1941 , succeeded the attack on Pearl Harbor a few days after , the Japanese started to attack the Ph...
1941 , succeeded the attack on Pearl Harbor a few days after , the Japanese started to attack the Philippine Islands, five months after the tenacious stationed the U.S. due to the shortage of arms , food and medicines , had surrendered to the Japanese and forced to start the brutal Bataan Death March , survived the U.S. prisoners of war were put into the concentration camps of the islands . October 20, 1944 , MacArthur led his army landed in Barrow , fulfilling the initial evacuation , "I will come back," the commitment to start the retaliatory action of the U.S. military . But in the Japanese under the claws of U.S. prisoners of war who are still struggling to survive against the odds , by the end of 1944 , the island of Palawan , the U.S. prisoners of war was a bloody massacre . In order to curb the atrocities from happening again , the U.S. military headquarters decided to rescue Kabatuan concentration camps of the U.S. prisoners of war , the POW camp 30 miles in the enemy front , held for 513 prisoners of war , prisoners of war under the Japanese army 's brutal labor years, have been very ill or frail . Not far from the Japanese implementation of the " humane destruction" of the time , Major Gibson ( Joseph ? Fiennes decoration) while suffering from malaria , but still trying to encouraged to proceed under the soldiers' morale , and looking forward to the freedom fighting that day coming, as soon as possible health care identity to do the cover of the soldiers widow Margaret ( Connie? decorated with Nelson ) by the Manila underground organization of black market drugs smuggled into the concentration camps , prisoners of war were timely help for the underserved . January 28, 1945 , even though the plan has not yet thoughtful, not familiar with the terrain , hundreds of the Japanese garrison stationed in the POW camp , and distance from the lack of prisoner of war camp two miles at entrenched thousands of Japanese troops , but the guerrillas in the Philippines of coordinated action , Lieutenant Colonel Henry ? musi ( Benjamin ? decorated Bratt ) and Captain Robert ? Prince (James ? Frank ornaments ) or led by a bold deep behind enemy lines in the sixth assault battalion , the cost of victory with minimal casualties completed the U.S. military in the history of the most successful rescue operation .
