Palawan Island - Camp 10A
The entrance to Palawan POW Camp 10A.
Courtesy of Marguarite Aldred
Palawan Entrance
From the porch of this veranda the Japanese shot the POWs escaping from the air raid shelters after they were set ablaze..
Palawan Veranda
Picture from inside Palawan Camp 10A looking toward the main gate. From the National Archives
Camp 10A Interior
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Warehouse which was used as the barracks for the POWs.
Palawan POW Quarters
Group shot of some of the POWs who were held on Palawan, It is not known how many men in the photo died in the massacre.
Palawan POW Group
A picture of the Palawan Airfield which was built by the POWs. Today, it is the Puerto Princesa International Airport.
Palawan Airfield
Cemetery at Palawan for POWs who died building the airfield. Most of the sick were sent to Bilibid Prison.
Cemetery at Palawan
One of the air raid shelters on Palawan where the POWs were burned to death
Palawan Air Raid Shelter
A member of the Remains Recovery Team digs out an air raid shelter looking for human remains.
Palawan Digging
Air Raid Shelter A being exhumed From National Archives
Air Raid Shelter A
A member of the Remains Recovery Team holds a bone of a murdered POW.
Palawan Remains
Recovery operations underway at Camp 10-A. U.S. officers and medical personnel examine remains of American POWs killed in the Palawan Massacre. The investigators are looking for anything that might help in the identification of the victims. National Archives
Palawan Recovery
Air raid trench in which POWs were burned to death
Palawan Trench
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Caskets containing the remains of American POWs killed by the Japanese, on Palawan Island in the Philippines, awaiting burial at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri.
Palawan caskets
The headstone of the mass grave of the 123 American POWs massacred on Palawan Island at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis without the commemorative plaque. The POWs were burned to death by the Japanese on December 14, 1944 to prevent them from being liberated by advancing American forces.
© Bataan Commemorative Research Project
Palawan Grave Headstone
Another photo of the headstone after the plaque explaining the massacre was added below it.
Palawan Headstone & Plaque
The remains of those killed on Palawan were reburied at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery on February 14, 1952. The names of Pvt. James L. Choate. S/Sgt. Joe B. Million, and Pvt Willard R. Yeast - all members of D Company - are on the center right list of names of Americans executed at Palawan, Philippine Islands.
Palawan Grave Headstone 1
The center left list of names of American POWs killed at Palawan, Philippine Islands.
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The far left column of names on the headstone of the American POWs executed at Palawan, Philippine Islands. Capt. Fred T. Bruni was a member of HQ Company, 192nd Tank Battalion.
Palawan Grave Headstone 3
The far right list of names of the American POWs executed on Palawan Island, Philippine Islands.
Palawan Grave Headstone 4
Letter written by the Hazel Bruni, the widow of Capt. Fred Bruni of HQ Company, who was the ranking American officer at Palawan, to the mother of Stanley & Ernest Walsh. Both of the Walsh Brothers died as POWs. The letter briefly describes the internment ceremony at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri.
Bruni Letter 1
