Category: Prisoners of War
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The Great Raid, January 30, 1945 – Part 2
Following are 74 photographs taken during the Raid at Cabanatuan / The Great Raid, which involved the rescue of roughly 500 Allied POWs & Civilians from a Japanese POW camp near Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija, Philippines by US Army Rangers, Alamo Scouts, and Philippine guerrillas on January 30, 1945. For more see our entry for January…
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The Great Raid Occured Where 500 Allied POWs were Freed in the Philippines, January 30, 1945.
134 U.S. Army Rangers and Alamo Scouts, along with about 280 Filipino guerilla fighters, successfully raided a Japanese prisoner of war camp near Cabanatuan City, Philippines, extricating more than 500 Allied POWs. January 30, 1945. Image: Different routes were used for the infiltration and extraction behind Japanese lines during the Raid at Cabanatuan (Public Domain) On…
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World War 1 in Photographs, Part 2
When looking through thousands of images of World War I, some of the more striking photos are not of technological wonders or battle-scarred landscapes, but of the human beings caught up in the chaos. The soldiers were men, young and old, and the opportunity to look into their faces and see the emotion, their humanity,…
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Prisoners Of War Throughout History
When Everett Alvarez Jr. signed up for the U.S. Air Force in 1960, he didn’t imagine that he would become the first and nearly longest-held American prisoner of war in Vietnam; he just wanted to fly. Alvarez, the son of two poor Mexican immigrants, had just graduated as an engineer from Santa Clara University and…
History Daily With Francis Chappell Black 