The Cabanatuan Raid-Episode 406

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Captain William Toti, USN

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🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

This week Seth and Bill take a deep dive into one of the most exciting, and heroic, episodes of the Pacific War-the rescue of some of the survivors of the Bataan Death March during the raid on Cabanatuan in 1945. US Army 6th Rangers under the command of COL Henry Mucci infiltrated deep behind Japanese lines to rescue American POWs languishing in the Cabanatuan Prisoner of War camp. The raid, led by Ranger Captain Robert Prince, was a resounding success and truly one of the most exciting stories to come out of the campaign for Luzon.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 406 of the Unauthorized History of Pacific War podcast.
0:19.8	My name is Seth Perridden, historian and deputy director of the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum
0:23.2	back at Camp Shelby.
0:24.7	And with me, as always, is my esteemed co-host, retired Navy Captain Bill Toaddy.
0:28.9	Former Skipper of the Fast Tech submarine U.S.S.C.
0:31.0	Indianapolis, Commodore, Submarine Squadron 3 in Pearl Harbor, and many other postings. How are you this very dreary day, at least down here, Bill?
0:39.8	Well, it's kind of dreary in Florida too, Seth. I'm looking out the window here, and yeah,
0:43.9	it's just cloudy and overcast. And I think we were supposed to have a launch today. I could see
0:50.3	the lunches out my window, but I don't think they'll launch. Clouds are too low.
0:54.9	Yeah, it is gross.
0:55.8	We've had a lot of weather down here the last couple days and even a little bit of a tropical
1:00.7	weather, which is the first for the season, and I'm sure it won't be the last.
1:05.0	Of the season.
1:06.5	Before we get started, we want to ask you to like and subscribe to our channels that helps
1:09.5	others find our show.
1:10.7	If you have done so, thank you.
1:11.9	If you haven't, please do so.
1:13.3	Two quick PSAs.
1:15.5	I keep seeing a lot of comments on there on the YouTube channel specifically is you guys need to do an episode about this.
1:21.6	You guys need to do an episode about that or whatever the case may be.
1:24.6	And it's always inevitably something that we've already done.
1:28.3	So I'm just going to make the very, very gentle but strong suggestion that go back and look through our old videos, because I guarantee you if it's Pacific War, and it's related to the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, Army Air Forces, we've probably done it.
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