Cabanatuan American Memorial, 2023
I visited the Cabanatuan American Memorial on the 4th Oct. 2023 after it was restored in 2016 by the American Battle Monuments Commission and took these images. I will try to highlight some of the changes. In this Flickr album the 41 images are uploaded in high resolution:
www.flickr.com/photos/44567569@N00/albums/72177720311881798The American Battle Monument Commission has a www page, Cabanatuan American Memorial. This is the URL and it says the following:
www.abmc.gov/CabanatuanMID-1942: The Japanese transferred 6,000 American POWs from Camp O’Donnell to the Cabanatuan vicinity. The POWs were assigned to work details and hard farm labor. Almost 3,000 died from executions, disease, beatings and starvation.
October-November 1944: After the American landing in Leyte, the Japanese transferred some 2,000 of the Cabanatuan prisoners to vessels sailing to Japan. Unmarked, many of these ships were sunk by US aircraft and submarines.
About 500 POWs remained in Cabanatuan.
If you are interested you can view the same pictures in the Flickr album where the pictures were uploaded in high resolution:
www.flickr.com/photos/44567569@N00/albums/72177720311881798-#00 to #03 images show the entrance and the driveway to the Cabanatuan American Memorial. #02 images is a Google Earth image of the layout of the memorial.
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-#04 to #07 images are of a marker just inside the gate to the Cabanatuan American Memorial. It is from the Philippine Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor, it is getting hard to read and I don’t have a better copy. It says this area was used by the Philippine Army 91st Div. if I read it properly. #07 image shows part of the Philippine Pangatian Prison Camp Memorial, which is next to this memorial.
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-#08 to #22 images show the area of the Cabanatuan American Memorial where the driveway takes you. In this area is a Marker by the Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor and zoomed in images of the West Point Memorial with all the names who gave their life in service. It is broken down by classes.
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-#23 to #29 images show the center of the Cabanatuan American Memorial. Image #26 is a 2008 image and was the write up of the memorial before 2016 and it was mounted standing up; it is no more! Image #29 is the new write up of the memorial, it is harder to read and it is lying down, I almost missed it.
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-#30 to #39 images are of the rear area of the new wall with the new names and some shots of the center of the Cabanatuan American Memorial. The last two pictures are of young people that came to the memorial because they saw me. #29 image shows the wall with names is one continues long wall, not divided like the last one. And there are no more trees between the wall and the fence. Image #34 is an old 2008 image and shows the old wall with names was divided and had the original back gate of the original Memorial, it is no more. No. 35 image is piece of the wall with the new names, it is my opinion they are very much harder to read and to photograph. No. 37 image is an old 2008 image and shows the original fence of the original memorial; image #36 shows that the fence is gone now.
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