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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, and Blockade at Bangad, by Alamo Schouts and Filipino Guerillas 6th Ranger Battalion (United States), United States Army Rangers, under Lt. Col. Henry Mucci, Camp Pangatian Memorial Shrine, WWII, the largest continuously-running prisoner-of-war camp in the Philippines; Raid at Cabanatuan - Sundial sculptor Juan Sajid Imao; along the Cabanatuan-Palayan road in Barangay Pangatian, Cabanatuan City; along the Nueva Ecija-Aurora Road Cabanatuan-Palayan City section Nueva Ecija - Aurora province Road; rows of cypress trees leads to the memorial, elevated, circular Pangatian War Memorial, built in 1982, a huge marble niche with name "Cabanatuan" engraved theron, memorial to West Pointers who died in the concentration camp, 2 long memorial walls; on April 6, 2003, the provincial government inaugurated a 2nd memorial with a piece of land adjacent to the U.S.-maintained memorial; a circular platform are 2 identical markers from the National Historical Institute, one in English, the other in Filipino, recounting the exploits of Filipino guerillas - 201st Fighter Squadron (Mexico) Squadron 201 led by Captain Juan Pajota and Squadron 213 led by Eduardo Joson in the liberation of the Pangatian POWs, Pangatian War Memorial - Pangatian Concentration camp).
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