Based on the book Ghost Soldiers (a true story)

Rating: 8/10 (12 October 2007)

Sometimes the truth is better than any made-for-Hollywood script. This movie is about an untested Ranger Battalion who volunteered to go miles behind enemy lines on Luzon and rescue the remnants of starved American POWs.
It left a small part of the book out - how an advanced scout group was able to sneak in right under the Japanese to give an intel report.
But a few hundred Rangers were able to go 30 miles behind enemy lines - come in under night cover - sneak across 800 yards of cleared area around 10,000 Japanese to rescue these men.
This movie certainly honors those soldiers - about a battle that was hardly known to the country before the book was published.
It also honored an American nurse who stayed in Manila - worked with the Philippine underground and smuggled in medicine saving 100s of lives in the concentration camp.
And it is a all true history - the closing credits show films of the actual characters.