After 80 years of searching authorities have finally recovered the wreckage of SS Montevideo Maru shipwreck in the South China Sea. Allies sank the ship in 1942 during World War II, drowning more than 800 Australian prisoners of war and civilians. 7NEWS at 6pm. More local news: 7news.com.au/news/sydney #SSMontevideoMaru #MontevideoMaru #7NEWS | 7NEWS Sydney

Today marks the 82nd anniversary of the sinking of the Japanese merchant vessel Montevideo Maru. The Montevideo Maru was a Japanese auxiliary ship carrying a large number of Australian prisoners of war, captured after the fall of Rabaul and New Ireland to the Japanese in early 1942. On 1 July 1942, the American submarine USS Sturgeon, unaware of the ship’s cargo, maneuvered into position and fired its torpedoes. According to both Sturgeon’s log and accounts of Japanese survivors, the Montevideo

Fact Slap 👋 Today in 1940, HMS Liverpool stops Asama Maru, a Japanese liner, off Honshu (35 miles from Japan) and takes off 21 German passengers (of 51 total Germans on board). The Germans are sailor survivors of the German liner Columbus that was scuttled off the US east coast on 19 December 1939). They are returning to Germany by a circuitous route and had left San Francisco on the 6th of January. Once in Japan, the would have then travelled to Russia and back to Germany. The men are consider