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In this real-life World War II survival tragedy, hundreds of American and Allied prisoners of war found themselves crammed in the suffocating darkness of a Japanese freighter—the Arisan Maru. Unknown to them, they were being transported across the South China Sea in a floating coffin, with no Red Cross markings and no ventilation, sealed behind iron hatches like animals. When an American submarine unknowingly torpedoed the ship, chaos erupted below deck.

Prisoners begged and screamed for the hatch to open as saltwater flooded the hold—but above, the Japanese guards yanked up the rope ladder, slashed it, and slammed the iron hatch shut, dooming nearly 1,800 men to drown like rats in the dark. The few who escaped faced unspeakable horrors—swimming through oil-slick waters, watching their own friends get beaten, shot, or ignored by Japanese destroyers, and clinging to debris for a miracle that never came.

This is not fiction—it is one of the most censored, silenced, and shocking war crimes of the Pacific. A story of treachery, survival, betrayal, and the small handful of men who lived to tell it.

Video: The Sinking of the Arisan Maru (WWII True Story)
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