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On Wed. 01 Jul 1942 USS Sturgeon sank Japanese passenger ship Montevid.....

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USS Sturgeon sank Japanese passenger ship Montevideo Maru off northern Philippine Islands before dawn; 1,124 were killed, 17 survived. The crew of Sturgeon did not realize that most of those aboard were Australian prisoners of war, which constituted 1,053 of the 1,124 killed.

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