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Originally Posted by Observer1940
Brian
I am sorry, I can't help you with this one.
However, do you have an account of a ship with British pow on board hit by the allies and sunk, which is classed as friendly fire by some organisations.
This friendly fire account came to light when I was making enquiries about my Grandmother's Brother-in-Law who was a pow and had also worked on the Burma railroad. He was transferred to a hospital apparently and died on 23 July 1945. He is buried at Labuan.
But some pow in another ship never made their trips to relative safety and were killed by the allies in what is classed as a friendly fire incident.
Mark
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Hi Mark
Sad to say this was not an isolated incident - a large number of PoW's were killed when their ships were sunk by the US Navy, to whom you can attach no blame. This is because of the atrocious way the Japanese carried PoW's between the various PoW camps and Japan etc., in unmarked "hell" ships and carrying war cargo in some instances. I would also take "transferred to a hospital" with a pinch of salt if you expect that hospital to have had reasonable facilities. Doctors did a heroic job with the totally inadequate facilities they had, virtually no drugs, no anaesthetics etc. etc.
See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_ship and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ese_hell_ships for example
Allan