Hundreds died on World War II ‘hell ships’. Now there’s an effort to identify the dead.
On May 14, 1941, Manila’s Pier 7 was teeming with military family members saying goodbye to husbands and fathers and waiting to board the ocean liner that would take them away from the war looming in the Pacific. Three-year-old Nancy White and her pregnant mother, Chrystal, 31, were saying farewell to her father, Maj.
