24 - Surrender

18/11/2022 11 min Episodio 24

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Episode Synopsis

In December of 1944, a 22-year old Japanese intelligence officer named Hiroo Onoda was sent to Lubang Island, in the Philippines.  A couple months later, the island was overrun and Onoda, and three other soldiers escaped into the jungle. where they fought a guerilla war that didn't end until 1974.  When Onoda emerged from the jungle, the war he had been fighting had been over for *29* years.  This is his story, and his song.