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Camp #1 sat approximately nine kilometers east of the city of Cabanatuan. Situated six kilometers further east of Camp #1, Camp #2 only briefly held prisoners before they were transferred to Camp #1 due to the lack of available water.
The Raid at Cabanatuan (Filipino: Pagsalakay sa Cabanatuan), also known as the Great Raid (Filipino: Ang Dakilang Pagsalakay), was a rescue of Allied prisoners of war (POWs) and civilians from a Japanese camp near Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija, Philippines.
The Cabanatuan American Memorial is a World War II memorial located in Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija in the Philippines. It is located on the site of what was once Camp Pangatian, a military training camp which operated for twenty years until it was converted into an internment camp for Allied prisoners of war during the Japanese occupation .
The Cabanatuan American Memorial was erected by the survivors of the Bataan Death March and the prisoner of war camp at Cabanatuan in the Philippines during World War II. It is located at the site of the camp and honors those Americans and Filipinos who died during their internment.
2 maj 2020 · There were 3 POW camps near Cabanatuan City — Camp #1 (about 5.5 miles east of Cabanatuan City), Camp #2 (9.5 miles east of the city), and Camp #3 (14 miles east of the city). Bataan Death March survivors and many Corregidor POWs arrived at Camp #3 in late May 1942.
18 mar 2019 · The largest concentration of American prisoners of war in the Far East in World War II, Cabanatuan comprised three camps near Cabu village, five to 15 miles (24km) northeast of Cabanatuan City in south central Luzon, Philippine Islands.
The Cabanatuan Memorial, 85 miles north of Manila, honors those who died there when it was a Japanese prisoner of war camp. Approximately 20,000 American and Allied servicemen and civilians were held there from 1942 to 1945. A marble altar rests atop a 90-foot square concrete base in the center of the area.
