I've not given away the ending, but I do have major elements of the story on this report, although I've not given away the ending of the story.
This movie is more into the behavior of soldiers, under stress and otherwise, and the commonalities they share with their enemies, than anything else. It centers around a squad of PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS (PsyOps) soldiers. They've been sent to the jungle as a sort of advance party with recordings of mechanized vehicles, troops drilling, etc. to scare away any would-be Japanese invaders to that particular island. Unfortunately, two things become apparent in short order, to quote one of the men "the recorded sounds must be loud enough to drown out jungle noises" and in this case they apparently weren't, and second and most important, the Japanese were already on the island. I won't give the remainder of the plot away, but some of it deals with the mistreatment of a captured Japanese soldier and how a member of that squad is later treated by his Japanese captors. Being a veteran of the US Army, and a witness to the many prejudices common to soldiers especially in war-time situations, I found this movie extremely interesting, important, and a must-see for anyone considering enlisting in the military especially for an MOS (military occupational specialty) which will put him or her in close proximity to the enemy-du-jour.
For skeptics, this very tactic was used very successfully by TWO (2) CIA field operatives in the early 1950s against then communist Guatemala. The two CIA operatives, each at the end of a PRC25 radio, so convinced the Guatemalan army that they were the radio operators for entire armed, and numerically superior battalions of men, that they surrendered without a shot being fired. One of CIA's MANY unheralded successes, and a true story.
This movie is more into the behavior of soldiers, under stress and otherwise, and the commonalities they share with their enemies, than anything else. It centers around a squad of PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS (PsyOps) soldiers. They've been sent to the jungle as a sort of advance party with recordings of mechanized vehicles, troops drilling, etc. to scare away any would-be Japanese invaders to that particular island. Unfortunately, two things become apparent in short order, to quote one of the men "the recorded sounds must be loud enough to drown out jungle noises" and in this case they apparently weren't, and second and most important, the Japanese were already on the island. I won't give the remainder of the plot away, but some of it deals with the mistreatment of a captured Japanese soldier and how a member of that squad is later treated by his Japanese captors. Being a veteran of the US Army, and a witness to the many prejudices common to soldiers especially in war-time situations, I found this movie extremely interesting, important, and a must-see for anyone considering enlisting in the military especially for an MOS (military occupational specialty) which will put him or her in close proximity to the enemy-du-jour.
For skeptics, this very tactic was used very successfully by TWO (2) CIA field operatives in the early 1950s against then communist Guatemala. The two CIA operatives, each at the end of a PRC25 radio, so convinced the Guatemalan army that they were the radio operators for entire armed, and numerically superior battalions of men, that they surrendered without a shot being fired. One of CIA's MANY unheralded successes, and a true story.