Interesting Masters trivia

[MinnesotaFats]

In 1945, after WW2, Agusta National reopened.

Do you know who provided the labor to get her back in shape?

German POWs from Rommell's Affika Corp

Neat!

 

[jjgold]

Interesting fact, there

 

[KVB]

In 1945, after WW2, Agusta National reopened.

Do you know who provided the labor to get her back in shape?

German POWs from Rommell's Affika Corp

Neat!

 

[edawg]

Germans and Japanese are smart and efficient people.

 

[KVB]

Germans and Japanese are smart and efficient people.

Man, Japanese are industrious little fukks.

They were digging tunnels in the islands in the Pacific during the war. Like a crazy network of tunnels by hand with picks and hoes.

 

[MinnesotaFats]

Man, Japanese are industrious little fukks.

They were digging tunnels in the islands in the Pacific during the war. Like a crazy network of tunnels by hand with picks and hoes.

Wasn't there a Jap still living in the tunnels in the 1970s that refused to surrender?

 

[KVB]

Wasn't there a Jap still living in the tunnels in the 1970s that refused to surrender?

yeah, dude held out for like 30 years.

Lubang Island, Phillippines.

He thought the war was still going on.

Unreal

 

[KVB]

Key Details About Hiroo Onoda

• Duration: Onoda stayed on Lubang Island from 1944 until March 1974.
• Beliefs: He believed leaflets announcing the war's end were fake and remained committed to his orders to hold the island.
• Survival: He survived on bananas, coconuts, and stolen rice/livestock.
• Surrender: He surrendered after his former commander, Major Yoshimi Taniguchi, traveled to the island to issue a direct order to cease operations.
• Later Life: Upon returning to Japan, he struggled to adjust, later moving to Brazil to raise cattle before dying in 2014 at age 91

 

[KVB]

He lived in the jungle and tunnels for 30 years and lived to be 91.

We're so fukked in America with our food and environment.

 

[KVB]

Dude was still following the orders to never surrender from 1944.

lol

 

[KVB]

Shit, also found this...

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Other Notable "Holdouts"

• Shoichi Yokoi Discovered in Guam in 1972, he had lived in an underground cave for nearly three decades

 

[phillyflyers]

In 1945, after WW2, Agusta National reopened.

Do you know who provided the labor to get her back in shape?

German POWs from Rommell's Affika Corp

Neat!

Doesn't surprise me.

The Germans supplied the leadership that started the US space program.

 

[JDS]

Hard to do trivia on the internet in the days of AI just saying. This is a good get together trivia over shots & hors d’oeuvres all phones down.