Montevideo Maru Committee
News Letters
The Montevideo
Maru Memorial Committee represents the interests of the families of soldiers
and civilians captured in Rabaul and the New Guinea Islands after theJapanese
invasion in
January 1942, many of whom are believed to have perished on Montevideo Maru
when the
ship was torpedoed off the Philippines on 1 July 1942. The purpose of the
Committee is to
gainnational recognition and greater understanding of the tragedy and its
antecedents in the
interests of relatives and the historical record.
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