National Registry of Historic Sites and Structures in the Philippines: Plaza Cuartel

NHCP Photo Collection, 2010

Location: Puerto Princesa, Palawan (Region IV-B)
Category: Buildings/Structures, Sites/Events
Type: Military Structure, Site
Status: Level II - Historical marker
Marker date: 5 March 2005

Installed by: National Historical Institute (NHI)

Marker text:

PLAZA CUARTEL

ON THIS SITE, ONCE A MILITARY BASE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR, SOME 150 AMERICAN PRISONERS OF WAR WERE BURNED TO DEATH BY JAPANESE SOLDIERS, 14 DECEMBER 1944. A FEW SURVIVORS SWAM TO IWAHIG. THE REMAINS OF THOSE WHO DIED WERE BROUGHT AND INTERRED IN A COMMON GRAVE AT THE JEFFERSON BARRACKS NATIONAL CEMETERY, ST. LOUIS COUNTY, MISSOURI, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 1952.

Legend

LEVEL I - Sites and Structures declared as National Shrine, National Historical Landmark, National Historical Site, and National Monument (Entries with asterisks)

LEVEL II - Sites and Structures declared as Heritage Zones/Historic Centers, Heritage Houses and bearing Historical Markers

DELISTED - Declared and/or marked historic sites and structures that were removed from the national registry

LIFTED - Sites and structures 50 years old and above removed of its presumption as Important Cultural Property (R.A. 10066)

Plaza Cuartel

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