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The story of ONODA

I deliberately want to keep this simple with bullet points. This person Onoda as my friend describes is having inhuman characteristics. 1. Onoda was a Japanese army officer fought in world war II. 2. He was sent to Lubang Island in Philipines to carry out a military operation. 3. He joined a group of japanese soldiers who were sent earlier. 4. Egotism hit as some officers in the group prevented him from doing his assignment. 5. US and Philippine forces took the island into their custody in February, 1945. 6. All soldiers except four (Onoda and three others) either died or surrendered. 7. Onoda continued to live in the mountains. 8. He doubted leaflets which are thrown announcing the end of the war and decided they are hoax. 9. One of the four, walked away from them in 1949 and surrendered to the filipino forces. Rest all became more careful. 10. In 1952, letters and family pictures were dropped from air crafts but they concluded them as hoax. 11. In 1954, one of them gets k