To: DoughtyOne
I just read the other day that several Japanese troops didn’t actually surrender until 1950 possibly 1951. Now that’s determination. Try 1974 when Lt. Hiroo Onoda surrendered to local authorities on Luzon, Philippines, after getting official orders to do so from Tokyo! There were multiple other Japanese holdouts, mostly where the conditions allowed them to be self-sufficient.
73 posted on
08/10/2010 6:59:19 PM PDT by
SES1066
(Cycling to conserve, Conservative to save, Saving to Retire, will Retire to Cycle.)
To: SES1066
Get in a fight for life and death, fight to win there can be no compromise.
75 posted on
08/10/2010 7:00:54 PM PDT by
JamesA
(You don't have to be big to stand tall)
To: SES1066
Unbelievable and they continued to wage “war” against the locals. Nuts.
79 posted on
08/10/2010 7:08:58 PM PDT by
1010RD
(First Do No Harm)
To: SES1066
Isn’t that something. I remember that now that you mention it. I know that some of them surrendered decades after the war was officially over.
85 posted on
08/10/2010 7:20:09 PM PDT by
DoughtyOne
(It's not Rs vs Ds you dimwits. It's Cs vs Ls. Cut the crap & lets build for success, not failure.)
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