page_title: Shin'yō Maru incident
section_title: Aftermath
hierarchical_section_title: Shin'yō Maru incident / Aftermath
caption_attribution_description: English: Plaque in San Antonio, Texas dedicated to the survivors of the P.O.W. Hell Ship Shinyo Maru, sunk by USS Paddle (SS-263) on the 54 anniversary, 7 September 1998.
context_page_description: The Shinyō Maru incident occurred in the Philippines on September 7, 1944, in the Pacific theater of World War II. In an attack on a Japanese convoy by the American submarine USS Paddle, 668 Allied prisoners of war were killed fighting their Japanese guards or killed when their ship, the SS Shinyō Maru was sunk. Only 82 Americans survived the ordeal and were later rescued.
context_section_description: Of 750 Allied prisoners of war, 668 were killed, all but five of whom were American servicemen. At least 47 Japanese personnel were killed, as well; only three men of the Shinyō Maru's crew survived. Eighty-three Americans made it to the shores of Sindangan Bay, and they received aid from friendly Filipino guerrillas under the command of Brigadier General Wendell Fertig, who radioed headquarters about the situation. One man died the following day on September 8, the remaining survivors were eventually rescued by the submarine USS Narwhal save First Sergeant Joseph P. Coe Jr who remained on Mindanao to continue fighting, for which he later received a Bronze Star.
  The crew of USS Paddle was not informed of the deaths of hundreds of Allied POWs until 1946.
caption: A second "Hell Ship" plaque in San Antonio, Texas dedicated on the 54th anniversary of the incident
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