Video The Soldier Who Continued Fighting WWII 29 Years After It Ended, Because He Didn't Know

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Hiroo Onoda is a Japanese citizen that originally worked at a Chinese trading company. When he was 20 years old, he was called to join the Japanese army. He promptly quit his job and headed off to training in Japan. At a certain point in his training, he was chosen to be trained at Nakano School as an Imperial Army Intelligence Officer. In this specialized military intelligence training, he was specifically taught methods of gathering intelligence and how to conduct guerrilla warfare. He was being groomed to go in behind enemy lines and be left with small pockets of soldiers to make life miserable for Japan’s enemies and gather intelligence in the process.

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Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroo_Onoda
http://history1900s.about.com/od/worldwarii/a/soldiersurr.htm
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