NC State University Alumni Veterans Faced Horrors In War And POW Camps During WWII
At the brutal Cabanatuan Prison Camp near Manila, in the Philippines, nearly a dozen NC State alumni serving in World War II found a quiet place to sit back and remember their happy times in Raleigh, where they had learned academics, life and military science in the simpler times before the United States joined the world’s biggest military conflict on Dec. 8, 1941, the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.