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{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2012}}
{{Coord|15|30|34|N|121|02|40|E|region:PH_type:landmark|display=title}}
{{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&nbsp;30, 1945
(contracted; show full)1|pp=268–269}}</ref> Prisoners immediately hid in their shacks, latrines, and irrigation ditches.<ref name="Sides 2689"/> When the Rangers yelled to the POWs to come out and be rescued, many of the POWs feared that it was the Japanese attempting to trick them into being killed.<ref name="Breuer 178">{{harvnb|Breuer|1994|p=178}}</ref> Also, a substantial number resisted because the Rangers' weapons and uniforms looked nothing like those of a few years earlier
, for example, the Rangers wore caps, earlier soldiers had M1917 Helmets.<ref name="Sides 275">{{harvnb|Sides|2001|p=275}}</ref><ref name="Shoot4144">{{Cite episode|title=WWII: Raid on the Bataan Death Camp|series=Shootout!|serieslink=Shootout!|network=[[History (TV channel)|History Channel]]|airdate=December&nbsp;1, 2006|season=2|number=5|minutes=41:44}}</ref> The Rangers were challenged by the POWs and asked who they were and where they were from. Rangers sometimes had to resort to physical force to remove the detainees, throwing or kicking them out.<ref name="Sides 277">{{harvnb|Sides|2001|p=277}}</ref> Some of the POWs weighed so little due to illness and malnourishment that several Rangers carried two men on their backs.<ref name="Sides 281">{{harvnb|Sides|2001|p=281}}</ref> Once out of the barracks, they were told by the Rangers to proceed to the main, or front gate. Prisoners were disoriented because the "main gate(contracted; show full)
[[ar:اقتحام كاباناتوان]]
[[es:El gran rescate]]
[[fr:Raid de Cabanatuan]]
[[ru:Рейд на Кабанатуан]]
[[vi:Cuộc đột kích Cabanatuan]]
[[zh:卡巴那图营救]]
[[he:הפשיטה על מחנה השבויים בקבנטואן]]