- The film's opening in the Melanesian village; the death of Pvt. Coombs (a very young Matt Doran) as his fellow soldiers try to comfort him.
- Staros refusing to send more of his men up the hill.Staros: I have lived with these men for two and a half years. I will not order them all to their deaths.
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