U.S. Army personnel identified the charred remains of Americans captured at Bataan and Corregidor and burned alive on Palawan, 20 March 1945 (left). Burial Site of the Palawan Massacre, 14 December 1944. Photo taken by Bob Meza of the US Navy in March 1945 (right).
Location
Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines
Date
14 December 1944 (EDT)
Attack type
Mass murder, massacre
Deaths
139
Perpetrators
Yoshikazu Sato[1]
Imperial Japanese Army
Japanese Fourteenth Area Army
Plaza Cuartel, Puerto Princesa, site of the massacre
The Palawan massacre occurred on 14 December 1944, during World War II, near the city of Puerto Princesa in the Philippine province of Palawan. Allied soldiers, imprisoned near the city, were killed by Imperial Japanese soldiers. Only eleven men managed to survive.
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