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In World War II, the Japanese invaders had prison camps across the Philippines while Filipino guerillas fought to push back the invaders and free the captured. For every POW, it was a race against a weary clock that ticked towards a death by starvation, illness, abuse, or execution. In Davao, twelve escaped – the only successful group escape from a Japanese prison camp. Ghost Soldiers, meanwhile, tells the story of the first Rangers amazing rescue of over 500 POWs in Cabanatuan from behind enemy lines before the POWs could be executed as American and Philippine forces advanced on the Japanese And in Los Baños, General Mac Arthur sent the 11th Air Division to rescue over 2,000 prisoners, many of them American men, women and children, from certain death at the hands of their captors.
Read these true-life stories and more in The Hernandez Library