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| rdfs:comment | - The Shinyo Maru Incident occurred in the Philippines on September 7, 1944 during the Pacific theater of World War II. In an attack on a Japanese convoy by the American submarine USS Paddle, 687 Allied prisoners of war were massacred by the Japanese or killed when their ship, the SS Shinyo Maru was sunk. Only eighty-two Americans survived the ordeal and were later rescued.
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| Result | - United States victory
- Major loss of life among American POWs
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| Notes | - * 687 Allied prisoners of war were killed during the engagement either by the Japanese or by friendly fire.
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| Place | - off Mindanao, Philippines, Sulu Sea
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| abstract | - The Shinyo Maru Incident occurred in the Philippines on September 7, 1944 during the Pacific theater of World War II. In an attack on a Japanese convoy by the American submarine USS Paddle, 687 Allied prisoners of war were massacred by the Japanese or killed when their ship, the SS Shinyo Maru was sunk. Only eighty-two Americans survived the ordeal and were later rescued.
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