In the South China Sea, explorers have discovered a Japanese ship from World War II that was carrying over 1,000 Allied prisoners of war when it was shot down in 1942. The Montevideo Maru was not marked as carrying prisoners, leading an American submarine to fire four deadly torpedoes on July 1, 1942. A total of 1,080 people from fourteen countries died, with 979 of them Australian citizens, marking the largest maritime war loss for the country.
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