When Japanese Soldiers Ate Captured US Pilots During WWII...

The island of Chichijima, at first glance, may seem an unremarkable place in the vast Pacific Ocean. Part of the Ogasawara archipelago, Chichijima lays some 150 miles north of Iwo Jima and 500 miles south of the Japanese home islands and is not even the size of New York city’s central park. And yet, it’s geographical location made it a prime piece of real estate for the defence of Japan against the Allied powers as they moved in on the home islands during late 1944, closing the noose on their enemy who had raged across the Pacific and Asia two years earlier.

However, this is not the story of some cataclysmic battle for control for the islands during the war, in fact the United States decided to bypass them altogether in their march towards Japan, preferring to bomb it into submission instead. It was also not a site where like at so many other places in the Pacific Theatre, fate intervened on one side or the other. Instead, the island set the stage for one of the most unnecessarily gruesome tales of the entire conflict. This is the story of the Chichijima Incident. Welcome to Wars of the World.

0:00 Introduction
1:39 War Comes to Chichijima
4:58 Tachibana’s Test
14:33 Cover-Up

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Narrated by: Will Earl
Written & Researched by: Tony Wilkins
Edited by: James Wade & Kieran Kennerley
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