Bataan - Robert Taylor, Lloyd Nolan 1943

Sgt. Bill Dane and a group of American and Phillipino soldiers are caught in the Japanese conquest of the Phillipines in 1942. As U.3. forces retreat toward Bataan, Dane and a small patrol are ordered to delay the enemy at a strategic bridge. The group blows the bridge and waits for the inevitable enemy thrust to rebuild the bridge and dislodge the Americans. Snipera, malaria, and shortages of medicine, food and drinkable water become the soldier's daily battle as they cope with the enemy and a dawning knowledge that they have, in fact, been deemed expendable. In 1942, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the United States Office of War Information collaborated on Bataan with the official goal to increase public understanding of World War II. The first war file to take place entirely on the battlefield with no ones of the soldiers on leave, depictions of the bomb front, or flashbacks to pre-war civilian 1 Bataan prepared its wartime audience for American casualties