Captain Sakae Oba
Surrendered - December 1, 1945
Captain Sakae Oba and about forty-six other members of his force held out after the Battle for Saipan hiding in the caves and jungles, carrying out occasional guerrilla actions against U.S. forces, which had declared the island secured in July 1944.
Surrender
His force
officially surrendered to American forces on December 1, 1945. His group
was the last organized resistance of the Japanese forces on Saipan.
Afterwards
Some of his men returned to Saipan back in
the 1980s. Oba had heart problems in later life, and died sometime
in the 1980s.
- Jones, Don. Oba The Last Samurai. Presido Press, 1986.
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