Rescuing the Last Bataan Death March Survivors - Rescued POW Roll Call
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
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The Raid at Cabanatuan (Filipino: Pagsalakay sa Cabanatuan), also known as The Great Raid (Filipino: Ang Dakilang Pagsalakay), was a rescue of Allied prisoners of war (POWs) and civilians from a Japanese camp near Cabanatuan City, in the Philippines. On January 30, 1945, during World War II, United States Army Rangers, Alamo Scouts and Filipino guerrillas liberated 511 from the POW camp. May the memory of these men be honored eternal...
The Raid at Cabanatuan, also known as The Great Raid, was a rescue of Allied prisoners of war (POWs) and civilians from a Japanese camp near Cabanatuan City, in the Philippines. On January 30, 1945, during World War II, United States Army Rangers, Alamo Scouts, and Filipino guerrillas liberated more than 500 from the POW camp.
Lt. Col. Henry Mucci, leader of the 6th Ranger Battalion and a reinforced company of 121 Rangers under Capt. Robert Prince were guided by Alamo Scouts and Filipino guerrillas to liberate these Bataan Death March survivors, saving them from sure execution by the Japanese.
The Filipino guerrillas under the command of Captain (later promoted Major) Juan Pajota, who coordinated support, this force was responsible for the roadblock at the Cabu River bridge that totally destroyed the Japanese 359th Independent Infantry Battalion. Without the guerrilla’s support, it is unlikely that the raid would have been as successful or even succeeded at all. The Filipino guerrillas lost 21 men in the delaying action while the Army Rangers only lost 2 in comparison.
In 1976 Juan Pajota came to the U.S. to file for citizenship. A year later he was still waiting for citizenship. He died of a heart attack a few days before his case was resolved.
This is only one example of the long history between the Philippines and America. Our future relationship may be in question, but our past is strongly entwined...
Casualties and losses
U.S. Soldiers
2 killed
4 wounded
2 prisoners died
Commonwealth of the Philippines Filipino Guerillas
21 killed
9 wounded in action
Empire of Japan
530-1,000+ killed
4 tanks out of action
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_at_Cabanatuan
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Cabanatuan Rescue Roster 30 Jan 1945
This list was researched and edited by Roger Mansell, former Director of The Center for Research on Allied POWS Under The Japanese.
mansell.com/pow_resources/camplists/philippines/Cabanatuan/caban_rescue_roster.html
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Book
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Soldiers
Film
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Raid
Film Trailer
• The Great Raid | Offic...
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We helped an old gent who survived the atrocity. War is the darkest scourge of humanity. Thank God for our brave soldiers who went in and saved those brave men and women. Rest in peace Murph.
Just watched from the Philippines👍
My uncle, Pete Boyce Holland, was held for a total of 1,225 days. He survived. I'm Looking for photos of him.
My childhood eye doctor was there. Dr. Alvin Poweleit. Wonderful gentle man.
My father was one of these men. Pvt. Bruce Neal Choate
Hall,Lawrence C.,PFC was my uncle
Thank you for posting this! I'm sure you meant the last Death March survivors in the Philippines. A lot of them, if they survived Cabanatuan, then the "hell ships" being transported to Japan ahead of our troops, wound up doing slave labor. One such hero was my 4-H Extension agent in Hardin County, Tennessee, William I. Butler. He told me that at Cabanatuan where men were dying by the scores from dysentery, malaria, starvation and a host of other maladies that he felt the beginnings of dysentery coming on. Being a farm boy, he volunteered to go on a work detail into the jungle picking up firewood hoping he could find some root or plant that might help him stave it off. There in the middle of nowhere, he felt what was left of his boot clank against something. Looking down he saw a bottle half buried in the mud. When he pulled it out, he found it was a full bottle of what he called "PeriGart", just what he needed to stop dysentery! Later in my life, he would always tell his story to my Tn History students on a trip to Shiloh. He always maintained that he was not a hero, they were the ones who didn't come back. God bless his memory.
Thank you for sharing this 🇺🇸👍🏻🇺🇸
@@FLIPPER1439 In 2002 I got together with some of his former 4-Hers including one who was a state senator and got a proclamation in his honor done by the legislature. As it was going to be a surprise during the annual Shiloh trip, I called a few days ahead to make sure he was gonna be able to be there. Oh yes, he replied, and that's a special day for me. It'll be 60 years to the day that I went into captivity. (You just can't make this stuff up.... ) He was a hero. I don't care what he said.
Don't be too harsh on semantics. If you were fortunate enough to have survived Bataan they all endured this... they all did.
@@mwbrada Maybe I should have said, "He was one of my heroes." Just one of several men who God put into the life of a fatherless lad to help him along the way, but none of the others went through so much to get there.
@@kirkwilson10 no offense meant. If you survived the Bataan Death March you inevitably suffered wherever you landed. Don't You Dare Suggest You Know Anything of The Others... you shitty troll. Let's dance
I have watched the Great Raid several times and currently reading Ghost Soldiers which is much more detailed as most books are. I highly recommend this book
Ghost Soldiers is a great read indeed. Check out We Were Soldiers Once, and Men.... and anything Stephen Ambrose. ;)
The lessons learned, and paid for, in blood, when we set foot in the Ia Drang Valley will never be forgotten.
@@mwbrada I really loved Ghost Soldiers and also the Mel Gibson move We were soldiers and I have the book on my Amazon list. Thanks for sharing Matt
@@dennyjay4252 read the book first. If Hal Moore doesn't make you cry you're not alive.
@@dennyjay4252 the lessons learned from the day they set boots into the Ia Drang valley still resonate today. Combat training tactics used across all forces are still in policy, today, from what Lt. Col. Hal Moore, and his troops endured. Sorry to hijack
My Dear Mr Quintana,!!!
i have a relatives name missing from the rollcall.
at 1:16 those are the famous Alamo Scouts.
Very informative👏🙂 Thank you.
PFC Ralph Edward Moore 201 Coast Artillery Corp Flint Company rescued from Cabanatuan POW camp
PFC Joseph Moore 201 Coast Artillery Corp rescued from Cabanatuan POW camp.
Brothers. My grandfather and my dad's uncle.
My father at 2:53. He is the shirtless man.
I just watched the Movie 🎥 we must remember most of these men were very young..17 and up.
It brought tears to my eyes 😥 as the brutality of the Japanese was just as bad as the Nazis❗️
I wonder if they were convicted for WAR CRIMES⁉️
Brave Heros in the Pacific !!! and don't forget about the Republic of China in WW2 (1931-1945)