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Photographer: Richard E. Miller
Taken: January 29, 2013
Caption: The Hellships Memorial: Tribute to the lives lost aboard the Montevideo Maru
Additional Description: Special tribute to the 1,053 Prisoners of War (Australian soldiers known as the “Lark Force” and militia men of the Papua-New Guinea Volunteer Rifles [“PNGVR”] and European civilians taken prisoner at Rabaul, New Britain - all of whom lost their lives when the un-marked Japanese “hell ship” Montevideo Maru was tragically torpedoed and sunk by the American submarine Sturgeon off the coast of the Philippines on 1 July 1943 while en route to Japan.
Dedicated by Mr. Rod Smith, Australian Ambassador to the Philippines at the Hellships Memorial on 1 July 2009.
Submitted: August 26, 2013, by Richard E. Miller of Oxon Hill, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p252358
File Size: 1.967 Megabytes

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