On this day in 1945, U.S. paratroopers carried out the daring raid that freed more than 2,000 prisoners from the Los Baños Internment Camp. Among them was the Croft family, and the American flag they had protected for decades. In the early 1920s, Alfred J. Croft rescued this flag from a fire at a Manila carnival. He was later presented the flag by Leonard Wood, then Governor-General of the Philippines. A self-taught pilot and World War I veteran, Croft had come to the Philippines to help train F
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On this day in 1945, U.S. paratroopers carried out the daring raid that freed more than 2,000 prisoners from the Los Baños Internment Camp. Among them was the Croft family, and the American flag they had protected for decades. In the early 1920s, Alfred J. Croft rescued this flag from a fire at a Manila carnival. He was later presented the flag by Leonard Wood, then Governor-General of the Philippines. A self-taught pilot and World War I veteran, Croft had come to the Philippines to help train F
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