A Japanese ship was in a convoy steaming through the South China Sea on September 21, 1944, with around 1,200 British and Dutch prisoners of war crammed in its holds. US warplanes, mistaking the ...
The discovery, announced by the Hellships Memorial Foundation, was also aired in early June on the Discovery Channel’s Expedition Unknown program.
About 10,000 men died on the march, while thousands of others died in the camps. Those who survived weren’t freed until 1945. (DoD) More than 80 years later, the remains of U.S. POWs buried as ...
Struck by an Allied torpedo, the Japanese “Hell ship” Hōfuku Marul was split in half and went under the water in less than three minutes, taking more than 1,000 Allied POWs with it. (Hellships ...
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