Captured Soldiers Unaccounted For (Possible Spoiler)
Why didn't Caine and Robertson cut the two captured British soldiers free after shooting the Japanese officer?
shareI just watched this free DVD with the Sunday Mail. I was also wondering what happened to Lance Percival and the young soldier that were being held prisoners by the Japanese. They didn't break free and seemed to remain behind enemy lines.
shareWould you cut those two punks free if you were lawson and hearne?
shareI agree, they all let the other 2 down by selling out to the Japs by their surrender. This creating a moral dilemma for Lawson and Hearne, surrender too and and be at the mercy of the Japs - who'd already strung up Campbell - or let their friends be executed. It was all they could do by attacking the Japs and killing the officer, creating a confusion to facilitate their own and the prisoners escape. I guess their fate remains unknown.
shareI wouldn`t rate their chances after the death of the Jap officer.
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There were stories about Allied flyers being executed after they were captured by the Japanese after they bail out of their shot down planes. You might as well put a bullet to your head because the Japanese did not believe in the Geneva Convention nor look upon surrender as being honorable. As the Japanese colonel pointed out in the movie The Bridge on the River Kwai, the Geneva Convention was consider the coward's code.
shareBecause there would be 4 runners instead of 2 to deliver the news of the planes ... which was logic stated by the American concerning 2 over 1. On the other hand things were happening pretty fast at that time.
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