The first half of “The Great Raid” shows how Prince meticulously develops a highly complex plan that involves marching over thirty miles to the POW camp, approaching the camp in broad daylight over open terrain, and then launching a surprise nighttime attack – all the while protecting their flanks and ensuring the safety of the prisoners during the raid. Krueger assigns the newly minted Sixth Army Ranger Battalion, under the command of Lt Col Henry Mucci, to rescue all 500-plus Allied prisoners being held at the Cabanatuan POW camp before they can be killed by their Japanese captors.Ĭolonel Mucci assigns Captain Robert Prince to formulate a plan to rescue the prisoners, and then to assemble a raiding party to execute the plan.
General Walter Krueger, Sixth Army Commander, receives intelligence that the Japanese are murdering American prisoners of war (POWs) before they can be liberated. Army has landed on Luzon and is steadily pushing the Japanese back. It is January 1945 – the last year of World War II.
Based on a true story chronicled by Hampton Sides in his book “The Ghost Soldiers,” “The Great Raid” counts among its stars Benjamin Bratt, James Franco, and Max Martini. “The Great Raid” is an outstanding film from 2005 that tells the story of perhaps one of the most unheralded, and yet successful rescue operations in U.S.
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