The mission is successful, and Joe is recommended by Gunny, and is put in the Office of Strategic Services and promoted Sergeant. Lieutenant Edmund Harrison, a demolitions expert who blows up the guns for them. The mission is successful, and, along the way, they meet up with Martin Clemens, a real Scottish guerrilla fighter, 2 natives called Selas and Kiep and they rescue P.O.W. Because of this, Gunny gives Joe two Marines and the mission to take out Pistol Pete. On October 14, 1942, however, the Japanese are hammering them with artillery from their position codenamed 'Pistol Pete'. On August 7, 1942, Gunny, Joe and two other Marines are part of a midnight raid on Guadalcanal to take an airfield and destroy an ammo dump before the main assault at dawn. The three successfully get the truck back, and the bridge is blown, but Donnie is still inside a tank when it is overrun by Japanese soldiers, and is presumed dead.
Donnie and the demolition men need to blow Calumpit Bridge, but their demolition truck got captured.
On January 1, 1942, Joe and Gunny are stationed in the Philippines, where they meet up with Joe's younger brother, Donnie, who is in a Marine demolition unit.
