The Army captain who conceived and led a daring prisoner of war rescue in World War II (“Breakout Performance,” November/December 2001) is a central character in a movie based on the event. The Great Raid stars James Franco as Robert Prince, ’41, whose team of Rangers liberated 513 American and British soldiers—many of whom were survivors of the Bataan Death March—from the Japanese POW camp at Cabanatuan in the Philippines in January 1945. Historians have called it the most dangerous rescue mission of the war. Prince, retired and living in Port Townsend, Wash., told STANFORD that he neither sought nor enjoys acclaim for his role in the raid, but is happy that “a new generation is learning about the sacrifices made during the war.”
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