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Cabanatuan

American  
[kah-vah-nah-twahn] / ˌkɑ vɑ nɑˈtwɑn /

noun

  1. a city on central Luzon, in the N Philippines.


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In Cabanatuan, one of the worst-hit cities, the BBC saw residents rushing into their homes to pull out furniture and pets on Monday, desperate to salvage as many of their possessions possible as water levels rose.

From BBC

Cabanatuan resident Mercidita Adriano and her family had trimmed trees near their home last week to prepare for the storm.

From BBC

More than 2,500 died at Cabanatuan camp during the war, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.

From Seattle Times

Pierce was held at the Cabanatuan camp where he and the other POWs endured malnutrition and outbreaks of malaria and dysentery.

From Seattle Times

Joseph E. Lescaut, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, who also died at Cabanatuan after the Bataan Death March, had also recently been accounted for.

From Seattle Times