Late in World War II, an inexperienced U.S. officer, determined to win glory for himself, loses half his platoon in a bloody battle with Japanese soldiers. While trying to extract his men from their precarious position, a lieutenant blunders into another enemy force who plan to wipe out the remaining soldiers using a well-laid ambush. The officer and a beautiful villager are taken captive, but desperately try to escape to warn the Americans of their deadly peril.