The Lisbon Maru carrying 1,816 British POWs went down in 1942. But 384 survived, plucked from the sea by Chinese fishermen braving Japanese soldiers' machine-gun fire. Decades later, their families came back to Dongji Island to make sure that the story would never be forgotten. | Collector

The Lisbon Maru carrying 1,816 British POWs went down in 1942. But 384 survived, plucked from the sea by Chinese fishermen braving Japanese soldiers' machine-gun fire. Decades later, their families came back to Dongji Island to make sure that the story would never be forgotten.

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The Lisbon Maru carrying 1,816 British POWs went down in 1942. But 384 survived, plucked from the sea by Chinese fishermen braving Japanese soldiers' machine-gun fire. Decades later, their families came back to Dongji Island to make sure that the story would never be forgotten.

The Lisbon Maru carrying 1,816 British POWs went down in 1942. But 384 survived, plucked from the sea by Chinese fishermen braving Japanese soldiers' machine-gun fire. Decades later, their families came back to Dongji Island to make sure that the story would never be forgotten.

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