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1972 - Japanese soldier found after nearly 30 years
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:40 am
by 20series
Re: 1972 - Japanese soldier found after nearly 30 years
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:54 am
by froggy
Salut,
Fascinating stuff ! For those interested in the matter I can strongly recommend reading "No Surrender: My 30 Years War" by Hiroo Onada, a similar Japaneese army intelligence officer who stayed for 30 years in the Philippines. It's badly written by a wonderfull insight in the mind of those guys and how & why they stayed put.
Re: 1972 - Japanese soldier found after nearly 30 years
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 5:18 pm
by Geordie bloke
I was serving on HMS Tiger and we arrived in Guam the day before he surrendered. Some of us were in the American naval base bar having a drink after we used their swimming pool when this yank came in and told us how he either got caught or just surrendered. Reading this thread made for interesting reading and brought back some memories of that time. I think that someone said he stored his old rounds of ammunition in a jam jar to stop them corroding and came out at night to kill cows etc.
Re: 1972 - Japanese soldier found after nearly 30 years
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 8:56 pm
by Chuck
just shows how fighting with a BELIEF is much more stronger than fighting with doubts and moral high ground. Like our current enemies who fight the same way, dying is an honour etc....maybe it will take the same methods to stop them fighting us too?