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English: "Hour of the Great Rescue" Sundial and Museum (Raid at Camp Pangatian, Cabanatuan City Memorial Shrine WWII) January 20, 1945, Memorare, (Details, are, 91st Division Philippine Army USAFFE United States Army Forces Far East November 14, 1941, Philippine Department, Philippines Campaign (1941–42), Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor, Inc., Battle of Cabu Bridge, 6th Ranger Battalion ...
Camp Pangatian was then used as a POW camp for the soldiers who survived the death march. [4] Although this event occurred in 1942, no memorial was erected until 1982. The Camp Pangatian P.O.W. camp was liberated in 1945 in an operation known as the most successful tactical rescue mission ever executed by the American military, the raid at ...
The Cabanatuan prison camp was named after the nearby city of 50,000 people (locals also called it Camp Pangatian, after a small nearby village). [ 6 ] [ 10 ] The camp had first been used as an American Department of Agriculture station and then a training camp for the Filipino army. [ 11 ]
Lake Superior's deepest point [4] on the bathymetric map. [1] Lake Superior has a surface area of 31,700 square miles (82,103 km 2), [7] which is approximately the size of South Carolina or Austria. It has a maximum length of 350 statute miles (560 km; 300 nmi) and maximum breadth of 160 statute miles (257 km; 139 nmi). [8]
Flood waters that ravaged a tiny coastal Massachusetts town during this week's blizzard have frozen over to leave the village encrusted in ice. Small town frozen over in icy hell after blizzard ...
The Stannard Rock Reef is located off Keweenaw Peninsula about 24 miles (39 km) south of Manitou Island and 44 miles (71 km) north of Marquette, Michigan. [1] [10] In 1835, Captain Charles C. Stannard of the vessel John Jacob Astor first discovered this underwater mountain that extends for 0.25 miles (0.40 km) with depths as shallow as 4 feet (1.2 m) and averaging 16 feet (4.9 m).
Author and ice rescue instructor Luc Mehl reports he discovered the mysterious formations while ice skating with a friend atop Big Lake, about 60 miles north of Anchorage.
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