Cabanatuan

As we continued the tour, the memories came back of his time as a prisoner of war, when after suffering for months in Cabanatuan POW Camp and Bilibid Prison, he was put aboard a Japanese “hellship” – the Oryoku Maru, with 1618 other men bound for Japan, and of the terrible conditions they suffered on board that ship.

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Military records show that Bronge died in Cabanatuan Prison Camp on July 31, 1942 of dysentery, and Cigoi died of the same disease in Formosa November 3,

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Cabanatuan received 189mm of rainfall in just 24 hours with surrounding areas receiving similar amounts.

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Harry R. Browning, a young Arkansas lad was captured at the fall of Corregidor in May 1942 and was later interned as a POW at Cabanatuan and Bilibid in the Philippines.

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As the Cabanatuan raid was unfolding, two Eighth Army divisions landed at Bataan on January 29 and south of Manila on January 31.

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While they were gone, the next mission came up: Cabanatuan.

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Thirty miles behind Japanese lines lay the POW compound at Cabanatuan.

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John Cook, a Cabanatuan survivor, also helped in this capacity.

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MacArthur would later remark, No incident of the campaign in the Pacific has given me such satisfaction as the release of the POWs at Cabanatuan.

Into the Rising Sun Patrick K. O’Donnell 2002

Robert Prince, assault commander for the Cabanatuan raid.

Into the Rising Sun Patrick K. O’Donnell 2002