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The New Mexico National Guard Bataan Memorial Museum is located in the armory where the soldiers of the 200th and 515th were processed before their deployment to the Philippines in 1941. [56] The old state capitol building of New Mexico was renamed the Bataan Memorial Building and now houses several state government agency offices.
Bataan peninsula's strategic location in the west of Manila Bay, directly across Metro Manila. Bataan lies in the southwestern part of the Central Luzon region. It is a peninsular province with an area of 1,372.98 square kilometers (530.11 sq mi) [40].
Manila American Cemetery maintained by the American Battle Monuments Commission in Manila, Philippines; Bataan Memorial Death March—A 26-mile (42 km) march commemorating the Bataan Death March, held yearly at the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, US, sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
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.
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The United States Navy held a number of bases in the Philippines Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Most were built by the US Navy Seabees, Naval Construction Battalions, during World War II. The US Naval Bases in Philippines were lost to the Empire of Japan in December 1941 during the Philippines campaign of 1941–1942.
The Bataan Provincial Building, Bataan Provincial Capitol, or The Bunker is the seat of the provincial government of Bataan in the Philippines.. The first provincial building was built in 1794, and later damaged by earthquakes in the mid-1800s.
When the Japanese invaded the Philippines, they used the camp to house American POWs. It was one of three camps in the Cabanatuan area and was designated for holding sick detainees. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Occupying about 100 acres (0.40 km 2 ), the rectangular-shaped camp was roughly 800 yards (730 m) deep by 600 yards (550 m) across, divided by a road ...