More than a few allied servicemen were killed when the hell ships transporting them towards Japan were sunk.
Yes, I’m aware of that. One of my relatives was an Army Nurse in Manila when WWII broke out. When Manila fell she went to Corregidor, when that surrendered she spent 2-1/2 years in a Japanese POW camp. Her husband was an Exec for CalTex Oil before the war and an officer during the war. He was capture by the Japanese and was on his way to prison in Japan, when we sank the ship he was on.
Denny (her nickname) wrote a book about this. She retire as a Lt. Col. Women in the Army did not have that rank. smile.
My grandfather on dads side was on one of those. Ended up a slave in a copper mine until wars end.