Biden Kept Foreign Gift That Evoked Memory of a Long-Dead Uncle

Joe Biden took with him just two diplomatic gifts from his time as president, including an aircraft fragment from the prime minister of Papua New Guinea, a country whose World War II history has featured prominently — and sometimes awkwardly — in his own family lore.

A State Department disclosure released Wednesday revealed that the former president personally retained the wreckage of an A-20 Havoc light bomber, the same model aircraft his uncle flew before crashing off the coast of the Pacific nation in 1944.