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{{Merge|Japanese occupation of the Philippines|date=March 2009}}
{{Infobox Military Conflict
|conflict=Raid at Cabanatuan 
|image=[[Image:POWs celebrate.jpg|300px]]
|caption=Former Cabanatuan POWs in celebration, 30 January 1945 ''U.S. National Archives''
|partof=[[World War II]], [[Pacific War|Pacific theater]]
|date=30 January 1945
|place=[[Cabanatuan City]], [[Nueva Ecija]], [[Philippines]]
(contracted; show full)
}}
</ref>

==Background==
By early 1944 Imperial Japan's fortunes of war experienced a complete turnaround from its previous dominance. Defeat met the [[Japanese Imperial Army]] facing the British in the China-Burma-India theater, and against the U.S. and Australians in the Pacific islands. The increasing superiority of the Allied war machine was mostly because of the successful U.S. submarine campaign against Japanese merchant shipping, and the devastating losses the Japanese Navy suffered
 in, beggining at the [[Battle of Midway]] in 1942.

In August 1944, the War Ministry in Tokyo apparently was piqued by the [[United States Department of State|U.S. State Department's]] [[communiqué]] concerning Japan's [[war crimes]] against Allied [[POWs]] and issued the "Kill-All policy" to annihilate the principal witnesses—the last surviving POWs.

(contracted; show full)[[Category:United States Army Rangers]]
[[Category:Japanese POW and internment camps|Cabanatuan]]
[[Category:Bataan Death March]]
[[Category:1945 in the Philippines]]
[[Category:Battles involving Japan|Cabanatuan]]
[[Category:Battles involving the United States|Cabanatuan]]

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