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January 30: Bridgeport’s Henry Mucci Leads “The Great Raid” of World War II

  On this day in 1945, Bridgeport native Lt. Col. Henry Mucci led a coalition of U.S. Rangers and Filipino allies in a daring raid into heavily-occupied enemy territory to rescue over 500 Allied prisoners of war from a Japanese concentration camp.  The mission, known as the Raid on Cabanatuan or simply “The Great Raid,”…

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