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• Cabanatuan

The heavily forested area of Cabanatuan is located on the island of Luzon north of Quezon City.

signal that would set the whole operation in motion. While the back gate is engaged, Mucci’s men will storm the front gate, take out the guards there, and free Cabanatuan’s POWs—almost all of whom are Americans. Now it is 7:38. Were Mucci’s men spotted en route to the back gate? Surely if that had happened, the guards in the towers would be on high alert. Instead, like most nights, they are just going through the motions, certain that no Allied troops can sneak up on a camp surrounded by hundreds of yards of wide-open terrain.

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