Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A watan Satumbar 1941, ya zama Kwamandan Makarantar Jami'an 'Yan Sanda na Toyohashi. Duk da haka, saboda mutuwar Manjo Janar Tomitarō Horii Kamfanin Kokoda Track
a New Guinea, an sanya Oda a matsayin wanda zai maye gurbinsa a matsayin Kwamandan Sojojin Kudancin Kudancin. Duk da haka, Kudancin Kudancin Kudancin ya sami kansa da sojojin Allied suka kewaye shi kuma a wani wuri inda ba za a iya samun ƙarfafawa ko kayan aiki ba. Lokacin da aka ba da umarnin janyewa daga hedkwatar Sojoji na 18 na IJA, Oda ya bar marasa lafiya da raunuka a baya kuma ya jagoranci mutanensa zuwa gabar Kogin Kumusi, kawai don gano cewa duk sauran jiragen ruwa da ya rage lokacin da ya shirya komawa baya sun kama sojojin da suka riga shi. Ya kashe kansa a bakin kogi ta hanyar harbi kansa da bindigarsa.