This year is the 70th anniversary of the liberation of many World War II detention camps. One camp’s liberation that received very little attention was at Los Banos in the Philippines during February 1945. Bruce Henderson has written a gripping, detailed account, Rescue At Los Banos. It tells how the American military daringly raided the camp, rescuing over two thousand civilian prisoners, many of whom were from the United States. American Thinker interviewed the author about the mission. After Japan swept across the Philippines and quickly occupied it, many men, women, and children were trapped and were not able to escape.  They were then imprisoned with a merciless and cruel guard, Sadaaki Konishi, assigned as camp commandant. Meager food rations were reduced to the point of starvation, even though there was plenty of food available, since the camp itself was located in an area of great agricultural productivity. As the Japanese began losing the war, the...(Read Full Article)