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World War II Second Battle of Guam Shōichi Yokoi ( 横井 庄一 , Yokoi Shōichi , 31 March 1915 – 22 September 1997) was a Japanese soldier who served as a sergeant in the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during the Second World War , and was one of the last three Japanese holdouts to be found after the end of hostilities in 1945.
Yokoi's Cave is the cave on the island of Guam in which Imperial Japanese Army Sergeant Shoichi Yokoi hid until he was discovered in 1972. Yokoi and several companions hid in the area for more than 25 years (since Japan's defeat in the 1944 Battle of Guam), two of them died in the cave; their remains were found in the cave after Yokoi's surrender.
Hiroo Onoda (Japanese: 小野田 寛郎, Hepburn: Onoda Hiroo, 19 March 1922 – 16 January 2014) was a Japanese soldier who served as a second lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.
The people listed below are, or were, the last surviving members of notable groups of World War II veterans, as identified by reliable sources. About 70 million people fought in World War II between 1939 and 1945. Background shading indicates the individual is still living Last survivors Veteran Birth Death Notability Service Allegiance Aimé Acton 1917 or 1918 13 December 2020 (aged 102) Last ...
The families of five Hawaii men who served in a unit of Japanese-language linguists during World War II received posthumous Purple Heart medals on behalf of their loved ones on Friday, nearly ...
The monument is among several replicas of the one installed at the War Dog Cemetery on Naval Base Guam for the 50th anniversary of the island’s liberation.
He was released at the end of World War II. [134] Found alive 3 years 1942 Fyodor Kostenko: 46 Soviet Union (modern-day Ukraine) A commander of the Southwestern Front during World War II. Kostenko is believed to have died in the Second Battle of Kharkov on 26 May 1942. His body was recovered in the spring of 2016 and later repatriated to Russia ...
The soldier was buried near a lake, and likely died in February 1945 while fighting for control of a bridge in Grzybek, Poland, according to a news release from the park on social media. Efforts ...