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Originally Posted by roachboy
while what guyy said is right, i dont imagine that being the history channel's kind of thing. it doesn't wrap up nicely in the alloted time slot. better to focus on a more containable "last casualty"----btw wasn't there a a soldier--i cant remember from where--maybe japan?----in maybe new guinea who didnt know the war was over or something until the early 1970s?
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Several of them in fact. The last one I know of was found in April, 1980. Captain Fumio Nakahira. He was found living on Mindoro.
There was another guy said to have been found in the Philippines in 1997, but that turned out to be a hoax.
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