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Tuurke64 t1_ixuw3fk wrote

Reply to comment by TheSorge in TIL of the Arisan Maru, a Japanese "hell ship" that was torpedoed while carrying Allied prisoners of war. None of the 1,781 passengers were killed by the explosion, but other Japanese ships refused to rescue them, resulting in only 9 survivors. by Jupitair

My great uncle Willem Jan Hoornweg died on the Jun'yo Maru in 1944. The number of casualties on this ship was almost four times as high as on the Titanic.

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