Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!A Japanese soldier ordered to "fight to the bitter end" waged a guerrilla campaign in the Philippines for another 30 years after the end of World War II.Second lieutenant Hiroo Onoda and three colleagues had been told by their commanding officer not to surrender and not to take their own lives on Boxing Day in 1944.The young intelligence officer honoured the promise, despite VJ Day coming and going, leaflets being dropped telling him the war was over and losing his three comrades in arms.Thirty Filipinos died at the hands of the accidental Japanese resistance movement, and second lieutenant Onoda only surrendered after his now retired commanding officer ordered him to, writes The Sun.The.
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