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History
and current events can sometimes be more exciting, more suspenseful,
and end more satisfying than anything Hollywood could dream up. But then
again, it has to more exciting
because it really happened, like the rescue of 500 POWs from the Cabanatuan prison camp.
It’s
known as the most epic and complex mission of World War II. In January,
1945, 121 volunteer U.S. Army Rangers set out to rescue more than 500
allied prisoners of war who had already survived the Bataan Death March,
a brutal multi-day forced walk through the searing heat of the
Philippine jungles. Thousands of men died. Those who didn’t were
imprisoned in the notoriously brutal camp, Cabanatuan.
To free
their fellow soldiers, the Rangers snuck behind enemy lines and launched
a surprise attack on the Japanese. The assault lasted 30 minutes and
freed hundreds of soldiers, with minimal American casualties. The
mission was chronicled in Hampton Sides’ 2002 bestseller "Ghost
Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II’s Greatest Rescue Mission."
This
is just one of ten great rescues, some you may recall from your
lifetime, others you may have seen in a movie, and some that may be news
to you, in a list at
Discovery News.
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