:07:00
We spent months training and
it seemed very little action.
:07:03
As far as the army was concerned,
:07:05
doing nothing was the
colonel's personal experiment.
:07:09
Mucci was determined
to prove they weren't.
:07:15
- General.
- Henry.
:07:17
You know Colonel White.
And this is Major Lapham.
:07:20
Major, this is Lieutenant Colonel
Henry Mucci CO 6th Ranger Battalion.
:07:23
Henry, Major Lapham is a stay
behind in Bataan campaign.
:07:26
He runs guerilla unit
here north from Luzon.
:07:29
You should know Philippine
guerillas has been the primary source
:07:33
of intel for General
McArthur since fall.
:07:35
Good done, major.
- Thank you.
:07:37
Major Lapham, tell Colonel
Mucci what you've told us.
:07:41
Five miles east of Cabanatuan city here
:07:44
there's a Japanese
POW camp holding about
:07:46
Five hundred survivers
of the deathmarch.
:07:49
As we advanced on this area
:07:51
I believe that the Japanese will murder
these prisoners rather than release them.
:07:55
Unfortunately, major
Lapham is probably right.
:07:57
There was an incident
in a camp on Palawan.
:07:59
Hundred and fifty American POWs were herded
into air-raid shelters and burnt alive.
:08:05
Our access of advance set
right before that camp.
:08:08
Unless we're running
to something unexpected
:08:10
we're gonna be in Cabanatuan
at the end of the week.
:08:13
And it may be to late.
:08:15
I want you to say about this.
:08:17
We are rapid advance Jap troops
movements become increasing
:08:21
retreating at night, not during
the day to avoid our aircraft.
:08:24
That means we can't be
sure where the enemy is.
:08:27
Thirty miles from the front lines.
:08:29
There're thirty thousand Japanese
troops in that area, colonel.
:08:34
Henry.
:08:35
Can you develop a plan you
get there by the morning?
:08:38
Sir.
- I'll make my decision then.
:08:41
Now general Kreuger hasn't
made up his mind yet,
:08:43
but he's given a call up
with a hell of a plans.
:08:45
Call our boys to briefing,
we may set off in the morning.
:08:49
Yes sir.
:08:51
So we got to be
accompanied on this mission.
:08:54
Don't worry captain.
It'll be a little raid
:08:59
How many guards on the compound?