***SPOILERS*** It wasn't much of a battle as the attacking US military were caught flat footed by the defending Japanese Marines who wiped them out almost to the last man. With Moe Malumuth, Richard Devon, playing dead he managed to get to a cave on the island where he found the badly injured fellow GI Ken Kennedy, Ron Gans, paralyzed from a blast of mortar fire. With Moe going to case out in the island looking for food and medical supplies from the occupying Japanese troops he manages to kill one of them who tried to do him in, neglecting his rifle and handgun, karate style and failed. Moe later goes into a deep depression in having killed a man, the Japanese Marine, even in self defense in that it being against his both moral and religious teachings.
Still after killing once Moe doesn't have any problems in killing some half dozen more Japanese troops until it's heard on the Tokyo Japan radio that the Emperor has ordered the total surrender of the Japanese military to the allied forces! That had the remaining and heartbroken Japs end up committing Harri Kari, with rifles not swords, in order to save face and humiliation in that Japan lost the war! It now turns out to be a fight between the crippled Ken and healthy Moe in them not being able to live together, with Moe forced to look after him day and night, as well as Ken's uncalled for remarks, when he really got angry and pi**d off, about Moe's religious affiliations.
***SPOILERS*** Finally kissing and making up both Moe & Ken wait to be rescued that, in being stuck on an uncharted island in the Pacific, takes more then a year for the US Navy and Marines to finally locate them. It's Moe while beach-combing on the far side of the island who spots an entire US Naval armada heading straight for it. With goats and other animals debarked together with a company of US Marines they finally rescue Moe, and later Ken, and it couldn't have been soon enough! The island that both Moe & Ken were stuck on was designated to be plastered off the map in an atomic test explosion called Operation Barnyard, or really Crossrords, the very next day where the two if they stayed there would have been blown to atoms!
Still after killing once Moe doesn't have any problems in killing some half dozen more Japanese troops until it's heard on the Tokyo Japan radio that the Emperor has ordered the total surrender of the Japanese military to the allied forces! That had the remaining and heartbroken Japs end up committing Harri Kari, with rifles not swords, in order to save face and humiliation in that Japan lost the war! It now turns out to be a fight between the crippled Ken and healthy Moe in them not being able to live together, with Moe forced to look after him day and night, as well as Ken's uncalled for remarks, when he really got angry and pi**d off, about Moe's religious affiliations.
***SPOILERS*** Finally kissing and making up both Moe & Ken wait to be rescued that, in being stuck on an uncharted island in the Pacific, takes more then a year for the US Navy and Marines to finally locate them. It's Moe while beach-combing on the far side of the island who spots an entire US Naval armada heading straight for it. With goats and other animals debarked together with a company of US Marines they finally rescue Moe, and later Ken, and it couldn't have been soon enough! The island that both Moe & Ken were stuck on was designated to be plastered off the map in an atomic test explosion called Operation Barnyard, or really Crossrords, the very next day where the two if they stayed there would have been blown to atoms!