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EPISODE · Jul 8, 2016 · 3 MIN

14 S1 - Hiroo Onoda: The Japanese Soldier Who Wouldn't Surrender

from Unknown History with Giles Milton

His home was a dense area of rainforest and he lived on the wild coconuts that grew in abundance. His principal enemy was the army of mosquitoes that arrived with each new shower of rain. But for Hiroo Onoda, there was another enemy, one that remained elusive. Unaware that the Second World War had ended 29 years earlier, he was still fighting a lonely guerrilla war in the jungles of the Philippines. Read the full transcript here: http://bit.ly/29L4MwX Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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