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Jan 24, 1972:
Japanese soldier found hiding on Guam
After 28 years of hiding in the jungles of Guam, local farmers
discover Shoichi Yokoi, a Japanese sergeant who was unaware that
World War II had ended.
Guam, a 200-square-mile island in the western Pacific, became a
U.S. possession in 1898 after the Spanish-American War. In 1941,
the Japanese attacked and captured it, and in 1944, after three
years of Japanese occupation, U.S. forces retook Guam. It was at
this time that Yokoi, left behind by the retreating Japanese
forces, went into hiding rather than surrender to the Americans.
In the jungles of Guam, he carved survival tools and for the next
three decades waited for the return of the Japanese and his next
orders. After he was discovered in 1972, he was finally
discharged and sent home to Japan, where he was hailed as a
national hero. He subsequently married and returned to Guam for
his honeymoon. His handcrafted survival tools and threadbare
uniform are on display in the Guam Museum in Agana.
73, K.O. n0kfq
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