaker 1: in a similar fashion, one by one in front of
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  Speaker 1: their comrades, and two of those remaining five were also consumed,
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  Speaker 1: And unfortunately one of those two was not executed beforehand. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: they had pieces of their body surgically amputated, and then
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  Speaker 1: those pieces would get cooked and eaten, and when they
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  Speaker 1: were done eating them, they would just come back and
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  Speaker 1: cut off more and more and more until there was
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  Speaker 1: nothing left to eat, and at that point that prisoner
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  Speaker 1: was executed. They did this in order to keep their
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  Speaker 1: meat fresh. After the war was over, thirty four Japanese soldiers,
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  Speaker 1: including General Tachibana, were tried for war crimes for their
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  Speaker 1: atrocities they committed against these eight prisoners of war. They
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  Speaker 1: were all found guilty and they were all hanged and
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  Speaker 1: buried in unmarked graves in Guam. The other men on
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  Speaker 1: the island that witnessed these atrocities and didn't do anything
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  Speaker 1: about it or participated. But in some sort of secondary way,
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  Speaker 1: they were also tried for war crimes, found guilty and
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  Speaker 1: sent to jail, but all of them were released.
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  Speaker 2: After eight years.
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  Speaker 1: George was eighty years old when he finally learned about
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  Speaker 1: the atrocities on chi Chigima Island that he so narrowly escaped. He,
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  Speaker 1: Bush would go on to become the forty first President
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