TīmeklisThe following stories were from interviews with survivors and recorded aboard the USS PAMPANITO. They related the prisoner atrocities during captivity and how it felt to be torpedoed and survive being in the water for five days. At 0200 hours, September 12, 1944, the Japanese cargo ship, RAKUYO MARU, took torpedo hits to the bow and … Tīmeklis2024. gada 3. maijs · There were 900 POW onboard the Kachidoki Maru and 1300 onboard the Rakuyo Maru. Everyone on the Rakuyo Maru escaped injury from the torpedo strikes. Despite that, some 1000 POW died as a result of the attacks on the convoy (543 Australians, including 25 South Australians). POW on the Rakuyo Maru …
Lists of Survivors from the Sinking of the POW Transport RAKUYO MARU …
TīmeklisThe Rakuyo Maru was part of Japan Party 3, the ship sailed with 1318 POW’s, consisting of 600 British, 718 Australian and a few Americans, all coming from the Thailand-Burma Railway. ... The 136 who were saved by the Japanese arrived at … Tīmeklis2014. gada 7. sept. · After a further long roundabout voyage the Maros Maru finally arrived at Surabaya Java on November 22nd with only 325 survivors – fully half of the POWs had died on the voyage. With over 9,000 POWs and Asian labourers dying on various hellships that month, September 1944 was the worst month of the war for … i c health
Kachidoki Maru - Roll of Honour
Tīmeklis2024. gada 19. marts · On 12 September 1944, a wolfpack of U.S. submarines attacked the Japanese convoy HI-72 in the South China Sea. Among the ships sunk were two carrying Allied prisoners of war. Men who had already endured the trials of Japanese captivity faced a renewed struggle for survival at sea. This book tells the broader … Tīmeklis2014. gada 12. sept. · These men survived the sinking of two Japanese troop transports, the Kachidoki Maru and the Rakuyo Maru by Pampanito and USS Sealion II (SS-315) on 12 September 1944 respectively. Many individual survivors formed groups and fashioned makeshift rafts from what floating debris was available to them. TīmeklisA hell ship is a ship with extremely inhumane living conditions or with a reputation for cruelty among the crew. It now generally refers to the ships used by the Imperial Japanese Navy and Imperial Japanese Army to transport Allied prisoners of war (POWs) and rōmusha (Asian forced slave laborers) out of the Philippines, the Dutch East … i c king halesworth