:06:01
He took on what seem
to many a hopeless task.
:06:05
The job of turning group
of raw untested recruits
:06:08
into a new unit of elite soldiers.
:06:11
Originally signed to handle less talk,
:06:14
they were mostly farmy hands
from small towns and rural areas.
:06:17
with no combat experience.
:06:20
Sergeant.
:06:23
Have you seen colonel Mucci?
:06:24
Yes sir, he's in there playing poker.
:06:26
You don't wanna interrupt
him, I think he's losing.
:06:33
Lt. Foley get me a new deck
of cards, I suppose I'm lucky.
:06:35
Every time you stick that pipe in your
mouth colonel, I just know you're in trouble.
:06:41
Colonel. Look at this.
:06:43
D'you have any idea who that is?
:06:46
Yes sir.
:06:47
Corporal on the guard!
:06:50
Yes sir!
:06:51
Aliteri,
:06:52
find out who the cowboy is.
:06:54
Yes sir.
: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.