Australian War Memorial On July 1, 1942, an American submarine fired four torpedoes at a Japanese merchant ship, the Montevideo Maru, which sank to the bottom of the South China Sea in just ten ...

The strike virtually eliminated Japanese airpower east of the Marianas, and the Ghost Fleet is believed to be the world's most complete collection of unsalvaged World War II ships. "I just fell in ...

A Japanese merchant ship that sank during World War II while carrying over 1,000 prisoners of war in Australia’s largest loss of life at sea has been found. The Montevideo Maru was discovered ...

Contact her at [email protected] High-tech 3D images and video showed two doomed WWII Japanese ... and destroyed Imperial Japanese Navy warships and merchant ships in the Pacific ...

Ocean explorers announced Saturday they have discovered the remains of a Japanese World War II vessel that sank ... of the Japanese merchant ship the MV Montevideo Maru. (Australian War Memorial ...

The ship sank off the coast of the Philippines in July 1942. A Japanese merchant ship that sank during World War II with 864 Australian soldiers on board has been found by deep-sea survey experts ...

SYDNEY, April 22 (Reuters) - Australia's Defence Minister Richard Marles said on Saturday that the wreck of a Japanese merchant ship, sunk in World War Two with 864 Australian soldiers on board ...