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Cabanatuan

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Cabanatuan

Town in the province of Nueva Ecija on Luzon Island in the Philippines, on the left bank of the Pampanga River; population (1995) 201,000. Cabanatuan is a major transport and trade centre for Luzon's eastern plains. The town was badly damaged by an earthquake in 1990.
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Whatever they lack in personality, Mucci and Prince make up for in doggedness as they lead 121 mostly novice Rangers and Alamo Scouts 30 miles behind the Japanese lines to the Cabanatuan prison camp, where our boys have been languishing for nearly three years.
'GREAT RAID' HEROICALLY DULL by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
However, the most interesting Ranger operation of the Second World War was conducted by the 6th Ranger Battalion, (33) which was reinforced by members of the Alamo Scouts (34) and Filipino guerrillas, to rescue 511 Allied prisoners from a Japanese POW camp near Cabanatuan in the Philippines.
Putting a square peg in a round hole: finding a special forces ... by Balasevicius, Tony / The Canadian Army Journal
They had been held in the Cabanatuan POW camp in the Philippine Islands since 1942.
Sasser, Charles W. Raider; the true story of the legendary soldier ... by Boyd, John E. / Kliatt
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