‘Safe Passage’: The Story of a Wartime Swap

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‘Safe Passage’: The Story of a Wartime Swap

The U.S. and Japan made two big exchanges of civilians during the war. This is the story of the second exchange, in late 1943, when the ships MS Gripsholm and the Teia Maru met in Portuguese Goa, a territory on the eastern coast of India.

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