At one point, a thousand of them slipped through the line in this terrain that was supposed to be impassable. It will take the allied troops, sometimes weeks, to eliminate these pockets within two weeks of the initial japanese assault on batan. And so i think it's january 20 second that the official notice goes out and the pullback starts. Soldiers who had to leap frog their way back in a nine day growth of beard. They're described with hollow eyes, sunken cheeks. You're like dead men walking as they make their way backwards to the next line of defence.