11-309 Garand Picture of the Day

[Mark in Rochester]

Exhausted Army Rangers sleeping on straw covered ground in front of some of the Allied POW's they rescued from a Japanese prison camp.
Location: Cabanatuan, Philippines
Date taken: February 1945
Photographer: Carl Mydans



Rangers on the way to Cabanatuan. Jan 30, 1945.
(Army Photo Photo)





Members of the Nellist and Rounsaville Teams after the raid on the Cabanatuan Prison Camp. Back row (L-R): G. Cox, W. Wismer, H. Hard, A. Smith, F. Laquier. Front row (L-R): G. Kittleson, R. Vaquilar, W. Nellist, T. Rounsaville, F. Fox. Three team members (T. Siason, S. Asis, A. Alfonso) who participated in the raid are not in this photo; neither is LT J. Dove, the teams' Contact Officer. (W. E. Nellist)




Cabanatuan POW Camp Memorial, Present day.



Galen Kittleson,who holds the distinction of being the only man in U.S. military history to participate in four POW liberation attempts in two wars, the book chronicles Kittleson’s journey from a fresh-faced 19-year-old Iowa farm boy in World War II to a 45-year-old seasoned Green Beret in Vietnam.

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