Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda (pictured surrendering in 1974) was sent to Lubang in the Philippines in 1944 and given strict instructions not to surrender or take his own life.
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Hiroo Onoda, who died in 2014 at the age of 91, was stationed on the island in the Philippines in 1944 but remained until 1974 because he did not believe the war was over.
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