High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Prince (1920 ? January 1, 2009) was a captain in the United States Army's elite 6th Ranger Battalion. In 1945 he was chosen personally by Lt. Col. Henry A. Mucci to plan the rescue at the Cabanatuan POW camp. Prince was born in Seattle, Washington and grew up in Madrona, Seattle. He graduated from Garfield High School and Stanford University, studying history and economics. He was initiated in Sigma Chi fraternity at Stanford. Prince joined the Reserve Officers' Training Corps and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in 1941. On January 31, 1942, he married Barbara Harrison at Seattle's Church of the Epiphany.