The group moves on to a Japanese village where the Marines make camp and Yahzee is called back to headquarters. Later the village is attacked by Japanese troops. Harrigan is killed when Enders shoots him to stop the pain when his flamethrower unit explodes, setting him alight. Anderson is decapitated defending Whitehorse, who is almost captured by the Japanese. Enders arrives seeing Whitehorse being taken away and, after hesitation and approval from Whitehorse himself, follows his orders to protect the Navajo code, killing Whitehorse and the Japanese with a grenade.After the Japanese forces are eliminated, Yahzee, returning from headquarters questions Enders on Whitehorse's whereabouts. Enders replies that he killed him. Yahzee, who does not know about Enders' mission, attacks Enders in frustration and almost shoots him before the rest of the squad stops him.Near the end of the battle the group is sent to check out a ridge that has been bombarded by artillery. On the way the group walks into a minefield and is then attacked by the Japanese. After fighting their way out they reach the ridge, only to discover the Japanese guns are intact. The Japanese guns then proceed to fire on an American column caught out in the open. When the squad move towards the guns the commander, Gunnery Sergeant Djelmsted (Peter Stormare), is killed by enemy fire and command of the group passes to Enders. In contrast of the landing scene (and very much like Enders' merciless killing during the landing scene), Yahzee starts attacking the Japanese forces fearlessly, killing large numbers of Japanese troops in anger over his friend's death. In his careless frenzy, he loses the radio which they need to call in air support to destroy the guns. As Yahzee and Enders attempt to retrieve the radio, both of them are shot but they get to the radio and get into cover. They are then surrounded by the Japanese and Yahzee tries to get Enders to shoot him to protect the code but Enders refuses and carries Yahzee to safety. Yahzee then calls in air support which destroys the Japanese guns, saving the American column. Yahzee then sees that Enders was shot in the chest whilst carrying him and moves to stop the blood loss. However Enders stops him, gasping his last words to Yahzee about how he didn't want to kill Whitehorse before he died. The film ends with Yahzee back in the United States with his wife and son on top of a rock mountain, performing a Navajo ritual to pay his respects to Enders.