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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 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]
Camp Pangatian (Prisoner of War Memorial Shrine) (Now Cabanatuan American Memorial), began as a military training camp for twenty years until converted into a concentration camp for allied prisoners of war during the Japanese occupation. A popular tourist destination among war veterans by way of the WWII Veteran's Homecoming Program.
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 ...
The Raid on Los Baños (Filipino: Pagsalakay sa Los Baños) in the Philippines, early Friday morning on 23 February 1945, was executed by a combined United States Army Airborne and Filipino guerrilla task force, resulting in the liberation of 2,147 Allied civilian and military internees from an agricultural school campus turned Japanese internment camp.
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On 30 January 1945, a lone P-61 performed a mission as part of the successful raid carried out by U.S. Army Rangers to free over 500 Allied POWs held by the Japanese at the Cabanatuan prison camp (Camp Pangatian) in the Philippines. As the Rangers crept up on the camp, a P-61 swooped low and performed aerobatics for several minutes.
Joson was a guerrilla fighter during World War II. [3] He served with anti-Japanese forces; he was recognized as a war hero for his leadership and his participation, being one of Filipino guerilla captains, in a successful raid in a Japanese POW camp called Camp Pangatian in Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija in January 1945 wherein American prisoners of war were rescued.