Hiroo Onoda
Lua error in Module:Unicode_data at line 293: attempt to index local 'data_module' (a boolean value). (March 19, 1922 – January 16, 2014) was an Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer. He fought in World War II and did not surrender in 1945. After spending 29 years in the Philippines, his former commander traveled there and took him away from duty. His autobiography was, No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War, published in 1974. He was born in Kamekawa, Wakayama Prefecture, Empire of Japan.
Onoda died from heart failure due to complications from pneumonia on January 16, 2014 at St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo, Japan. He was 91 years old.[1]
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Hiroo Onoda (right) and his younger brother Shigeo Onoda (滋郎 1944)
Hiroo Onoda (right) offers his military sword to Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos (left) on the day of his surrender, 11 March 1974.
References
- ↑ Mullen, Jethro; Wakatsuki, Yoko; Narayan, Chandrika (January 18, 2014). "Hiroo Onoda, Japanese soldier who long refused to surrender, dies at 91". CNN. Retrieved March 24, 2014.