The rangers and 512 liberated POWs returned to American lines on January 31. The former prisoners were placed in care of a 1st Cavalry field hospital that had been set up in a Filipino schoolhouse. Many seemed timid or self-conscious, and flinched when doctors, nurses, or war correspondents tried to engage them in conversation. They ate heartily and gained weight quickly. But their full recovery, physical and psychological, would take time.
