Word: cabanatuan
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...Army colonel who rescued 513 survivors of the brutal Bataan death march; in Melbourne, Florida. After hearing reports of Japanese atrocities against Allied prisoners in the Philippines, the tough-talking, pipe-smoking Mucci led his Rangers 25 miles behind enemy lines and liberated the emaciated prisoners at Cabanatuan...
...provincial capital of Cabanatuan, rescue workers used handkerchiefs to ward off the stench of decaying bodies as they worked in the sweltering heat to peel away the remains of a six-story school building. "It happened so fast," said Abelaida Belino, a school principal who was in her office when the quake hit. "I had to stumble my way out. But I'm very lucky. I feel like I've been given a new life...
...several brushes with the law but no convictions when he set out in 1939 to promote wrestling matches and open a cabaret in Manila. When the Japanese attacked the Philippines, Lewin, no man to duck a fight, enlisted and was captured on Bataan. At the Cabanatuan prison camp he proved his organizing ability by setting up a food delivery from outside that kept the P.W.s from starvation and the Japanese guards in pin money...
...went into action on Bataan with a combat engineers outfit known as "Casey's Dynamiters," was captured, subjected to the rigors of the "March of Death," and eventually confined at Cabanatuan. Gertrude Hornbostel might have escaped internment. She spurned the chance and spent three years in the filthy hell of Santo Tomas. In February 1945 they were reunited. Her health had been impaired by malnutrition and beriberi. But the Hornbostels feared something worse...
...this week Corporal Newman still lived, still grinned faintly as he opened hundreds of letters and telegrams from newspaper readers all over the U.S. Into his flower-banked room walked a ray of hope, one Connie Nolan of Coleman. Tex. Nolan had gone down to 87 pounds at Cabanatuan, was back to 143, was sure Jim Newman could...