Hiroo Onoda, Japanese lieutenant (died 2014)

Hiroo Onoda

Japanese World War II holdout (1922–2014)

Hiroo Onoda was a Japanese soldier who served as a second lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. One of the last Japanese holdouts, Onoda continued fighting for nearly 29 years after the war's end in 1945, carrying out guerrilla warfare on Lubang Island in…