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1972 Japanese soldier found hiding on Guam After 28 years of hiding in the jungles of Guam, local farmers discover Shoichi Yokoi, a Japanese sergeant who was unaware that World War II had ended. Guam, a 200-square-mile island in the western Pacific, became a U.S. possession in 1898 after the Spanish-American War. In 1941, the Japanese attacked and captured it, and in 1944, after three years of Japanese occupation, U.S. forces retook Guam. It was at this time that Yokoi, left behind by the retreating Japanese forces, went into hiding rather than surrender to the Americans. In the jungles of Guam, he carved survival tools and for the next three decades waited for the return of the Japanese and his next orders. After he was discovered in 1972, he was finally discharged and sent home to Japan, where he was hailed as a national hero. He subsequently married and returned to Guam for his honeymoon. His handcrafted survival tools and threadbare uniform are on display in the Guam Museum in Agana. http://www.history.com/this-da...found-hiding-on-guam _________________________ | ||
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I remember watching that on the new in Hawaii. In 1974 another one surrendered in the Philippine was found. The book No Surrender is worth reading. | |||
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Did he receive 28 years worth of back pay? _____________________________ "A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." George Washington. | |||
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Not exactly true. He knew the war was over long before 1972, but was afraid to come out because of the whole cultural thing of "death before capture for a Japanese soldier." ---------------------------------- "These things you say we will have, we already have." "That's true. I ain't promising you nothing extra." | |||
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He was a mole, sent there with orders to locate the code, then upon receipt, flip Guam over when there were maximum US service men on the island. Unfortunately, the flipping mechanism was rusted when he got the code, and some whack job Congressman gave the game away. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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Was he the one that they brought out his old commanding Officer ago tell him it was ok to come out? | |||
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I remember vaguely that instance. I don't know if it's the same soldier. *************************** Knowing more by accident than on purpose. | |||
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Didn't Gilligan let him get away? You only have integrity once. - imprezaguy02 | |||
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You are thinking of the one who was discovered on an island in the Philippines two years later. I passed through Guam shortly after this guy turned up in 1972. It was a big story there at the time but everyone thought you could survive easily because of the abundance of food in the jungle. You would find it much more difficult to survive in Guam's jungles nowadays due to the brown tree snake disaster. CMSGT USAF (Retired) Chief of Police (Retired) | |||
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He may have gotten past Gillian but Steve Austin was there later to bring him out of the jungle. | |||
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I believe that was Hiroo Onada. _____________________________________________________ Sliced bread, the greatest thing since the 1911. | |||
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He was offered about $300 USD for back pay, according to the wiki. ______________________________________________ Carthago delenda est | |||
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Reading about Japanese holdouts in Wikipedia, it seems that two other soldiers on Guam surrendered in 1960. Did they not have any communication with the 1972 one?  Surely they must have run into each other at some point. | |||
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Not knowing much about the terrain of Guam, I'd have to wonder if they even knew about each other. For one man to hide for 28 years, even from the inhabitants of the island says a lot to me about it being a place someone could disappear. I know the original contingent of Japanese troops left on the island when it fell to Allied control was somewhere about a thousand. I need to read up more on it, but it seems to me that probably a number of smaller groups that wanted to continue to evade and fight probably formed up, and may have had little or not contact with each other as the years went by, all the while losing men to various factors. Cas mentioned Hiroo Onada, who I remember reading about. The wiki basically says that was his experience until his two buddies got killed in shoot-outs with police and fisherman they were trying to raid. I would think the mindset would dictate that it be best they be fairly separate and not compromise each other if and when caught. I definitely need to read up a bit more on this. ______________________________________________ Carthago delenda est | |||
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Yes. Simple History on Youtube "When in danger or in doubt, run in circles scream and shout" R.I.P. R.A.H. Ooga Chakka Hooga Hooga Ooga Chakka Hooga Hooga NRA Basic Rifle Instructor Red Cross First Aid/CPR/AED Adult/Child/Infant Instructor Red Cross Wilderness First Aid Instructor | |||
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How the heck anyone can hide out in Guam for 28 years is beyond me. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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