NHCP Photo Collection, 2010
Plaza Cuartel
Location:
Puerto Princesa, Palawan (Region IV-B)
Category:
Buildings/Structures, Sites/Events
Type: Military Structure, Site
Status: Level II – Historical marker
Marker Date:
5 March 2005
Installed By:
National Historical Institute (NHI)
PLAZA CUARTEL
ON THIS SITE, ONCE A MILITARY BASE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR, SOME 150 AMERICAN PRISONERS OF WAR WERE BURNED TO DEATH BY JAPANESE SOLDIERS, 14 DECEMBER 1944. A FEW SURVIVORS SWAM TO IWAHIG. THE REMAINS OF THOSE WHO DIED WERE BROUGHT AND INTERRED IN A COMMON GRAVE AT THE JEFFERSON BARRACKS NATIONAL CEMETERY, ST. LOUIS COUNTY, MISSOURI, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 1952.
