Shinyo Maru Incident

Quand

7 sept. 1944

Type

Bataille

Coordonnées

12.00° N, 123.00° E

Description

attack on a Japanese convoy by the United States Navy

Naval

oui

War

World War II

Placé sur le pays : la source n’indique pas de lieu plus précis.

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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