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Hiroo Onoda (right) and his younger brother Shigeo, c. 1944 On 26 December 1944, Onoda was sent to lead guerrilla warfare operations on Lubang Island in the Japanese-occupied Philippines . [ 4 ] His mission was to destroy the island's airstrip and the pier at its harbor ahead of the Allied invasion, as well as to destroy any enemy planes or ...
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
Topekan Shyla Goracke, accused of fatally stabbing her son in June, later died of suicide from an acetaminophen overdose, her autopsy report says.
The Ventura County Sheriff's Office responded about 7 p.m. Tuesday to a report of a possible suicide in a condominium complex on Chiquita Lane, Sgt. Rob Yoos said. A man in his 40s was found ...
Hiroo Onoda, Japanese Imperial Army intelligence officer who refused to acknowledge the Japanese surrender in World War II, and remained in hiding in the Philippines until finally surrendering in 1974, more than 28 years after the end of the war; in Kainan, Wakayama (d. 2014)