11th Airborne Division- Los Baños Raid Marker
Details:
On the back side of Baker building in the center of campus.
A black metal plaque attached to a concrete upright slab.
About the Los Baños Raid:
The Raid on Los Baños (Filipino: Pagsalakay ng Los Baños) in the Philippines, early Friday morning on 23 February 1945, was executed by a combined U.S. Army Airborne (11th Airborne Division) and Filipino guerrilla task force, resulting in the liberation of 2,147 Allied civilian and military internees from an agricultural school campus turned Japanese internment camp. The assault included an combined airbornre drop and amphibious extraction by sea. The 250 Japanese in the garrison were killed. It has been celebrated as one of the most successful rescue operations in modern military history. It was the second precisely-executed raid by combined U.S.-Filipino forces within a month, following on the heels of the Raid at Cabanatuan at Luzon on 30 January, in which 522 Allied military POWs had been rescued. The air/sea/land raid was the subject of a 2015 nonfiction book, Rescue at Los Baños: The Most Daring Prison Camp Raid of World War II, by New York Times bestselling author Bruce Henderson.
For other POW Camps Memorials and historic raids to liberate them see this website:
Cabanatuan- POW Camp
Santo Tomas Internment (POW) Camp Marker
Palawan WWII Massacre Memorial (POW Camp 10A)
Palawan Survivors Memorial (POW Camp 10A).
Palawan Prison Camp (POW Camp 10A)- Philippine Historic Marker
11th Airborne Division- Los Baños Raid Marker
Monument Text:
POOK NG BILANGGUANG KAMPO
SA LOS BANOS
GINAMIT NG MGA HAPONES BILANG
BILANGGUANG KAMPO PARA SA MGA BIHAG
NA AMERIKANO AT IBANG BANYAGA NOONG
1943. NILUSOB NG PINAGSANIB NA PANGKAT
NG GERILYANG FILIPINO MULA SA MGA
KASAPI NG ROTC HUNTERS, HUKBALAHAP,
IKA-48 ISKWADRONG TSINO, SARILING PANG-
KAT NI PANGULONG QUEZON, PANGKAT
MARKING, AT IBA PA PANG DI-REGULAR NA
TROPA NOONG 23 PEBRERO 1945. ANG
PINAGSANIB NA PUWERSA AY INORGANISA
NI TINYENTE KORONEL GUSTAVO INGLES NA
KASAPI NG HUNTERS AT KINATAWAN NG
PUWERSANG AMERIKANONG NANGANGASIWA
SA MGA GERILYA NG KATIMUGANG LUZON
PINAMUNUAN NI TINYENTE KORONEL HONORIO
GUERRERO AT NG ROTC HUNTERS ANG
UNANG SALAKAY. MATAGUMPAY NILANG
NAKONTROL ANG PALIGID NG KAMPO AT SA
TULONG NG MGA AMERIKANONG MIYEMBRO
NG COMPANY B, 511TH PARATROOP INFANTRY
AY NAPALAYA ANG 2,147 BILANGGO.
English translation:
Site of Los Baños Internment Camp
Used by the Japanese as prison camp for captured Americans and allies in 1943. Raided by joint forces of Filipino guerrillas from the members of ROTC Hunters, Hukbalahap, 48th Chinese Squadron, President Quezon's own group, Marking's group, and other irregular troops on Feb 23, 1945. The joint forces were organized by Lt. Col. Gustavo Ingles, a member of the ROTC Hunters, and a representative of American forces in charge of the Guerrillas of Southern Luzon. The initial raid was led by Lt.Col. Honorio Guerrero and the ROTC Hunters. They successfully took control of the camp perimeter and with the assistance of the members of Company B, 511th Paratroop Infantry [U.S. Army], 2,147 prisoners were liberated.
Commemorates:
People:
Orin Doughty “Hard Rock” Haugen
Units:
11th Airborne Division
188th Glider Infantry Regiment
511th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Hunters ROTC (Filipino Forces)
Wars:
WWII
Battles:
Luzon (1944-1945)
Pacific Theater
Philippines Campaign (1944–1945)
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