Lt. Hiroo Onoda,Army Intelligence Division,Japanese Imperial Army,Mar.19,1922-Jan.16,2014

Lieut. Hiroo Onoda - JIF - Surrendered March 10, 1975, Manila





He surrendered 30 years to the day Pvt. Willie D Tyler - 1st Cavalry Div, 7th Cav. Reg. KIA Antipolo March 10, 1945 and PFC Jeston C. Whittington(ASN: 34596505), United States Army, 1st Cavalry Division, 82nd FAB Batt.A were killed in action at Antipolo.

Lieut Hiroo Onoda (1922 - 2014) - Find A Grave Memorial

Hiroo Onoda: Japanese soldier who took three decades to surrender, dies

Dead at 91, Hiroo Onoda, Japanese WW2 soldier who refused to surrender | Daily Mail Online

Badass of the Week: Hiroo Onoda

 

His book, No Surrender: My Thirty Year War , is a real page-turner...Worth a read.
Amazon.com: No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War (9781557506634): Hiroo Onoda, Charles S. Terry: Books

 

He was the epitome of why the US did and later justified the use of the A-bomb. He wouldn't have given up so easily probably in his youth. His potential to bonsai charge dwindled over 3 decades with out a doubt. Stolen rice gets old. Well, that is if he had to steal it and not pick it up from a sloppy, untended rice paddy. Thx for the book pointer I find it unreal how much March 1st-15th keeps popping up in the life dates in all these obits. Julius Caesar hated March as well. Its something about the Ides of March, which was yesterday.