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{{Infobox Military Conflict
|conflict=Raid at Cabanatuan
|image=[[File:POWs celebrate.jpg|300px|alt=A couple hundred men are all facing the camera, smiling and cheering. Many have their hands raised. The men are wearing uniforms, t-shirts, and shorts. Huts and trees can be seen in the background.]]
|caption=Former Cabanatuan POWs in celebration, January 30, 1945
|partof=[[World War II]], [[Pacific War|Pacific theater]]
(contracted; show full)t;Sides 169"/><ref name="Shoot3303">{{Cite episode|title=WWII: Raid on the Bataan Death Camp|series=Shootout!|serieslink=Shootout|network=[[History (TV channel)|History Channel]]|airdate=December&nbsp;1, 2006|season=2|number=5|minutes=33:03}}</ref> One side of the camp housed Japanese guards, while the other included [[bamboo]] barracks for all of the prisoners as well as a section for a hospital.<ref name="Carson 79">{{harvnb|Carson|1997|p=37}}</ref>
 Nicknamed the "Zero Ward", the hospital housed the sickliest prisoners as they waited to die from diseases such as [[dysentery]] and [[malaria]] away from the other prisoners.<ref name="Wodnik 39">{{harvnb|Wodnik|2003|p=39}}</ref> Eight-foot (2.4-m) high [[barbed wire]] fences surrounded the camp, as well as multiple [[Bunker#Pillbox|pillboxes]] and four-story guard towers.<ref name="Rottman 26">{{harvnb|Rottman|2009|p=26}}</ref><ref name="McRaven 248">{{harvnb|McRaven|1995|p=248}}</ref>

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During Japanese-approved trips to Cabanatuan, prisoners were able to smuggle food and supplies into the camp, usually in their underwear. They also killed mice around the camp for food and bribed guards to get items such as cooking oil.<ref name="Breuer 59">{{harvnb|Breuer|1994|p=59}}</ref> The Filipino underground collected thousands of [[quinine]] tablets to smuggle into the camp to treat 
[[malaria]], which was attributed to saving hundreds of lives.<ref name="Breuer 97">{{harvnb|Breuer|1994|p=97}}</ref><ref name="Sides 187">{{harvnb|Sides|2001|p=187}}</ref> When the Japanese had an American radio technician fix their radios, he would steal parts, allowing the prisoners to have several radios to listen to newscasts of the war efforts outside the camp.<ref name="Breuer 74">{{harvnb|Breuer|1994|p=74}}</ref> One group of Corregidor prisoner(contracted; show full)
* {{cite book|last=Sides|first=Hampton|title=[[Ghost Soldiers]]: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission|publisher=[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]]|location=New York|date=2001|isbn=0-3854-9564-1|ref=harv}}
* {{cite book|last=Waterford|first=Van|title=Prisoners of the Japanese in World War II|publisher=[[McFarland & Company]]|location=[[Jefferson, North Carolina]]|date=1994|isbn=0-8995-0893-6|ref=harv}}

* {{cite book|last=Wodnik|first=Bob|title=Captured Honor|publisher=[[Washington State University Press]]|location=[[Pullman, Washington]]|date=2003|isbn=0-87422-260-5|ref=harv}}⏎
* {{cite book|last=Zedric|first=Lance Q.|title=Silent Warriors of World War II: The Alamo Scouts Behind Japanese Lines|publisher=Pathfinder Publishing of California|location=[[Ventura, California]]|date=1995|isbn=0-9347-9356-5|ref=harv}}
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== External links ==
{{Commons cat|Raid at Cabanatuan}}
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20051026015126/http://www.abmc.gov/cb.htm Cabanatuan American Memorial Website] (archive from 2005)
* [http://www.alamoscouts.org Alamo Scouts Website]
* [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=off&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=cabanatuan+%28POW+OR+POWs+OR+survivor+OR+survivors%29+source%3ALIFE ''LIFE''{{'}}s unpublished photos of the aftermath of the raid]

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[[Category:Conflicts in 1945]]
[[Category:1945 in the Philippines]]
[[Category:World War II operations and battles of the Southeast Asia Theatre]]
[[Category:Military history of the Philippines during World War II]]
[[Category:Nueva Ecija]]
[[Category:United States Army Rangers]]
[[Category:Japanese POW and internment camps]]
[[Category:Bataan Death March]]
[[Category:Battles involving Japan]]
[[Category:Battles involving the United States]]

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