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This island kept a dark secret until 2004 (MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY) · Crime and Horror

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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.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's get into today's story. Chichijima is a
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  Speaker 1: small Japanese island about five hundred miles south of the
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  Speaker 1: Japanese mainland. During World War Two, the Japanese put a
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  Speaker 1: base on this island and they put two radio towers
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  Speaker 1: at the top of the two.
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  Speaker 2: Mountains on the island.
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  Speaker 1: These radio towers became integral to the Japanese communication and
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  Speaker 1: surveillance operations in the Pacific during the war, and so
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  Speaker 1: at that time the island was heavily fortified with up
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  Speaker 1: to twenty five thousand troops and huge anti aircraft guns.
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  Speaker 1: Because of the island's obvious strategic value to Japan, the
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  Speaker 1: Americans wanted to take it from them, but American military
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  Speaker 1: strategists advised against that, saying that any amphibious landing of
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  Speaker 1: this island would result in massive casualties for Americans and
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  Speaker 1: the Japanese would likely just repel the attack anyways, and
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  Speaker 1: so the Americans decided to go with the next best thing,
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  Speaker 1: which was to attempt to bomb the two towers and
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  Speaker 1: cut out their communications. So in June of nineteen forty four,
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  Speaker 1: American aircraft carriers, which are those huge, huge ships that
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  Speaker 1: planes can take off of and land on, they headed
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  Speaker 1: for the island of Chichijima, and once the island was
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  Speaker 1: completely surrounded, the Americans began launching their pilots to try
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  Speaker 1: to take out these towers, but the Japanese fought back
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  Speaker 1: in a major way, and despite taking heavy casualties on
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  Speaker 1: their side, they repelled every American air raid and kept
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  Speaker 1: them from bombing their towers.
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  Speaker 2: After several months.
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  Speaker 1: Of these failed missions over chi chi Jima, the American
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  Speaker 1: military leaders were incredibly frustrated. They knew this was going
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  Speaker 1: to be a difficult mission, but they didn't expect it to.
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  Speaker 2: Be this difficult.
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  Speaker 1: However, this island was so strategically important that the Americans
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  Speaker 1: knew they had to just keep on sending pilots in
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  Speaker 1: until they took out these towers, and so in September
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  Speaker 1: of that year, the Americans were back to planning another
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  Speaker 1: raid over chichi Jima Island, and one of the pilots
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  Speaker 1: selected to go on this particular raid was a twenty
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  Speaker 1: year old named George, who actually was the youngest pilot
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  Speaker 1: in the United States Navy at the time, but despite
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  Speaker 1: his age, he had actually flown in several combat missions
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  Speaker 1: already and had actually been shot down already and had
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  Speaker 1: to eject into the ocean and was subsequently rescued. On
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  Speaker 1: the morning of this raid, George, along with his two
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  Speaker 1: man crew, which was his radio operator named Dell and
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  Speaker 1: his door gunner named Ted, they boarded the plane and
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  Speaker 1: then at seven point fifteen am, George and his crew
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  Speaker 1: took off, along with dozens of other American.
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  Speaker 2: Aircraft that were part of this operation.
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  Speaker 1: George immediately climbed above eight thousand feet because that would put.
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  Speaker 2: Them 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 drop
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  Speaker 1: their bombs and then try to back.
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  Speaker 2: 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. And as soon as
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  Speaker 1: he went below eight thousand feet, the island just erupted
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  Speaker 1: with anti aircraft gun fire. So all these rounds are
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  Speaker 1: coming up, black is popping all over the place, and
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  Speaker 1: George almost immediately notices the side of his plane gets hit,
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  Speaker 1: but the plane stable enough that he decides he's just.
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  Speaker 2: Going to keep on diving down and complete the mission.
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  Speaker 1: He's yelling back to Ted and to Dell to hold on,
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  Speaker 1: and they get all the way down to three thousand
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  Speaker 1: feet when George releases two five hundred pound bombs that
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  Speaker 1: are direct hits on the radio tower he was assigned
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  Speaker 1: to bomb. But at this point George's plane is now
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  Speaker 1: engulfed in flames. It can barely fly, and so George
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  Speaker 1: is again yelling at Ted and Dell to hold on.
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  Speaker 1: He's pulling back on the lever, and he begins to
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  Speaker 1: turn himself away from the tower out towards the water,
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  Speaker 1: and he manages to fly away from the island, but
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  Speaker 1: he can feel the plane starting to go down.
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  Speaker 2: 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 he 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 jump. Meanwhile, outside, the other planes that had
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  Speaker 1: sustained damage, the other American planes, their crews are already
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  Speaker 1: bailing out.
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  Speaker 2: But George is saying, no, hold.
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  Speaker 1: On, And he keeps going farther and farther until he's
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  Speaker 1: so close to the water that it's practically too late,
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  Speaker 1: and then he gives the order to jump out of
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  Speaker 1: 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 hit
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  Speaker 1: the water and it would save his life.
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  Speaker 2: As soon as George hits the water and.
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  Speaker 1: He comes up for air, he's under his parachute, and
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  Speaker 1: so he's trying to get his parachute away to get
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  Speaker 1: a breath of air. He disconnects his parachute from his shoulders.
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  Speaker 1: He clears the parachute, and he's looking around and he
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  Speaker 1: sees his plane that is now being flown by no
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  Speaker 1: one go crashing directly into the water, and so immediately
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  Speaker 1: he's looking around for Ted and Dell's parachute to make
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  Speaker 1: sure 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 draft.
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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.
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  Speaker 1: He's yelling for Dell, but he's not getting a response,
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  Speaker 1: and so George turns around in the raft, so now
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  Speaker 1: he's facing towards the island, and to his horror, way
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  Speaker 1: off on the horizon, right near the edge of this
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  Speaker 1: island are Japanese patrol boats that are speeding in his direction.
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  Speaker 1: He knows they're coming to get him and the other
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  Speaker 1: people that had jumped out of these planes, and so
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  Speaker 1: George turns back around. He leaps onto his chest on
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  Speaker 1: the front of this raft, and he starts using his
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  Speaker 1: hands to swim as fast as he can away from
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  Speaker 1: this island. The whole time he's screaming out for Ted
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  Speaker 1: and Dell in hopes he's going to find them. Little
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  Speaker 1: did he know that both of them had not survived
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  Speaker 1: the crash. One had not even jumped out of the
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  Speaker 1: plane and had died on impact, and the other had
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  Speaker 1: jumped out but their parachute had not inflated. And so
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  Speaker 1: George is swimming as fast as he possibly can, and
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  Speaker 1: he's yelling out for Dell and for Ted, and he's looking,
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  Speaker 1: but he doesn't hear them, he doesn't see them, and
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  Speaker 1: he knows that not only is he not going to
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  Speaker 1: find his friends, but there's just no way he's going
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  Speaker 1: to outswim these boats and so at some point he
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  Speaker 1: just turns around and sits in the raft, and he's
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  Speaker 1: looking towards these patrol boats, and he knows that at
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  Speaker 1: some point they're going to come up here and they're
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  Speaker 1: going to capture him.
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  Speaker 2: And all he can think about is how guilty he
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  Speaker 2: feels about.
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  Speaker 1: Ted and Dell, and he starts second guessing his decision
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  Speaker 1: to keep that blame flying as long as he did
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  Speaker 1: and make them bail out so late, and he's thinking,
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  Speaker 1: I probably got them killed.
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  Speaker 2: And then he thought.
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  Speaker 1: About his wife, and he wondered if he'd ever see
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  Speaker 1: her again. And then he turned towards these Japanese boats
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  Speaker 1: that were much closer now but still fairly far away,
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  Speaker 1: and he began mentally preparing himself for captivity. But before
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  Speaker 1: he could be captured, American aircraft comes storming in overhead,
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  Speaker 1: and they go flying past him towards the island, and
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  Speaker 1: they start dropping the bombs and straping these Japanese boats
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  Speaker 1: that were coming out to get George, and so George
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  Speaker 1: is thinking, oh, my.
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  Speaker 2: Goodness, what luck.
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  Speaker 1: He turns around, he gets back on his chest, and
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  Speaker 1: he starts swimming as fast as he can, trying to
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  Speaker 1: get away, knowing that these boats are totally preoccupied with
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  Speaker 1: the aircraft overhead. And for two hours, George used every
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  Speaker 1: ounce of strength he had to swim as far as
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  Speaker 1: he possibly could away from this island, but at some
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  Speaker 1: point he was just so unbelievably exhausted he just could
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  Speaker 1: not paddle any farther. And so he's just laying on
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  Speaker 1: this raft when he hears the sound of something coming
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  Speaker 1: out of the water, and he turns and he sees
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  Speaker 1: the periscope of an American submarine turning out in the water.
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  Speaker 1: And seconds later, the crew of this American submarine comes
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  Speaker 1: right up alongside him.
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  Speaker 2: They grab him out of the raft, they put him
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  Speaker 2: in the submarine, and he was saved.
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  Speaker 1: Besides George Ted and Dell, there were eight other American
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  Speaker 1: airmen that had to bail out of their aircraft because they.
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  Speaker 2: Were badly 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. And so these soldiers hated
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  Speaker 1: 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 decide 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.
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  Speaker 2: And kick Marv.
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  Speaker 1: And so all day long, soldiers were coming up and
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  Speaker 1: just beating the crap out of Marv. And Marv is
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  Speaker 1: tied to the tree, he can't do anything, and these
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  Speaker 1: seven other prisoners are forced to just watch because they
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  Speaker 1: can't do anything. And so that night, the same commander
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  Speaker 1: comes back and he unties Marv from the tree and
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  Speaker 1: he tells these seven other prisoners to stay where they are,
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  Speaker 1: and this commander and several other Japanese soldiers they'd take
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  Speaker 1: Marv and they march him away from the group into
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  Speaker 1: the jungle, and they march him over to this freshly
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  Speaker 1: dug grave. And standing next to the grave that Marv
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  Speaker 1: would have seen is this Japanese soldier carrying a sword,
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  Speaker 1: and so Marv is told to walk up.
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  Speaker 2: To the edge of the grave.
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  Speaker 1: They tell him to kneel down in front of the
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  Speaker 1: grave and they let him smoke a final cigarette. And
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  Speaker 1: apparently Marv very calmly smoked the cigarette, and when he
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  Speaker 1: was done, the man with the sword put a blindfold
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  Speaker 1: on Marv and then told Marv to extend his neck
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  Speaker 1: and as soon as he.
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  Speaker 2: Did, he was phetted. Afterwards, they buried him inside of
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  Speaker 2: the grave. That night.
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  Speaker 1: One of the high ranking Japanese generals on the island,
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  Speaker 1: a man named Yoshio Tachibana, who was an alcoholic and
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  Speaker 1: was notorious for his sadistic tendencies with prisoners. He was
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  Speaker 1: sitting around drinking having a good time when he decided
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  Speaker 1: that his soldiers they needed to prove they had what
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  Speaker 1: he called the fighting spirit, and the only way they
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  Speaker 1: could show they had this fighting spirit was by consuming
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  Speaker 1: human flesh, and so Tachibana ordered his soldiers to go
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  Speaker 1: exhuom Marv from his shallow grave. And then Tachibana sent
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  Speaker 1: over one of his surgeons, and he told him to
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  Speaker 1: remove Marv's thigh. So the surgeon goes over, he surgically
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  Speaker 1: removes Marv's thai.
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  Speaker 2: He gives it to one of the cooks, and the
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  Speaker 2: cooks they make this.
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  Speaker 1: Huge meal using Marv's thigh, and they serve it to
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  Speaker 1: Tachibana and his other high ranking officers and some soldiers.
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  Speaker 1: And apparently Marv's thi tasted so good with soy sauce
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  Speaker 1: and with sake that Tachibana ordered his soldiers to go
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  Speaker 1: back and cut more meat off of Marv, which they did.
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  Speaker 1: Within a month of Marv's execution and consumption. Tachibana decided
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  Speaker 1: that he wanted to eat more human flesh, and he
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  Speaker 1: wanted his soldiers to eat more human flesh because he
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  Speaker 1: and a number of the other officers were superstitious that
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  Speaker 1: this could make them stronger and it would be good
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  Speaker 1: for their stomach and it would be good 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.
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  Speaker 2: To work on their bayonet work 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 cellfane 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 2: Too difficult with Earl.
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  Speaker 1: He put up such a fight and he kept putting
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  Speaker 1: his neck out that finally one of the soldiers did
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  Speaker 1: 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: selfing paper to preserve them, and then they took Floyd
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  Speaker 1: and Earl's organs and they went back to the cooks
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  Speaker 1: to have them prepared, and that night all the high
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  Speaker 1: ranking officers on the island feasted on Earl and Floyd.
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  Speaker 2: Within a few days.
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  Speaker 1: Of Floyd and Earl's murders, the other five captives were
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  Speaker 1: also executed in a similar fashion, one by one in
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  Speaker 1: front of their comrades, and two of those remaining five
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  Speaker 1: were also consumed, And unfortunately one of those two was
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  Speaker 1: not executed beforehand. Instead, they had pieces of their body
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  Speaker 1: surgically amputated, and then those pieces would get cooked and eaten,
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  Speaker 1: and when they were done eating them, they would just
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  Speaker 1: come back and cut off more and more and more
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  Speaker 1: until there was nothing left to eat, and at that
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  Speaker 1: point that prisoner was executed.
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  Speaker 2: They did this in order to keep their meat fresh.
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  Speaker 1: After the war was over, thirty four Japanese soldiers, including
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  Speaker 1: General Tachibana, were tried for war crimes for their atrocities
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  Speaker 1: they committed against these.
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  Speaker 2: Eight prisoners of war.
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  Speaker 1: They were all found guilty and they were all hanged
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