The unbelievable story of a Japanese soldier who hid in a jungle cave for 27 years until he was found in 1972
Shoichi Yokoi was 26 when he was drafted into the Japanese Army in 1941. At the time, soldiers were taught that surrender was the worst possible fate for a soldier — so when US forces invaded Japanese-occupied Guam in 1944, Yokoi fled into the jungle. He dug a cave near a waterfall, covered it with …
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