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Originally Posted by Kant Schwimm
Yup the war went on for quite a while after VJday, thousands of little islands to clear up of jap troops who unfortunatley for them never knew the war ended, infact i'm sure I read a story of a jap soldier found guarding his island post many years after the war ended.
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Yea, there was two soldiers on some island in the Philipines who kept fighting until the 1970's (by that time, one had died). He saw US planes and choppers go over during Korea and Vietnam and though Japan was launching new offensives. They even had his family try and talk him out but he tought it was a trap and didn't surender. When he finally did, he ran off to Chille because hes wanted in the Philipines for killing over a dozen people over the years. And I think he was greated as a hero in Japan when he first came home../