During Japan's invasion of the Philippines in1942, Capt. Henry Lassiter, Sgt. Bill Dane, and a diverse group of American soldiers are ordered to destroy and hold a strategic bridge to delay the Japanese forces and give Gen. MacArthur time to secure Bataan. When the Japanese soldiers begin rebuilding the bridge and making their way forward, the company faces not just starvation, sickness, and gunfire, but also the certainty that there is unlikely to be any relief on the horizon.
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During Japan's invasion of the Philippines in1942, Capt. Henry Lassiter, Sgt. Bill Dane, and a diverse group of American soldiers are ordered to destroy and hold a strategic bridge to delay the Japanese forces and give Gen. MacArthur time to secure Bataan. When the Japanese soldiers begin rebuilding the bridge and making their way forward, the company faces not just starvation, sickness, and gunfire, but also the certainty that there is unlikely to be any relief on the horizon.
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