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26 May 2026, 09:15 GMT+10
The Lisbon Maru carrying 1,816 British POWs went down in 1942. But 384 survived, plucked from the sea by Chinese fishermen who braved 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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