Battalion’s Great Raid on the Japanese prison camp of Cabanatuan. Lastly, the events of that raid will be examined in order to discover and evaluate the repercussions and lessons learned. History On December 22, 1941, the Japanese main attack on the Philippines began.1 The Japanese initial goal was to capture the island of Luzon, which was home to both the capital city of Manila and the majority of the US forces. The initial Japanese attack on the Allied forces consisted of air raids followed by a
The Raid at Cabanatuan, also known as The Great Raid, is a rescue of American and allied prisoners of war and civilians from a Japanese camp in Pangatian, Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija on January 30, 1945. Remaining as the most successful rescue mission in U.S. military history, United States Army Rangers, Alamo Scouts, and Filipino guerrillas liberated more than 500 from the POW camp, during World War II. In this battle that Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mucci played the vital role as the leader of
directors is to catch the viewers’ attention so that people will actually go see the film. They are often forced to sacrifice real events and add a twist to it so that it becomes more entertaining to watch. In the movies; Flags of our Fathers, The Great Raid, The Thin Red Line, and Pearl Harbor directors did whatever they could to depict events accurately. Major events are described as they really happened, but there is always something added that did not exactly occur from what the textbook tel...
of the abuse they received. They often starved and cached diseases and illnesses during captivity. Prisoners felt they had been abandoned by the country they once fought for. With the aid of Philippine Guerillas, Allied forces managed to raid a camp in Cabanatuan on January, 1945. More than five hundred prisoners of war received their liberty once again1. Bec...