Go Down Fighting

It is now July 1945 and several prisoners, Blanche and Verna among them,have died of the illness sweeping through the camp. Nonetheless the women mark Alice Courtenay's seventeenth birthday with biscuits donated by Yamauchi until Sato stops the celebrations. As Allied planes drop propaganda leaflets there is a concern that the Japanese,facing defeat,will shoot the women,who prepare to defend themselves. They arm themselves with stones,only to hear from Yamauchi that the Japanese have surrendered and the war is over.