When the Americans are unable to give it to him immediately because they still need it to send information about the Japanese positions and movements, Ramundo angrily shoots the radio and flees.

The Americans sneak into a Japanese shortwave station but Burnett is killed after transmitting the information through Morse code.

Ships of American troops arrive to fight the Japanese but Lt. Craig and Jersey sorrowfully remember the dead along with Maria and the other guerillas.

The three men and Hellman's wife and child travelled 28 days by ship via Hawaii, Hong Kong and Japan with the three working on the screenplays to both films on the voyage.

The same plot was reused in Ib Melchior's Ambush Bay (1966) with a larger Marine patrol destroying a minefield prior to the American and Filipino invasion of the Philippines.