We turned in our battle analysis papers today. Owing to a book, Ghost Soldiers, that I read in 2002 I decided to write about the Cabanatuan Raid in WWII's Pacific Theater of operations. The sortie into enemy territory on January 30, 1945 by elements of the Sixth Ranger Battalion saved the lives of 512 Allied prisoners of war... all doomed to be exterminated by the Japanese. A local Washingtonian, Captain Robert W. Prince, lead the assault and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.
The operation was made into a 2005 movie, The Great Raid and has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of "69%" and an imdb.com rating of "6.8 out of 10."
