is a 1943 American war film directed and produced by Mark Sandrich from a screenplay by Allan Scott based on the book I Served on Bataan by Lieutenant Colonel Juanita Redmond.

[2] Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, and Veronica Lake star as American Red Cross nurses sent to the Philippines during the early days of World War II.

Produced by Paramount Pictures, the film was one of several pieces portraying the Philippines campaign, specifically the Angels of Bataan.

After backlash to the inaccuracy of other projects with the same theme, Paramount took great lengths to ensure that the film was accurate by collaborating with the War Department, Redmond, and several advisors.

The film received critical acclaim, with praise towards Sandrich's direction, performances of the cast, and accuracy to its subject.

Although rumors of a convoy bring some hope, Davey learns that the Japanese have been successful in their blockade and a reinforcements are highly unlikely.

After John reveals the base's supply convoy has been destroyed and reinforcements are not on their way, the nurses evacuate to a fortress island along with most others.

Before he can return, the base financial department starts burning money and the nurses are told they are being secretly evacuated first.

Although the love-story plot line is the primary thrust of the film, the difficulties and emotional toll of war are also shown.

In his September 10, 1943, review in The New York Times, Bosley Crowther observes that the picture "does give a shattering impression of the tragedy of Bataan.

This accomplishment is due in large measure to the unremitting realism with which Producer-Director Mark Sandrich has reenacted battle-action scenes.

He has put into unforgettable pictures the torture of the Bataan campaign—the weariness, the hopelessness and misery; the inadequacies in equipment and men; the pathos of having to treat the wounded and the sick in shacks and even out of doors; the horror of enemy bombardments from the undefended skies, and, above all, the bitter irony of courageous fighters having to retreat, falling back slowly and wearily, their strength, but not their spirits, played out ... because of it this is a picture which it is shocking and maddening to see.

He conveys the essential illusion of being the genuine thing ... Walter Abel, as an Army chaplain, in one brief speech is truer than any of the girls".

As such it glorifies the American Red Cross and presents the wartime nurse, in the midst of unspeakable dangers, physical and spiritual, in a new light.

It's backgrounded against a realistic romance of how a group of brave American Nightingales came through the hellfire to Australia and thence back to Blighty ... Paulette Goddard does a capital job as running mate ... Sonny Tufts walks off with the picture every time he's on".

[12] The film has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 6 reviews from modern critics,[13] including Matt Bronson: "One of the countless World War II dramas Hollywood produced while the conflict was still raging, this focuses on the American nurses stationed in the Philippines when the fighting there was at its most intense.

Yet those who might be tempted to derisively write this off as a 'woman's weepie' had best reconsider, since it's as brutal as Objective, Burma!, Wake Island, or any other he-man WWII offering from the period".

[14] In a 2014 column forThe Gaston Gazette, Jessica Pickens praised the film for its realistic depiction of the conditions faced during the war.

[15] So Proudly We Hail was adapted for the Lux Radio Theatre on November 1, 1943, with Colbert, Goddard and Lake reprising their original roles.