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Japanese soldier found in Guam, 1972...
Japanese soldier found in Guam, 1972...
Item # 581795
January 26, 1972
THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, January 26, 1972
* World War II Japanese Soldier Found in Hiding
* Shoichi Yokoi
This 42 page newspaper has a two line, two column headline on page 6: "WW II Ends on Guam For Japanese Sergeant" with a two column before and after photo of Shoichi Yokoi who was in hiding thinking World War II was still active. Other news of the day throughout. Small binding holes along the spine, otherwise in nice condition.
Background (Wikipedia): Shōichi Yokoi (横井 庄一, Yokoi Shōichi?), (March 31, 1915 – September 22, 1997) was a Japanese sergeant in the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during the Second World War. He was among the last three Japanese hold-outs to surrender after the end of hostilities in 1945.
On the evening of January 24, 1972, Yokoi was discovered in the jungle.He was found by Jesus Dueñas and Manuel De Gracia, two local men who were checking their shrimp traps along a small river on Talofofo. They had initially assumed that Yokoi was a villager from Talofofo, but managed to surprise and subdue him, carrying him out of the jungle with minor bruising. "It is with some embarrassment, but I have returned," he said upon his return to Japan. The remark would become a popular saying in Japanese. For twenty-eight years, he hid in an underground jungle cave, fearing to come out of hiding even after finding leaflets declaring that World War II had ended. Yokoi was the third-to-last Japanese soldier to surrender after the war, preceding Hiroo Onoda and Teruo Nakamura.
* World War II Japanese Soldier Found in Hiding
* Shoichi Yokoi
This 42 page newspaper has a two line, two column headline on page 6: "WW II Ends on Guam For Japanese Sergeant" with a two column before and after photo of Shoichi Yokoi who was in hiding thinking World War II was still active. Other news of the day throughout. Small binding holes along the spine, otherwise in nice condition.
Background (Wikipedia): Shōichi Yokoi (横井 庄一, Yokoi Shōichi?), (March 31, 1915 – September 22, 1997) was a Japanese sergeant in the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during the Second World War. He was among the last three Japanese hold-outs to surrender after the end of hostilities in 1945.
On the evening of January 24, 1972, Yokoi was discovered in the jungle.He was found by Jesus Dueñas and Manuel De Gracia, two local men who were checking their shrimp traps along a small river on Talofofo. They had initially assumed that Yokoi was a villager from Talofofo, but managed to surprise and subdue him, carrying him out of the jungle with minor bruising. "It is with some embarrassment, but I have returned," he said upon his return to Japan. The remark would become a popular saying in Japanese. For twenty-eight years, he hid in an underground jungle cave, fearing to come out of hiding even after finding leaflets declaring that World War II had ended. Yokoi was the third-to-last Japanese soldier to surrender after the war, preceding Hiroo Onoda and Teruo Nakamura.
Category: The 20th Century
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