Amid World War II, keeping in mind the end goal to keep the save of detainees of war by the propelling partners, on 14 December 1944, units of the Japanese Fourteenth Area Army (under the charge of General Tomoyuki Yamashita) grouped the staying 150 detainees of war at Puerto Princesa into three secured trenches which were then determined to flame utilizing barrels of fuel. Detainees who attempted to get away from the blazes were shot down. Others endeavored to escape by moving over a bluff that kept running along one side of the trenches, yet were later chased down and murdered. Just 11 men got away from the butcher and in the vicinity of 133 and 141 were slaughtered.
The slaughter is the reason for the as of late distributed book Last Man Out: Glenn McDole, USMC, Survivor of the Palawan Massacre in World War II by Bob Wilbanks, and the opening scenes of the 2005 Miramax film, The Great Raid. A remembrance has been raised on the site and McDole, in his eighties, could go to the dedication.
Palawan Massacre
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