Raid on Los Baños

Raid on Los Baños
	Part of the Pacific Theater of World War II
	; Painting of a guerrilla attacking a Japanese sentry with a bolo knife
Date	23 February 1945
Location	Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines
Result	Allied victory Successful Allied military rescue operation;
Belligerents
United States Commonwealth of the Philippines;	Japan
Commanders and leaders
Henry A. Burgress; Edward Lahti; John Ringler; Robert H. Soule; Joseph W. Gibbs; Gustavo Inglés	Major Tanaka; Major Urabe; Major T. Iwanaka; Sadaaki Konishi
Strength
Company of U.S. paratroopers; 300 troops on amphibian trucks; 800 Filipino guerrillas	150–250 Japanese guards; 8,000–10,000 Japanese soldiers near camp
Casualties and losses
United States:; 3 killed; 2 wounded; Philippine Commonwealth:; 2 killed; 4 wounded	70–80 killed

The Raid on Los Baños (Filipino: Pagsalakay sa Los Baños) in the Philippines, early Friday morning on 23 February 1945, was executed by a combined United States Army Airborne and Filipino guerrilla task force, resulting in the liberation of 2,147 Allied civilian and military internees from an agricultural school campus turned Japanese internment camp. The raid has been celebrated as one of the most successful rescue operations in modern military history. It was the second precisely-executed raid by combined U.S.-Filipino forces within a month, following on the heels of the Raid at Cabanatuan at Luzon on 30 January, in which 522 Allied military POWs had been rescued.