sentences:  Narrated in English by a Japanese officer named Kuroki (in the form of a journal he is writing for his wife), a platoon of 16 Japanese soldiers is stranded on an island in the Pacific with no means of communicating with the outside world.Lieutenant Kuroki keeps his men firmly in hand and is supervising the building of a boat for their escape.An American C-47/R4D transport plane is shot down by a Japanese Zero, crash landing on the same island.