Lost 1944 Hellship finally found 160 feet below seafloor | World News
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June 24, 2026
In the shallow, churning waters off the Philippine coast, a long-forgotten wartime story is brought back to view, not through ritual or land excavation, but through the slow, patient work of sonar scanning and archival excavation. What began as a search…
Pentagon dispatches professional divers to search for 250 Americans missing aboard ‘Hell Ship’ in Philippine Sea in 1944 World News
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March 30, 2026
In December 1944, 80 years after the sinking of the hell ship Daitama Maru, DPAA conducted a daring, multi-year recovery expedition in the Philippine Sea. In December 1944, the Japanese Hell Ship was unknowingly bombed by the United States, causing more…