WWII 'Hellship' Hofuku Maru, Sunk with 1,200 Allied POWs, Discovered by Divers
The article reports on the discovery of the WWII "hellship" Hofuku Maru, which was sunk in 1944 with over 1,200 Allied prisoners of war aboard. The ship, carrying British and Dutch POWs who had survived the Burma-Thailand "Death Railway," was torpedoed by American aircraft while