It's been a while since I read the book on this, but there an American sub somewhere in the South Pacific in the last months of WWII that mistakenly sank a Japanese ship that was marked as a hospital ship and had been guaranteed safe passage by the U.S. The route the ship was to take had been sent to all ships and subs in the area. While this was a major boo-boo at the time, the sub captains career was not seriously damaged since he eventually made Admiral. It was later found out that the ship was seriously overloaded with high ranking Japanese personnel (military and civilian) and the tons of treasure they had looted from all the countries they had been stationed in. There was a great loss of life and as far as I know the treasure is still in the ship. I believe the ships name was AWA MARU.
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