The Japanese that reoccupied the camp took revenge on the people of Los Banos who helped in the operation but were left unprotected by the Americans after rescuing the American civilian POWs. The Japanese burned the whole barrio Batong Malake, from Mayondon to the UPLB campus. The St Therese chapel in the campus was burned, and the people who took shelter in it got bayoneted as they ran out of the burning church. The people received the heavy blow of Japanese wrath and were massacred en masse. 11th Airborne Los Banos Rescue February 23,1945. The 11th Airborne rescue of 2,147 prisoners from the Los Banos Japanese Prison Camp in the Philippines in 1945. It was one of the most dramatic operations of World War II: on February 23rd, 1945, just a few months before the end of the conflict, a combined force of American paratroopers, Filipino guerrillas and amphibious tanks liberated 2,147 prisoners who were facing a massacre at the hands of their Japanese captors. Incredibly, not a single prisoner was killed in the attack. Rescue: Allied Prisoners, Los Banos, Luzon, Philippine Islands. From the Internet Archive, U.S. Army Air Forces "Combat Subjects" # 3274 footage of the Los Banos Raid. National Archives Identifier 4854.