WWII shipwreck with over 1,000 POWs found in South China Sea.
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Australian explorers, together with Dutch deep-sea survey specialists Fugro and Australia’s Defense Department, have found the sunken Japanese ship Montevideo Maru, which was transporting Allied prisoners of war when it was torpedoed off the coast of the Philippines in 1942, resulting in Australia’s largest maritime wartime loss with a total of 1,080 lives. The wreck was located after a 12-day search at a depth of over 4,000 meters off Luzon island in the South China Sea. The ship was not marked as carrying POWs, and those killed included 1,080 people from 14 nations, including 979 Australians.
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