Hiroo Onoda - Wikipedia
Hiroo Onoda (Japanese: 小野田 寛郎, Hepburn: Onoda Hiroo, 19 March 1922 – 16 January 2014) was a Japanese soldier who served as a second lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.
Meet The Japanese Soldier Who Kept Fighting World War II – …
Jan 1, 2022 · Hiroo Onoda was one of the last Japanese soldiers to stop fighting World War II — 29 years after the Imperial Japanese Army surrendered to the Allies aboard the U.S.S. Missouri on September 2, 1945.
Onoda: The man who hid in the jungle for 30 years - BBC
Apr 13, 2022 · Teruo Nakamura, a Taiwanese-Japanese soldier, endured 29 years in the jungle after the end of World War Two, on Morotai, in present-day Indonesia.
This Japanese Soldier Refused to Believe WWII Was Over, So ... - HistoryNet
Oct 15, 2020 · Laying down his sword to Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos, a weeping Onoda became one of the last Japanese soldiers from World War II to surrender—nearly three decades after war's end.
Japanese Soldier Who Fought On For 29 Years After WWII Dies
Jan 17, 2014 · Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese intelligence officer who for 29 years after the end of World War II continued to hide, fight and kill in the jungles of the Philippines because he did not believe the...
Hiroo Onoda: The Japanese Soldier Who Refused to Surrender
Sep 28, 2023 · Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda was an Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer sent to garrison an island in the Philippines in 1944 towards the end of the Second World War.
One Japanese Soldier Continued to Fight for 30 Years After WWII
Dec 21, 2023 · When Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda was deployed to Lubang in the Philippines in 1944, he was instructed to hold the remote island until the Japanese Army returned. Onoda took the orders very...
Japanese soldier who refused to surrender for decades dies at 91 - CNN
Jan 18, 2014 · 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, has died in Tokyo. Hiroo Onoda was 91 years...
Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese Soldier Who Surrendered Decades …
Apr 19, 2024 · In December 1944, Japanese intelligence officer Hiroo Onoda was sent on a secret World War II mission to a remote island in the Philippines. His war should have ended the following August when Japan formally surrendered to the Allies.
How did Hiroo Onoda survive for 30 years without surrendering …
Oct 21, 2023 · Hiroo Onoda was a Japanese intelligence officer in the Imperial Japanese Army who remained in active service in the Philippines for 29 years after World War II had ended, believing the war was still ongoing.