Description
On February 23, 1945, the Los Baños raid rescued 2,147 Allied civilian internees from a Japanese internment camp in Laguna Province, Luzon. The operation brought together the U.S. 11th Airborne Division, Filipino guerrillas, scouts, pilots, and amphibious crews in a coordinated rescue behind Japanese lines. It showed how speed, local intelligence, airborne assault, ground action, and amphibious evacuation could combine around one urgent humanitarian mission.
The internees at Los Baños were running out of time. The rescue force had to land near the camp, strike from the ground, neutralize the guards, gather weakened civilians, and move them across Laguna de Bay before nearby Japanese forces could respond. This documentary follows one of the most successful rescue operations of the Pacific War — and explains why it should be remembered not as one unit’s victory alone, but as the result of many forces working together.