Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths
Manga
Drama
Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths is a one-shot manga written and illustrated by Shigeru Mizuki. In it, Mizuki describes his experiences as a soldier participating in the New Guinea campaign during World War II. He portrays the final weeks of his infantry service as the soldiers were instructed to die for their country to avoid the dishonor of survival.
Description from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. May be shortened.