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Japanese transport ship <i>Oigawa Maru</i>

Japanese transport ship Oigawa Maru

Japanese cargo ship

Oigawa Maru (大井川丸) was a 6,494 GRT transport ship of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

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On 10 December 1941, while unloading troops at Pandan, Philippines, she was bombed and damaged and beached to prevent sinking.

She left Rabaul, New Britain on 1 March 1943, as part of Operation 81, carrying a cargo of troops, equipment, fuel, landing craft and ammunition for Lae, New Guinea.[3] The convoy was attacked by aircraft of the United States Army Air Forces and Royal Australian Air Force from 2 March 1943, known as the Battle of the Bismarck Sea. Oigawa Maru was bombed and damaged on 3 March, and was later sunk by motor torpedo boats PT-143 and PT-150 and sank at (06°58′S 148°16′E)

There were 78 crewmen and 1,151 troops of the 51st Division who were killed in action.[4]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Hackett, Robert. "OIGAWA MARU: Tabular Record of Movement". CombinedFleet. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  2. [2]
    "Standard Merchant Type 1A Cargo Ships". CombinedFleet. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  3. [3]
    McAulay 1991, p. 39
  4. [4]
    "Oigawa Maru (+1943)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 2016-10-01.

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