World War II: The <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11th_Airborne_Division_(United_States)" id="mw6A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="11th Airborne Division (United States)">11th Airborne Division</a>, with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipinos" id="mw6Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Filipinos">Filipino</a> guerrillas, free all 2,147 captives of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Baños,_Laguna" id="mw6g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Los Baños, Laguna">Los Baños</a> internment camp, in what General Colin Powell later would refer to as "the textbook airborne operation for all ages and all armies."