The daring rescue of more than 500 American POWs during World War II, when an elite force of Army Rangers freed the exhausted, malnourished men from a Japanese prison camp in the Philippines.

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE "Bataan Rescue" tells the story of the daring rescue of more than 500 American POWs during World War II, when an elite force of Army Rangers freed the exhausted, malnourished men from a Japanese prison camp in the Philippines.