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Old 07-16-2010, 05:57 PM   #18
Diaphone Jim
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I guess I need a red face here. The stats I got from three Wikipedia subjects about the numbers of POW's on board the Japanese ships and the number rescued differ from what are probably better sources.
It is more likely that there were at least 951 survivors, about a third rescued by American subs and the rest by the Japanese.
It must have been an unimaginably chaotic and tragic scene.
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