Word: anatahan
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...white flag was raised last week to signal the surrender of 19 Japanese holdouts still fighting World War II on tiny Anatahan Island. One of their group, Japanese Petty Officer Junji Inoue, had surrendered to the crew of a U.S. Navy tug three weeks ago (TIME, June 25). He told his captors then that the others were being held in thrall at machine-gun point by a tyrannical seaman named Ichiro. The Navymen dropped encouraging letters on the holdouts' camp from the air and waited. Last week the remaining Japanese met them on the beach, bearing the ashes...
...years ago, U.S. dive bombers sank three small Japanese cargo ships in the harbor of the tiny island of Anatahan, 61 miles north of Saipan. Thirty-three Japanese soldiers and sailors scrambled ashore and set up camp on the island. The men lived on lizards, mangoes, bananas and coconuts, made clothes for themselves out of parachute nylon salvaged from the wreckage...
Last week, finally persuaded by a letter from his brother, Petty Officer Junji Inoue, clad in parachute shirt and pants, stepped out of Anatahan's bushes and gave himself up to the crew of a Navy tug. Still holding out with one machine gun in the island's hills: 18 of his companions, who were still unconvinced that peace had broken...
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