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The movie was filmed in south-east Queensland, Australia utilising a huge, authentic recreation of a prisoner of war camp. The Americans used a Northrop P-61 Black Widow night fighter to divert Japanese attention while the Rangers were crawling toward the camp the aircraft used in the movie was a Lockheed Hudson, because none of the four surviving P-61s were airworthy when the film was made. ( October 2016) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. The movie ends with the prisoners being liberated. She was eventually released, but spent six weeks recovering from gangrene as a result of injuries sustained from beatings. The Kempeitai arrested her and sent her to Fort Santiago prison. In particular, the film covers the resistance work undertaken by nurse Margaret Utinsky, who smuggled medicine into the POW camps. Throughout the film, the viewpoint switches between the POWs at Cabanatuan, the Rangers, the Filipino resistance and the Japanese. The film chronicles the efforts of the Rangers, Alamo Scouts from the Sixth Army and Filipino guerrillas as they undertake the Raid at Cabanatuan. Walter Krueger to liberate all of the POWs at Cabanatuan prison camp before they are killed by the Japanese. Meanwhile, at Lingayen Gulf, the 6th Ranger Battalion under Lt.
The film opens with the massacre of prisoners of war on Palawan by the Kempeitai, the Imperial Japanese military's secret police (though factually, it was committed by the Japanese Fourteenth Area Army). Many prisoners were also stricken with malaria. The Japanese held around 500 American prisoners who had survived the Bataan Death March in a notorious POW camp at Cabanatuan and subjected them to brutal treatment and summary execution, as the Japanese code of bushido viewed surrender as a disgrace.
In 1945, American forces were closing in on the Japanese-occupied Philippines.