The Palawan Massacre: the American Heroes of World War II
"The 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Palawan" is to be celebrated and for their sacrifice, the men who died in this place will be finally honored.
ANAHEIM, Calif., -- Seventy years ago, in December of 1944, Japanese captors forced 150 American POWs into a below-ground air shelter, doused them with gasoline, set them on fire, and then machine gunned, bayoneted and clubbed the screaming men to death. With nothing to lose, a few of these men tried running out of the fiery pit, bravely facing bayonets to bring the enemy down with them to their fiery deaths before they were shot.