Raid at Los Baños
The Raid at Los Baños in the Philippines, early Friday morning on 23 February 1945, was executed by a combined U.S. Army Airborne and Filipino guerrilla task force, resulting in the liberation of 2,147 Allied civilian and military internees from an agricultural school campus turned Japanese internment camp. The 250 Japanese in the garrison were killed. It has been celebrated as one of the most successful rescue operations in modern military history. It was the second precisely-executed raid by combined U.S.-Filipino forces within a month, following on the heels of the Raid at Cabanatuan at Luzon on 30 January, in which 522 Allied military POWs had been rescued. The air/sea/land raid was the subject of a 2015 nonfiction book, Rescue at Los Baños: The Most Daring Prison Camp Raid of World Wa
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Raid at Los Baños
The Raid at Los Baños in the Philippines, early Friday morning on 23 February 1945, was executed by a combined U.S. Army Airborne and Filipino guerrilla task force, resulting in the liberation of 2,147 Allied civilian and military internees from an agricultural school campus turned Japanese internment camp. The 250 Japanese in the garrison were killed. It has been celebrated as one of the most successful rescue operations in modern military history. It was the second precisely-executed raid by combined U.S.-Filipino forces within a month, following on the heels of the Raid at Cabanatuan at Luzon on 30 January, in which 522 Allied military POWs had been rescued. The air/sea/land raid was the subject of a 2015 nonfiction book, Rescue at Los Baños: The Most Daring Prison Camp Raid of World Wa
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Philippine Commonwealth:
United States:
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1945-02-23
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Successful Allied military rescue operation
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150-250 Japanese guards
300 troops on amphibian trucks
8,000-10,000 Japanese soldiers near camp
800 Filipino guerrillas
company of U.S. paratroopers
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Painting of a guerrilla armed with a bolo knife disarming a Japanese sentry of his rifle.
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Gustavo Inglés
Henry A. Burgress
Joseph W. Gibbs
Robert H. Soule
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General Colin Powell, then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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