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Under a moon and all through the hot night they tramped. They passed Filipino natives, who stared. Carabao carts were commandeered and the weakest were loaded aboard. One man died of shock, another died when his faltering heart gave out. The rest of them, still bewildered by the suddenness of their delivery, trudged...
Mucci's Rangers. The rescued men learned then who their deliverers were. They were from the Sixth Army of Lieut. General Walter Krueger, who had moved swiftly south from Lingayen Gulf. Filipino guerrillas had reported the location of their camp, which was 25 miles inside the Jap lines on the Sixth's left flank. The men who had rescued them were 286 Filipinos and 121 picked men of the U.S. 6th Ranger Battalion. The squat, handsome man wearing a lieutenant colonel's insignia and a shoulder holster over his sweat-stained shirt was Henry Andrew Mucci...
...correspondent counted 4,000 rude crosses in the Filipino burial ground; another saw "thousands" in the American sector...
...American prisoners were transferred to Cabanatuan. He lived to escape, and to tell his story.† On his testimony and that of others, the War Department believes that 2,200 U.S. prisoners died during those six weeks in O'Donnell, and that still heavier mortality occurred among the Filipino prisoners who stayed there after U.S. Army men had been shifted...
Unknown Toll. Last week, reconnaissance units of the 40th Division advancing on Manila came to Camp O'Donnell. The Japs had moved their troops out the day before, after putting the torch to the buildings. The last of the Filipino prisoners had been moved out a year earlier, and no man knew how many had died. A Filipino colonel put the number...