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| rdfs:comment | - Since the landings of the U.S. Sixth Army at Lingayen Gulf and the U.S. Eighth Army at Nasugbu, Batangas on 9 January 1945 and 31 January 1945 respectively, to retake Luzon, the Imperial Japanese Army was being repeatedly pushed back and was increasingly becoming desperate. Soon news was filtering down to Allied commanders that the Japanese were killing innocent civilians and prisoners of war while falling back.
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| Partof | - World War II, Pacific theater
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| Commander | - Robert Soule
- Edward Lahti
- Gustavo Ingles
- John Ringler
- Joseph W. Gibbs
- Sadaaki Konishi
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| Caption | - Painting of a guerrilla armed with a bolo knife divesting a Japanese sentry of his rifle.
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| Casualties | - 2
- 4
- 6
- 80
- United States:
- Philippine Commonwealth:
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| Result | - Successful Allied military rescue operation
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| Place | - Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines
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| Source | - General Colin Powell, then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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| Quote | - I doubt that any airborne unit in the world will ever be able to rival the Los Baños prison raid. It is the textbook airborne operation for all ages and all armies.
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| abstract | - Since the landings of the U.S. Sixth Army at Lingayen Gulf and the U.S. Eighth Army at Nasugbu, Batangas on 9 January 1945 and 31 January 1945 respectively, to retake Luzon, the Imperial Japanese Army was being repeatedly pushed back and was increasingly becoming desperate. Soon news was filtering down to Allied commanders that the Japanese were killing innocent civilians and prisoners of war while falling back. General Douglas MacArthur was deeply alarmed about the plight of thousands of prisoners who had been interned in various camps on Luzon, since the early days of the Pacific War. There was concern that, with deliverance so near, they might be killed. Earlier, some daring raids were carried out to rescue POWs, including one at Cabanatuan and at the University of Santo Tomas Internment Camp and Bilibid Prison at the height for the battle of Manila.
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