Post by Scalper on Nov 25, 2009 15:53:20 GMT 8
Aside from the Great Raid on Cabanatuan, WW2 Philippines was also the site of another significant and successful prisoner-of-war rescue, and by a combined operation of Filipino Guerrillas and the US Army's 11th Airborne Division: The Los Baños Raid on 23 February 1945. Look it up in Wikipedia under "Raid at Los Baños" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_at_Los_Baños) and you'll see why.
I hope they also make a movie of it because it combines more cinematic and exciting activities, including an impromptu, bicultural, triphibious combat assault. It included a prison camp spy recon, cross-country ranger infiltration, an airborne company parachute assault, an armored vehicle and artillery diversionary penetration assault of the Japanese lines, and an amphibious tractor (Amtrac) evacuation of the 2,147 rescued prisoners and the assaulting infantry units.
It's another rahrah "made-for-Hollywood" patriotic movie that we should all try our best to get off the ground by asking the public and the government to support. Having just finished filming and production of "The Pacific" mini-series, perhaps HBO might want to make this movie.
I hope they also make a movie of it because it combines more cinematic and exciting activities, including an impromptu, bicultural, triphibious combat assault. It included a prison camp spy recon, cross-country ranger infiltration, an airborne company parachute assault, an armored vehicle and artillery diversionary penetration assault of the Japanese lines, and an amphibious tractor (Amtrac) evacuation of the 2,147 rescued prisoners and the assaulting infantry units.
It's another rahrah "made-for-Hollywood" patriotic movie that we should all try our best to get off the ground by asking the public and the government to support. Having just finished filming and production of "The Pacific" mini-series, perhaps HBO might want to make this movie.
