Eighty years ago, in one of the most daring and successful rescue operations in American military history, U.S. Army Rangers and Filipino guerrilla fighters liberated over 500 prisoners of war from a Japanese prison camp during World War II. The dramatic mission unfolded at the Cabanatuan prison camp, roughly 65 miles north of Manila in the Philippines.
The prisoners were primarily survivors of the notorious Bataan Death March, a grueling forced march in 1942 following the fall of the Philippines. The Japanese, shortly after attacking Pearl Harbor in December 1941, launched a devastating assault on the Philippines, destroying most American military assets and forcing Allied troops into retreat.
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Overwhelmed by a superior Japanese force of 57,000 troops, the combined American and Filipino defenders, led by General Douglas MacArthur, held out on the Bataan Peninsula for four months. Starvation, disease, and depleted supplies eventually forced their surrender in April 1942, marking the largest capitulation of U.S. forces in history.
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