POWs killed on Japan ship honored with memorial

16/8/2018 10:21

        Dozens of relatives of Allied servicemen who were killed in January 1945 as prisoners of war held by Japan are dedicating a memorial stone to their loved ones. The memorial at a national cemetery in Honolulu honors about 400 men who were killed when a Japanese ship transporting them from the Philippines to Japan was bombed by U.S. pilots who didn't know the POWs were on board. They were buried in a mass grave at a harbor in Taiwan, but the U.S. military dug them up and reburied in them as "unknowns" in Hawaii after the war. Nancy Kragh's father, Army Maj. Clarence White, is among them. She said Wednesday's dedication is the culmination of her journey of finding her father's final resting place.