Talk:Arisan Maru

There were 2 sets of survivors. The first made it onto a lifeboat that had the mast but no other gear(sails and rigging) luckily for them in the hours after the sinking the gear miraculously floated near them and they retrieved it managing to sail to the mainland of China. Sympathizers aided them inland until they were handed to Chinese soldiers at a base. They returned home. The other three were unfortunately picked up at sea by a Japanese submarine and were brutalized further by the younger officers. The elder Captain reprimanded the younger seaman officer for attempting urinate on the uncooperative captives. They were taken to Formosa/Taiwan for the remainder of the war. One of the captives was my grandfather, Warrant officer Martin “Gus”Binder formerly on the USS Pigeon American Sub repair vessel. He spent 41 months in captivity at the Cabanatuan camps, Arisan Maru sinking and in Formosa before liberation. He was 215lbs when he entered the Navy in 1930 and weighed 88lbs when emancipated from Taiwan coal mines and brought stateside to the Naval hospital in Philadelphia.He continued his career in the Navy retiring as a warrant officer on the USS Chicago. He lived the remainder of his life in Texas and California. He died on January 3rd 1985 and is buried at Ft. Bliss cemetery in El Paso, Texas. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Docgage (talk • contribs) 21:45, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Correction
Correction to number of Arisan Maru Survivors: There were 10 POWs that actually survived the sinking. The ninth POW was Charles W. Hughes, DOD 11/9/44,(ref:ABMC) who died of exposure and poor care at the hands of his Japanese "rescuers. Five men sailed to China and were returned to the USA by December,1944. Four were picked up by Japanese ships. The surviving three were again POW until freed at the end of the War.

William E. Bowen, Researcher My father died in the Arisan sinking.

Shark or Snook?
Is it possible to clear this up? Or do certain people prefer the question to remain ambiguous? Drutt (talk) 11:05, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

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5 survived?
Dr. Donovan -- "POW IN THE PACIFIC" -- on page 87, states that 8 survived, of which 4 were picked up by a Japanese destroyer. He does not describe the fate of the other 4, except that Sergeant Avery Wilbur escaped, through China, and made it back to the United States. This was called the "October ship" and contained 1,802 Allied POW's.Starhistory22 (talk)

There were nine survivors of the Arisan Maru sinking. 5 men escaped to China, 4 including Hughes were picked up by the Japanese. Hughes died on Taiwan in early Nov. 1944.Kohlerdino (talk) 03:56, 20 November 2016 (UTC)