Quote Originally Posted by Dale in Louisiana View Post
Dan-

They has some give themselves up MUCH later than that. In 1972
Corporal Shoichi Yokoi was found on Guam.

Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda surrendered in the Philippines in 1974.

In 1974 Private Nakamura Teruo was found in Indonesia.

In 1980 Captain Fumio Nakahira on was discovered on Mindoro in the Philippines.

dale

As a youngster, I recall the occasional newspaper items about caves on various islands being opened; this was some years after the war. Our troops had originally blasted them shut to seal in some Jap troops. Years after, as some of the caves were opened, they found that many of the caves had sheltered hundreds, and in some cases, thousands, of a mix of Jap soldiers and innocent civilians who we never knew were in them.

War is hell.