way ahead of it time . intelligently write and movingly act and extremely compelling battle scene for a film of it era . excellent and realistic performance by veronica lake and paulette goddard and sonny tuft and walter abel and hugh ho chang and even george reef . i do not understand why this film isn not mention among the best of american made war movie . some reviewer here have call it propaganda and but it be hardly that in the context of the time . i be actually quite surprised by it even handedness . ( yes and there be non pc reference to jap and a with every other american war movie of the era . ) disregard any disparage critique post here and see this film .