Second Lieutenant Ambrose Finnegan of the US Army Air Forces was declared missing in May 1944, after his light bomber crashed in the sea.
"He got shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals at the time," Biden told reporters on the campaign trail outside Air Force One in Scranton, Pennsylvania. "They never recovered his body, but the government went back when I went down there and they checked and found some parts of the plane."
Several hours later, at a meeting with United Steelworkers union members in Pittsburgh, Biden told the same story.
"He got shot down in New Guinea and they never found the body because there used to be - there were a lot of cannibals, for real, in that part of New Guinea," the 81-year-old Democrat said.
According to the Pentagon's agency for prisoners of war and missing in action (POW-MIA), Finnegan was never shot down, however. Nor was it on a reconnaissance mission, as Biden claimed.
Comment: Biden is a pathological liar who as time goes on is finding it harder and harder to distinguish between reality and fiction. As the White House keeps insisting there is nothing wrong with Joe's mental capacities, which means that one can not then excuse the lies as due to old age and dementia as some might like to. The record is also pretty clear that Joe has been lying all his life. It happens to be one though not the only tell-tell signs of psychopathy.
Comment: Layers peeled, the long reveal is truly scary!