Japan WWII soldier who hid in Phl island for 30 years, has died aged 91
https://dailydigitaldigest.blogspot.com/2014/01/japan-wwii-soldier-who-hid-in-phl.html
TOKYO, Japan – Ninety-one year old
Japanese soldier who hid in a Philippine island for three decades believing
World War II was not over has died in Tokyo, Japan.
Hiroo Onoda hid in Lubang Island,
Occidental Mindoro until 1974 and refused not to surrender believing that the
war was still not over.
Reports said that Onoda was fetched
by his former commanding officer and brought him back to Tokyo.
Onoda was considered Japan’s hero as
he stepped again in his homeland.
It is believed that the Japanese
soldier was dispatched in said island in 1944 as an information officer and a guerrilla
tactics coach. He was ordered not to resort in any suicidal attacks and never
to surrender.
His
existence together with two other soldiers became widely known in 1950 after
one of them returned in their country and died while the other was killed in an
encounter in 1972.
Onoda declined to surrender for many
times despite information and leaflets provided by Japanese government.
It was in March 1974 when he decided
to come along with his former commanding officer who visited him in his jungle
hideout and ordered him to leave the place.
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