Hōfuku Maru found after 80 years: The WWII hellship where more than 1,000 POWs died in minutes

On September 21, 1944, a Japanese cargo ship called the Hōfuku Maru was sailing off the coast of the Philippines as part of a military convoy when American warplanes spotted it from above. What the pilots did not know could not have known was that the ship's dark, stifling holds were packed with over 1,200 British and Dutch prisoners of war, many of them survivors of the brutal Burma-Thailand Death Railway.

Raccontata datimesofindia.indiatimes.com