Women of Valour

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0:01:22 > 0:01:26CROWD MURMURS

0:01:26 > 0:01:28GAVEL POUNDING

0:01:28 > 0:01:31'The executive commission on women in the draft

0:01:31 > 0:01:33'is hereby called to order.

0:01:33 > 0:01:36'Our first witness, Colonel Margaret Ann Jessup,

0:01:36 > 0:01:38'US Army Nurse Corps, retired,

0:01:38 > 0:01:40'will make the opening remarks.

0:01:41 > 0:01:43JESSUP: 'Thank you, Mr Chairman.

0:01:45 > 0:01:46'It's long been the contention

0:01:46 > 0:01:49'of those who oppose women in the draft

0:01:49 > 0:01:51'that should women be captured,

0:01:51 > 0:01:53'they would break.

0:01:54 > 0:01:55'Well, the fact is

0:01:55 > 0:01:58'women have been prisoners of war,

0:01:58 > 0:02:00'and their experiences are a testimony

0:02:00 > 0:02:03'to their strength, endurance, and courage.

0:02:03 > 0:02:06'104 Army and Navy nurses

0:02:06 > 0:02:07stationed on the Philippines

0:02:07 > 0:02:10were incarcerated by the Japanese

0:02:10 > 0:02:12between 1942 and 1945,

0:02:12 > 0:02:15yet their courage has been virtually invisible

0:02:15 > 0:02:17to the public...

0:02:18 > 0:02:21and has gone unrecognised by the military.

0:02:22 > 0:02:23In December of 1941,

0:02:23 > 0:02:26I was stationed at Camp Pershing

0:02:26 > 0:02:29on the island of Luzon in the Philippines,

0:02:29 > 0:02:32located near the resort town of Rosario.

0:02:32 > 0:02:33The camp was used

0:02:33 > 0:02:36for what today is called R and R,

0:02:36 > 0:02:38'or rest and relaxation.

0:02:38 > 0:02:39'It was paradise...'

0:02:39 > 0:02:41Go get him, Gregg!

0:02:43 > 0:02:46OK, let's get to the good part.

0:02:46 > 0:02:48Me first.

0:02:53 > 0:02:56Would you open the box, already?

0:02:56 > 0:02:57Don't rush me.

0:02:57 > 0:03:00This is my first wedding shower.

0:03:00 > 0:03:04My grandmother moved faster on her diamond jubilee.

0:03:06 > 0:03:08Oh...

0:03:09 > 0:03:10Gracey.

0:03:10 > 0:03:11It's so...

0:03:11 > 0:03:13religious.

0:03:13 > 0:03:14Beautiful.

0:03:14 > 0:03:15I love it. Thanks.

0:03:15 > 0:03:18Here. I planned to apologise

0:03:18 > 0:03:20for not having it wrapped,

0:03:20 > 0:03:22but seeing how fast you open presents,

0:03:22 > 0:03:25I think we all made out.

0:03:25 > 0:03:27It's a Greek fertility god.

0:03:27 > 0:03:29More like a hat rack.

0:03:29 > 0:03:31Something to hang jewellery on.

0:03:31 > 0:03:32Bite your tongue.

0:03:32 > 0:03:35This intern once invited me over

0:03:35 > 0:03:37to see this ancient Buddha.

0:03:37 > 0:03:40He said if you wanted something really bad,

0:03:40 > 0:03:43you just make a wish and rub its...

0:03:43 > 0:03:44Gracey! Gracey!

0:03:44 > 0:03:46..belly.

0:03:46 > 0:03:48What is wrong with you?

0:03:48 > 0:03:49Nothing, honey.

0:03:49 > 0:03:52Just a bunch of dirty minds.

0:03:54 > 0:03:56I really wish

0:03:56 > 0:03:59I didn't have to resign to get married,

0:03:59 > 0:04:01cos I'll miss you all terribly.

0:04:01 > 0:04:03I can't take this anymore.

0:04:03 > 0:04:04What are you doing?

0:04:04 > 0:04:06Open the box, already.

0:04:11 > 0:04:13It's lovely.

0:04:13 > 0:04:14It's black.

0:04:14 > 0:04:16I'd look great in this.

0:04:16 > 0:04:18I tried to find white.

0:04:18 > 0:04:20I thought you're a virgin.

0:04:20 > 0:04:21< I am.

0:04:21 > 0:04:23Look at it this way...

0:04:23 > 0:04:26If there's a war, there will be blackouts.

0:04:26 > 0:04:29Then you'll be right in fashion.

0:04:29 > 0:04:30Leave it to you

0:04:30 > 0:04:33to see war as a fashion experience.

0:04:33 > 0:04:35KNOCK ON DOOR

0:04:36 > 0:04:38KNOCK ON DOOR

0:04:38 > 0:04:39Who is it?

0:04:39 > 0:04:42Maggie, open up. It's Helen. >

0:04:44 > 0:04:454:30.

0:04:45 > 0:04:47KNOCK ON DOOR

0:04:47 > 0:04:49All right, I'm coming.

0:04:49 > 0:04:50KNOCK ON DOOR

0:04:50 > 0:04:52I'm coming.

0:04:56 > 0:04:57You realise what time...

0:04:57 > 0:05:00The Japs have bombed Pearl Harbor.

0:05:00 > 0:05:03'Later, the Japanese also hit Clark Field

0:05:03 > 0:05:04'in the Philippines,

0:05:04 > 0:05:07'where Helen's fiance, Chris, and my Tom

0:05:07 > 0:05:10'flew with the 17th Pursuit Squadron.

0:05:10 > 0:05:12'MacArthur had grounded all our planes.

0:05:12 > 0:05:14'So when the Japs came,

0:05:14 > 0:05:18'it was like shooting ducks in a penny arcade.'

0:05:28 > 0:05:30Keep it high.

0:05:30 > 0:05:32Take him to the ward.

0:05:32 > 0:05:34Gently, gently.

0:05:34 > 0:05:35OK, good.

0:05:37 > 0:05:39Easy, easy, easy.

0:05:39 > 0:05:40Watch that IV.

0:05:40 > 0:05:43Why doesn't he have a tourniquet on him?

0:05:47 > 0:05:49Come on.

0:05:53 > 0:05:55He's dead. He's dead.

0:05:55 > 0:05:58SIRENS

0:05:58 > 0:05:59Here they come!

0:06:01 > 0:06:03Get under cover.

0:06:03 > 0:06:05Here they come!

0:06:07 > 0:06:09Get down!

0:06:29 > 0:06:32Why bomb us, the polo ponies?

0:06:32 > 0:06:34I've got to get out.

0:06:34 > 0:06:36Gracey, don't be crazy!

0:06:36 > 0:06:37She's lost her mind!

0:06:37 > 0:06:39Not you, too!

0:06:39 > 0:06:40You're all nuts!

0:06:46 > 0:06:48Let's prepare to move him.

0:06:48 > 0:06:50Grab that IV bottle.

0:06:50 > 0:06:51OK, here we go.

0:06:51 > 0:06:53We need more sterile bandages.

0:06:53 > 0:06:56See if you can find some.

0:06:56 > 0:06:57Looks good.

0:07:01 > 0:07:02Gracey, are you OK?

0:07:02 > 0:07:05Yeah. I was just thinking

0:07:05 > 0:07:08about this guy I met today.

0:07:08 > 0:07:09He was real handsome,

0:07:09 > 0:07:12like John Garfield, with more muscles.

0:07:12 > 0:07:14Great. I'm practically giving it away

0:07:14 > 0:07:17to find a hunk like that,

0:07:17 > 0:07:19and you walk away with the prize

0:07:19 > 0:07:22without even lifting a hem.

0:07:22 > 0:07:23What happened?

0:07:23 > 0:07:25How'd you meet this heartbreaker?

0:07:25 > 0:07:27He just showed up.

0:07:27 > 0:07:29He began helping me with the wounded.

0:07:29 > 0:07:33When the planes came in on their strafing run...

0:07:36 > 0:07:38I hit the ground.

0:07:38 > 0:07:40I wasn't sure what was happening.

0:07:40 > 0:07:43Being a soldier and all,

0:07:43 > 0:07:47I looked up to ask him what we should do...

0:07:48 > 0:07:50He'd been hit

0:07:50 > 0:07:52right below the eye.

0:07:52 > 0:07:55The side of his face was blown away.

0:07:55 > 0:07:59He wasn't...falling.

0:07:59 > 0:08:01He was just standing.

0:08:01 > 0:08:05Then he kind of half-turned and fell.

0:08:06 > 0:08:09Someone was screaming at me to stay down,

0:08:09 > 0:08:12but all I could do was look at him.

0:08:13 > 0:08:15Honey, I'm so sorry.

0:08:15 > 0:08:16I'm a nurse.

0:08:16 > 0:08:19I should've done something, but I couldn't.

0:08:19 > 0:08:22You did what any of us would've done

0:08:22 > 0:08:24under the same circumstances.

0:08:24 > 0:08:26I was scared to death.

0:08:26 > 0:08:28Running from under that truck,

0:08:28 > 0:08:30I never would've known.

0:08:30 > 0:08:32I had no choice. I'm claustrophobic.

0:08:33 > 0:08:35What if they assigned you

0:08:35 > 0:08:37to Tunnel Hospital in Corregidor?

0:08:37 > 0:08:40They did. I got out of it.

0:08:40 > 0:08:43I said I'd kill myself first.

0:08:43 > 0:08:46It's a wonder you weren't shipped home.

0:08:46 > 0:08:48They sent me here instead.

0:08:48 > 0:08:50They said the rest would help.

0:08:50 > 0:08:52Oh, good.

0:08:52 > 0:08:53Ha ha.

0:08:53 > 0:08:56One more week, and we would've been married.

0:09:00 > 0:09:02Just one more week.

0:09:03 > 0:09:06What's important is that he loves you.

0:09:06 > 0:09:08I know that.

0:09:09 > 0:09:11I just can't help thinking

0:09:11 > 0:09:13that if we had been...

0:09:15 > 0:09:17I'd feel much better now.

0:09:18 > 0:09:21Believe me, it's just a piece of paper.

0:09:21 > 0:09:23It's not a painkiller.

0:09:24 > 0:09:26Yeah? What do you mean?

0:09:30 > 0:09:33Tom and I were married last summer.

0:09:33 > 0:09:36In Hong Kong when we went on vacation.

0:09:36 > 0:09:37You should've told me.

0:09:37 > 0:09:39I wanted to, but...

0:09:39 > 0:09:42I didn't want you lying for me.

0:09:42 > 0:09:44I can't believe it.

0:09:44 > 0:09:47I just assumed you'd be in for life.

0:09:47 > 0:09:49Me, too, till I met Tom.

0:09:49 > 0:09:51What about your career?

0:09:51 > 0:09:54I don't have to be enlisted to be a nurse.

0:09:54 > 0:09:56Of course not.

0:09:56 > 0:09:59When were you going to tell them?

0:09:59 > 0:10:02When Tom's tour was up.

0:10:03 > 0:10:05So you think they're OK?

0:10:05 > 0:10:07Sure. I think they're fine.

0:10:11 > 0:10:13'For the next two weeks,

0:10:13 > 0:10:16'The Japs hit us with everything they had.

0:10:16 > 0:10:19'Morale plummeted, but my girls never showed it.

0:10:19 > 0:10:22'Then on the 22nd of December,

0:10:22 > 0:10:24'they invaded the Lingayen Gulf.

0:10:24 > 0:10:26'It was total chaos.

0:10:26 > 0:10:27'Men in trucks and cars,

0:10:27 > 0:10:29'on horseback and on foot,

0:10:29 > 0:10:31'racing south to Bataan.'

0:10:35 > 0:10:37Miss Jessup?

0:10:38 > 0:10:39Miss Jessup?

0:10:39 > 0:10:41Yes.

0:10:41 > 0:10:42Colonel Morton ordered me

0:10:42 > 0:10:45to evacuate you and your team immediately.

0:10:45 > 0:10:46Where?

0:10:46 > 0:10:49Bataan. It's the only place we can defend.

0:10:49 > 0:10:51What about our patients?

0:10:51 > 0:10:53They'll be hospitalised in San Manuel.

0:10:53 > 0:10:55Why aren't we going there?

0:10:55 > 0:10:58I'm ordered to get you out.

0:10:58 > 0:10:59A Jap battalion's nearby.

0:10:59 > 0:11:01I'm short on men.

0:11:01 > 0:11:04Somebody must stay with the wounded.

0:11:04 > 0:11:07You can stay here and be taken prisoner,

0:11:07 > 0:11:09but I'm leaving in 15 minutes.

0:11:10 > 0:11:11Let's go, ladies.

0:11:11 > 0:11:13Let's go, ladies.

0:11:13 > 0:11:16Be careful of that stuff, you guys.

0:11:16 > 0:11:18Come on, Jessup, wake up.

0:11:20 > 0:11:22Ramos, pull her out.

0:11:22 > 0:11:24No! I'm missing a girl!

0:11:24 > 0:11:26That's a mortar. It's not ours.

0:11:26 > 0:11:28Just a minute more!

0:11:28 > 0:11:31Either we pull out now or surrender.

0:11:31 > 0:11:33I'm not about to do surrender.

0:11:33 > 0:11:3660 seconds is not going to kill you.

0:11:36 > 0:11:38That does it. Ramos!

0:11:38 > 0:11:39Then leave without me.

0:11:39 > 0:11:41Here she comes!

0:11:43 > 0:11:45Can we leave now?

0:11:45 > 0:11:46When you're ready.

0:11:48 > 0:11:50What happened to you?

0:11:50 > 0:11:51I forgot something.

0:11:51 > 0:11:54What could've been so important?

0:11:54 > 0:11:57A woman after my own heart.

0:12:09 > 0:12:11Hey, slow down before you get us killed.

0:12:11 > 0:12:13Better that than Japs.

0:12:13 > 0:12:16The Japs are miles behind us.

0:12:16 > 0:12:17Then who are they?

0:12:17 > 0:12:19Look out! You'll hit them.

0:12:19 > 0:12:21Of course I'll hit them.

0:12:34 > 0:12:36Ah, that's just great.

0:12:37 > 0:12:38Everybody out.

0:12:39 > 0:12:42Grab those jerry-cans. Ladies first.

0:13:02 > 0:13:04Aah!

0:13:04 > 0:13:05LAUGHTER

0:13:05 > 0:13:06Aah!

0:13:29 > 0:13:31LAUGHTER

0:13:31 > 0:13:33Get a load of them.

0:13:33 > 0:13:36You'd think they were on a picnic.

0:13:42 > 0:13:44Are there fish in here?

0:13:44 > 0:13:45GASPS

0:13:48 > 0:13:51Aah!

0:13:51 > 0:13:53Aah!

0:13:53 > 0:13:55Come on.

0:13:56 > 0:13:57Aah!

0:14:03 > 0:14:04Turn around.

0:14:06 > 0:14:08Turn around.

0:14:08 > 0:14:09That's not really necessary.

0:14:09 > 0:14:11Turn around. Everybody.

0:14:12 > 0:14:13Now!

0:14:33 > 0:14:35You can turn around now.

0:14:35 > 0:14:37What the hell's going on?

0:14:37 > 0:14:40Tojo here looked like he was going

0:14:40 > 0:14:42to take some prisoners,

0:14:42 > 0:14:44so I slowed him down a little.

0:14:44 > 0:14:45And who are you?

0:14:45 > 0:14:48TJ Nolan. I was a rigger with Ramtec

0:14:48 > 0:14:51until the Japs blew it up.

0:14:52 > 0:14:55Had to have a swim, didn't you, Jessup?

0:15:03 > 0:15:06I knew something like this would happen.

0:15:06 > 0:15:08Let's leave before his buddies

0:15:08 > 0:15:10come looking for him.

0:15:10 > 0:15:13You can join us if you like.

0:15:18 > 0:15:20Give them a hand, Ramos.

0:15:20 > 0:15:21Yes, sir.

0:15:21 > 0:15:22Nolan.

0:15:22 > 0:15:25Since when did Ramtec hire boys

0:15:25 > 0:15:27to do men's work?

0:15:29 > 0:15:31I'm not a boy.

0:15:43 > 0:15:45'We reached the Bataan peninsula

0:15:45 > 0:15:48'and hospital number three on New Year's Eve.

0:15:48 > 0:15:50'There was nowhere left to run.

0:15:50 > 0:15:53'Rader took off with Ramos for parts unknown

0:15:53 > 0:15:56'while Nolan figured she'd be safer with us.'

0:15:56 > 0:15:59Lieutenant, an empty bed's down at the end.

0:16:00 > 0:16:01Just rest up, soldier.

0:16:01 > 0:16:03You got a cigarette?

0:16:07 > 0:16:09'We worked 20-hour days

0:16:09 > 0:16:13'and lived on half-rations for the next two months.

0:16:13 > 0:16:16'When we ran out of supplies, we improvised...

0:16:16 > 0:16:20'jungle vines for traction, banana leaves for beds,

0:16:20 > 0:16:21'gasoline cans for stoves.

0:16:24 > 0:16:27'Some of the girls came down with malaria,

0:16:27 > 0:16:30'but somehow, morale stayed high.

0:16:30 > 0:16:33'Then in March, the bottom fell out.

0:16:33 > 0:16:37'MacArthur had been ordered to Australia.'

0:16:37 > 0:16:40MACARTHUR: 'The President of the United States

0:16:40 > 0:16:44'ordered me to break through the Japanese lines

0:16:44 > 0:16:48'and proceed from Corregidor to Australia

0:16:48 > 0:16:51'for the purpose, as I understand it,

0:16:51 > 0:16:55'of organising the American offensive against Japan,

0:16:55 > 0:16:57'a primary objective of which

0:16:57 > 0:17:00'is the relief of the Philippines.

0:17:00 > 0:17:03'I came through, and I shall return.'

0:17:03 > 0:17:05ANNOUNCER: 'You have been listening

0:17:05 > 0:17:09'to an address by General Douglas MacArthur.'

0:17:09 > 0:17:11I knew it.

0:17:11 > 0:17:13He's gone to get reinforcements.

0:17:15 > 0:17:16I don't believe it.

0:17:16 > 0:17:18Well, believe it.

0:17:18 > 0:17:20The rats are leaving the ship.

0:17:20 > 0:17:22The king rat left first.

0:17:22 > 0:17:24You're out of line.

0:17:24 > 0:17:25He never would've left

0:17:25 > 0:17:27if he wasn't ordered out.

0:17:27 > 0:17:28He'll return.

0:17:28 > 0:17:31Face it. MacArthur's left us holding the bag.

0:17:31 > 0:17:33What us?

0:17:33 > 0:17:35You're not a nurse or soldier.

0:17:35 > 0:17:38You're not even acting like an American.

0:17:38 > 0:17:40It's all over but the shouting.

0:17:40 > 0:17:42I can't believe that.

0:17:42 > 0:17:44Haven't you heard that song?

0:17:44 > 0:17:46"We're the battling bastards of Bataan.

0:17:46 > 0:17:49"No mamas, no papas, no Uncle Sam."

0:17:49 > 0:17:52Nobody's coming. Nobody gives a damn!

0:17:52 > 0:17:55You don't have to spell it out. We're not blind.

0:17:55 > 0:17:56You're just deaf.

0:17:56 > 0:17:59We hear what we need to.

0:17:59 > 0:18:02Even if it means lying to yourselves.

0:18:02 > 0:18:04All we've got is hope.

0:18:04 > 0:18:05When that runs out?

0:18:05 > 0:18:07We've got each other.

0:18:07 > 0:18:09If you can't understand that,

0:18:09 > 0:18:12maybe you should go it alone.

0:18:12 > 0:18:13Fine. I will.

0:18:30 > 0:18:33You mind if I have a drag?

0:18:38 > 0:18:41I'm afraid you'll have to do it for me.

0:18:49 > 0:18:50Thanks.

0:18:53 > 0:18:56Seems the only thing I can still work

0:18:56 > 0:18:57is my mouth.

0:18:57 > 0:18:59What's a nice-looking girl like you

0:18:59 > 0:19:01doing in a place like this?

0:19:01 > 0:19:04It's the only finishing school I could get into.

0:19:08 > 0:19:09Did you hear anything

0:19:09 > 0:19:12about Dugout Doug leaving the rock?

0:19:12 > 0:19:15I just heard him on the radio...

0:19:15 > 0:19:17from Australia.

0:19:19 > 0:19:22I guess that does it for me then.

0:19:22 > 0:19:24I mean, with MacArthur gone,

0:19:24 > 0:19:28Japs are going to hit us with everything they got,

0:19:28 > 0:19:30unless the ships come in.

0:19:33 > 0:19:35There aren't any ships.

0:19:37 > 0:19:38Screw them.

0:19:47 > 0:19:48Hey.

0:19:49 > 0:19:52I got a hot flash for you.

0:19:54 > 0:19:56The ships are coming.

0:19:56 > 0:19:58That's why MacArthur left-

0:19:58 > 0:19:59To organise a rescue.

0:19:59 > 0:20:01Don't lie to me.

0:20:04 > 0:20:05I'm not lying.

0:20:08 > 0:20:10He said...

0:20:10 > 0:20:12"I shall return."

0:20:20 > 0:20:23So...he's coming back.

0:20:25 > 0:20:28You can count on it.

0:20:28 > 0:20:29"I shall return."

0:20:35 > 0:20:36"I shall return."

0:20:42 > 0:20:44'After MacArthur left,

0:20:44 > 0:20:46'things calmed down for a while.

0:20:46 > 0:20:49'Nightly bull sessions were filled with talks of food

0:20:49 > 0:20:51'and rumours of rescue.

0:20:51 > 0:20:55'For the first time since Pearl, we began to hope.

0:20:55 > 0:20:57'Perhaps the ships would come after all.'

0:20:57 > 0:20:59Don.

0:21:01 > 0:21:03Maybe I won the Irish sweepstakes.

0:21:03 > 0:21:06Then you'll have to take us all out.

0:21:10 > 0:21:11Bad?

0:21:11 > 0:21:13Say it.

0:21:16 > 0:21:17You've been drafted.

0:21:19 > 0:21:23God. Mac, I've been drafted.

0:21:23 > 0:21:25Congratulations.

0:21:25 > 0:21:27Tom, isn't it?

0:21:27 > 0:21:28What happened?

0:21:28 > 0:21:30Come on!

0:21:36 > 0:21:37Hey, Maggie!

0:21:44 > 0:21:46How did you get in?

0:21:46 > 0:21:48We're completely surrounded.

0:21:48 > 0:21:51The Huks. Chris and I joined them

0:21:51 > 0:21:53after our planes were destroyed.

0:21:53 > 0:21:55They hate Americans.

0:21:55 > 0:21:58Not as much as they hate the Japanese.

0:21:58 > 0:22:00The face is familiar,

0:22:00 > 0:22:02but where did you get this get-up?

0:22:02 > 0:22:05It hides a multitude of sins.

0:22:05 > 0:22:08What sins? You're all skin and bones, Mag.

0:22:08 > 0:22:10You're not exactly chubby yourself.

0:22:10 > 0:22:12Come here, skinny.

0:22:21 > 0:22:23I was so afraid you'd be killed.

0:22:23 > 0:22:24Killed? What killed?

0:22:24 > 0:22:26Mags, I was born to die in bed...

0:22:26 > 0:22:28with you beside me.

0:22:30 > 0:22:33I'm going to hold you to that.

0:22:35 > 0:22:36You do that.

0:22:48 > 0:22:51Chris and Helen, since you wish

0:22:51 > 0:22:54to contract holy matrimony, please join hands

0:22:54 > 0:22:57and express your intention before God and this church.

0:22:57 > 0:23:00Helen, do you take Chris for your lawful husband?

0:23:00 > 0:23:01I do.

0:23:01 > 0:23:06And Chris, do you take Helen for your lawful wife?

0:23:06 > 0:23:07I do.

0:23:07 > 0:23:09I pronounce you man and wife.

0:23:09 > 0:23:12Yay!

0:23:38 > 0:23:40Oh, wait a minute.

0:23:49 > 0:23:52# Good night, sweetheart

0:23:52 > 0:23:55# Until we meet tomorrow

0:23:55 > 0:23:59# Good night, sweetheart... #

0:24:09 > 0:24:10You OK?

0:24:10 > 0:24:12Sure, I'm fine.

0:24:12 > 0:24:13You're awful quiet.

0:24:13 > 0:24:15I'm worried, that's all.

0:24:15 > 0:24:16Well, don't worry.

0:24:16 > 0:24:20What do you know about surviving in the jungle?

0:24:20 > 0:24:21You're a pilot.

0:24:21 > 0:24:24The Huks will teach me whatever I'll need.

0:24:24 > 0:24:25They scare me.

0:24:25 > 0:24:26Me, too.

0:24:26 > 0:24:29But I'd rather be with them

0:24:29 > 0:24:30than any other outfit.

0:24:30 > 0:24:33You know I'm a fast learner.

0:24:34 > 0:24:38I'd like you to have my West Point ring

0:24:38 > 0:24:40and my father's watch for safekeeping.

0:24:40 > 0:24:41No.

0:24:41 > 0:24:44I'd feel better if you took them.

0:24:44 > 0:24:46It's like saying you won't return.

0:24:46 > 0:24:49OK, I'll bring them back myself.

0:24:57 > 0:24:58SPEAKING FILIPINO

0:25:01 > 0:25:02SPEAKING FILIPINO

0:25:02 > 0:25:03SPEAKING FILIPINO

0:25:36 > 0:25:37'By April 8th,

0:25:37 > 0:25:41'the Japs had broken through on all fronts.

0:25:41 > 0:25:43'We were out of everything...

0:25:43 > 0:25:45'food, morphine, hope.'

0:25:45 > 0:25:50Doctor, the artery in the leg is bleeding again.

0:25:50 > 0:25:51Plasma, stat.

0:25:51 > 0:25:53There isn't any.

0:25:53 > 0:25:54What do you mean?

0:25:54 > 0:25:56That's all there was.

0:25:56 > 0:25:57Come here.

0:25:57 > 0:25:58I'm not sterile.

0:25:58 > 0:26:00Get in here!

0:26:03 > 0:26:05Press on that bleeder

0:26:05 > 0:26:07So I can see what I'm doing.

0:26:07 > 0:26:09I'm not a nurse.

0:26:09 > 0:26:11You got a finger, don't you?

0:26:22 > 0:26:25Now I know how the Dutch kid felt,

0:26:25 > 0:26:28holding back the dyke with his finger.

0:26:28 > 0:26:30You'd make a wonderful nurse.

0:26:30 > 0:26:32You're a natural.

0:26:32 > 0:26:35With an eighth-grade education?

0:26:35 > 0:26:37Go back to school. You're still young.

0:26:37 > 0:26:38Not anymore.

0:26:45 > 0:26:46Maggie.

0:26:46 > 0:26:48Maggie.

0:26:48 > 0:26:49Get the nurses packing.

0:26:49 > 0:26:51You're being evacuated to Corregidor.

0:26:53 > 0:26:54When?

0:26:54 > 0:26:55Immediately.

0:26:55 > 0:26:56What's happening?

0:26:56 > 0:26:57We're being evacuated.

0:26:57 > 0:26:58Not me.

0:26:58 > 0:27:00What about you, our patients?

0:27:00 > 0:27:02There aren't enough boats.

0:27:02 > 0:27:05Then tell the General we're not going.

0:27:05 > 0:27:08We're surrendering Bataan in the morning.

0:27:08 > 0:27:09Surrendering Bataan?

0:27:09 > 0:27:12Either leave now or be taken prisoner.

0:27:12 > 0:27:15You're needed on Corregidor.

0:27:21 > 0:27:22I'm sorry.

0:27:27 > 0:27:29Is it Chris?

0:27:32 > 0:27:33I'm sorry.

0:27:35 > 0:27:37If they can walk, move them.

0:27:37 > 0:27:38Truck's over there.

0:27:38 > 0:27:39BOMB BLASTS

0:27:39 > 0:27:40Get them out.

0:27:40 > 0:27:43If he can walk, move him.

0:27:43 > 0:27:46Miss Jessup, can I talk to you?

0:27:47 > 0:27:50WHISPERS

0:27:50 > 0:27:51I can't.

0:27:51 > 0:27:53You got to.

0:27:53 > 0:27:54Look at me.

0:27:54 > 0:27:55I can't feed myself.

0:27:55 > 0:27:58I can't go to the latrine without help.

0:27:58 > 0:28:02What do you think the Japs will do to me?

0:28:02 > 0:28:03You'll go to Corregidor.

0:28:03 > 0:28:05Why? It's going to fall.

0:28:05 > 0:28:07You know it.

0:28:07 > 0:28:10Please give me something I can fight with.

0:28:12 > 0:28:13I can't.

0:28:13 > 0:28:16Ask somebody else.

0:28:16 > 0:28:17I have.

0:28:17 > 0:28:18You're my last hope.

0:28:20 > 0:28:21I'm begging you.

0:28:21 > 0:28:24Let me die like a soldier.

0:28:35 > 0:28:36Come on.

0:28:40 > 0:28:43Come on. Get in the bus.

0:28:43 > 0:28:44Get in. Hurry up.

0:28:45 > 0:28:47Come on.

0:28:47 > 0:28:48Where's Maggie?

0:28:48 > 0:28:49Where's Maggie?

0:28:53 > 0:28:55Where's Maggie?

0:29:01 > 0:29:02Thank you.

0:29:22 > 0:29:24Ramos?

0:29:24 > 0:29:26Maggie, we got to go!

0:29:27 > 0:29:28Miss Jessup...

0:29:28 > 0:29:30I forgot to duck.

0:29:30 > 0:29:32And Rader?

0:29:32 > 0:29:33He needs...

0:29:33 > 0:29:34Aah!

0:29:34 > 0:29:36Come on!

0:29:37 > 0:29:40Let's get him to the OR.

0:29:41 > 0:29:43We'll miss the boat!

0:29:44 > 0:29:46Come on!

0:29:46 > 0:29:47Maggie, come on...

0:29:47 > 0:29:49Where you going?

0:29:49 > 0:29:51Not underground.

0:29:51 > 0:29:54Get moving, Nolan, or you won't make it out!

0:29:54 > 0:29:57Come back! Come back!

0:29:57 > 0:29:58Come back!

0:29:59 > 0:30:01Let's go! Move out! Move it!

0:30:01 > 0:30:04Get that bus out of here!

0:30:04 > 0:30:07Go! Go! Go!

0:30:16 > 0:30:20Maggie, I need a little more retraction here.

0:30:20 > 0:30:22Another haemostat.

0:30:22 > 0:30:23Oh, no.

0:30:23 > 0:30:26I need some lights in here now!

0:30:32 > 0:30:34Thank you. Give me another one.

0:30:38 > 0:30:39What did you think,

0:30:39 > 0:30:41I'd leave and miss all the fun?

0:30:44 > 0:30:46Banzai! Banzai!

0:30:46 > 0:30:48Banzai! Banzai!

0:30:48 > 0:30:50Banzai! Banzai!

0:30:50 > 0:30:52'Bataan had fallen.

0:30:52 > 0:30:53'After three months

0:30:53 > 0:30:56'under constant and gruelling enemy fire,

0:30:56 > 0:30:57'we had finally surrendered.

0:30:59 > 0:31:01'Our boys had stood their ground,

0:31:01 > 0:31:03'throwing themselves at the enemy

0:31:03 > 0:31:05'when they'd run out of ammunition.

0:31:05 > 0:31:06'Now it was over.'

0:31:47 > 0:31:50OK. All right. We surrender.

0:31:50 > 0:31:53It's OK.

0:31:53 > 0:31:54Oh, my God, no!

0:31:54 > 0:31:55Aah!

0:32:19 > 0:32:20I surrender! I surrender!

0:32:26 > 0:32:29No! Stop! No! No!

0:32:36 > 0:32:38Don't shoot! Don't shoot!

0:32:49 > 0:32:50Please!

0:33:10 > 0:33:12SPEAKING JAPANESE

0:33:17 > 0:33:20SPEAKING JAPANESE

0:33:37 > 0:33:39Oh, my God, no.

0:34:14 > 0:34:15OK.

0:34:15 > 0:34:17Closer together, everybody.

0:34:17 > 0:34:18Closer together.

0:34:18 > 0:34:20Closer.

0:34:20 > 0:34:21Hurry up.

0:34:21 > 0:34:22Hurry up, please.

0:34:22 > 0:34:24Hurry up. Hurry up.

0:34:24 > 0:34:26Hurry up. Move.

0:34:26 > 0:34:27And...

0:34:27 > 0:34:30And put your hand over your head,

0:34:30 > 0:34:31Just like this, OK?

0:34:31 > 0:34:33All right. Up, up, OK?

0:34:33 > 0:34:37And make more depressed, all right?

0:34:37 > 0:34:40Make more depressed.

0:34:41 > 0:34:43All right, don't move.

0:34:43 > 0:34:45SPEAKING JAPANESE

0:34:49 > 0:34:51'We never made it to Manila

0:34:51 > 0:34:54'where all our fellow nurses would be interned.

0:34:54 > 0:34:59'Instead, we ended up on one of the many death marches

0:34:59 > 0:35:01'that would take place throughout the war.

0:35:01 > 0:35:05'Six days to the rail station at San Miguel...

0:35:05 > 0:35:08'A trek that would be measured in lives,

0:35:08 > 0:35:09'not miles.'

0:37:16 > 0:37:17Wanted me to start it.

0:37:17 > 0:37:20Didn't say anything about stopping it.

0:37:20 > 0:37:22AAH!

0:37:30 > 0:37:33SPEAKING JAPANESE

0:38:04 > 0:38:06Served up hot on our best China.

0:38:06 > 0:38:08What about you?

0:38:08 > 0:38:09I've already eaten.

0:38:09 > 0:38:10Thanks.

0:38:49 > 0:38:51Aah!

0:38:59 > 0:39:01Please don't.

0:39:02 > 0:39:03Please.

0:39:03 > 0:39:04Please don't.

0:39:35 > 0:39:37Don't touch me!

0:40:23 > 0:40:25How are you doing?

0:40:26 > 0:40:29I don't think I'll ever feel clean again.

0:40:31 > 0:40:33All you need is time.

0:40:34 > 0:40:36I don't think I'll make it.

0:40:38 > 0:40:40You have to.

0:40:42 > 0:40:44I'll help you.

0:40:45 > 0:40:48We'll help each other.

0:41:03 > 0:41:05TRAIN WHISTLE

0:41:35 > 0:41:37SPEAKING JAPANESE

0:41:58 > 0:41:59Come on, get up!

0:41:59 > 0:42:00Get up!

0:42:19 > 0:42:21I won't be able to breathe!

0:42:22 > 0:42:23Get on!

0:42:42 > 0:42:46# God bless America

0:42:46 > 0:42:49# Land that I love

0:42:49 > 0:42:51# Stand beside her

0:42:51 > 0:42:53# And guide her

0:42:53 > 0:42:54# Through the night

0:42:54 > 0:42:56# With the light from above

0:42:56 > 0:42:58# From the mountains

0:42:58 > 0:43:00# To the prairies

0:43:00 > 0:43:02# To the oceans

0:43:02 > 0:43:04# White with foam

0:43:04 > 0:43:08# God bless America

0:43:08 > 0:43:13# The land I love. #

0:43:19 > 0:43:20TRAIN WHISTLES

0:45:22 > 0:45:24Hey!

0:45:27 > 0:45:29She doesn't know what she's doing.

0:45:29 > 0:45:30I'll take care of her.

0:45:30 > 0:45:32Hey! Stop it!

0:45:36 > 0:45:38No!

0:45:38 > 0:45:41SPEAKING JAPANESE

0:45:46 > 0:45:49Take your friend back to the ranks.

0:45:56 > 0:45:59I am Captain Nakayama,

0:45:59 > 0:46:01the camp commander.

0:46:01 > 0:46:02Our rules are simple.

0:46:03 > 0:46:05You will salute and bow

0:46:05 > 0:46:07to all Japanese military personnel,

0:46:07 > 0:46:08regardless of rank.

0:46:08 > 0:46:11You will obey all orders without hesitation.

0:46:11 > 0:46:15Any resistance will be met by force.

0:46:15 > 0:46:18The punishment for escape is death.

0:46:21 > 0:46:24The bulk of the food you grow here

0:46:24 > 0:46:25will feed the imperial Japanese forces

0:46:25 > 0:46:26in the Philippines.

0:46:26 > 0:46:30Any excess over your quota will be yours.

0:46:30 > 0:46:34If nothing remains, you will starve.

0:46:37 > 0:46:38In the Japanese army,

0:46:38 > 0:46:41to be taken prisoner while still able to resist

0:46:41 > 0:46:43is considered a criminal act.

0:46:44 > 0:46:48Suicide rather than surrender is preferred.

0:46:49 > 0:46:51Reflect upon this

0:46:51 > 0:46:54when you consider your situation.

0:46:56 > 0:46:58SPEAKING JAPANESE

0:47:18 > 0:47:19Please.

0:47:20 > 0:47:22These bunks are open.

0:47:23 > 0:47:25Please take your choice.

0:47:39 > 0:47:41Gone off, has she?

0:47:41 > 0:47:42Afraid so.

0:47:42 > 0:47:43Don't be.

0:47:43 > 0:47:44It's a blessing.

0:47:44 > 0:47:46The Japanese are a superstitious lot.

0:47:46 > 0:47:49Possession and insanity are the same.

0:47:49 > 0:47:50She'll have nothing to fear.

0:47:50 > 0:47:53Won't they just kill her?

0:47:53 > 0:47:56They'd be terrified that her devil spirit

0:47:56 > 0:47:57would possess them.

0:47:57 > 0:47:59I'm Judith Easton.

0:47:59 > 0:48:01My husband, Lord Cecil Easton,

0:48:01 > 0:48:02was the former director

0:48:02 > 0:48:06of the Batangas agricultural station.

0:48:06 > 0:48:07Maggie Jessup. This is Helen Wyatt.

0:48:07 > 0:48:08Pleasure.

0:48:08 > 0:48:10Lord Easton?

0:48:10 > 0:48:11Meaning you're a lady?

0:48:11 > 0:48:14In Batangas, my dear, we are all ladies.

0:48:14 > 0:48:17I'm Nolan.

0:48:17 > 0:48:20That's Kathryn Grace. We call her Gracey.

0:48:20 > 0:48:22Did you pick up some food?

0:48:22 > 0:48:24We couldn't stop at Horn & Hardhart.

0:48:24 > 0:48:27We got rice and water.

0:48:27 > 0:48:28There aren't any children.

0:48:28 > 0:48:30Were they taken away?

0:48:30 > 0:48:32Women with children were taken

0:48:32 > 0:48:35to Santo Tomas University in Manila.

0:48:35 > 0:48:37We're the only nurses here?

0:48:37 > 0:48:39And the only female military personnel.

0:48:39 > 0:48:40I'm Molly Carstairs.

0:48:40 > 0:48:43My husband John owned a sugar plantation nearby.

0:48:43 > 0:48:46There's no other medical staff?

0:48:46 > 0:48:48There is a civilian doctor, Charles Morgan,

0:48:48 > 0:48:50in the main compound.

0:48:50 > 0:48:52He comes whenever he can.

0:48:52 > 0:48:53Between beriberi,

0:48:53 > 0:48:57dengue fever, dysentery, and malaria, we're losing one per day.

0:48:57 > 0:48:58Where's the hospital?

0:48:58 > 0:49:01In the men's compound, there's an area called a hospital,

0:49:01 > 0:49:05but it's really just a place to die.

0:49:23 > 0:49:25Why does the camp commander

0:49:25 > 0:49:27speak with an American accent?

0:49:27 > 0:49:28He's a countryman of yours.

0:49:28 > 0:49:30He's an American?

0:49:30 > 0:49:31Born in San Francisco.

0:49:31 > 0:49:33You're kidding.

0:49:33 > 0:49:35He was studying in Japan

0:49:35 > 0:49:38when he was inducted into the military service.

0:49:38 > 0:49:40How do you know?

0:49:40 > 0:49:41Know thine enemy.

0:49:41 > 0:49:43At least he's an American.

0:49:43 > 0:49:47I shouldn't expect too much from that.

0:49:47 > 0:49:49He is, as you say,

0:49:49 > 0:49:52between a rock and a hard place.

0:49:52 > 0:49:53His men won't trust him because he's American.

0:49:53 > 0:49:56We can't trust him because he's Japanese.

0:49:56 > 0:49:59It's not him I'd worry about. It's Kodama.

0:49:59 > 0:50:00Who?

0:50:00 > 0:50:03That man who wanted to kill your friend.

0:50:03 > 0:50:06You made him lose face

0:50:06 > 0:50:08in front of his commanding officer.

0:50:08 > 0:50:10He'll never forgive you.

0:50:16 > 0:50:18Ohayo!

0:50:18 > 0:50:19Cincinnati.

0:50:19 > 0:50:20Hmm?

0:50:20 > 0:50:21Ohayo.

0:50:21 > 0:50:23Cincinnati. I'm from Cincinnati.

0:50:23 > 0:50:24Cin?

0:50:30 > 0:50:32What's so funny?

0:50:32 > 0:50:35Ohayo in Japanese means good morning.

0:50:39 > 0:50:42# Good night, sweetheart

0:50:43 > 0:50:46# Till we meet tomorrow... #

0:50:49 > 0:50:50Good night, sweetheart?

0:50:50 > 0:50:53I'd like to give them all a good night!

0:50:53 > 0:50:56It's just their way of lowering our morale.

0:50:56 > 0:50:59How much lower do they think we can go?

0:50:59 > 0:51:01A thousand times lower.

0:51:01 > 0:51:03They found that many records

0:51:03 > 0:51:05when they took over.

0:51:05 > 0:51:08I never paid attention to the hit parade

0:51:08 > 0:51:11before I got in this dung hole,

0:51:11 > 0:51:13and now I'm going to become an expert.

0:51:15 > 0:51:16Thanks.

0:51:17 > 0:51:19Good night.

0:51:19 > 0:51:21Good night, my dear.

0:51:26 > 0:51:27Maggie.

0:51:27 > 0:51:28Hmm?

0:51:28 > 0:51:30You asleep yet?

0:51:30 > 0:51:32No. I'm still awake.

0:51:34 > 0:51:37You and Tom ever think about having kids?

0:51:39 > 0:51:40That's why we got married.

0:51:40 > 0:51:42Chris and I wanted kids.

0:51:42 > 0:51:45We talked about it all the time.

0:51:45 > 0:51:48There'll be somebody else.

0:51:48 > 0:51:49No, there won't.

0:51:50 > 0:51:52There'll never be anyone else.

0:51:52 > 0:51:55Don't think like that.

0:51:55 > 0:51:57It'll make things much worse.

0:51:57 > 0:51:59Try to get some sleep. OK?

0:52:00 > 0:52:01Yeah.

0:52:02 > 0:52:04Good night.

0:52:16 > 0:52:17Maggie.

0:52:17 > 0:52:18Hmm?

0:52:24 > 0:52:26I'm pregnant.

0:52:33 > 0:52:34I don't know -

0:52:34 > 0:52:35God, help me -

0:52:35 > 0:52:38I don't know if it's Chris'.

0:52:45 > 0:52:47SHOUTING IN JAPANESE

0:53:00 > 0:53:02Look how they're hauling stuff

0:53:02 > 0:53:04in those blankets.

0:53:04 > 0:53:06What a great way out of here.

0:53:06 > 0:53:08Only if you're dead, my dear.

0:53:08 > 0:53:10That's the morning burial detail.

0:53:19 > 0:53:21You're sure?

0:53:21 > 0:53:23I'm as regular as clockwork.

0:53:23 > 0:53:24You know stress sometimes...

0:53:29 > 0:53:31SHOUTING IN JAPANESE

0:53:34 > 0:53:35Beginning today,

0:53:35 > 0:53:38all work parties will be divided

0:53:38 > 0:53:39Into groups of ten.

0:53:39 > 0:53:43Your coloured arm bands will help expedite executions

0:53:43 > 0:53:45in the event of escapes.

0:53:45 > 0:53:47The mathematics are simple.

0:53:47 > 0:53:50If one prisoner in a work party escapes,

0:53:50 > 0:53:52the remaining nine will be shot.

0:53:52 > 0:53:56If all ten escape, a hundred will be executed.

0:54:21 > 0:54:23I got an idea.

0:54:23 > 0:54:25Let's take some of this corn back to camp

0:54:25 > 0:54:27and start our own garden.

0:54:27 > 0:54:28How?

0:54:36 > 0:54:38Good idea.

0:54:45 > 0:54:47COUNTING IN JAPANESE

0:55:36 > 0:55:37SPEAKING JAPANESE

0:55:44 > 0:55:47He wants us to swat flies?

0:55:52 > 0:55:53You pig!

0:55:53 > 0:55:56He wants us to hit each other.

0:56:02 > 0:56:04Hit me!

0:56:05 > 0:56:06Do it!

0:56:06 > 0:56:08I won't give him the satisfaction.

0:56:09 > 0:56:12Do it, or he'll kill us both.

0:56:14 > 0:56:16Harder!

0:56:18 > 0:56:19Harder!

0:57:12 > 0:57:14I'm Dr Morgan.

0:57:14 > 0:57:15Maggie Jessup.

0:57:15 > 0:57:17A man in the men's compound

0:57:17 > 0:57:18says he's your husband.

0:57:18 > 0:57:21Tom Patterson? Is he all right?

0:57:21 > 0:57:23I'm afraid not.

0:57:23 > 0:57:24He's in the zero ward.

0:57:24 > 0:57:26What's that?

0:57:26 > 0:57:28Zero chances of survival.

0:57:33 > 0:57:34I'm going.

0:57:34 > 0:57:37Let go. You're hurting me!

0:57:37 > 0:57:38Nobody's trying to hurt you!

0:57:38 > 0:57:40We're keeping you from getting killed.

0:57:41 > 0:57:43Answer this.

0:57:43 > 0:57:44If someone you loved were there,

0:57:44 > 0:57:46what would you do?

0:57:46 > 0:57:48If you could have been with Chris before he died,

0:57:48 > 0:57:51would you let anything stop you?

0:57:55 > 0:57:56Are you crazy?

0:57:56 > 0:57:58She'll get us killed!

0:57:58 > 0:58:00Nakayama warned us about escaping.

0:58:00 > 0:58:01I'm not escaping.

0:58:01 > 0:58:02Let her go.

0:58:02 > 0:58:04You can't hold onto me forever.

0:58:04 > 0:58:06You're all insane.

0:58:06 > 0:58:09Well, if you won't listen to me...

0:58:10 > 0:58:11Back off. Maggie's going.

0:58:11 > 0:58:14If you tell the Japs, you'll deal with me.

0:58:14 > 0:58:16And me, as well.

0:58:19 > 0:58:20Thank you.

0:58:21 > 0:58:23All of you.

0:58:24 > 0:58:26Give him my love.

0:58:26 > 0:58:28Be very, very careful.

0:58:29 > 0:58:30I'm going with you.

0:58:30 > 0:58:31No.

0:58:31 > 0:58:33Someone's got to distract the guards.

0:58:33 > 0:58:34OK.

0:58:49 > 0:58:51SPEAKING JAPANESE

0:58:51 > 0:58:52It's me.

0:58:52 > 0:58:53Oh.

0:58:54 > 0:58:55Hi.

0:58:59 > 0:59:01Do you have a light?

0:59:01 > 0:59:02Oh, yeah.

0:59:02 > 0:59:04Do you want to smoke?

0:59:04 > 0:59:05HE LAUGHS

1:00:03 > 1:00:05HE GROANS

1:00:15 > 1:00:17Maggie.

1:00:17 > 1:00:18Shh!

1:00:20 > 1:00:21Is it really you?

1:00:21 > 1:00:23Were you expecting someone else?

1:00:24 > 1:00:26How did you get in?

1:00:26 > 1:00:28That's not important.

1:00:28 > 1:00:30What's important is we're together.

1:00:36 > 1:00:37Are you in pain?

1:00:37 > 1:00:38No, no.

1:00:39 > 1:00:42I was hoping you got out.

1:00:43 > 1:00:46Don't worry about me. I'm fine.

1:00:48 > 1:00:51I want you to do something for me.

1:00:52 > 1:00:54Name it.

1:00:54 > 1:00:57When you get back home...

1:00:57 > 1:00:59When WE get back home.

1:01:01 > 1:01:03When you get back home...

1:01:04 > 1:01:07I want you to find somebody else.

1:01:07 > 1:01:10I don't want you to give up.

1:01:10 > 1:01:12You're talking about giving up.

1:01:12 > 1:01:15What about that promise you made to me?

1:01:15 > 1:01:18That we'd die together in bed after making love?

1:01:18 > 1:01:19OK, OK.

1:01:19 > 1:01:21I'm feeling stronger already.

1:01:22 > 1:01:23That's better.

1:01:28 > 1:01:29I love you, Maggie.

1:01:31 > 1:01:33I love you, too.

1:01:43 > 1:01:45You kiss so good.

1:02:54 > 1:02:56They'll kill us.

1:03:10 > 1:03:12WHISPERED PRAYERS

1:03:26 > 1:03:28Agh!

1:03:31 > 1:03:33Agh!

1:03:33 > 1:03:35Don't look.

1:03:35 > 1:03:37Don't look.

1:03:37 > 1:03:39Agh!

1:03:40 > 1:03:42Ah!

1:03:47 > 1:03:49CRYING

1:03:51 > 1:03:52Ah!

1:03:55 > 1:03:57SPEAKING JAPANESE

1:04:03 > 1:04:06'Once again, Nakayama had saved my life.

1:04:06 > 1:04:10'This time, I wasn't sure he'd done me a favour.

1:04:10 > 1:04:13'Tom was dead, and now, more than ever,

1:04:13 > 1:04:15'Kodama was my sworn enemy.'

1:04:18 > 1:04:20TRADITIONAL JAPANESE MUSIC PLAYS

1:04:25 > 1:04:26Yaaa!

1:04:28 > 1:04:29Yaaa!

1:04:52 > 1:04:54That was a very foolish thing risking your life

1:04:54 > 1:04:56to be with your husband.

1:04:56 > 1:04:58Kodama could have shot you.

1:04:58 > 1:05:01You risk your life for an emperor.

1:05:01 > 1:05:04Emperor Hirohito is a living god.

1:05:04 > 1:05:07My husband wasn't such a bad guy, either.

1:05:07 > 1:05:11Your lack of respect and sentimentality is typically American.

1:05:11 > 1:05:13You should know.

1:05:13 > 1:05:14I'm Japanese.

1:05:14 > 1:05:17We do things out of duty, not emotion,

1:05:17 > 1:05:20a lesson you'd do well to learn.

1:05:20 > 1:05:23I'm putting you in charge of the women's compound.

1:05:25 > 1:05:27I don't understand.

1:05:27 > 1:05:28As of today,

1:05:28 > 1:05:32you'll be in charge of the female prisoners.

1:05:32 > 1:05:35You'll help bring in the crops.

1:05:35 > 1:05:36I'm not a farmer.

1:05:36 > 1:05:38Nevertheless, you're in charge.

1:05:38 > 1:05:40I can do something else.

1:05:40 > 1:05:41Give me a hospital.

1:05:41 > 1:05:43You have a hospital.

1:05:43 > 1:05:44A place to die.

1:05:44 > 1:05:47I'm putting you in charge, and that's final.

1:05:47 > 1:05:49Disobey, and your people will suffer.

1:05:49 > 1:05:51SPEAKING JAPANESE

1:06:01 > 1:06:03SPEAKING JAPANESE

1:06:04 > 1:06:06You do it!

1:06:08 > 1:06:10Is she trying to get herself killed?

1:06:10 > 1:06:13What do you think you're doing?

1:06:13 > 1:06:16You're here to work. Now, do it!

1:06:16 > 1:06:17Here!

1:06:17 > 1:06:19What if it's Chris'?

1:06:19 > 1:06:21What if it isn't?

1:06:22 > 1:06:23You lost him once.

1:06:23 > 1:06:26Are you willing to lose him again?

1:06:40 > 1:06:42Maggie.

1:06:43 > 1:06:44Come here.

1:06:46 > 1:06:47Look.

1:06:51 > 1:06:54Where did it come from?

1:06:54 > 1:06:55The Huks.

1:06:55 > 1:06:58They run the resistance operation in this area

1:06:58 > 1:07:01and leave us things in the fields -

1:07:01 > 1:07:02food, medicine, news.

1:07:02 > 1:07:03They're a fierce lot...

1:07:03 > 1:07:05Excuse me.

1:07:05 > 1:07:07I'm a big fan of National Geographic,

1:07:07 > 1:07:10and I'm sure the Huks are interesting primitives,

1:07:10 > 1:07:13but can we just open the package now?

1:07:13 > 1:07:15LAUGHTER

1:07:18 > 1:07:20EXCITED CRIES

1:07:20 > 1:07:21Chocolates.

1:07:21 > 1:07:22Chocolates!

1:07:22 > 1:07:24Oh, good, we need it.

1:07:24 > 1:07:25Medicine!

1:07:28 > 1:07:30We've invaded Guadalcanal.

1:07:30 > 1:07:33CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

1:07:34 > 1:07:37SPEAKING JAPANESE

1:07:42 > 1:07:43Aah! Aah!

1:07:47 > 1:07:48What are you doing?

1:07:56 > 1:07:58Aah!

1:08:01 > 1:08:02What's happening?

1:08:02 > 1:08:04Your men are killing people.

1:08:28 > 1:08:30How can you allow this?

1:08:30 > 1:08:31Yaa!

1:08:35 > 1:08:38Do you know what this is?

1:08:38 > 1:08:41This is the sword of the Samurai,

1:08:41 > 1:08:44one who lives by the code of Bushido,

1:08:44 > 1:08:48one who would rather die than live in shame.

1:08:51 > 1:08:55It's been in my family for over 400 years.

1:08:58 > 1:09:01My father and mother lived by that code,

1:09:01 > 1:09:05and now, because of your president,

1:09:05 > 1:09:07they've died by it.

1:09:08 > 1:09:10HE SHEATHES SWORD

1:09:11 > 1:09:14I don't understand.

1:09:14 > 1:09:17All Japanese-Americans have been placed in concentration camps.

1:09:17 > 1:09:20Not because of crimes against their flag,

1:09:20 > 1:09:23but because of the colour of their skin.

1:09:23 > 1:09:26My parents chose not to endure that shame.

1:09:26 > 1:09:30I'm truly sorry about what happened to your parents,

1:09:30 > 1:09:33but killing us won't bring them back.

1:09:33 > 1:09:37Your parents chose to take their own lives.

1:09:37 > 1:09:38We have no choice.

1:09:38 > 1:09:40There's always a choice.

1:09:40 > 1:09:42Either your men kill us

1:09:42 > 1:09:45or leave us rot in that so-called hospital.

1:09:45 > 1:09:46Suicide's not an option.

1:09:46 > 1:09:49You know our values. They're yours.

1:09:49 > 1:09:50I'm Japanese!

1:09:50 > 1:09:53You shouldn't be ruled by your emotions.

1:09:55 > 1:09:57Please...

1:09:58 > 1:09:59..stop the killing.

1:10:00 > 1:10:01< GUNSHOTS

1:10:01 > 1:10:04HE SPEAKS IN JAPANESE

1:10:19 > 1:10:20Oh!

1:10:20 > 1:10:22Oh, God, no!

1:10:25 > 1:10:27SPEAKING JAPANESE

1:10:37 > 1:10:40WOMEN WHIMPER AND SCREAM

1:10:45 > 1:10:48HE SNORTS

1:10:48 > 1:10:49LAUGHTER

1:11:07 > 1:11:09< SPEAKING JAPANESE

1:11:17 > 1:11:19SPEAKING JAPANESE

1:11:34 > 1:11:37This is your baby's. OK?

1:11:41 > 1:11:43BIG BAND MUSIC PLAYS

1:11:57 > 1:11:59Ohh.

1:11:59 > 1:12:00Ohh...

1:12:01 > 1:12:03Maggie.

1:12:04 > 1:12:06Maggie.

1:12:11 > 1:12:14Baby. Time.

1:12:14 > 1:12:15SPEAKING JAPANESE

1:12:15 > 1:12:17Don't panic. OK.

1:12:20 > 1:12:23HE SHOUTS IN JAPANESE

1:12:31 > 1:12:33Whoa! Whoa!

1:12:38 > 1:12:40Easy, easy, easy.

1:12:40 > 1:12:43OK. You got it.

1:12:43 > 1:12:44That's it.

1:12:44 > 1:12:46MOANING

1:12:47 > 1:12:50Good. A little more. Now push.

1:12:50 > 1:12:52Push! Hard!

1:12:52 > 1:12:53That's right. Good.

1:12:53 > 1:12:55Push. Good. Good, good, good!

1:12:55 > 1:12:57Keep her head down.

1:12:57 > 1:12:58Aah!

1:12:58 > 1:13:00Push, Helen, push.

1:13:00 > 1:13:01I can't!

1:13:01 > 1:13:03Almost there. I see the head.

1:13:03 > 1:13:06Deep breath. Push!

1:13:06 > 1:13:07Bear down!

1:13:07 > 1:13:09That's it. That's it.

1:13:09 > 1:13:11We've got the shoulders.

1:13:11 > 1:13:12Ohh!

1:13:12 > 1:13:14You've got it.

1:13:14 > 1:13:16Good. Good. Suction.

1:13:22 > 1:13:24BABY CRIES

1:13:24 > 1:13:25What is it?

1:13:25 > 1:13:27A girl.

1:13:32 > 1:13:34SPEAKING JAPANESE

1:13:38 > 1:13:40Banzai!

1:13:40 > 1:13:41Banzai!

1:13:44 > 1:13:47I understand one of your nurses has given birth.

1:13:47 > 1:13:48Last night. A girl.

1:13:48 > 1:13:50And its father?

1:13:50 > 1:13:53A captain in the Army Air Corps.

1:13:53 > 1:13:54He died in Bataan.

1:13:54 > 1:13:57Kodama will take them to the civilian camp

1:13:57 > 1:13:58at Santo Tomas.

1:13:58 > 1:14:01That may not be a few months.

1:14:01 > 1:14:04Impossible. This is no place for a baby.

1:14:04 > 1:14:05Or an adult.

1:14:05 > 1:14:08If you move them now, they'll die.

1:14:08 > 1:14:10They're suffering from malnutrition.

1:14:10 > 1:14:12I'll give you a month.

1:14:12 > 1:14:14Kodama can take them to Manila.

1:14:16 > 1:14:19'We'll never reach Manila alive.'

1:14:19 > 1:14:22Kodama will walk us to death for spite.

1:14:22 > 1:14:23We'll get you out.

1:14:23 > 1:14:24How?

1:14:24 > 1:14:27The guerrillas. We'll leave a note.

1:14:27 > 1:14:28Where we found the radio.

1:14:49 > 1:14:51THEY SPEAK AMONG THEMSELVES

1:15:00 > 1:15:01Will they help?

1:15:01 > 1:15:03Yeah.

1:15:03 > 1:15:04So, when do we go?

1:15:04 > 1:15:08April 9th, the first anniversary of the fall of Bataan.

1:15:12 > 1:15:14WHISTLING

1:15:16 > 1:15:19WHISTLING

1:15:22 > 1:15:25BABY CRIES

1:15:25 > 1:15:27I love you.

1:15:29 > 1:15:31Helen! >

1:15:32 > 1:15:34Baby OK, hmm?

1:15:34 > 1:15:35OK.

1:15:36 > 1:15:38BABY CRIES

1:15:38 > 1:15:40SPEAKING JAPANESE

1:15:44 > 1:15:46SHOUTING IN JAPANESE

1:15:48 > 1:15:50Hai!

1:16:11 > 1:16:13WOMAN SOBBING

1:16:17 > 1:16:19WHISPERED PRAYERS

1:16:25 > 1:16:27SOBBING CONTINUES

1:16:31 > 1:16:33SHOUTING IN JAPANESE

1:16:51 > 1:16:53WOMAN GIGGLE

1:17:01 > 1:17:03Go on, Gracey.

1:17:03 > 1:17:05HE CONTINUES SHOUTING

1:17:05 > 1:17:07WOMAN CLAP

1:17:38 > 1:17:40SPEAKING JAPANESE

1:18:13 > 1:18:15SPEAKING JAPANESE

1:18:30 > 1:18:32HE SOBS

1:18:45 > 1:18:46You sent for me?

1:18:49 > 1:18:51I've ordered the warehouse cleared.

1:18:51 > 1:18:53Do whatever you like with it.

1:18:58 > 1:18:59Thank you.

1:19:10 > 1:19:13We finally got our hospital.

1:19:13 > 1:19:14A week later,

1:19:14 > 1:19:17we learned Helen and the baby had made it.

1:19:20 > 1:19:22MUSIC PLAYS

1:19:22 > 1:19:24'During the next year of captivity,

1:19:24 > 1:19:27'life in Batangas became almost tolerable.

1:19:27 > 1:19:30'Two months after Nakayama let us set up a hospital,

1:19:30 > 1:19:35'we celebrated our first 24 hours without a death.

1:19:35 > 1:19:38'Taking charge of the PA Speakers came next.

1:19:38 > 1:19:41'I was against doing Nakayama's dirty work,

1:19:41 > 1:19:43'but Nolan convinced me otherwise.

1:19:43 > 1:19:44'Using records,

1:19:44 > 1:19:49'we were able to pass on war news to the camp.

1:19:49 > 1:19:51'There'll Always Be An England

1:19:51 > 1:19:53'meant the British were hanging on.

1:19:53 > 1:19:54'Waltzing Matilda

1:19:54 > 1:19:57'meant the Australians were working with us.'

1:19:59 > 1:20:01SHOUTING IN JAPANESE

1:20:31 > 1:20:32'In march of '44,

1:20:32 > 1:20:34'Gail Polson arrived from Mindanao,

1:20:34 > 1:20:36'where she had been taken prisoner

1:20:36 > 1:20:38'after escaping from Corregidor.

1:20:38 > 1:20:39'Haggard and drawn,

1:20:39 > 1:20:42'she had finally run out of lipstick.

1:20:49 > 1:20:51'Following a poor spring harvest,

1:20:51 > 1:20:54'the camp was put on half-rations.

1:20:54 > 1:20:55'Starvation ran rampant

1:20:55 > 1:20:58'as deaths from dry beriberi reached epidemic proportions.

1:20:58 > 1:21:01'With no medical supplies of any consequence,

1:21:01 > 1:21:05'animal protein became our only chance for survival.

1:21:08 > 1:21:11'Once again, Nakayama came to the rescue.'

1:21:11 > 1:21:13EXCITED CHATTERING

1:21:18 > 1:21:20LOWING

1:21:20 > 1:21:22WHOOPS AND CHEERS

1:21:22 > 1:21:24APPLAUSE

1:21:32 > 1:21:34Getting anything on the radio?

1:21:34 > 1:21:36I'm worried about Gail.

1:21:36 > 1:21:39If she doesn't eat soon, she won't make it.

1:21:39 > 1:21:41Princess Gail won't eat, huh?

1:21:45 > 1:21:49Maybe you'd rather we sent out for chicken soup

1:21:49 > 1:21:51or to a drugstore for lipstick.

1:21:51 > 1:21:54Our fashion plate shouldn't look pale at her funeral.

1:21:54 > 1:21:56Let me die in peace.

1:21:56 > 1:21:58Why didn't you say so?

1:22:00 > 1:22:03What the hell are you doing?

1:22:03 > 1:22:04We cannot waste shoes.

1:22:04 > 1:22:06Are you nuts?

1:22:06 > 1:22:07No, I'm alive!

1:22:07 > 1:22:09So am I!

1:22:09 > 1:22:10Then you'll need this.

1:22:22 > 1:22:25Weren't you a little hard on her?

1:22:25 > 1:22:28I got her to eat, didn't I?

1:22:28 > 1:22:31The Allies have invaded Normandy.

1:22:31 > 1:22:33The Allies have invaded Normandy!

1:22:35 > 1:22:37TANNOY: To start the morning off,

1:22:37 > 1:22:38an oldie, but a goody,

1:22:38 > 1:22:42that old World War I classic, Over There.

1:22:43 > 1:22:46"OVER THERE" PLAYS

1:23:05 > 1:23:08AIRPLANES APPROACHING

1:23:11 > 1:23:12Do you see them?

1:23:12 > 1:23:14Do you see them?

1:23:14 > 1:23:15Over there. Right there.

1:23:15 > 1:23:17Can you see?

1:23:18 > 1:23:19Can you make it out?

1:23:19 > 1:23:21They're ours!

1:23:21 > 1:23:24CHEERING AND SCREAMING

1:24:08 > 1:24:11TANNOY: And now, for all you battling bastards of Bataan,

1:24:11 > 1:24:13On this bright October morning,

1:24:13 > 1:24:16an old favourite of yours and mine -

1:24:16 > 1:24:19I'm Waiting For Ships That Never Come In.

1:24:19 > 1:24:20Better Leyte than never.

1:24:23 > 1:24:25MUSIC PLAYS

1:24:26 > 1:24:28SPEAKING JAPANESE

1:24:33 > 1:24:35SPEAKING JAPANESE

1:24:36 > 1:24:38All I have is records.

1:24:44 > 1:24:46Agh...!

1:24:46 > 1:24:47GUNSHOT

1:24:58 > 1:24:59Hey, Tojo.

1:25:07 > 1:25:09Oh, my God.

1:25:09 > 1:25:10Get her!

1:25:10 > 1:25:12Get her to the bed.

1:25:15 > 1:25:16Careful. Careful.

1:25:16 > 1:25:18Easy. Easy.

1:25:18 > 1:25:19OK.

1:25:26 > 1:25:27< SPEAKING JAPANESE

1:25:29 > 1:25:31I know about the records.

1:25:31 > 1:25:34What do records have to do with anything?

1:25:34 > 1:25:35Where's the radio?

1:25:41 > 1:25:43The radio.

1:25:43 > 1:25:44What radio?

1:25:50 > 1:25:51Whose is it?

1:25:51 > 1:25:52I don't know.

1:25:52 > 1:25:53Whose?

1:25:53 > 1:25:55I don't know!

1:25:55 > 1:25:56Once more.

1:25:56 > 1:25:59Who does this radio belong to?

1:25:59 > 1:26:01It's mine.

1:26:05 > 1:26:07I want the truth now,

1:26:07 > 1:26:09or she dies.

1:26:11 > 1:26:13It's mine. The radio's mine.

1:26:13 > 1:26:15I brought it from Mindanao.

1:26:17 > 1:26:19HE SHOUTS IN JAPANESE

1:26:26 > 1:26:28SHOUTING IN JAPANESE

1:27:08 > 1:27:09The radio wasn't hers.

1:27:09 > 1:27:12We got it before she arrived.

1:27:12 > 1:27:14Please take her down.

1:27:14 > 1:27:17Any day now, everything's going to be over.

1:27:17 > 1:27:20What will you gain by taking her life?

1:27:35 > 1:27:39Anyone ever tell you you look great without make-up?

1:27:39 > 1:27:42You're a real beauty inside and out.

1:27:44 > 1:27:46< ENGINES RUMBLING

1:27:46 > 1:27:48Shh! Listen.

1:27:48 > 1:27:50Planes. It's just planes.

1:27:50 > 1:27:53No, no. It sounds like tanks.

1:27:53 > 1:27:55SPEAKING JAPANESE

1:28:02 > 1:28:04Don't touch her! Don't touch her.

1:28:05 > 1:28:07MALE AMERICAN VOICE: Attention!

1:28:07 > 1:28:09You are completely surrounded.

1:28:09 > 1:28:13Either you come out unarmed and surrender immediately,

1:28:13 > 1:28:15or we're coming in.

1:28:15 > 1:28:17You've got ten minutes.

1:28:23 > 1:28:26Aah! Aah! Aah!

1:28:26 > 1:28:27Shh! Shh!

1:28:27 > 1:28:29SHOUTING IN JAPANESE

1:28:29 > 1:28:31No! Please don't hurt him.

1:28:31 > 1:28:33I'll take care of it.

1:28:35 > 1:28:37You're not insane.

1:28:39 > 1:28:41See the guy?

1:28:41 > 1:28:43He's up here, sergeant.

1:28:43 > 1:28:44Look over there.

1:28:44 > 1:28:46Watch that tree line.

1:28:46 > 1:28:47Down.

1:28:52 > 1:28:54What the hell?

1:28:57 > 1:28:58Hold up.

1:29:13 > 1:29:16Lieutenant Margaret Jessup...

1:29:16 > 1:29:18US Army Nurse Corps.

1:29:18 > 1:29:20What are you doing here?

1:29:20 > 1:29:24You women were supposed to be liberated at Santo Tomas.

1:29:24 > 1:29:26Not all of us.

1:29:31 > 1:29:33If you don't allow the Japanese

1:29:33 > 1:29:35to leave with their weapons

1:29:35 > 1:29:37and give them a four-hour head start,

1:29:37 > 1:29:39they'll kill 100 hostages.

1:29:39 > 1:29:43The general would have my hide if I did that.

1:29:43 > 1:29:45He'll have 100 corpses if you don't.

1:30:04 > 1:30:07I would like you to have this.

1:30:09 > 1:30:10I can't.

1:30:10 > 1:30:11Please.

1:30:11 > 1:30:14It's been your family's for centuries.

1:30:14 > 1:30:16It should be for your sons.

1:30:16 > 1:30:18There won't be any.

1:30:18 > 1:30:20If you don't take it,

1:30:20 > 1:30:22it'll hang in a stranger's house.

1:30:22 > 1:30:25He'll lie that he won it in battle.

1:30:25 > 1:30:28A Samurai sword belongs with a Samurai.

1:30:28 > 1:30:29But I'm a woman.

1:30:29 > 1:30:31And a Samurai like my mother.

1:30:34 > 1:30:36Please.

1:30:37 > 1:30:40What would your father have thought?

1:30:40 > 1:30:42He would be honoured.

1:31:03 > 1:31:06'That was the last time I saw Nakayama.

1:31:06 > 1:31:07'A few days later,

1:31:07 > 1:31:10'we heard he'd died the way he wanted to -

1:31:10 > 1:31:12'like a Samurai.'

1:31:20 > 1:31:22We're free! We're free!

1:31:22 > 1:31:25EXCITED SHOUTS AND SCREAMS

1:31:44 > 1:31:49'After two years, ten months, and 24 days,

1:31:49 > 1:31:51'we were finally free.'

1:31:54 > 1:31:57Of the 104 army and navy nurses

1:31:57 > 1:32:00incarcerated by the Japanese during the war,

1:32:00 > 1:32:04not one failed to survive the ordeal.

1:32:04 > 1:32:08For that, we were awarded the bronze star for gallantry.

1:32:09 > 1:32:12The bronze star without the "v" for valour.

1:32:14 > 1:32:17I would like to ask the committee...

1:32:21 > 1:32:23..were we not valourous?

1:32:26 > 1:32:30Were those who risked everything to preserve life

1:32:30 > 1:32:34any less courageous than those that carried a weapon?

1:32:35 > 1:32:38How does one measure courage?

1:32:40 > 1:32:43I can only speak from my own experience.

1:32:45 > 1:32:49You measure against yourself.

1:32:52 > 1:32:55And that can only be done

1:32:55 > 1:32:57once you strip away civilization.

1:33:03 > 1:33:06Plain courage is a shining thing when you see it...

1:33:09 > 1:33:13..a glowing reflection of the spirit of those women

1:33:13 > 1:33:15with whom I served.

1:33:23 > 1:33:25SCATTERED APPLAUSE

1:33:26 > 1:33:28APPLAUSE