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'Forgotten hero' torpedoed twice before being gunned down swimming from hell ship

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Jack Frith’s fate was as cruel as any endured by the fallen in the Second World War. The 20-year-old factory worker from Manchester joined the Army in 1941 to do his bit like millions of others.

On his way to the Far East, his ship was torpedoed and he was captured by the Japanese. Over the next two years he was starved and beaten in a squalid prisoner of war camp.

And in 1943 he was herded on to a “hell ship” with 547 other PoWs to go to another camp. The unmarked cargo vessel was torpedoed by a US submarine and only half of the captives, including Jack, managed to escape.

For around eight hours they ­floated in the Pacific while the Japanese picked up their own men. Then they turned machine guns on the helpless prisoners, spending hours

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