Reported claimRated The claim is false. Japan PM Takaichi paid tribute at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery as a routine diplomatic gesture. The actual pilot, who dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Maj. Gen. Charles W. Sweeney (1919–2004), is buried at Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne, Massachusetts, not at Arlington National Cemetery. · DigitEye India
DigitEye India rated the claim “Japan's PM Sanae Takaichi thanked the pilot who nuked Nagasaki for the mass Murder of her ancestors.” The claim is false. Japan PM Takaichi paid tribute at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery as a routine diplomatic gesture. The actual pilot, who dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Maj. Gen. Charles W. Sweeney (1919–2004), is buried at Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne, Massachusetts, not at Arlington National Cemetery..
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