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

From BBC Nov. 10, 2025

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

From Seattle Times Aug. 30, 2023

Arthur Kelder, who went by the nickname Bud, died during World War II in a Japanese prison camp in the Philippines called Cabanatuan, along with 2,700 other men.

From New York Times Jun. 11, 2022

Using the website Ancestry.com, Masters said she set up profiles from some of the service members believed to have died at a POW camp in Cabanatuan, in the Philippines.

From Washington Times Jun. 2, 2018

About one mile before reaching the internment camp at Cabanatuan, we suddenly became aware of a horrible, acrid stench, the smell of disease, dysentery and death.

From Blood Brothers A Medic's Sketch Book by Rohlfing, Sam

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