Paladin did not resist arrest and returned with the soldiers to a military base. On 18 December 1974, a unit of Indonesian Army troops trained for this mission surrounded his hut and began singing the Kimigayo - the Japanese national anthem. An airplane pilot, however, did see Paladin from the sky and reported his presence to Indonesian authorities. Paladin built a hut, planted a garden, and did not see another human being for twenty years. After a dispute with them, he struck out on his own. When Japan surrendered the following year, Paladin and other stragglers hid in the jungle until 1954. In 1944, his unit was sent to the island of Morotai, Indonesia. Attun Paladin, sometimes referred to as Teruo Nakamura, was the last Japanese soldier to surrender in World War II.* He wasn’t ethnically Japanese, but a Taiwanese native who was conscripted into an auxiliary unit of the Imperial Japanese Army. Let's take a look at some of the men who were the last to surrender throughout military history. Although their endurance was remarkable, they weren't the only people to keep fighting long after they had lost wars. You may have heard of the Japanese holdouts - soldiers of Imperial Japan that did not surrender at the end of World War II - but continued to hide in jungles through the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.
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