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{{Infobox Military Conflict
|conflict=Raid at Cabanatuan
|image=[[File:POWs celebrate.jpg|300px|alt=A couple hundred men are all facing the camera, smiling and cheering. Many have their hands raised. The men are wearing uniforms, t-shirts, and shorts. Huts and trees can be seen in the background.]]
|caption=Former Cabanatuan POWs in celebration, January 30, 1945
|partof=World War II, [[Pacific War|Pacific theater]]
(contracted; show full)lt;ref name="Sides 261">{{harvnb|Sides|2001|p=261}}</ref> White estimated that the [[I Corps (United States)|I Corps]] would not reach Cabanatuan City until January 31 or February 1, and that if any rescue attempt were to be made, it would have to be on January 29.<ref name="Rottman 10">{{harvnb|Rottman|2009|p=10}}</ref> White reported the details to Krueger, who gave the order for the rescue attempt.<ref name="Breuer 1489"/>

[[File:Henry mucci.jpg|
upright|thumb|left|alt=A standing man is smiling and staring off to his left. He has a smoke pipe in his mouth and is wearing a military uniform and hat.|Lt. Col. Henry Mucci]]
(contracted; show full)not in a million years. But the pilot's maneuvers were so skillful and deceptive that the diversion was complete. I don't know where we would have been without it."<ref name="Sides 2480"/> As the plane buzzed the camp, Lt. Carlos Tombo and his guerrillas along with a small number of Rangers cut the camp's [[telephone line]]s to prevent communication with the large force stationed in Cabanatuan.<ref name="Breuer 165"/>

[[File:Pajota's Guerrillas.jpg|
200px|thumb|left|alt=Three men, wearing uniforms and hats are standing and looking to the right. They are armed with grenades, guns, and have pouches. Other men can be seen in the background.|Captain Pajota's guerrillas at Cabanatuan]]
(contracted; show full)o Jima]] and the dropping of the [[Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki|atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki]].<ref name="Johnson 264"/><ref name="Sides 328">{{harvnb|Sides|2001|p=328}}</ref> The raid was soon followed by an even more successful [[raid at Los Baños]] on February&nbsp;23 where 2,147 Allied POWs and civilian prisoners were rescued.<ref name="Alexander 270">{{harvnb|Alexander|2009|p=270}}</ref>
[[File:POWs in Hospital.jpg|
righleft|thumb|alt=Several men are sitting and laying down near a building. Some are bandaged, and others have no shirts. Various boxes and cots are nearby.|Former Cabanatuan POWs at a makeshift hospital in Talavera]]

(contracted; show full) a consultant on the film, and believed it depicted the raid accurately.<ref name="SeattlePiRP"/><ref name="SeatNative"/> [[Marty Katz]] conveyed his interest in producing the film: "This [rescue] was a massive operation that had very little chance of success. It's like a Hollywood movie&ndash;it couldn't really happen, but it did. That was why we were attracted to the material."<ref name="DailyMost"/>

== Notes ==
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<ref name="SeattlePiRP">{{cite news|last=Barber|first=Mike|url=http://www.seattlepi.com/local/237842_raid25.html|title=Leader of WWII's "Great Raid" looks back on real-life POW rescue|work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer|date=August&nbsp;25, 2005|accessdate=March&nbsp;15, 2010|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5risK4xd9|archivedate=August&nbsp;4, 2010}}</ref>
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* [http://www.abmc.gov/memorials/memorials/cb.php Cabanatuan American Memorial]
* [http://www.alamoscouts.org Alamo Scouts Website]
* [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=off&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=cabanatuan+%28POW+OR+POWs+OR+survivor+OR+survivors%29+source%3ALIFE ''LIFE''{{'}}s unpublished photos of the aftermath of the raid]
* [http://www.us-japandialogueonpows.org/index.htm U.S.&ndash;Japanese Dialogue on POWs]

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[[Category:Conflicts in 1945]]
[[Category:1945 in the Philippines]]
[[Category:World War II operations and battles of the Southeast Asia Theatre]]
[[Category:Military history of the Philippines during World War II]]
[[Category:Nueva Ecija]]
[[Category:United States Army Rangers]]
[[Category:Japanese prisoner of war and internment camps]]
[[Category:Bataan Death March]]
[[Category:Battles of World War II involving Japan]]
[[Category:Battles of World War II involving the United States]]

[[es:El gran rescate]]
[[fr:Raid de Cabanatuan]]
[[ru:Рейд на Кабанатуан]]
[[vi:Cuộc đột kích Cabanatuan]]
[[zh:卡巴那图营救]]