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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 ...
Murdered his wife Smt Kajodbai, his two daughters, one son [3] 164 Auto Shankar: 27 April 1995: 41 34 Salem Central Prison Tamil Nadu: Murder Murder of 6 persons, over a period of two years in 1988–1989 165 Suresh Chandra Bahri: 12 June 1995: Bhagalpur Central Jail Bihar: Murder
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 ...
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 ...
Chiyotaro Onoda (小野田 千代太郎, 1896–1944), Japanese Go player; Hiroo Onoda (小野田 寛郎, 1922–2014), Japanese soldier stationed in the Philippines during World War II who did not surrender until 1974; Kazuo Onoda (小野田 一雄, 1900–1983), Japanese swimmer; Kimi Onoda (小野田 紀美, born 1982), Japanese politician
The longest sitting death row inmate, Fred Singleton, is also the oldest at age 80. He was convicted in 1983 after sexually assaulting a 73-year-old woman and strangling her to death with a ...
On Death Row is a television mini-series written and directed by Werner Herzog about capital punishment in the United States. The series grew out of the same project which produced Herzog's documentary film Into the Abyss. The series first aired in the United Kingdom on March 22, 2012, on Channel 4. [2]
Virumaandi is a 2004 Indian Tamil-language action drama film written, co-edited, produced, and directed by Kamal Haasan, who also performed in the title role.The cast also includes Pasupathy, Napoleon, Abhirami, Rohini, Shanmugarajan and Nassar in pivotal roles.