Lubang Island

Manila itself has had three alarms, but Wirtham said no bombs have actually dropped inside the city.

Japanese forces are said to have landed on Lubang Island, near the entrance to Manila Harbor, and Tokyo now claims the occupation of the American-owned islands Guam and Wake, and the Japanese maintain that a blow of annihilation was dealt Hawaii's Pearl Harbor Naval Base in yesterday's initial attack.

According to official Tokyo claims, an American warship has been sunk off Guam, and several American merchant ships have been captured.

Tokyo has not admitted a single naval loss.

Province.

Lubang Island.

Mindoro? Okay.

Mindoro.

According to Beatrice Trafelet, a Japan scholar of Monash University, Onoda's claim that he was unaware of the war's conclusion is questionable.

She notes that while he later maintained he did not know the conflict had ended, he was not completely isolated from outside information, as he had access to sources such as newspapers and carried a transistor radio while living on Lubang Island.

Crazy.

Sounds like he, he got so...

Percival split the island into defensive zones, but wrongly guessed the Japanese would strike the northeast.

Yamashita had actually massed his real forces in the west using a decoy landing on Lubang Island to reinforce Percival's error.

Aiming to seize Singapore by February the 11th, a date sacred in Shinto tradition, Yamashita struck west with devastating effect, shattering Australian brigades and racing towards Bukit Timah despite his own dwindling ammunition and fuel.

British units collapsed into chaos and disobeyed orders while retreating.

Hiro was a Japanese soldier in the Second World War.

In 1944, he was sent to Lubang Island in the Philippines with this instruction, never surrender.

And so he didn't until 1974.

In 29 years, he had ignored all attempts to tell him that the war was done.