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This 8 page paper describes and analyzes the 1945 raid on the prison camp at Cabanatuan in the Philippines, when 100 Army Rangers freed over 500 allied prisoners. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Battle Analysis: The Raid on Cabanatuan Research Compiled for The
Paper Store, Inc. by K. Von Huben 11/2010 Please Introduction In January, 1945, Army Rangers undertook a successful rescue mission and
saved the American prisoners of war (POWs) being held by the Japanese at the Cabanatuan internment camp in the Philippines. This paper analyzes that raid. Discussion The campaign in the
Pacific was particularly brutal on those who were captured because Japan was not a signatory to the Geneva Convention, meaning that there were no standards of treatment in place to
safeguard the lives of prisoners of war. The prison camps were miserable and inhumane; the danger to the prisoners grew as the war came to a close. When Japan began
to realize it was going to lose, in at least some cases they destroyed the camps and the men in them rather than have them survive to tell of their
ordeal (Goff, 2006). On the island of Palawan, for example, "more than 150 Allied POWs were herded into air raid shelters, doused with gasoline and burned alive by their captors
to prevent them from being liberated" (Goff, 2006). Given this brutality, Allied commanders became concerned about the "welfare of 512 survivors of the Bataan Death march imprisoned in a
camp at Cabanatuan in the Philippines" (Goff, 2006). It was decided to try and rescue the prisoners, a risky and dangerous undertaking since the camp was "29 miles behind enemy
lines through rivers and across roads that carried heavy Japanese military traffic" (Goff, 2006). Still, it was decided to make the attempt, using an all-volunteer force comprised of 120 personnel
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