Post; The Great Raid - Movie

Damien435 · August 28th, 2005

What is this movie based on? The trailor says that 500 American POW's are rescued and it keeps refering to this as the greatest rescue mission in history, but where does this take place? And why only 500? At first I thought this was about the rescue of 2,000 American POW's at Los Banos the day before they were supposed to be executed but now I am really confused. If this is about Los Banos why did Hollywood scale it down to 500? This just doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense to me, can someone maybe explain to me what this is about or give me a link to work with?

August 28th, 2005
Damien435 Tribunus Laticlavius Gear	Post; The Great Raid - Movie What is this movie based on? The trailor says that 500 American POW's are rescued and it keeps refering to this as the greatest rescue mission in history, but where does this take place? And why only 500? At first I thought this was about the rescue of 2,000 American POW's at Los Banos the day before they were supposed to be executed but now I am really confused. If this is about Los Banos why did Hollywood scale it down to 500? This just doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense to me, can someone maybe explain to me what this is about or give me a link to work with?