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Lucky 73: USS Pampanito's Unlikely Rescue of Allied POWs in WWII

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Today USS Pampanito is a tourist destination. During WWII the submarine earned six battle stars, sank six Japanese ships, damaged four others, and rescued seventy-three British and Australian POWs from the South China Sea. Astonishingly, this rescue happened three days after she sank one of the transport ships on which the Allied prisoners were being ferried to Japan. The chain of events that led to this rescue is truly remarkable. Captured in 1942, forced to spend fifteen months constructing the Burma-Thai Railroad, and ...

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Lucky 73: USS Pampanito's Unlikely Rescue of Allied POWs in WWII 2010, University Press of Florida

ISBN-13: 9780813034270

Hardcover