11th Airborne Los Banos Rescue February 23, 1945

11th Airborne Los Banos Rescue February 23,1945.
The 11th Airborne rescue of 2,147 prisoners from the Los Banos Japanese Prison Camp in the Philippines in 1945.
It was one of the most dramatic operations of World War II: on February 23rd, 1945, just a few months before the end of the conflict, a combined force of American paratroopers, Filipino guerrillas and amphibious tanks liberated 2,147 prisoners who were facing a massacre at the hands of their Japanese captors. Incredibly, not a single prisoner was killed in the attack.
Rescue: Allied Prisoners, Los Banos, Luzon, Philippine Islands. From the Internet Archive, U.S. Army Air Forces "Combat Subjects" # 3274 footage of the Los Banos Raid. National Archives Identifier 4854.