The attack sends Sam into another fit and causes Waco, shaken by Millard's loss, to break down in tears.
As Sam throws down a placard from the village church as proof, the mortar squad opens fire on the camp, killing Millard and many others. When Sam reports back to Waco, Waco accuses him of lying about completing his mission and disregards his warning about the mortar squad.
In the jungle, they pass a Japanese mortar squad and finally arrive at the village, which is now deserted. After ending his reverie, Sam is ordered by Waco to lead a patrol into a Japanese-held village. In a rage, Sam slugs Ray and is later court-martialed. When part of a dilapidated house collapses in a crash, Ray, startled, opens fire and guns down Raker, Kenny and Bernie. Ray, now power mad and slightly paranoid, assumes command and orders Sam and his men to search a deserted village. Soon after, the colonel is killed by a sniper's bullet, sending Sam into a tremulous fit. The colonel then calls Sam into his office and informs him that he has recommended him for the Silver Star. Ray Mosby, a gentleman land owner, questions Sam's familiarity with his former sharecroppers. The resultant carnage sets Sam's hands shaking. Sam leads Kenny, Raker and Chicago-bred Bernard Meleski to the top of the hill and tosses a grenade into the machine gun nest. As they put ashore, they are baptized by a hail of gunfire initiating from the cliffs above. On their voyage overseas, Gozzens confides in Sam that many will die, and once the war ends, things will be different in the New South. Gozzens notifies Sam that their National Guard unit has been called up for action in the Pacific. When Sam chides Kenny, one of the sharecroppers, for failing to pick enough cotton and orders the Raker family to work on Sunday, Jenny protests, but Sam arrogantly asserts that the croppers must be kept in their place. When Jenny asks to join Sam as he makes his rounds among the sharecroppers, she is appalled by his callous attitude. The mention of the colonel's name causes Sam to reflect on a happier time before the war: Sam, a wealthy Southern landowner, frolics with Jenny, his new wife. Gozzens, Sam replies that the colonel was his father-in-law. Later, Joe Johnson, a lieutenant in the company, wonders aloud when the inspector general will finally realize that Waco is unfit for duty. When Millard, a psychopathic bully, makes lewd comments about the photo, Waco pulls it from Sam's hands and sets it on fire. After his brush with Waco, Sam pulls a photo of his wife Jenny from his pocket and gazes longingly at it. Waco, the sadistic, brutish commander, and his two beefy bodyguards, Millard and Swanson. He is driven there by Willie Crawford, a philosophical sharecropper, who avers that Leavenworth is preferable to George Company. Rather than send Sam to Leavenworth prison, the colonel sentences him to George Company, a remote backwater camp in the hills. Miles for assaulting an officer under combat conditions. In 1945, on an island in the Pacific, Sam Francis Gifford is busted from sergeant to private and reprimanded by Col.
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