Great Raid Getting NoticedHugh Hewitt's
flogging the blogs to publicize this movie. I haven't seen it myself but will try to make time for it over the weekend, based on
this terrific article.
By late 1944, Japan's defeat was imminent and Prince was tasting combat in the Philippines. In January 1945, with word of the massacre of Allied POWs at Palawan, Mucci was ordered to hand-pick a team to rescue prisoners at Cabanatuan.
Mucci, who embarrassed Prince by calling him "my wonderful captain," was to get the rescuers to the camp; Prince's job was to get in and out.
What made the "Great Raid" so tactically incredible was that there was no time to rehearse. "Some have months to rehearse, we only had hours," Prince says. "We were successful because we had all trained together and knew each other" and had the support of Filipino people, he says.Sounds like a thrilling movie. I always enjoyed POW movies; there were a slew of excellent ones in the late 1950s and early 1960s:
The Bridge on the River Kwai,
Stalag 17,
The Great Escape,
King Rat,
Escape from Mindanao, etc.
