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Hiroo Onoda (Japanese: 小野田 寛郎, Hepburn: Onoda Hiroo, 19 March 1922 – 16 January 2014) was a Japanese second lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. One of the last Japanese holdouts , he continued fighting for decades after the war's end in 1945.
Hiroo Onoda. The Japanese media reported that a Japanese imperial soldier, Kinshichi Kozuka, was shot to death on an island in the Philippines in October 19, 1972. Kozuka had been part of a guerilla "cell" originally consisting of himself and three other soldiers; of the four, Yuichi Akatsu had slipped away in 1949 and surrendered to what he thought were Allied soldiers; approximately five ...
Hiroo Onoda, among the last three Japanese holdouts to be found after the war; he was discovered in March 1974, Lubang Island, Philippines; Teruo Nakamura, the last known Japanese holdout to surrender; he was discovered in December 1974, Morotai Island, Indonesia; List of solved missing person cases
No man is an island, but for 29 years, until his final surrender in 1974, Hiroo Onoda came as close as any man could. Leading an ever-dwindling band of Japanese holdouts who refused to believe ...
In March 1974, Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda surrendered on Lubang after holding out on the island from December 1944 with Akatsu, Shimada and Kozuka. Onoda refused to surrender until he was relieved of duty by his former commanding officer, Major Yoshimi Taniguchi, who was flown to Lubang to formally relieve Onoda. [7] Teruo Nakamura: December 18, 1974
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