1 00:01:22,305 --> 00:01:26,105 MERC DAVENPORT: This was the map they showed us after we volunteered for the job. 2 00:01:26,305 --> 00:01:29,105 Looking at Burma and the Malay Peninsula 3 00:01:29,305 --> 00:01:32,105 and Indonesia this way, without seeing all the Japs behind the trees, 4 00:01:32,305 --> 00:01:34,105 the jumps we were going to make into Burma 5 00:01:34,305 --> 00:01:37,105 seemed like we'd volunteered for a Sunday school picnic. 6 00:01:37,305 --> 00:01:40,105 February 17th, 1944, 7 00:01:40,305 --> 00:01:44,105 that's the day we took off from the American Air Commando Base at Lohagad. 8 00:01:44,305 --> 00:01:48,105 Over Burma, the jungle looked a lot different than I had pictured it. 9 00:01:48,305 --> 00:01:50,105 My name's Merc Davenport. 10 00:01:50,305 --> 00:01:52,105 The only reason I made corporal I guess 11 00:01:52,305 --> 00:01:55,105 is because they had nobody else to promote. 12 00:01:55,305 --> 00:01:57,105 Thinking about what we had to do, 13 00:01:57,305 --> 00:02:00,106 I guess all of us felt like we'd swallowed a mortar shell. 14 00:02:00,306 --> 00:02:03,106 Just about when I was ready to tell the lieutenant 15 00:02:03,306 --> 00:02:05,106 I'd changed my mind about wanting to be a hero, 16 00:02:05,306 --> 00:02:07,306 the warning light began to jump. 17 00:02:10,306 --> 00:02:12,306 Ready signal. 18 00:02:20,306 --> 00:02:22,306 Look up. 19 00:02:25,306 --> 00:02:27,306 Let's go. 20 00:02:29,306 --> 00:02:31,106 MERC: Somewhere in that Burma jungle below us 21 00:02:31,306 --> 00:02:34,106 was a sharp curving section of road we had to blow up. 22 00:02:34,306 --> 00:02:38,107 Because of those curves, the brass called this section, The Bottleneck. 23 00:02:38,307 --> 00:02:40,107 The drop was supposed to bring us close to it. 24 00:02:40,307 --> 00:02:43,107 The only thing we didn't know was how close it might bring us to the Japs 25 00:02:43,307 --> 00:02:45,107 who controlled the area. 26 00:02:45,307 --> 00:02:48,107 There's no turning back now. We were flying through the air. 27 00:02:48,307 --> 00:02:50,307 A deal strictly for the birds. 28 00:02:56,307 --> 00:02:59,107 We hit the ground okay. All except the lieutenant. 29 00:02:59,307 --> 00:03:01,307 He hit a rock first. 30 00:03:07,307 --> 00:03:10,107 Here we were loaded down with the right weapons and supplies 31 00:03:10,307 --> 00:03:12,107 to make our job a success. 32 00:03:12,307 --> 00:03:14,358 And it had to be a rock that loused us up. 33 00:03:25,308 --> 00:03:27,308 34 00:03:58,308 --> 00:04:01,108 Okay. Marty, take Merc and another man and pick up the equipment. 35 00:04:01,308 --> 00:04:04,108 Yes, sir. Let's move out, Merc. 36 00:04:04,308 --> 00:04:05,308 Tom, you come too. 37 00:04:07,308 --> 00:04:09,108 Okay, the rest of you, take out those spades 38 00:04:09,308 --> 00:04:11,308 and bury these chutes on the double. 39 00:04:24,308 --> 00:04:27,308 40 00:04:32,309 --> 00:04:34,309 Bury this chute. 41 00:05:04,309 --> 00:05:06,110 Got everything in the drop, Marty? 42 00:05:06,310 --> 00:05:08,110 All but one case of K-rations. 43 00:05:08,310 --> 00:05:11,110 Well, we'll just have to do without it, that's all. 44 00:05:11,310 --> 00:05:14,110 Want to be long gone from here by morning. 45 00:05:14,310 --> 00:05:15,110 Right. 46 00:05:15,310 --> 00:05:17,310 Okay, coolies, sling those bails. 47 00:05:22,310 --> 00:05:24,310 48 00:05:30,310 --> 00:05:33,310 - Supply detail's coming back, Lieutenant. - All right. 49 00:05:35,310 --> 00:05:37,560 That's a mighty mean ankle you got there, sir. 50 00:05:38,310 --> 00:05:41,110 Yeah. Wouldn't you know. 51 00:05:41,310 --> 00:05:44,111 Fifty jumps in practice and never a scratch. 52 00:05:44,311 --> 00:05:46,111 53 00:05:46,311 --> 00:05:49,261 It can't be helped now, guess you just have to live with it. 54 00:05:50,311 --> 00:05:53,111 (RATTLING) 55 00:05:53,311 --> 00:05:55,111 Supplies are all buried safe, Lieutenant. 56 00:05:55,311 --> 00:05:57,111 There's a nice pool of fresh water back up the trail 57 00:05:57,311 --> 00:05:59,111 - so, there's no worry on that score. - Good. Good. 58 00:05:59,311 --> 00:06:01,111 What did you bring the radio for? 59 00:06:01,311 --> 00:06:05,111 Wouldn't check out. It got jolted around in the drop, I guess. 60 00:06:05,311 --> 00:06:08,111 Oh, boy. Oh, well, that's all right. 61 00:06:08,311 --> 00:06:11,111 We're not supposed to use it unless we really have to anyway. 62 00:06:11,311 --> 00:06:13,311 I'll carry it down later. 63 00:06:14,311 --> 00:06:16,111 All right. 64 00:06:16,311 --> 00:06:18,111 The first thing we have to do is contact that Englishman. 65 00:06:18,311 --> 00:06:20,111 Manders? 66 00:06:20,311 --> 00:06:23,111 But you can't travel on that ankle, Lieutenant. 67 00:06:23,311 --> 00:06:25,661 We still got two weeks before the Jap offensive. 68 00:06:27,311 --> 00:06:31,111 Corporal, there's no such as having too much time. 69 00:06:31,311 --> 00:06:33,111 VOSS: We'll probably need every minute we've got. 70 00:06:33,311 --> 00:06:36,111 So, what we'll do is split up the party, Marty. 71 00:06:36,311 --> 00:06:38,111 Now, can you find this shrine from this photo map. 72 00:06:38,311 --> 00:06:41,111 MARTY: Right here. Shouldn't be too hard? 73 00:06:41,311 --> 00:06:42,111 All right. 74 00:06:42,311 --> 00:06:46,111 A kachin woman will be at that shrine at 08:00 every morning 75 00:06:46,311 --> 00:06:48,111 until we make contact with her. 76 00:06:48,311 --> 00:06:52,111 And you want me to go... Alone? 77 00:06:52,311 --> 00:06:54,111 No. No. You better take Merc here with you. 78 00:06:54,311 --> 00:06:57,112 He's our demo expert, he's gonna place the charges 79 00:06:57,312 --> 00:07:00,462 and maybe Manders can give you a little dope on that bottleneck. 80 00:07:02,312 --> 00:07:04,112 Okay. 81 00:07:04,312 --> 00:07:08,112 I'll give you three days, Marty. 82 00:07:08,312 --> 00:07:11,112 If you're not back by then, I'll send somebody after you. 83 00:07:12,312 --> 00:07:13,312 Let's go. 84 00:07:19,312 --> 00:07:21,112 MERC: We had no trouble getting to the shrine 85 00:07:21,312 --> 00:07:25,112 where we were supposed to make our contact with the kachin woman. 86 00:07:25,312 --> 00:07:28,112 But waiting under that tree, we felt like a couple of sitting ducks 87 00:07:28,312 --> 00:07:30,562 for any Japs who might be patrolling the area. 88 00:07:32,312 --> 00:07:34,313 89 00:07:36,313 --> 00:07:39,113 It's after eight o'clock, is she going to show? 90 00:07:39,313 --> 00:07:41,313 If she doesn't, we'll come back tomorrow. 91 00:07:43,313 --> 00:07:46,313 Do me a favor, wake me when it's time for lunch, huh? 92 00:08:00,313 --> 00:08:01,313 What's that? 93 00:08:16,314 --> 00:08:18,114 Is that her? 94 00:08:18,314 --> 00:08:21,364 Wait until we see what's in the basket, what she does with it. 95 00:09:42,315 --> 00:09:45,115 MERC: Hey, how can we be sure, this gook gal is on the level? 96 00:09:45,315 --> 00:09:48,115 MARTY: Relax. She was where she was supposed to be 97 00:09:48,315 --> 00:09:50,315 and did what she was supposed to do. 98 00:09:58,315 --> 00:10:00,115 MERC: Hey, we've been hiking over an hour. 99 00:10:00,315 --> 00:10:03,366 How do you know she's not leading us right into a Jap bivouac? 100 00:10:04,316 --> 00:10:06,316 Not far now, just up there. 101 00:10:08,316 --> 00:10:12,316 - MERC: You never said she could speak English. - You didn't ask. 102 00:10:28,316 --> 00:10:32,116 MERC: The gal seemed to know every tree and bush in the jungle. 103 00:10:32,316 --> 00:10:34,116 And even when we got to where she was taking us, 104 00:10:34,316 --> 00:10:37,366 the entrance was so well hidden, we didn't know we were there. 105 00:10:48,317 --> 00:10:51,117 MANDERS: It really is rather ridiculous I supposed 106 00:10:51,317 --> 00:10:55,117 attempting to preserve modicum with the civilized amenities 107 00:10:55,317 --> 00:10:59,117 whilst living during a war and existing in a jungle cave. 108 00:10:59,317 --> 00:11:03,117 But then you see gentlemen, one of these days I expect to walk out of the jungle 109 00:11:03,317 --> 00:11:05,117 back into a peaceful world. 110 00:11:05,317 --> 00:11:09,117 And when that time comes I really would rather like to greet my friend 111 00:11:09,317 --> 00:11:12,117 with some remnants of refinement rather than as a... 112 00:11:12,317 --> 00:11:14,317 A grubby jungle creature. 113 00:11:18,317 --> 00:11:20,117 Now, what's the matter, gentlemen? 114 00:11:20,317 --> 00:11:22,117 Is there something wrong with the whiskey? 115 00:11:22,317 --> 00:11:24,117 MANDERS: Of course, it tastes all right to me but then I've been... 116 00:11:24,317 --> 00:11:27,117 No. No. There's nothing wrong with the scotch, Mr. Manders. 117 00:11:27,317 --> 00:11:29,117 It's just that... 118 00:11:29,317 --> 00:11:31,317 Well, Merc and I, we didn't expect this. 119 00:11:33,317 --> 00:11:35,117 I quite understand. 120 00:11:35,317 --> 00:11:39,117 And what bothers me is if you had time enough 121 00:11:39,317 --> 00:11:43,317 to build this bomb shelter then why didn't you get out of here ahead of the Japs? 122 00:11:44,317 --> 00:11:46,317 I could have indeed. 123 00:11:47,317 --> 00:11:49,117 It was known for several months 124 00:11:49,317 --> 00:11:51,117 that the Japs would over-run all of Burma, 125 00:11:51,317 --> 00:11:54,118 there was nothing to stop them. 126 00:11:54,318 --> 00:11:57,118 But you see I have been Colonial Officer here in Tamil Village 127 00:11:57,318 --> 00:11:59,118 for some 22 years. 128 00:11:59,318 --> 00:12:02,118 All my roots were here. 129 00:12:02,318 --> 00:12:06,318 So by running away, what could I accomplish beyond saving my own life? 130 00:12:07,318 --> 00:12:09,118 By remaining, 131 00:12:09,318 --> 00:12:11,318 by keeping my radio in operation, 132 00:12:14,318 --> 00:12:17,118 I thought I might be of some small service. 133 00:12:17,318 --> 00:12:19,118 How do you happen to have it? 134 00:12:19,318 --> 00:12:22,118 I made it... Myself. 135 00:12:22,318 --> 00:12:24,118 MANDERS: As a hobby. 136 00:12:24,318 --> 00:12:27,118 Well, it sure came in handy as you say for us. 137 00:12:27,318 --> 00:12:29,118 Yes. 138 00:12:29,318 --> 00:12:32,319 I'm not quite sure why you are here. 139 00:12:35,319 --> 00:12:39,119 I received a message to expect a small guerilla party but... 140 00:12:39,319 --> 00:12:42,119 We are a demolition party. With just one target. 141 00:12:42,319 --> 00:12:44,319 Oh? 142 00:12:53,319 --> 00:12:55,119 MARTY: Here's where we are 143 00:12:55,319 --> 00:12:58,119 and right along here is the Kohima Road into India. 144 00:12:58,319 --> 00:13:01,119 I guess you know the Japs are planning an offensive. 145 00:13:01,319 --> 00:13:05,319 There has been some talk in the village but as to time or place... 146 00:13:06,319 --> 00:13:08,120 Time 0700, 147 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:11,120 date, 8th March. Place... 148 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:13,120 MERC: Right here. 149 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:16,120 - Our people know all of this? - And more. 150 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:20,120 They know that the Japs want Imphal. That's our strong point. 151 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:23,320 If they take it, they can cut the railroad supplying China. 152 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:27,120 And see this small point in the road right here? 153 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:29,120 MARTY: From the air photos, that seemed like a bottleneck. 154 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:33,120 Headquarters figured if a small demo party could get in there, 155 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:36,120 wait until just an hour or two before the offensive and blow it up. 156 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:38,120 It might take them days to get it open again, 157 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:40,320 louse up their whole timetable. 158 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:44,120 (CLEARING THROAT) I see, yes. 159 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:48,120 Well, certainly, supply is the key to any success in jungle operations. 160 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:52,320 And all Japanese supplies must go up the Kohima Road. 161 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:55,120 Well, what do you think? 162 00:13:55,320 --> 00:13:57,320 Well, is it practical or are we off base? 163 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:02,120 Yes, it's practical, chaps 164 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:04,120 except for one thing... 165 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:06,120 Yourselves. 166 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:10,120 Now, I think you have a very good chance of blowing up the... 167 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:12,120 This bottleneck as you call it. 168 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:14,120 But as to your chances of getting away yourselves, 169 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:17,320 I put them at practically nil. 170 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:19,320 Um... Zero. 171 00:14:23,321 --> 00:14:25,121 I guess we knew it would be something like that 172 00:14:25,321 --> 00:14:27,321 when we stuck our necks out, sir. 173 00:14:32,321 --> 00:14:34,321 (WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY) 174 00:14:39,321 --> 00:14:41,121 You're sure of this, Atsi? 175 00:14:41,321 --> 00:14:43,321 Word was sent from the village. 176 00:14:44,321 --> 00:14:46,121 This is bad. 177 00:14:46,321 --> 00:14:48,621 - The Jap knows you're here. - How do you know? 178 00:14:49,321 --> 00:14:51,121 From Atsi's daughter. 179 00:14:51,321 --> 00:14:55,121 I don't get it. How could a girl know what the Japs are up to? 180 00:14:55,321 --> 00:14:58,121 - She is their prisoner in their teahouse. - What teahouse? 181 00:14:58,321 --> 00:15:02,122 Well, actually it's my old, colonial residence in Tamil Village 182 00:15:02,322 --> 00:15:04,122 but now it's a sort of... 183 00:15:04,322 --> 00:15:07,122 Informal Japanese headquarters. 184 00:15:07,322 --> 00:15:09,122 Informal? 185 00:15:09,322 --> 00:15:11,122 Yes. They've seized the most attractive girls in the village 186 00:15:11,322 --> 00:15:13,122 and they keep them there under guard 187 00:15:13,322 --> 00:15:17,322 for the... Entertainment of the officers. 188 00:15:18,322 --> 00:15:21,322 - That's cozy. - And your daughter is one of them? 189 00:15:23,322 --> 00:15:25,122 At least she is alive. 190 00:15:25,322 --> 00:15:28,122 And from time to time she slips out with information. 191 00:15:28,322 --> 00:15:32,122 The most important of which I have sent back to our headquarters via my radio. 192 00:15:32,322 --> 00:15:35,122 - We better get back and warn the others. - MANDERS: No. 193 00:15:35,322 --> 00:15:37,123 No, it will be dark soon and you could never 194 00:15:37,323 --> 00:15:39,123 find your party in the jungle at night. 195 00:15:39,323 --> 00:15:41,123 And neither can the enemy. 196 00:15:41,323 --> 00:15:44,123 In the morning will be much more sensitive. 197 00:15:44,323 --> 00:15:45,773 How about another drink? Hmm? 198 00:15:48,323 --> 00:15:51,323 Okay. Well, it's going to be a long night. 199 00:15:55,323 --> 00:15:58,123 200 00:15:58,323 --> 00:16:00,123 MERC: I don't know whether the Japs were hungry or not 201 00:16:00,323 --> 00:16:02,123 but it sure didn't take them long to sniff out 202 00:16:02,323 --> 00:16:04,323 those K-rations we'd lost in the trees. 203 00:16:05,323 --> 00:16:08,323 204 00:17:23,324 --> 00:17:25,324 205 00:17:38,325 --> 00:17:39,325 206 00:17:44,325 --> 00:17:47,125 Hold your fire, Tom! 207 00:17:47,325 --> 00:17:51,125 - Jap patrol, Lieutenant. - All right. Spread out. Hide. Quick. 208 00:17:51,325 --> 00:17:53,125 - Come on. - Go ahead. I'll cover you. 209 00:17:53,325 --> 00:17:55,325 Let me help you. Come on. 210 00:18:00,325 --> 00:18:02,325 211 00:18:22,326 --> 00:18:24,326 212 00:18:27,326 --> 00:18:28,126 Do you really think they found the rest of the guys? 213 00:18:28,326 --> 00:18:30,126 Why else would they be firing? 214 00:18:30,326 --> 00:18:32,126 I knew we should have started back last night. 215 00:18:32,326 --> 00:18:33,526 It wouldn't have helped. 216 00:18:43,326 --> 00:18:45,126 Where are the guys? 217 00:18:45,326 --> 00:18:47,326 Cover me. 218 00:18:59,326 --> 00:19:00,126 Who is it? 219 00:19:00,326 --> 00:19:02,126 It's Tom. 220 00:19:02,326 --> 00:19:03,326 Where are the rest? 221 00:19:10,326 --> 00:19:12,326 Hold it. 222 00:19:18,326 --> 00:19:19,127 Benjy! 223 00:19:19,327 --> 00:19:21,327 It's Marty and Merc. 224 00:19:23,327 --> 00:19:25,127 Any idea how they found you? 225 00:19:25,327 --> 00:19:26,127 How did they find Pearl Harbor. 226 00:19:26,327 --> 00:19:28,127 Where's lieutenant? 227 00:19:28,327 --> 00:19:31,127 Japs got him... Alive. 228 00:19:31,327 --> 00:19:33,127 And what do we do now, sergeant? 229 00:19:33,327 --> 00:19:36,127 Ask me something easy. 230 00:19:36,327 --> 00:19:39,127 Far be it for a corporal to tell a sergeant what to do. 231 00:19:39,327 --> 00:19:40,127 What are you getting at? 232 00:19:40,327 --> 00:19:42,127 The nips are going to be wanting to know what a little 233 00:19:42,327 --> 00:19:46,127 - cub pack is doing in their playground. - So? 234 00:19:46,327 --> 00:19:48,127 So they just got the guy who can tell them. 235 00:19:48,327 --> 00:19:50,127 You mean the lieutenant? 236 00:19:50,327 --> 00:19:52,127 And they got all kinds of little mean tricks, 237 00:19:52,327 --> 00:19:55,127 skewed ways for making conversations out of strong silent types. 238 00:19:55,327 --> 00:19:57,328 Yeah, they've used torture before. 239 00:19:59,328 --> 00:20:00,128 The lieutenant would open up 240 00:20:00,328 --> 00:20:03,128 and I for one wouldn't blame him too much 241 00:20:03,328 --> 00:20:05,128 where would that leave operation bottleneck? 242 00:20:05,328 --> 00:20:07,128 Nowhere. 243 00:20:07,328 --> 00:20:10,128 He wouldn't let us within 10 miles in it. 244 00:20:10,328 --> 00:20:12,128 If it makes you happy I'll agree you've got a point. 245 00:20:12,328 --> 00:20:14,128 But would you mind telling me what we'd do about it? 246 00:20:14,328 --> 00:20:16,128 Even if we knew where they took him. 247 00:20:16,328 --> 00:20:18,128 Why don't you leave that up to the high brass? 248 00:20:18,328 --> 00:20:21,128 - Huh? - Call him on a radio. 249 00:20:21,328 --> 00:20:23,328 No good. It got busted up in a drop. 250 00:20:25,328 --> 00:20:27,128 Manders still has his hand set. 251 00:20:27,328 --> 00:20:30,128 That's right. 252 00:20:30,328 --> 00:20:32,578 Just about time to make it back there by dark. 253 00:20:33,329 --> 00:20:35,129 Want me to go with you? 254 00:20:35,329 --> 00:20:37,879 There's no need for two. I'll make it quicker alone. 255 00:20:38,329 --> 00:20:41,129 You stay with the rest. 256 00:20:41,329 --> 00:20:42,729 I'll see you in the morning. 257 00:20:46,329 --> 00:20:49,129 MERC: Just like Manders said, 258 00:20:49,329 --> 00:20:52,129 the Jap officers had set themselves up real good in Manders' house. 259 00:20:52,329 --> 00:20:54,129 I'd seen plenty of co-ed schools 260 00:20:54,329 --> 00:20:57,679 but this was the first co-ed company headquarters I'd ever heard of. 261 00:20:59,329 --> 00:21:01,329 (PEOPLE CHUCKLING) 262 00:21:04,329 --> 00:21:06,329 Come in, Lieutenant. Come in. 263 00:21:09,329 --> 00:21:12,129 Here, you see our distinguished prisoner. 264 00:21:12,329 --> 00:21:14,329 Brave man, the Lieutenant. 265 00:21:16,329 --> 00:21:18,329 Sake. 266 00:21:22,329 --> 00:21:23,379 Sit down, Lieutenant. 267 00:21:30,329 --> 00:21:31,329 Sake, Lieutenant? 268 00:21:47,330 --> 00:21:50,130 If it were drug that are poisoned 269 00:21:50,330 --> 00:21:52,130 we would all be affected too. 270 00:21:52,330 --> 00:21:54,130 Go ahead drink. 271 00:21:54,330 --> 00:21:56,330 OFFICER: It will strengthen you. 272 00:21:58,330 --> 00:22:03,130 Rulan H. Voss, 0373601. 273 00:22:03,330 --> 00:22:06,130 Second Lieutenant, United States Army Air Force. 274 00:22:06,330 --> 00:22:09,130 And that's all you're going to get from me, captain. 275 00:22:09,330 --> 00:22:11,330 Sake or no sake. 276 00:22:26,331 --> 00:22:28,331 Thank you. 277 00:22:52,331 --> 00:22:56,331 So what happens now? 278 00:23:05,332 --> 00:23:07,332 279 00:23:11,332 --> 00:23:13,132 You are a brave man, Lieutenant. 280 00:23:13,332 --> 00:23:15,132 For a Yank. 281 00:23:15,332 --> 00:23:18,332 We Japanese admire bravery. 282 00:23:20,332 --> 00:23:21,132 Thanks a lot. 283 00:23:21,332 --> 00:23:26,132 To resist capture so cleverly and so strongly. 284 00:23:26,332 --> 00:23:32,132 Such fighting skill comes only from training and practice? 285 00:23:32,332 --> 00:23:35,332 You see, captain, I did a little boxing in college. 286 00:23:36,332 --> 00:23:38,132 I was sure of it. 287 00:23:38,332 --> 00:23:42,132 288 00:23:42,332 --> 00:23:44,332 289 00:23:45,332 --> 00:23:48,132 That is why I decided 290 00:23:48,332 --> 00:23:51,332 we must have a match. 291 00:23:53,332 --> 00:23:55,332 A match? 292 00:23:57,332 --> 00:24:01,132 To see which is superior. 293 00:24:01,332 --> 00:24:03,132 Your style of fighting... 294 00:24:03,332 --> 00:24:05,332 Or ours? 295 00:24:07,332 --> 00:24:09,132 That won't be much of a test, captain. 296 00:24:09,332 --> 00:24:12,132 I'm a little beat up and I got a bad ankle. 297 00:24:12,332 --> 00:24:14,132 You are saying you are afraid? 298 00:24:14,332 --> 00:24:18,133 I'm just facing facts. Test is supposed to prove something. 299 00:24:18,333 --> 00:24:20,133 This one won't. 300 00:24:20,333 --> 00:24:22,133 Then perhaps 301 00:24:22,333 --> 00:24:25,333 you would rather answer some questions. 302 00:24:27,333 --> 00:24:28,133 303 00:24:28,333 --> 00:24:30,133 I'm just a lieutenant. 304 00:24:30,333 --> 00:24:33,133 Ask any G.I., lieutenants, they don't know anything. 305 00:24:33,333 --> 00:24:37,133 Perhaps... Perhaps not. 306 00:24:37,333 --> 00:24:40,133 Anyway we shall see. 307 00:24:40,333 --> 00:24:44,133 This is Koji, the best we have 308 00:24:44,333 --> 00:24:48,333 in our style of self-defense. 309 00:24:55,334 --> 00:24:57,334 Begin please. 310 00:25:03,334 --> 00:25:04,134 311 00:25:04,334 --> 00:25:06,334 312 00:25:09,334 --> 00:25:11,334 313 00:25:26,334 --> 00:25:28,334 314 00:25:30,335 --> 00:25:31,335 315 00:25:39,335 --> 00:25:42,135 316 00:25:42,335 --> 00:25:46,335 Please stop! Stop. Oh, stop! Please, stop it! 317 00:25:53,335 --> 00:25:55,335 318 00:26:08,335 --> 00:26:14,335 Perhaps now the American will be ready to tell us what he knows. 319 00:26:23,335 --> 00:26:25,335 320 00:26:31,335 --> 00:26:32,335 What's the idea? 321 00:26:34,335 --> 00:26:36,135 I am Ari. 322 00:26:36,335 --> 00:26:38,335 I wish to care for you. 323 00:26:40,335 --> 00:26:42,335 Why? How'd you get in here? 324 00:26:43,335 --> 00:26:45,336 I was ordered here by the captain. 325 00:26:46,336 --> 00:26:48,136 Oh? 326 00:26:48,336 --> 00:26:53,136 So you speak English and you're supposed to take care of me, huh? 327 00:26:53,336 --> 00:26:55,136 Anything to keep me alive and get me to talk. 328 00:26:55,336 --> 00:26:59,336 It won't work, Missy, so pick up your bandages and get out of here. 329 00:27:01,336 --> 00:27:03,336 But I can't go. 330 00:27:05,336 --> 00:27:08,336 I'm ordered to spend the night here. 331 00:27:10,336 --> 00:27:11,336 Oh... 332 00:27:12,336 --> 00:27:15,336 Now, may I ask what for? 333 00:27:16,336 --> 00:27:18,336 Whatever you wish. 334 00:27:20,336 --> 00:27:22,137 Hmm. 335 00:27:22,337 --> 00:27:25,787 And you really think that you can get some information out of me, huh? 336 00:27:29,337 --> 00:27:32,137 I do not know, Lieutenant. 337 00:27:32,337 --> 00:27:35,137 I only do what I'm told. That's all. 338 00:27:35,337 --> 00:27:37,137 Hmm. 339 00:27:37,337 --> 00:27:41,337 So it just doesn't matter whether I cooperate or not, is that it? 340 00:27:42,337 --> 00:27:45,137 It matters very much. 341 00:27:45,337 --> 00:27:48,137 If I knew you would talk to them 342 00:27:48,337 --> 00:27:50,337 I would poison you. 343 00:28:02,338 --> 00:28:05,138 I don't get this. 344 00:28:05,338 --> 00:28:08,138 I don't get this at all. 345 00:28:08,338 --> 00:28:09,338 A girl like you? 346 00:28:10,338 --> 00:28:12,138 A girl like me? 347 00:28:12,338 --> 00:28:14,338 What kind of girl am I, Lieutenant? 348 00:28:16,338 --> 00:28:18,138 What do you mean what kind of a girl are you? 349 00:28:18,338 --> 00:28:22,138 You live here, don't you? Upstairs with them? 350 00:28:22,338 --> 00:28:24,138 Naturally you would think that, of course. 351 00:28:24,338 --> 00:28:28,138 That we had a choice. 352 00:28:28,338 --> 00:28:29,138 Before the war came my mother worked 353 00:28:29,338 --> 00:28:32,338 for a British colonial officer here in Tamil. 354 00:28:33,338 --> 00:28:35,138 For Manders? 355 00:28:35,338 --> 00:28:38,138 He arranged for me to go to medical school in Rangoon. 356 00:28:38,338 --> 00:28:42,338 I love helping people and caring for them. 357 00:28:44,338 --> 00:28:48,338 But then the Japanese came and since then... 358 00:28:50,338 --> 00:28:51,338 Oh... 359 00:28:52,338 --> 00:28:53,338 Yeah. 360 00:29:01,338 --> 00:29:06,138 Well, haven't you ever tried to escape? 361 00:29:06,338 --> 00:29:09,138 Two girls tried when we are first seized 362 00:29:09,338 --> 00:29:11,338 and they were hunted down and shot. 363 00:29:14,339 --> 00:29:18,139 I'm sorry I've added my trouble to you. 364 00:29:18,339 --> 00:29:23,139 - If you wish me to go... - Go where? Back up to them? 365 00:29:23,339 --> 00:29:27,139 No. No way. I don't want you to go. Not yet anyway. 366 00:29:27,339 --> 00:29:30,139 - Sit down. - As you wish, Lieutenant. 367 00:29:30,339 --> 00:29:33,139 Uh, that's enough of that stuff. 368 00:29:33,339 --> 00:29:35,139 There's only one reason you're going to stay here... 369 00:29:35,339 --> 00:29:38,639 And that's to keep you away from them. Nothing else. Is that clear? 370 00:29:40,339 --> 00:29:42,139 Clear, Lieutenant. 371 00:29:42,339 --> 00:29:45,139 But we are being watched. 372 00:29:45,339 --> 00:29:48,139 We must make them think what they wish to think. 373 00:29:48,339 --> 00:29:52,340 Pretend to sleep. Then they will not bother us. 374 00:30:10,340 --> 00:30:11,340 (SIGHS) 375 00:30:23,340 --> 00:30:26,140 I just can't do it, sergeant. 376 00:30:26,340 --> 00:30:28,341 It just is not worth it. 377 00:30:29,341 --> 00:30:31,341 Do I have to force you? 378 00:30:34,341 --> 00:30:37,141 Sergeant, understand that it's not that I don't want to help. 379 00:30:37,341 --> 00:30:40,141 But one must weigh a comparative value. 380 00:30:40,341 --> 00:30:42,141 This mission is mighty important. 381 00:30:42,341 --> 00:30:44,141 Then how would one final message help you to accomplish it? 382 00:30:44,341 --> 00:30:46,141 Final message? 383 00:30:46,341 --> 00:30:49,141 Sergeant, why do you think I've been able to exist here for so long alone? 384 00:30:49,341 --> 00:30:51,141 Simply because the Japanese do not have 385 00:30:51,341 --> 00:30:53,141 enough monitoring stations in this area. 386 00:30:53,341 --> 00:30:56,191 Now, with this offensive coming up that is no longer true. 387 00:30:57,341 --> 00:30:59,141 They've been setting up more monitors? 388 00:30:59,341 --> 00:31:01,141 One minute after I turn on that set, 389 00:31:01,341 --> 00:31:04,441 the Japanese will have our position here cross-plotted exactly. 390 00:31:08,341 --> 00:31:10,141 You've got a point. 391 00:31:10,341 --> 00:31:13,141 Besides, what could your headquarters do 392 00:31:13,341 --> 00:31:16,141 even if they were informed of the situation? 393 00:31:16,341 --> 00:31:18,141 No, sergeant, it seems to me 394 00:31:18,341 --> 00:31:20,341 that it's up to you now. 395 00:31:22,341 --> 00:31:24,141 - I guess. - Come on. 396 00:31:24,341 --> 00:31:26,141 Sit down and have a drink. 397 00:31:26,341 --> 00:31:28,141 We'll all be able to think much more clearly 398 00:31:28,341 --> 00:31:31,341 when Atsi gives us some dinner. 399 00:31:32,341 --> 00:31:35,341 Neat, I would say, under the circumstances, hmm? 400 00:31:38,341 --> 00:31:40,341 The neater the better. 401 00:31:41,342 --> 00:31:43,342 402 00:31:45,342 --> 00:31:49,142 - Mr. Mander. - What is it, Atsi? 403 00:31:49,342 --> 00:31:52,142 - The American lieutenant... - What about him? 404 00:31:52,342 --> 00:31:54,142 Ari has sent word he is prisoner at the teahouse. 405 00:31:54,342 --> 00:31:57,142 The teahouse? That's where you said they had the girls? 406 00:31:57,342 --> 00:31:59,142 Yes. Now, it's also the headquarters 407 00:31:59,342 --> 00:32:02,142 of the Japanese guard company that controls this stretch of the road. 408 00:32:02,342 --> 00:32:05,142 Only a company? Then there shouldn't be too many guards. 409 00:32:05,342 --> 00:32:07,142 Precisely what I was thinking myself. 410 00:32:07,342 --> 00:32:10,142 - How many of there are you? - Five. 411 00:32:10,342 --> 00:32:13,142 - Hmm, are they well-armed? - Submachine guns, BARs, grenades, 412 00:32:13,342 --> 00:32:15,142 plus the carbines. 413 00:32:15,342 --> 00:32:18,143 Unless that's possible, you might be able to get through the wire 414 00:32:18,343 --> 00:32:21,343 but you'd never get inside the house unless you... 415 00:32:22,343 --> 00:32:24,343 Unless... 416 00:32:27,343 --> 00:32:31,143 Atsi, get me that file of capsules, the prescription from my doctor. 417 00:32:31,343 --> 00:32:32,143 Hmm? 418 00:32:32,343 --> 00:32:36,343 Come here. I'll give you a rough layout of the house. 419 00:32:38,343 --> 00:32:41,343 MANDERS: Here is the building, here. 420 00:32:43,343 --> 00:32:47,343 The road is here with trees, this place. Hmm? 421 00:32:49,343 --> 00:32:52,143 MERC: Ari had the drug capsules that Manders gave her. 422 00:32:52,343 --> 00:32:55,144 All she had to do now was slip it into the sake the Japs were guzzling. 423 00:32:55,344 --> 00:32:58,344 Sit down, Lieutenant, please. 424 00:33:02,344 --> 00:33:04,344 Hey, don't faint. 425 00:33:15,344 --> 00:33:17,344 I will serve. 426 00:33:20,344 --> 00:33:24,144 MERC: Believe me, this was a kid who could use her head. 427 00:33:24,344 --> 00:33:27,144 She fixed the glasses so that the lieutenant would get plain water 428 00:33:27,344 --> 00:33:31,144 and the Jap officers would get the Mickey Finn. 429 00:33:31,344 --> 00:33:35,144 OFFICER: Well, Lieutenant, what do you think of our situation here? 430 00:33:35,344 --> 00:33:37,144 VOSS: (SIGHING) I think you're doing all right. 431 00:33:37,344 --> 00:33:41,144 And last night in your cell, 432 00:33:41,344 --> 00:33:45,144 it was not... Too unpleasant. 433 00:33:45,344 --> 00:33:48,344 Well, let's just say that it beats the Geneva Convention. 434 00:34:02,344 --> 00:34:05,344 It's warm, captain. Just as you like it. 435 00:34:17,345 --> 00:34:20,345 Shall we get down to the cases, Lieutenant? 436 00:34:22,345 --> 00:34:24,345 I have a choice? 437 00:34:27,345 --> 00:34:30,145 I could promise you another night 438 00:34:30,345 --> 00:34:34,145 with this delicate flower. 439 00:34:34,345 --> 00:34:39,345 You merely tell me what you and the other yanks were doing in the jungle? 440 00:34:41,345 --> 00:34:43,145 Well, that's fair enough. 441 00:34:43,345 --> 00:34:46,145 We were in a transport flying to home 442 00:34:46,345 --> 00:34:48,146 and we got blown off our course in the storm 443 00:34:48,346 --> 00:34:50,396 and ran out of gas, so we had to bail out. 444 00:34:53,346 --> 00:34:55,146 You take me for a fool, Lieutenant! 445 00:34:55,346 --> 00:34:59,346 You bailed out in greater surprise, bailed out with you. 446 00:35:01,346 --> 00:35:03,146 Well then, you explain it, captain, 447 00:35:03,346 --> 00:35:06,346 because you're not... 448 00:35:07,346 --> 00:35:09,346 I've got a... 449 00:35:16,346 --> 00:35:18,146 I'll take care of him, captain. 450 00:35:18,346 --> 00:35:23,146 And when I help him to recover, then he'll talk to you. 451 00:35:23,346 --> 00:35:25,147 Guard, take him downstairs. 452 00:35:25,347 --> 00:35:27,347 The girl will help you. 453 00:35:31,347 --> 00:35:33,147 Make it quick. 454 00:35:33,347 --> 00:35:35,447 I have wasted too much time on him already. 455 00:35:44,347 --> 00:35:46,147 Shh. 456 00:35:46,347 --> 00:35:49,147 Be silent and listen. 457 00:35:49,347 --> 00:35:51,147 I had to talk to you. 458 00:35:51,347 --> 00:35:56,147 - Your friends are coming here tonight to free you. - What? 459 00:35:56,347 --> 00:36:00,147 - They don't even know where I am. - I informed them. 460 00:36:00,347 --> 00:36:01,347 Manders? 461 00:36:02,347 --> 00:36:04,347 Oh... 462 00:36:11,347 --> 00:36:14,147 But even if they get the guards outside, these jokers upstairs... 463 00:36:14,347 --> 00:36:19,147 I've taken care of them. Some capsules Mr. Manders sent, 464 00:36:19,347 --> 00:36:21,347 I put it into their drinks. 465 00:36:23,347 --> 00:36:26,147 But not in mine? 466 00:36:26,347 --> 00:36:28,347 Oh, you're all right, Ari. 467 00:36:31,347 --> 00:36:33,347 The guard's outside. 468 00:36:34,347 --> 00:36:35,147 Yeah. 469 00:36:35,347 --> 00:36:38,348 Oh, look, can you get him in here? 470 00:36:39,348 --> 00:36:41,348 All right. Then you leave him to me. 471 00:36:46,348 --> 00:36:49,148 ARI: Guard, quickly over here. 472 00:36:49,348 --> 00:36:52,148 Guard, quickly, over here. 473 00:36:52,348 --> 00:36:54,148 Guard, come quickly. 474 00:36:54,348 --> 00:36:56,348 Guard, over here, over here. 475 00:37:13,348 --> 00:37:15,349 Looks quiet enough. 476 00:37:16,349 --> 00:37:18,149 You're all set? 477 00:37:18,349 --> 00:37:19,449 Can we get any better? 478 00:37:47,349 --> 00:37:51,149 MERC: Breaking the lieutenant out of his bamboo jail wasn't going to be easy. 479 00:37:51,349 --> 00:37:53,150 One piece of luck was the jungle 480 00:37:53,350 --> 00:37:55,150 coming right up to the clearing around the headquarters. 481 00:37:55,350 --> 00:37:57,150 Allowing us to get close. 482 00:37:57,350 --> 00:38:01,150 Being the demolition expert, I had the job of setting up the Bangalore torpedo 483 00:38:01,350 --> 00:38:03,400 that would blow a hole in the barbed wire. 484 00:38:51,350 --> 00:38:53,350 485 00:38:55,350 --> 00:38:57,350 Let's go! 486 00:39:38,351 --> 00:39:40,351 Sergeant, sergeant? 487 00:39:41,351 --> 00:39:42,351 Marty? 488 00:40:00,352 --> 00:40:02,152 ARI: Ahhh! 489 00:40:02,352 --> 00:40:04,352 490 00:40:12,352 --> 00:40:14,152 Where are the others? 491 00:40:14,352 --> 00:40:16,152 They're all dead. 492 00:40:16,352 --> 00:40:19,152 All dead? 493 00:40:19,352 --> 00:40:22,153 - Marty too? - Marty too. 494 00:40:22,353 --> 00:40:25,353 - Come on, Lieutenant, or we'll join them. - Wait a minute. 495 00:40:28,353 --> 00:40:30,153 What happens now to you? 496 00:40:30,353 --> 00:40:33,153 - Does it matter? - Yeah, to me it does. You're as good as dead here. 497 00:40:33,353 --> 00:40:37,153 Please, he's right, you must go. 498 00:40:37,353 --> 00:40:41,153 - Not without you. Come on. - No, I won't go, not alone. 499 00:40:41,353 --> 00:40:43,353 Not without them. 500 00:40:47,353 --> 00:40:48,153 What, all of them? 501 00:40:48,353 --> 00:40:51,153 The Japanese will treat all alike after what happened. 502 00:40:51,353 --> 00:40:54,153 Do something, Lieutenant. Let's get out of here. 503 00:40:54,353 --> 00:40:57,353 All right. All right. The four of you, come on. 504 00:41:01,353 --> 00:41:02,353 Well, come on. 505 00:41:05,353 --> 00:41:07,153 There won't be any picnic going through this jungle at night. 506 00:41:07,353 --> 00:41:10,353 You'll have to keep up. Now, come on. 507 00:41:11,353 --> 00:41:15,153 508 00:41:15,353 --> 00:41:18,153 MERC: It wasn't beer and it wasn't liquor. 509 00:41:18,353 --> 00:41:20,153 But man, where else could you get this kind of service 510 00:41:20,353 --> 00:41:23,153 and a floorshow along with it? 511 00:41:23,353 --> 00:41:26,153 Quartermaster should hand out girls like this to every G.I. 512 00:41:26,353 --> 00:41:28,153 when they give him his uniform. 513 00:41:28,353 --> 00:41:30,353 What will you do now, Lieutenant? 514 00:41:31,353 --> 00:41:35,154 I don't know, Ari. 515 00:41:35,354 --> 00:41:38,354 Radio is broken and just two of us left. 516 00:41:39,354 --> 00:41:40,354 I don't know. 517 00:41:46,354 --> 00:41:49,154 I like you, corporal. 518 00:41:49,354 --> 00:41:51,154 I like you very much. 519 00:41:51,354 --> 00:41:54,354 And now, let's forget that corporal and call me Merc, huh? 520 00:41:56,354 --> 00:41:58,154 Funny name, Merc. 521 00:41:58,354 --> 00:42:00,154 Well, that's sort of a nickname, 522 00:42:00,354 --> 00:42:02,154 but my real name is Lester Davenport, that Merc, 523 00:42:02,354 --> 00:42:08,154 that's... It comes from fulminate of mercury, dynamite fuses. 524 00:42:08,354 --> 00:42:11,154 You see, I handle explosives. Heh... 525 00:42:11,354 --> 00:42:13,155 Hmm, Merc, huh? 526 00:42:13,355 --> 00:42:15,155 527 00:42:15,355 --> 00:42:17,155 528 00:42:17,355 --> 00:42:19,605 Hey, it's just like Sunday in the park, is it? 529 00:42:20,355 --> 00:42:22,355 Mmm. 530 00:42:25,355 --> 00:42:26,355 531 00:42:29,355 --> 00:42:32,155 Oh, hi, Lieutenant. Having a ball. 532 00:42:32,355 --> 00:42:35,155 This is great, just two guys alone in the jungle. 533 00:42:35,355 --> 00:42:36,355 534 00:42:37,355 --> 00:42:39,155 Five beautiful... 535 00:42:39,355 --> 00:42:41,155 You know if the guys back home thought war was anything like this. 536 00:42:41,355 --> 00:42:45,155 You'd have to fight them to keep them away from the recruiting officers. 537 00:42:45,355 --> 00:42:49,155 I think they'd have to fight me anyway. 538 00:42:49,356 --> 00:42:52,156 Nothing bothers you, does it, Merc? Not even last night, huh? 539 00:42:52,356 --> 00:42:55,156 What do you mean? The other guys? 540 00:42:55,356 --> 00:42:58,156 Oh, they got it, sure. But it could just as easy been you and me. 541 00:42:58,356 --> 00:43:00,156 Look, if it hadn't been for them, where would you be? 542 00:43:00,356 --> 00:43:03,156 Right where I should be, corporal. A Japanese prisoner. 543 00:43:03,356 --> 00:43:06,156 And there'd be six of us alive now, instead of just two. 544 00:43:06,356 --> 00:43:08,156 - Oh, wait a minute... - What do you think, Merc? 545 00:43:08,356 --> 00:43:10,156 I'd inform on you to the Japs? 546 00:43:10,356 --> 00:43:12,156 - You out of your mind, going in like that? - Oh, don't look at me. 547 00:43:12,356 --> 00:43:15,156 Now, there's just two of us left, just two. 548 00:43:15,356 --> 00:43:17,156 So, you tell me what happens to our mission, 549 00:43:17,356 --> 00:43:20,156 to the bottleneck, answer me that! 550 00:43:20,356 --> 00:43:22,156 But, Lieutenant, it wasn't my idea. 551 00:43:22,356 --> 00:43:23,156 I wouldn't have gone after you. 552 00:43:23,356 --> 00:43:25,156 I'm just a poor listed slob. 553 00:43:25,356 --> 00:43:27,156 If somebody with bars on his shoulders 554 00:43:27,356 --> 00:43:30,156 or a stripes on his sleeves tells me what to do, and I do it. 555 00:43:30,356 --> 00:43:32,956 - Now, you wanted it... - What are you talking about? 556 00:43:34,356 --> 00:43:35,356 Marty... 557 00:43:43,356 --> 00:43:44,356 Yeah. 558 00:43:47,356 --> 00:43:49,156 All right, all right. 559 00:43:49,356 --> 00:43:52,156 It's no good blaming anybody now. 560 00:43:52,356 --> 00:43:55,156 Did what he thought he had to, I guess. 561 00:43:55,356 --> 00:43:57,156 562 00:43:57,356 --> 00:44:00,156 Question is just where do we go from here? 563 00:44:00,356 --> 00:44:03,356 Our mission is just as important as it ever was. 564 00:44:05,357 --> 00:44:08,157 Lieutenant, we ain't got chance in a million to pull this thing off alone. 565 00:44:08,357 --> 00:44:11,357 I know it. I know that. It's not what I was thinking about. 566 00:44:13,357 --> 00:44:16,157 We got to get some help from headquarters, that's what. 567 00:44:16,357 --> 00:44:18,157 Our radio is broken, there's still Manders. 568 00:44:18,357 --> 00:44:22,157 569 00:44:22,357 --> 00:44:25,457 Well, we can't just leave these girls alone here in the jungle. 570 00:44:28,357 --> 00:44:31,357 Relax, Merc. You're going to be staying here. 571 00:44:33,357 --> 00:44:35,357 Ari can take me. 572 00:44:37,357 --> 00:44:39,357 I will fill the canteen. 573 00:44:44,358 --> 00:44:46,158 And don't you move away from this spot, Merc. 574 00:44:46,358 --> 00:44:49,158 I want you right here when I get back. 575 00:44:49,358 --> 00:44:52,358 I'll get along, Lieutenant. Don't worry about me. 576 00:44:55,358 --> 00:44:57,158 No. No, I wasn't. 577 00:44:57,358 --> 00:44:59,358 Not really. 578 00:45:04,358 --> 00:45:07,158 Ari, wait a minute. 579 00:45:07,358 --> 00:45:08,158 Oh, your ankle. 580 00:45:08,358 --> 00:45:12,158 I forgot. I'm so sorry. Perhaps if I... 581 00:45:12,358 --> 00:45:14,158 Look, maybe if we just sat down and rested a few minutes, huh? 582 00:45:14,358 --> 00:45:16,358 As you wish. 583 00:45:31,359 --> 00:45:32,359 You first. 584 00:45:48,359 --> 00:45:50,359 You hungry? 585 00:45:53,359 --> 00:45:55,359 You know, Ari, 586 00:45:56,359 --> 00:45:59,159 Merc wasn't all wrong. 587 00:45:59,359 --> 00:46:01,359 I don't understand. 588 00:46:03,359 --> 00:46:05,159 Well, I can think of... 589 00:46:05,359 --> 00:46:07,359 A lot of worse ways to fight a war. 590 00:46:08,359 --> 00:46:11,359 That's because you're far from home and your wife. 591 00:46:13,359 --> 00:46:15,359 Uh-uh. No wife. 592 00:46:16,359 --> 00:46:18,159 But there is a girl? 593 00:46:18,359 --> 00:46:21,159 A special girl? 594 00:46:21,359 --> 00:46:25,359 Well, there was one, yes. She was pretty special, I guess. 595 00:46:26,359 --> 00:46:29,159 But it's funny 596 00:46:29,359 --> 00:46:32,160 I haven't thought much about her for a long time. 597 00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:36,360 And that's because I'm here and she is not. 598 00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:41,360 That's not true, Ari. Believe me, it isn't. 599 00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:48,360 Then it must be because danger makes people very close. 600 00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:51,360 You're right, very close. 601 00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:56,360 Like in that Jap cell. I'm glad we had that. 602 00:46:57,360 --> 00:47:00,160 I am too. 603 00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:04,160 But one must use your eyes as well as their head 604 00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:06,360 and also your heart. 605 00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:10,161 With you, Ari, I... 606 00:47:10,361 --> 00:47:12,361 I'd rather just use my heart. 607 00:47:31,361 --> 00:47:35,161 Yeah. The fact that there's been no word from the... 608 00:47:35,361 --> 00:47:37,161 From the villagers, is reassuring, I think. 609 00:47:37,361 --> 00:47:42,361 Atsi, we have a saying, bad news travels fast. 610 00:47:44,361 --> 00:47:46,162 611 00:47:46,362 --> 00:47:49,362 VOSS: Commander, anyone in there? 612 00:47:51,362 --> 00:47:54,162 MANDERS: Identify yourself. 613 00:47:54,362 --> 00:47:56,362 Lt. Voss, US Army Air Force. 614 00:48:03,362 --> 00:48:06,362 - Mama? - Ari! 615 00:48:07,362 --> 00:48:09,162 MANDERS: Oh, splendid my boy. 616 00:48:09,362 --> 00:48:11,162 You managed to get here all right. 617 00:48:11,362 --> 00:48:14,162 A little worse for wear, I see. 618 00:48:14,362 --> 00:48:17,162 Well, we wanted to get here by dark, sir, but I have a bad ankle. 619 00:48:17,362 --> 00:48:20,162 Yes, I understand. What you need is a drink. 620 00:48:20,362 --> 00:48:23,362 - No sake. - Pre-war scotch. 621 00:48:26,362 --> 00:48:29,162 Mama, this is American lieutenant. 622 00:48:29,362 --> 00:48:31,362 He rescued us from the Japanese. 623 00:48:32,362 --> 00:48:35,362 Let's put that straight. Your daughter saved me. 624 00:48:37,362 --> 00:48:40,362 Ari's mother is grateful for her daughter's life. 625 00:48:57,362 --> 00:49:00,363 - Oh, thank you, sir. - No. Please sit down. 626 00:49:04,363 --> 00:49:09,363 I understand that some of your chaps boarded last night. 627 00:49:10,363 --> 00:49:12,363 Yes, sir, four of them. 628 00:49:13,363 --> 00:49:15,363 Sergeant Regan? 629 00:49:16,363 --> 00:49:18,363 Marty was one. 630 00:49:21,363 --> 00:49:23,163 I'm sorry about that. 631 00:49:23,363 --> 00:49:24,513 I liked that young man. 632 00:49:26,363 --> 00:49:28,163 Yes, sir. 633 00:49:28,363 --> 00:49:31,163 Well, that's why I came here, sir. I need your help. 634 00:49:31,363 --> 00:49:34,163 Oh... Um... 635 00:49:34,363 --> 00:49:37,163 - Do you smoke, Lieutenant? - Yes, sir. 636 00:49:37,363 --> 00:49:39,364 Try one of these Burma cigars. 637 00:49:40,364 --> 00:49:42,164 They, uh... 638 00:49:42,364 --> 00:49:46,164 They're a whacking right white cheroot if you remember your Kipling. 639 00:49:46,364 --> 00:49:50,164 Oh, yes, sir. That he seen her at first, 640 00:49:50,364 --> 00:49:53,164 smoking on the road to Mandalay, isn't it? 641 00:49:53,364 --> 00:49:54,914 - That's right. - I remember it. 642 00:49:58,364 --> 00:50:00,364 One acquires a taste for them. 643 00:50:01,364 --> 00:50:04,364 Clearly, quite a good cigar. 644 00:50:13,364 --> 00:50:15,365 Now, how can I help you? 645 00:50:16,365 --> 00:50:19,165 Your radio, sir. 646 00:50:19,365 --> 00:50:23,165 You see, our mission is still vital but there's only two of us left. 647 00:50:23,365 --> 00:50:26,665 And we have to contact the headquarters to get us the help we need. 648 00:50:29,365 --> 00:50:31,365 - What band? - 12.6. 649 00:50:40,365 --> 00:50:43,365 You had better encode your message, Lieutenant. 650 00:50:50,365 --> 00:50:53,365 651 00:50:58,365 --> 00:51:00,365 VOSS: Over three hours. 652 00:51:02,365 --> 00:51:05,365 You think they could find somebody to wake up? 653 00:51:10,365 --> 00:51:12,365 654 00:51:14,365 --> 00:51:16,365 Coming in now. 655 00:52:02,366 --> 00:52:04,166 Oh, that's great. 656 00:52:04,366 --> 00:52:06,167 That's just great. 657 00:52:06,367 --> 00:52:08,367 Not good? 658 00:52:11,367 --> 00:52:15,167 "Message received, new Jap offensive launched at Chittagong, 659 00:52:15,367 --> 00:52:18,167 "all planes involved in Arakan. 660 00:52:18,367 --> 00:52:20,167 "No help available. 661 00:52:20,367 --> 00:52:22,367 "Must make do with what you have. 662 00:52:23,367 --> 00:52:25,167 "Signed headquarters." 663 00:52:25,367 --> 00:52:28,167 Make do. Oh, well... 664 00:52:28,367 --> 00:52:30,167 Make do with just two men. 665 00:52:30,367 --> 00:52:34,367 So it was all useless. Worth nothing. 666 00:52:38,367 --> 00:52:39,367 I'm sorry. 667 00:52:40,367 --> 00:52:43,368 Just what do they think they're doing? 668 00:52:45,368 --> 00:52:47,168 They're going to hand over Imphal and maybe all of India 669 00:52:47,368 --> 00:52:49,168 to the Japs on a silver platter. 670 00:52:49,368 --> 00:52:52,168 That's what they're going to do. 671 00:52:52,368 --> 00:52:56,618 With that Kohima Road open, the Japs will have a cake walk right down to the railroad. 672 00:52:57,368 --> 00:52:59,168 They must be quite well aware of that 673 00:52:59,368 --> 00:53:01,168 at your headquarters too, Lieutenant. 674 00:53:03,368 --> 00:53:05,168 I don't know what I'm going to do. 675 00:53:05,368 --> 00:53:08,168 Go back to your camp at once. 676 00:53:08,368 --> 00:53:11,168 - Now, that is one thing that I can't do. - Yes, this minute. 677 00:53:11,368 --> 00:53:13,168 And you take Ari with you. 678 00:53:13,368 --> 00:53:15,168 Take Ari? 679 00:53:15,368 --> 00:53:17,168 No, no, she'll be better right here with her mother. 680 00:53:17,368 --> 00:53:19,168 That's questionable, Lieutenant. 681 00:53:19,368 --> 00:53:22,568 Besides, you might not be able to find your way back in the dark. 682 00:53:24,368 --> 00:53:26,418 Oh, no, no. I don't want to risk her life. 683 00:53:28,368 --> 00:53:30,568 And you're prepared to risk mine, is that it? 684 00:53:32,368 --> 00:53:34,168 What do you mean by that, sir? 685 00:53:34,368 --> 00:53:35,168 If they find the girl here, 686 00:53:35,368 --> 00:53:37,168 they'll not only kill her mother but myself. 687 00:53:37,368 --> 00:53:39,368 I'm not prepared to risk that. 688 00:53:42,368 --> 00:53:46,168 Ari goes with you or she goes alone. 689 00:53:46,368 --> 00:53:48,368 But she cannot stop here. 690 00:53:52,368 --> 00:53:55,368 I sure had you pegged different, Manders, 691 00:53:56,368 --> 00:53:58,369 but I guess I was wrong. 692 00:53:59,369 --> 00:54:02,169 All right, Ari, you'll go with me. 693 00:54:02,369 --> 00:54:06,369 And I hope you rot in your snug little hole in the ground. 694 00:54:07,369 --> 00:54:09,169 We're done. 695 00:54:09,369 --> 00:54:12,369 But have a look around before you go outside. 696 00:54:34,369 --> 00:54:37,370 You love him, don't you, my daughter? 697 00:54:43,370 --> 00:54:46,170 I know. 698 00:54:46,370 --> 00:54:49,370 It's in your eyes whenever you look at him. 699 00:54:51,370 --> 00:54:52,370 I love him. 700 00:54:54,370 --> 00:54:56,170 You know he's different. 701 00:54:56,370 --> 00:55:00,170 A white man, it can lead to nothing 702 00:55:00,370 --> 00:55:03,370 except your heart must be broken. 703 00:55:04,370 --> 00:55:08,170 Then it must be broken. 704 00:55:08,370 --> 00:55:11,370 But I will be happy for so little. 705 00:55:13,371 --> 00:55:17,371 As long as you understand, it is good. 706 00:55:19,371 --> 00:55:21,371 I wish you both well. 707 00:55:25,371 --> 00:55:27,371 The lieutenant is waiting outside. 708 00:55:39,371 --> 00:55:41,371 Ari. 709 00:55:42,371 --> 00:55:45,371 Thank you. Thank you. 710 00:56:00,371 --> 00:56:02,371 Thank you for Ari. 711 00:56:04,371 --> 00:56:06,171 It was all I could do. 712 00:56:06,371 --> 00:56:08,371 Poor child... 713 00:56:10,371 --> 00:56:13,171 Wait, wait. I got to catch my breath. 714 00:56:13,371 --> 00:56:15,171 715 00:56:15,371 --> 00:56:18,171 Boy! 716 00:56:18,371 --> 00:56:20,171 How could a man slip right in among the Japs for over two years 717 00:56:20,371 --> 00:56:24,171 suddenly turn yellow, thinking about nothing but his own skin? 718 00:56:24,371 --> 00:56:28,172 But Mr. Manders has always been a brave and kind man. 719 00:56:28,372 --> 00:56:30,172 Kicked us out like that right in the middle of the night. 720 00:56:30,372 --> 00:56:31,172 Well that doesn't make sense. 721 00:56:31,372 --> 00:56:33,372 (FIRING IN THE DISTANCE) 722 00:56:34,372 --> 00:56:36,172 Small arms fire. 723 00:56:36,372 --> 00:56:39,172 Who'd they be shooting out back there? 724 00:56:39,372 --> 00:56:41,372 The cave. 725 00:56:45,372 --> 00:56:47,372 At the cave. 726 00:56:52,372 --> 00:56:53,372 VOSS: Jap patrol. 727 00:57:00,372 --> 00:57:01,372 Okay. 728 00:57:09,373 --> 00:57:10,373 Look! 729 00:57:15,373 --> 00:57:17,373 Ari, wait. 730 00:57:34,373 --> 00:57:36,373 ARI: Mama, mama. 731 00:57:40,374 --> 00:57:41,374 732 00:57:51,374 --> 00:57:53,174 For just two years, how'd they find the cave now? 733 00:57:53,374 --> 00:57:55,374 They couldn't have followed us. 734 00:58:06,374 --> 00:58:09,174 That radio. He knew it. 735 00:58:09,374 --> 00:58:11,174 It pinpointed his radio. 736 00:58:11,374 --> 00:58:12,374 737 00:58:14,374 --> 00:58:17,174 I'm sorry, Mr. Manders. 738 00:58:17,374 --> 00:58:19,374 I'm sorry for whatever I thought. 739 00:58:26,374 --> 00:58:28,174 740 00:58:28,374 --> 00:58:30,174 VOSS: Merc! 741 00:58:30,374 --> 00:58:33,374 MERC: (CHUCKLING) Oh... 742 00:58:35,374 --> 00:58:37,374 So you're back, huh, Lieutenant? 743 00:58:38,374 --> 00:58:41,174 You stupid sloppy... 744 00:58:41,374 --> 00:58:45,174 Manders and Ari's mother, they're lying dead back in that cave. 745 00:58:45,374 --> 00:58:47,174 - And you, you... - ARI: No, please. 746 00:58:47,374 --> 00:58:49,174 747 00:58:49,374 --> 00:58:51,174 Oh, no, no. Ah... 748 00:58:51,374 --> 00:58:53,174 Hey, Lieutenant... 749 00:58:53,374 --> 00:58:55,175 Look, you got bars on your shoulders. 750 00:58:55,375 --> 00:58:56,175 You shouldn't have done that, Lieutenant. 751 00:58:56,375 --> 00:58:58,175 And you got it coming, you know that. 752 00:58:58,375 --> 00:59:01,375 ARI: Oh, stop. Stop. 753 00:59:05,375 --> 00:59:07,375 754 00:59:08,375 --> 00:59:11,375 ARI: Stop it. Oh! 755 00:59:13,375 --> 00:59:15,175 - ARI: Stop. - Now, wait a minute, wait a minute. 756 00:59:15,375 --> 00:59:17,175 Listen to me. 757 00:59:17,375 --> 00:59:20,175 Now, there's no line to push that I have to like you. 758 00:59:20,375 --> 00:59:22,175 But we're in this too together, 759 00:59:22,375 --> 00:59:24,925 if we're going to get out, we got to stick together. 760 00:59:26,375 --> 00:59:27,175 761 00:59:27,375 --> 00:59:30,175 There's just one thing, Merc. 762 00:59:30,375 --> 00:59:33,176 If we'd been Japs walking in on you, 763 00:59:33,376 --> 00:59:36,176 you wouldn't be worried about a fight, you'd be dead. 764 00:59:36,376 --> 00:59:38,176 That's where you're wrong, Lieutenant. 765 00:59:38,376 --> 00:59:40,376 The Japs would be dead. 766 00:59:41,376 --> 00:59:42,526 Look over in that tree. 767 00:59:44,376 --> 00:59:48,376 There's Tai. She's got a carbine and a pocket full of grenades. 768 00:59:49,376 --> 00:59:53,176 And over there, Sawbu. 769 00:59:53,376 --> 00:59:56,376 And they know how to use those carbines because I taught 'em. 770 00:59:57,376 --> 00:59:59,176 - How about the grenade? - I dummied up a couple. 771 00:59:59,376 --> 01:00:03,176 We had some basic training, creeping, crawling, patrolling the woods. 772 01:00:03,376 --> 01:00:05,376 Those girls worked out all right. 773 01:00:08,376 --> 01:00:09,177 All right. 774 01:00:09,377 --> 01:00:12,177 I guess I owe you an apology, Merc. 775 01:00:12,377 --> 01:00:15,377 Shouldn't have lost my head like that. I'm sorry. 776 01:00:17,377 --> 01:00:18,477 Forget it, Lieutenant. 777 01:00:21,377 --> 01:00:23,177 It was the greatest thing in my life, 778 01:00:23,377 --> 01:00:27,377 knowing my Lieutenant and loving him. 779 01:00:29,377 --> 01:00:31,177 But for him also? 780 01:00:31,377 --> 01:00:33,377 He loves me too. 781 01:00:34,377 --> 01:00:37,177 He has told me so. 782 01:00:37,377 --> 01:00:39,177 But in these times and circumstances, 783 01:00:39,377 --> 01:00:41,377 what else would you expect him to say? 784 01:00:51,377 --> 01:00:55,177 So, they drop us in this dirty, lousy, stinking jungle. 785 01:00:55,377 --> 01:00:57,177 No word, no answer, nothing. 786 01:00:57,377 --> 01:00:59,177 They happen to have a few problems of their own, Merc. 787 01:00:59,377 --> 01:01:02,177 Yeah, well, that helps us, huh? 788 01:01:02,377 --> 01:01:05,177 You know what we're going to do, Lieutenant, we're going to have to walk out of here. 789 01:01:05,377 --> 01:01:07,177 Just like that, huh? 790 01:01:07,377 --> 01:01:09,177 You know how many miles that is, Merc? 791 01:01:09,377 --> 01:01:11,177 I know how many miles it is, but other jokers have made it. 792 01:01:11,377 --> 01:01:13,177 793 01:01:13,377 --> 01:01:16,177 They didn't have to be in our position, that's all. 794 01:01:16,377 --> 01:01:19,177 The girls, just what happens to them, huh? 795 01:01:19,377 --> 01:01:21,177 - We leave them here. They'll get along all right. - How? 796 01:01:21,377 --> 01:01:23,178 Like they did before or maybe worse? 797 01:01:23,378 --> 01:01:25,178 No... 798 01:01:25,378 --> 01:01:27,378 No. I can't do it, Merc. 799 01:01:29,378 --> 01:01:32,378 It just so happens that I'm in love with Ari. 800 01:01:33,378 --> 01:01:34,378 Love? 801 01:01:35,378 --> 01:01:37,178 Oh... 802 01:01:37,378 --> 01:01:40,178 Now, Lieutenant, you got to be kidding, you can't mean that. 803 01:01:40,378 --> 01:01:42,178 And just why can't I? 804 01:01:42,378 --> 01:01:45,178 MERC: Well, Ari is just a gook. 805 01:01:45,378 --> 01:01:46,178 VOSS: Gook? 806 01:01:46,378 --> 01:01:49,178 Well, yeah. I admit they got your good points, Lieutenant. 807 01:01:49,378 --> 01:01:51,178 Well, Lolo, she's a ball of fire but... 808 01:01:51,378 --> 01:01:53,178 Where are you from? You're from Montana, right? 809 01:01:53,378 --> 01:01:55,178 That's right. 810 01:01:55,378 --> 01:01:57,178 Well, can't you imagine you walking into your mom and dad's parlor 811 01:01:57,378 --> 01:01:59,178 and you're saying, "Folks, look here, I brought you home 812 01:01:59,378 --> 01:02:01,179 "a new daughter-in-law, and she may not be 813 01:02:01,379 --> 01:02:04,379 "exactly what you had in mind for me but..." 814 01:02:14,379 --> 01:02:16,379 I brought you some coffee. 815 01:02:36,379 --> 01:02:39,180 Who's there? 816 01:02:39,380 --> 01:02:42,380 - Ari. - Over here. 817 01:02:47,380 --> 01:02:50,180 I didn't expect this, Ari, 818 01:02:50,380 --> 01:02:53,180 but you ought to be sleeping. You have to stay on guard for later. 819 01:02:53,380 --> 01:02:55,180 I couldn't sleep. 820 01:02:55,380 --> 01:02:57,380 Here, sit down. 821 01:03:02,380 --> 01:03:05,180 Lieutenant? 822 01:03:05,380 --> 01:03:08,380 This mission, it means a lot to you? 823 01:03:09,380 --> 01:03:10,180 Yeah. 824 01:03:10,380 --> 01:03:12,380 It's just about everything to me, Ari. 825 01:03:15,380 --> 01:03:17,180 Look at it this way, 826 01:03:17,380 --> 01:03:19,180 because I goofed up, turned my ankle and got caught, 827 01:03:19,380 --> 01:03:25,180 all but two of us are damned, Manders and your mother too. 828 01:03:25,380 --> 01:03:28,180 Because we can't pull it off, maybe thousands of guys will be dead. 829 01:03:28,380 --> 01:03:31,180 Now, that's what I got to live with. 830 01:03:31,380 --> 01:03:36,180 I've been thinking, in China many of the girls fight in Guerrilla Army. 831 01:03:36,380 --> 01:03:39,180 And even in the history of my own country, 832 01:03:39,380 --> 01:03:41,180 many of my own sex die in battle. 833 01:03:41,380 --> 01:03:44,180 So? 834 01:03:44,380 --> 01:03:48,180 It was not difficult for Merc to teach the girls how to shoot and throw a grenade. 835 01:03:48,380 --> 01:03:49,180 And what the men who were killed, 836 01:03:49,380 --> 01:03:51,181 we're supposed to do on the mission, 837 01:03:51,381 --> 01:03:54,181 could five girls not do the job? 838 01:03:54,381 --> 01:03:57,181 What are you talking about, you mean want to... 839 01:03:57,381 --> 01:04:00,181 No... What's the matter with you, Ari? 840 01:04:00,381 --> 01:04:02,181 Why not? 841 01:04:02,381 --> 01:04:04,181 Because it just wouldn't work, that's why not. 842 01:04:04,381 --> 01:04:06,181 You haven't had any training or anything. 843 01:04:06,381 --> 01:04:10,181 There's more than a week, could you not teach us? 844 01:04:10,381 --> 01:04:13,181 No. That wouldn't be enough time anyway. 845 01:04:13,381 --> 01:04:16,381 In a week, you can tell whether we can do it or not. 846 01:04:19,381 --> 01:04:21,381 No. Now, will you forget it? 847 01:04:23,381 --> 01:04:25,631 It could mean saving many of your men's lives. 848 01:04:28,382 --> 01:04:30,182 Yeah, you're right. 849 01:04:30,382 --> 01:04:34,182 It is a possibility. 850 01:04:34,382 --> 01:04:37,182 But, Ari, you know the odds, why do you want to risk it? 851 01:04:37,382 --> 01:04:39,182 This is our country they invaded. 852 01:04:39,382 --> 01:04:42,382 We have all lost our home and families. 853 01:04:44,382 --> 01:04:47,382 Okay. Okay, Ari. We'll give it a try. 854 01:04:49,382 --> 01:04:50,382 Then it's settled. 855 01:04:55,382 --> 01:04:58,382 You're a pretty wonderful girl, Ari. 856 01:05:02,382 --> 01:05:04,382 Would it be hard what we have to learn? 857 01:05:10,383 --> 01:05:13,383 Just depends. Mainly, it's how to kill people. 858 01:05:15,383 --> 01:05:18,383 How would we know if we can kill people? 859 01:05:19,383 --> 01:05:21,383 You never will until you've done it. 860 01:05:23,383 --> 01:05:24,383 Oh... 861 01:05:26,383 --> 01:05:31,183 MERC: We managed to find a lot of our supplies that the Japs hadn't found. 862 01:05:31,383 --> 01:05:35,183 It was a shame covering up these girls in G.I. uniforms 863 01:05:35,383 --> 01:05:38,183 but I guess it made more sense. 864 01:05:38,383 --> 01:05:40,183 It sure gave me a lift to see the chicks 865 01:05:40,383 --> 01:05:43,183 take the boot training like a gang of hard-nosed sergeants. 866 01:05:43,383 --> 01:05:45,183 But like Ari said, 867 01:05:45,383 --> 01:05:48,433 they had their own good reasons for fighting back at the Japs. 868 01:05:51,383 --> 01:05:52,383 ♪ 869 01:06:08,383 --> 01:06:10,183 You know, Merc? 870 01:06:10,383 --> 01:06:13,183 I think we got a chance, a real chance. 871 01:06:13,383 --> 01:06:15,183 These girls have been working out real well. 872 01:06:15,383 --> 01:06:18,183 Oh, they do all right in the dry run but what about under pressure? 873 01:06:18,383 --> 01:06:20,184 You know something, Lieutenant, that's the trouble with basic training. 874 01:06:20,384 --> 01:06:23,384 By the time night comes, everybody is just too tired. 875 01:06:25,384 --> 01:06:26,384 Oh, yeah. 876 01:06:52,384 --> 01:06:54,384 ARI: Lolo! 877 01:06:55,384 --> 01:06:57,385 Where are you going? 878 01:06:58,385 --> 01:07:00,185 I'm leaving. 879 01:07:00,385 --> 01:07:04,185 Leaving? Why? 880 01:07:04,385 --> 01:07:08,185 Do you think I like this crawling in the ground, falling in the dirt? 881 01:07:08,385 --> 01:07:11,185 I was meant to wear good clothes and entertain. 882 01:07:11,385 --> 01:07:15,185 - But to win the war. - Oh, who would I care wins the war? 883 01:07:15,385 --> 01:07:18,185 It is all the same. Men are men. 884 01:07:18,385 --> 01:07:22,185 But you escaped, the Japanese will kill you. 885 01:07:22,385 --> 01:07:24,185 Not when I tell them about the two yanks in the jungle 886 01:07:24,385 --> 01:07:26,185 and what they're planning. 887 01:07:26,385 --> 01:07:28,385 You... You're going to betray us? 888 01:07:49,386 --> 01:07:50,386 889 01:08:03,386 --> 01:08:05,386 Lolo? 890 01:08:07,386 --> 01:08:10,186 She was going to betray us. 891 01:08:10,386 --> 01:08:11,186 892 01:08:11,386 --> 01:08:15,386 I had to do it. I had to do it. 893 01:08:17,386 --> 01:08:19,186 Well, I guess this answers our question, Lieutenant, 894 01:08:19,386 --> 01:08:21,386 whether they could kill somebody or not. 895 01:08:25,386 --> 01:08:27,386 What a waste. 896 01:08:29,386 --> 01:08:33,386 What a dirty, stinking, lousy, frying waste. 897 01:08:39,386 --> 01:08:40,186 MERC: This was it. 898 01:08:40,386 --> 01:08:42,186 Right on the nose. 899 01:08:42,386 --> 01:08:44,186 The Japs started their big push toward India. 900 01:08:44,386 --> 01:08:46,186 The main target being Imphal. 901 01:08:46,386 --> 01:08:50,187 And the only way they could do it was over the bottleneck on the Kohima Road. 902 01:08:50,387 --> 01:08:52,387 The one we were supposed to blow up. 903 01:08:56,387 --> 01:08:59,187 For two days, we'd been watching the road 904 01:08:59,387 --> 01:09:01,187 and we had a plan set up for breaking through the Jap barricade 905 01:09:01,387 --> 01:09:03,387 that blocked our way to the bottleneck. 906 01:09:12,387 --> 01:09:14,387 Okay, Merc, get ready. 907 01:09:41,388 --> 01:09:43,388 908 01:09:49,388 --> 01:09:51,388 Tai, strip his uniform off, quick. 909 01:10:07,389 --> 01:10:09,389 Tai, get in his uniform quick. 910 01:10:21,389 --> 01:10:23,189 MERC: We'd hidden our explosives wire and detonators 911 01:10:23,389 --> 01:10:26,189 off the side of the road. 912 01:10:26,389 --> 01:10:30,139 Now, we had to load them on the trucks and get them out of there in a hurry. 913 01:10:31,389 --> 01:10:33,389 ♪ 914 01:11:05,389 --> 01:11:08,389 Okay. Get around the other side. Ari, Ari! 915 01:11:09,389 --> 01:11:10,389 Okay. 916 01:11:20,390 --> 01:11:23,190 MERC: We got away with the first part of our plan. 917 01:11:23,390 --> 01:11:25,190 The next big jolt would come when we try to get past 918 01:11:25,390 --> 01:11:28,190 the Jap barricade and through the bottleneck. 919 01:11:28,390 --> 01:11:30,190 And so far, it's working like a clock. 920 01:11:30,390 --> 01:11:32,390 You and the girls have been great. 921 01:11:35,390 --> 01:11:38,390 What's the matter, Ari? This last week you've been different. 922 01:11:39,390 --> 01:11:41,190 I know it's... I know it's been rugged 923 01:11:41,390 --> 01:11:44,390 or a beat ready to cut our throats. 924 01:11:46,390 --> 01:11:48,190 Look, Ari, listen... 925 01:11:48,390 --> 01:11:51,490 Is it something I've done? If it is, I'll try to make it right. 926 01:11:53,390 --> 01:11:56,391 No. It's nothing you've done or can help. 927 01:11:57,391 --> 01:11:59,391 It's nothing anybody can do. 928 01:12:07,391 --> 01:12:09,191 There it is. 929 01:12:09,391 --> 01:12:11,391 The bottleneck. 930 01:12:24,391 --> 01:12:25,391 (GROANS) 931 01:12:39,392 --> 01:12:41,192 MERC: The Jap army was moving up the road 932 01:12:41,392 --> 01:12:45,192 and we had to get our job done before they got there. 933 01:12:45,392 --> 01:12:48,192 We made it. We're on the bottleneck. 934 01:12:48,392 --> 01:12:52,192 Our plan was to plant three loads of high explosives 30 feet apart. 935 01:12:52,392 --> 01:12:53,192 We figured if we could blow it up the road, 936 01:12:53,392 --> 01:12:56,992 a piece of the hill would landslide down and mess up that road real good. 937 01:12:58,392 --> 01:12:59,192 All we needed was time. 938 01:12:59,392 --> 01:13:01,192 We were working against the clock. 939 01:13:01,392 --> 01:13:04,192 It's all your baby now, Merc. Keep your fingers crossed. 940 01:13:04,392 --> 01:13:06,192 If our luck holds out another couple of minutes, we got to make it. 941 01:13:06,392 --> 01:13:09,192 Yeah. You're all right boy. Lots of luck. 942 01:13:09,392 --> 01:13:10,442 Likewise, Lieutenant. 943 01:13:22,392 --> 01:13:24,192 MERC: And if we could only have known that the Japs 944 01:13:24,392 --> 01:13:27,192 had sent motor patrol units up the road to scout ahead of the main force 945 01:13:27,392 --> 01:13:31,392 it would have made a big difference, big difference to a lot of us. 946 01:13:34,392 --> 01:13:36,392 That's enough for me, Ari. 947 01:13:54,393 --> 01:13:56,393 Get back, quick. 948 01:14:07,393 --> 01:14:09,393 They got Merc. 949 01:14:10,393 --> 01:14:11,393 No. 950 01:14:21,393 --> 01:14:24,194 Lieutenant, what are you doing out there? 951 01:14:24,394 --> 01:14:28,194 - I thought you were hit, Merc. - My feet slipped. Now, get out of there! 952 01:14:28,394 --> 01:14:30,194 No, no can do. 953 01:14:30,394 --> 01:14:33,194 Look, Ari, run. Get out of here. There's still a chance. 954 01:14:33,394 --> 01:14:35,194 I will not leave you now. 955 01:14:35,394 --> 01:14:36,194 Light the fuse. 956 01:14:36,394 --> 01:14:38,194 I can't, not with you there. 957 01:14:38,394 --> 01:14:41,194 What's one gook, more or less? Merc, light the fuse. 958 01:14:41,394 --> 01:14:44,194 MERC: That'd mean if I set off the fuse, both the lieutenant and the girl 959 01:14:44,394 --> 01:14:46,194 would get blown up or buried under tons of dirt. 960 01:14:46,394 --> 01:14:50,194 It was up to me now, to be the stinking slob corporal. 961 01:14:50,394 --> 01:14:51,744 I had to make the decision. 962 01:14:55,394 --> 01:14:56,394 963 01:15:11,395 --> 01:15:14,195 The Japs never did get to India, 964 01:15:14,395 --> 01:15:17,195 and I guess that's something to consider on those nights 965 01:15:17,395 --> 01:15:20,195 when I'll be thinking about the lieutenant and Ari 966 01:15:20,395 --> 01:15:25,195 and Lolo and the rest of the guys and the chicks who are still back there. 967 01:15:25,395 --> 01:15:28,195 It's like I've said before, what a waste. 968 01:15:28,395 --> 01:15:32,395 What a dirty, stinking, crying, lousy waste. 969 01:15:36,395 --> 01:15:37,395 ♪