Twenty-nine years after the end of World War II, Japanese lieutenant Hiroo Onoda surrendered on March 9, 1974.
Onoda had been sent to Lubang Island in the Philippines in February 1945, tasked with hampering enemy attacks on the island.
Onoda and the three surviving members of his unit spent years living as guerrillas in the mountains, ignoring airdropped leaflets telling them the war had ended.
But over time, the other holdouts surrendered or died.
