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And yet, it is 7:39—and still no sound of the gunfire that will mark the official start of the largest rescue mission in American military history. The POWs at Cabanatuan don’t realize they are about to be delivered from the nightmare they have lived for the past several years. They have no idea what is about to unfold. Neither do the 200-plus Japanese guards and other soldiers in the camp. Nor do the 1,000 or so members of the Japanese

The “rising sun” flag of Imperial Japan was flown over thousands of miles of captured countries and islands.

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