The wreck of a World War II Japanese “hellship” known as the Hōfuku Maru has been located off the Philippine island of Luzon, according to multiple outlets. The vessel was torpedoed in 1944 and sank with more than 1,000 Allied prisoners of war aboard, in what sources describe as the largest single-day loss of Allied POWs. One report places the incident in September 1944 and says that over 1,000 Allied servicemen died on the ship. The discovery follows decades of uncertainty about the ship’s location. Several outlets say the breakthrough came from documents found in both American and Japanese archives, which helped identify the location for the search. Taken together, the reporting indicates that the archival records guided efforts that ultimately led to the discovery of the wreck. The outlets characterize the find as significant for historical accounting and for understanding one of the most deadly single-day POW losses during the war.