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re: 50 years ago, March 9, 1974. Awaiting Orders, Sir.
Posted on 3/9/24 at 12:23 pm to blueridgeTiger
Posted on 3/9/24 at 12:23 pm to blueridgeTiger
Very cool story overall but this
Is the kicker.
Pretty happy ending as well.
Just sucks he killed a lot of innocent villagers.
quote:
the then 52-year-old soldier returned to an almost unrecognizable Japan.
Is the kicker.
Pretty happy ending as well.
Just sucks he killed a lot of innocent villagers.
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Posted on 3/9/24 at 12:55 pm to blueridgeTiger
Amazing story of honor.
Posted on 3/9/24 at 1:56 pm to blueridgeTiger
He was waiting to be properly relieved.
Good for him.
Good for him.
Posted on 3/9/24 at 1:58 pm to ThatTahoeOverThere
quote:
Amazing story of honor.
Y’all really think a soldier killing unarmed civilians is honorable?
Been watching too much GoT.
Posted on 3/9/24 at 2:21 pm to blueridgeTiger
And people wonder why Truman decided to nuke their arse. He was either the most dedicated soldier ever or a fricking dumbass. My vote is dumbass.
Posted on 3/9/24 at 2:42 pm to sqerty
quote:I just read about him on Wikipedia.
What happened to the three other soldiers?
One soldier surrendered after a couple years and the two others were shot by police in separate incidents.
Yeah it’s kinda fricked up that they killed 30 innocent people over the years because of their fanaticism.
Posted on 3/12/24 at 5:16 pm to Earnest_P
quote:
Y’all really think a soldier killing unarmed civilians is honorable?
Everybody was still Charlie to him. You'd probably surrender like a big puss
Posted on 3/12/24 at 6:05 pm to blueridgeTiger
Trump's kind of soldier! lol
Posted on 3/12/24 at 6:06 pm to blueridgeTiger
There was a Six Million Dollar Man episode about this.
Posted on 3/12/24 at 6:24 pm to blueridgeTiger
Posted on 3/12/24 at 7:49 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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Delegations used to leave him stacks of Japanese newspapers and magazines. He thought it was all US propaganda to trick him into surrendering. He said it was obviously doctored. The pictures had Japanese people in them. If Japan had surrendered, that meant there were no Japanese left alive.
And they ask why we bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
This post was edited on 3/12/24 at 7:49 pm
Posted on 3/12/24 at 8:12 pm to blueridgeTiger
Watched a documentary that started with a guy who surrendered a year or so after the war was over. Then the next guy lasted five years, etc. As the times got longer, it was simply incredible. This guy lasted until 1974, so he could have actually been in the Gillian’s Island situation.
Posted on 3/12/24 at 8:39 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
quote:That's heavy. My grandfather was on Iwo Jima, skipped Okinawa to train for the invasion of mainland Japan. He said something along the same lines: "We were going to have to kill every single one of them, because every single one of them would fight"
If Japan had surrendered, that meant there were no Japanese left alive.
Posted on 3/12/24 at 10:20 pm to PikesPeak
So he was basically Rambo.
Posted on 3/12/24 at 11:17 pm to blueridgeTiger
A few years back Werner Herzog was in Tokyo directing an opera and at some kind of well attended function, a dignitary offered to arrange an audience with the Emperor. Herzog felt he had nothing to talk to the Emperor about, but asked instead to meet Hiroo Onoda.
Posted on 3/12/24 at 11:37 pm to beerJeep
Good book.
Even when they figured out that the guy was on the island and his general whereabouts, they still had a helluva time trying to coax him out.
Even when they figured out that the guy was on the island and his general whereabouts, they still had a helluva time trying to coax him out.
Posted on 3/13/24 at 4:43 am to blueridgeTiger
I had a set of BDUs that rotted off of me in less than 30 days I’m amazed at the condition of his uniform
Posted on 3/13/24 at 4:55 am to blueridgeTiger
So bad arse they named a motorcycle after him! 
Posted on 3/13/24 at 6:08 am to genuineLSUtiger
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You have to admire the dedication of Japanese troops. They were all in.
Reading some more on it, he was a complete dumbass.
All during that time were various attempts to convince him with leaflets and such, but nope. Posted on 3/13/24 at 6:21 am to elprez00
Anybody who seriously questions why we did that is an idiot.
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