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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.
Los Baños Creek or Los Banos Creek, originally El Arroyo de los Baños, [3] is a 40 miles (64 km) long [4] tributary stream of the San Joaquin River in Merced County, California. From its source in the central Diablo Range it flows east into the Central Valley where it turns northeast to the west edge of Los Banos .
O'Neill Dam, constructed from 1963 to 1967, is an 87.5 ft (26.7 m), earthfill and rockfill dam, stretching over 3 mi (4.8 km) across the valley of San Luis Creek. With a maximum reservoir depth of 57 ft (17 m), peak inflow to the forebay is 15,600 cu ft (0.44 dam 3 ) per second, from both the San Luis Dam and the Delta–Mendota Canal.
Detailed narratives, from documents, about his conduct as commander in Los Baños, his trial, his incarceration and execution, and the misinformation about his fate are available in Henderson, Bruce, 2015, Rescue at Los Baños: the most daring prison camp raid of World War II, New York: William Morrow, HarperCollins, 2015. ISBN 978-0-06-232506-8.
Santo Tomas Internment Camp, also known as the Manila Internment Camp, was the largest of several camps in the Philippines in which the Japanese interned enemy civilians, mostly Americans, in World War II. The campus of the University of Santo Tomas in Manila was utilized for the camp, which housed more than 3,000 internees from January 1942 ...
Marek Warszawski. September 10, 2024 at 6:00 AM. The federal government and some 10 water districts are ponying up $1.1 billion to expand California’s largest reservoir south of the Delta. Their ...
The San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge is located in Stanislaus County and San Joaquin County. It encompasses over 7,000 acres (28 km 2) of riparian woodlands, wetlands and grasslands that host a diversity of wildlife native to California's Central Valley. The refuge is situated where three major rivers, the San Joaquin, Tuolumne and ...
Looking down from the top of the B.F. Sisk dam, heavy machinery is seen preparing the ground with O’Neill Forebay and Highway 152 seen in the background Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024 near Los Banos.