00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862447574 Buklod 20230907144018.0 m | | ta 220601s2001 nyuabf rb |000 0|eng d 0385495641 9780385495646 (iLib)UPBAG-00044608667 DLC BAG rda eng D 767.4 S54 2001 Sides, Hampton author. Ghost soldiers the forgotten epic story of World War II's most dramatic mission Hampton Sides. New York, New York Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc. 2001. 342 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations, color maps 25 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Maps of Route of death march and Ranger raid on Cabanatuan on end pages. "June 2001" Includes bibliographical references. This book is a tense, powerful, grand account of one of the most daring exploits of World War II. On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected troops from the elite U.S. Army 6th Ranger Battalion slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: march thirty miles in an attempt to rescue 513 American and British POWs who had spent three years in a surreally hellish camp near the city of Cabanatuan. The prisoners included the last survivors of the Bataan Death March left in the camp, and their extraordinary will to live might soon count for nothing -- elsewhere in the Philippines, the Japanese Army had already executed American prisoners as it retreated from the advancing U.S. Army. As the Rangers stealthily moved through enemy-occupied territory, they learned that Cabanatuan had become a major transshipment point for the Japanese retreat, and instead of facing the few dozen prison guards, they could possibly confront as many as 8,000 battle-hardened enemy troops.--Jacket flap. United States. Army. Ranger Battalion, 6th History. World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Philippines Cabanatuan City (Nueva Ecija) World War, 1939-1945 Regimental histories United States. World War, 1939-1945 Concentration camps Philippines Cabanatuan City (Nueva Ecija) World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. World War, 1939-1945 Atrocities. Cabanatuan City (Nueva Ecija) History, Military 20th century. FI UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN D 767.4 S54 2001 Book