Shinyo Maru Incident

Wann

7. Sept. 1944

Art

Schlacht

Koordinaten

12.00° N, 123.00° E

Description

attack on a Japanese convoy by the United States Navy

Naval

ja

War

World War II

Im Land platziert: Die Quelle nennt keinen genaueren Ort.

1944 killing in the Philippines by Japan

The Shin'yō Maru incident occurred in the Philippines on September 7, 1944, in the Pacific theater of World War II. In an attack on a Japanese convoy by the United States Navy submarine USS Paddle, 668 Allied prisoners of war were killed fighting their Japanese guards or killed when their ship, Shinyō Maru, was sunk. Only 82 Americans survived and were later rescued.

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