Maru. In 1938 the registered spelling of name became Zyunyo Maru. The name's modern rendition into the Latin alphabet is Jun'yō Maru. In 1944 Jun'yō Maru...
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Hell ship (section Jun'yō Maru)
Dutch prisoners of war; 1,047 of them died. The 5,065-ton tramp steamer Jun'yō Maru sailed from Tandjoeng Priok (Batavia) on 16 September 1944 with about...
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Jun'yō (隼鷹, "Peregrine Falcon") was a Hiyō-class aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). She was laid down as the passenger liner Kashiwara...
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Catholic Chaplain who was killed aboard Shin'yō Maru Jun'yō Maru – Hell ship sunk September 1944 Ōryoku Maru – Hell ship sunk December 1944 Japanese war crimes...
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Japanese aircraft carrier Un'yō (redirect from SS Yawata Maru)
a Taiyō-class escort carrier originally built as Yawata Maru (八幡丸), one of three Nitta Maru-class cargo liners built in Japan during the late 1930s....
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Heinrich Wiegand, Gyōkū Maru, Jun'yō Maru 19 Sep: Isoshima, U-407, U-867 21 Sep: China Maru, Hōfuku Maru, Katsuriki, Noshiro Maru, Satsuki 22 Sep: Drache...
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SS Rakuyo Maru (楽洋丸) was a passenger cargo ship built in 1921 by the Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Nagasaki for Nippon Yusen Kisen Kaisha...
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Heinrich Wiegand, Gyōkū Maru, Jun'yō Maru 19 Sep: Isoshima, U-407, U-867 21 Sep: China Maru, Hōfuku Maru, Katsuriki, Noshiro Maru, Satsuki 22 Sep: Drache...
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1944 – World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Jun'yō Maru, killing 5,600, mostly slave labourers and POWs. 1944 – World War II:...
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therefore planned two kinds of seaplane tenders which were included in the Maru 4 Programme. One was a 10,000-ton class flying boat carrier, the other a...
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he died along with thousands of others when the Japanese cargo ship Jun'yō Maru sank after being torpedoed by the British submarine HMS Tradewind. Copa...
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and Jun'yō, were originally laid down as luxury passenger liners before being acquired by the IJN for conversion to aircraft carriers in 1941. Jun'yō was...
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blew the stern off and the second hit amidships, sinking cargo ship Shori Maru in two minutes. The submarine ended her patrol at Pearl Harbor on 26 March...
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Rakuto Maru was a cargo steamship that was built in Japan in 1935. The Imperial Japanese Army requisitioned her in 1937, and used her in the Second Sino-Japanese...
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WWII: British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Japanese "hell ship" Jun'yō Maru; 5,620 drown. After German forces declare the evacuation of Estonia the...
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Shin'yō Maru was a cargo steamship that was built in 1894, had a fifty-year career under successive British, Australian, Chinese and Greek owners, was...
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Heinrich Wiegand, Gyōkū Maru, Jun'yō Maru 19 Sep: Isoshima, U-407, U-867 21 Sep: China Maru, Hōfuku Maru, Katsuriki, Noshiro Maru, Satsuki 22 Sep: Drache...
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SS President Harrison (redirect from Kachidoki Maru)
aground to avoid the capture. After repairs, the ship was renamed Kachidoki Maru (勝鬨丸), put under control of NYK Line and entered the Japan to Taiwan route...
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to the Netherlands to visit family. Stufkens went missing after the Jun'yō Maru where he was on, was attacked by the Japanese on 18 September 1944. He...
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from those typical in the West. Merchant ship names often contain the word maru at the end (meaning circle), while warships are never named after people...
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Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). Originally planned as the ocean liner Izumo Maru (出雲丸) in 1939, she was purchased by the Navy Ministry in 1941 for conversion...
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count, but includes the 703 prisoners and war and 6,500 deaths of the Jun'yō Maru Hovinga, Henk (2010). The Sumatra Railroad: Final Destination Pakan Baroe...
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Heinrich Wiegand, Gyōkū Maru, Jun'yō Maru 19 Sep: Isoshima, U-407, U-867 21 Sep: China Maru, Hōfuku Maru, Katsuriki, Noshiro Maru, Satsuki 22 Sep: Drache...
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Heinrich Wiegand, Gyōkū Maru, Jun'yō Maru 19 Sep: Isoshima, U-407, U-867 21 Sep: China Maru, Hōfuku Maru, Katsuriki, Noshiro Maru, Satsuki 22 Sep: Drache...
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Heinrich Wiegand, Gyōkū Maru, Jun'yō Maru 19 Sep: Isoshima, U-407, U-867 21 Sep: China Maru, Hōfuku Maru, Katsuriki, Noshiro Maru, Satsuki 22 Sep: Drache...
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Ural Maru (うらる丸, Uraru-Maru) was a 6,377-ton Japanese merchant vessel, used as a transport ship and hospital ship during World War II. She was torpedoed...
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Heinrich Wiegand, Gyōkū Maru, Jun'yō Maru 19 Sep: Isoshima, U-407, U-867 21 Sep: China Maru, Hōfuku Maru, Katsuriki, Noshiro Maru, Satsuki 22 Sep: Drache...
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Heinrich Wiegand, Gyōkū Maru, Jun'yō Maru 19 Sep: Isoshima, U-407, U-867 21 Sep: China Maru, Hōfuku Maru, Katsuriki, Noshiro Maru, Satsuki 22 Sep: Drache...
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Heinrich Wiegand, Gyōkū Maru, Jun'yō Maru 19 Sep: Isoshima, U-407, U-867 21 Sep: China Maru, Hōfuku Maru, Katsuriki, Noshiro Maru, Satsuki 22 Sep: Drache...
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