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Wreck of World War II Japanese 'hellship' that sank with more than 1,000 Allied POWs on board discovered off…

Tom Metcalfe 1-1 minutes 6/16/2026

The wreck of a Japanese prison ship that was sunk by U.S. warplanes and went down with more than 1,000 Allied prisoners of war in 1944 has been discovered in the Philippines.

The vessel was one of the notorious "hellships" used by the Japanese to ferry POWs between work camps. Many of the prisoners who died when the ship sank had worked on the infamous Burma-Thailand "Death Railway."

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