Of all the daring rescue missions executed during World War II, few could have looked less promising on paper than the raid on a hellish Japanese POW camp in the heart of Luzon, the largest island in the Philippines. Camp Cabanatuan was the ultimate destination for many of the tens of thousands of U.S. troops and Philippine fighters who were trounced on Bataan peninsula in late March 1942, then forced to walk 60 miles to prison camps, a notorious ordeal later dubbed the Bataan Death March. Most of those who survived the march later fell victim to malaria, dysentery, malnutrition and physical abuse at the hands of their Japanese captors. But in January 1945, the men o...
Released:
2005
Rated:
R
Length:
n/a