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Post by randysubic on Apr 8, 2015 9:05:12 GMT 8
A little late posting this but I just found the forum and joined. On September 7, 1944, the Shinyo Maru was sailing for Manila. The vessel was one of the “Hell Ships” used by the Imperial Japanese Navy and Army to transport Allied prisoners from the Philippines to elsewhere in the Japanese empire. Unaware that it was carrying 750 prisoners of war, mostly American survivors, the American submarine USS Paddle SS263, which was tasked to search for the Japanese ship, attacked it. The US submarine torpedoed the Shinyo Maru about a mile offshore from Sindangan point in Zamboanga del Norte. Of the 83 prisoners of war who made it to the shore, one died after they came ashore and was buried on the hill of the town of Sindangan. The 82 remaining survivors were cared for by the locals of Sindangan. Now, in the same site, under a grove of coconut trees facing the Sindangan Bay, lies a commemorative marker in honor of the bravery and heroism of the Shinyo Maru prisoners and the people of Sindangan. The site in Barangay R.G. Macias is where survivors were sheltered and fed by the locals, and where they were picked-up by another US submarine. The Marker reads: This Commemoration Marker is dedicated in honor of the residents in the Liloy-Sindangan Area of Mindanao, Philippines whose demonstration of Filipino hospitality and care saved 82 prisoners of war, all citizens of the United States of America, from recapture by the Japanese authorities seventy years ago, when the SS Shinyo Maru Sank on 7 September 1944. Installed and dedicated this 7th day of September 2014. www.flickr.com/photos/39180497@N05/sets/72157646987793907/
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Post by Karl Welteke on Apr 8, 2015 20:37:06 GMT 8
Thank you Randy for posting it.
My memory is failing me. I know the ship, the incident was covered a lot recently by email in my circles. But somehow, I think, we covered it somewhere in this forum and I don’t remember where nor can I find anything by searching.
Can anyone else guide to the place where we covered this before.
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