Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese Army intelligence officer, waged a 29-year war on the Philippine island of Lubang after the island was captured by the Americans in 1945. Refusing to believe that the war was over, Onoda, initially with three other Japanese soldiers, conducted a guerrilla campaign from the island's jungle and mountain interior, terrifying locals and triggering massive police manhunts. He was the last fighting Japanese soldier of World War II.
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