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Joe Biden suggested his uncle may have been eaten by cannibals in New Guinea during World War Two. The US President visited a war memorial to honour his uncle Ambrose J Finnegan for his service. Following the service, Biden told reporters: “He flew single-engine planes, reconnaissance flights over New Guinea. He had volunteered because someone couldn’t make it. “He got shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals in New Guinea at the time. They never recovered his body.” But according to US military records, his uncle died when a plane he was in crashed in the Pacific Ocean off the…

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