What year was it when the last Japanese soldier surrendered?
What year was it when the last Japanese soldier surrendered?
Prisoners from what country were forced to play their German captors in soccer games?
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Ukrainians.
They made a movie about it called 'Victory', but in the movie the prisoners were British, American and... Brasilian... Also not represented in the movie was the aftermath when the players, after beating the crap out of their captors in the games, were either executed or shipped off to death camps.
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Escape to Victory (1981)
A couple of actors, Michael Caine, Sylvester Stallone & Max von Sydow, along with a Who's who of some of the greatest players ever to play the beautiful game ~ Pele, Ardilles, Bobby Moore & Kazimierz Deyna.
Great 'feel good' war film, unfortunately it's shown at least once a year, so it's easy to get sick of
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I remember this from school, April 1980.
An Imperial Japanese Army Captain, Fumio Nakahira finally surrendered on the island of Mindiro in the Philipines.............
I also seem to recall a story about a couple of soldiers captured in 1989 in Thailand, fitting with some Communist guerillas, but I'm not too sure about that one.........
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My favorite story is about the guy named Hiroo Onoda. He surrendered in 1974, and wouldn't listen to anyone who tried to tell him that the war was over. A Japanese student went into the mountains to find him and talk to him.
The student found out he would only surrender if it was an order from a superior officer. So the student took a picture of him with the soldier, and went back to Japan. They found one of his superiors who was now working as a fishermen or something like that....flew him down, and ordered the soldier to surrender.
They took a look at his gear that he had with him, he had like 500 rounds of ammo for his rifle (that was still in perfect working condition), and some hand grenades.
What was "Operation Paperclip"??? (done by the Americans)
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