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British POW descendants return to honor Lisbon Maru rescue

British POW descendants return to honor Lisbon Maru rescue

Xinhua
26 May 2026, 09:15 GMT+

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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