U.S. Naval Radio Station, Tarlac

It also housed microwave radio-relay equipment for reception and distribution of data received from the NavComStaPhil for subsequent short-wave radio transmission.

This included a multi-purpose building with barracks, administration offices, mess hall, navy exchange, and recreation room; an enlisted men's club, autonomous power generating facility, water and sewer treatment facilities, helicopter pad, and security posts.

Incoming messages to the station for subsequent radio transmission, were primarily multi-channel teletype data, with occasional voice signals.

Santa Rita, then to the Dau relay at Clark AFB, and finally to the radio station at Tarlac.

The radio station was built on land which before World War II been a part of Camp O'Donnell a U.S. Military reservation used as a bombing and artillery range.

The American cemetery memorial marker has since been relocated to the POW museum at Andersonville, Georgia.

Beginning in 1945, the remains of the fallen American prisoners were reinterred at Fort William McKinley, near Manila, or, at the request of next of kin, in cemeteries in the United States.

And, on December 7, 1991, a portion of the southern section of the base was established as the Capas National Shrine, by Philippine President Corazon Aquino.