The man who stayed in the jungle for 29 years after World War II ended. He was a Japanese soldier holding out on the island of Lubang in the Philippines. He did not come out of hiding until 1974 when his former commander travelled from Japan to relieve him of duty.
Werner Herzog wrote a short, slightly fictionalized book about this called The Twilight Wo…
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