It is pretty amazing how long this guy was able to hold out: In this March 1974 file photo, Hiroo Onoda, wearing his 30-year-old Japanese imperial army. Tokyo (CNN) — A Japanese soldier who hunkered down in the jungles of the Philippines for nearly three decades, refusing to believe that World War II had ended, … Read more
TOKYO (AP) — Hiroo Onoda, the last Japanese imperial soldier to emerge from hiding in a jungle in the Philippines and surrender, 29 years after the end of World War II, has died. He was 91. Onoda died Thursday at a Tokyo Hiroo Onoda, an Imperial Japanese Army officer who remained at his jungle post … Read more
Hiroo Onoda, center, salutes after handing over his military sword on Lubang Island in the Philippines in March 1974. Onoda, a former intelligence officer in the Japanese army, had remained on the island for nearly 30 years, refusing to believe his Hiroo Onoda, the World War II Japanese intelligence officer who died Thursday at age … Read more
It is pretty amazing how long this guy was able to hold out: In this March 1974 file photo, Hiroo Onoda, wearing his 30-year-old Japanese imperial army. Yesterday Hiroo Onoda died. We know him because he was the last Japanese soldier who surrendered, only in 1974. All those years he was hiding in the jungle. … Read more