Camp Pangatian Shrine - Nueva Ecija Attractions

Camp Pangatian Shrine

Camp Pangatian Shrine is located in Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija, Philippines.

 

Before the war, this used to be a military training camp for twenty years but was converted into a concentration camp for Allied Prisoners of War during the Japanese occupation. Some of the supervisors of the infamous Bataan Death March from Bataan to Corregidor in April to May 1942 were imprisoned here. A shrine now honors the brave rescue of the POW`s by the Filipino guerillas led by the late Governor Eduardo L. Joson. The Camp is popular tourist destination area for the veterans of WWII and their families who visit our country.

 

Source:

Nuevaecija.gov.ph

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