Shortly after bombing Pearl Harbor, the Japanese attack Guam by air, killing Vicente and Chief Schultz.
Roy, who has lost a shoe, steps on a scorpion, the toxins weakening him and slowing the escape party.
The three surviving Americans meet Sus Quintagua on a copra plantation, who promises to take them to his boss Santos, who will know where they can hide.
Meanwhile, Tweed escapes another searching Japanese patrol but not before discovering the bound and beheaded bodies of Sonnenberg and Quintagua.
Tweed uses a typewriter to relay news he hears on the radio into a makeshift newspaper called the Guam Eagle, which is secretly shared among locals.
The plan goes awry when the newspaper, meant to be read and then burned, incites locals to rebel against the Japanese.
The Japanese learn of the Guam Eagle and Shimoda, reading one of the newspapers, smells medicine which leads them to believe Tweed is hiding in the leprosy hospital.
Tweed meets Antonio's beautiful daughter Josephina, or "Joe", who brings supplies in her father's stead.
Under the cover of night, the locals take the body of the recently deceased Shimoda to the sea, where his flesh is eaten by crabs, leaving only a skeleton with Tweed's dog-tags on it.
Tweed signals that he has vital information and manages to reach the safety of the ship, during which his Japanese pursuers are killed.