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Raid on Los Baños
1945 American-Filipino raid on a Japanese internment camp / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Raid on Los Baños (Filipino: Pagsalakay sa Los Baños) in the Philippines, early Friday morning on 23 February 1945, was executed by a combined United States Army Airborne and Filipino guerrilla task force, resulting in the liberation of 2,147 Allied civilian and military internees from an agricultural school campus turned Japanese internment camp. The raid has been celebrated as one of the most successful rescue operations in modern military history. It was the second precisely-executed raid by combined U.S.-Filipino forces within a month, following on the heels of the Raid at Cabanatuan at Luzon on 30 January, in which 522 Allied military POWs had been rescued.[1]: 4
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Raid on Los Baños | |||||||
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Part of World War II, Pacific theater | |||||||
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Company of U.S. paratroopers 300 troops on amphibian trucks 800 Filipino guerrillas[1]: 75 |
150–250 Japanese guards 8,000–10,000 Japanese soldiers near camp[1]: 39–40 | ||||||
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United States: 3 killed 2 wounded Philippine Commonwealth: 2 killed 4 wounded[1]: 65, 68 | 70–80 killed[1]: 75 |
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