As General Douglas MacArthur’s campaign on Luzon was underway, news of the Palawan massacre produced a call to action to save thousands of Allied POWs and civilian internees from a similar fate. With the extraordinary assistance of Filipino guerrillas, four daring raids were launched behind Japanese lines to liberate those camps.
In conjunction with our last article about the Great Raid at Cabanatuan last year, here is a comprehensive historical read to commemorate the most successful POW rescue mission in U.S. military history. At this moment, a historic brotherhood was born.