Today marks the 70th anniversary of the raid to free American POWs from the Japanese at
Cabanatuan. A close run thing too. The Japanese 14th Army had made the decision to "Kill-All" the POWs they held in the Philippines, and had already massacred 150 POWs at the
Puerto Princesa Camp. Captain Bob Prince, C.O. of Company C, 6th Ranger Battalion spoke with the
Seattle PI.
It is one of those great stories of World War 2. According to Bob Prince, he was satisfied with the movie portrayal in
The Great Raid. This story was first told by John Wayne in
Back to Bataan, a 1945 film that opens with scenes of the raid and includes some of the liberated POWs. Both good films.
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