WWII shipwreck carrying Australian POWs found after 81 years in South China Sea.
TL;DR
The SS Montevideo Maru, a Japanese merchant ship carrying over 1,000 prisoners of war, including 850 Australian service members, sank during World War II in the South China Sea. The ship was discovered off the northwest coast of the Philippines’ Luzon island at a depth of more than 4,000 meters. The vessel had not been marked as transporting prisoners of war when it was torpedoed and sunk by an American submarine on July 1, 1942. The discovery brings closure to families of those who lost their lives in Australia’s largest loss of life at sea.
Topics:worldhistory#australia#history#prisoners-of-war#south-china-sea#ss-montevideo-maru#world-war-ii
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