Professor Greg Jackson

Still standing, he drops the rifle and switches to his pistol.

It's in this moment, as bullets fly and blood pours from his mangled hand, that Bill notices a machine gun nest on the far side of this enormous twisted tree.

So, the one-handed soldier throws two grenades at him.

His excellent aim silences this nest.

but still more guns farther back are firing from the jungle tree's cover.

Bill climbs on top of the tank as it attempts to maneuver.

He reaches toward the anti-aircraft machine gun, and suddenly two more bullets come his way, tearing into his chest.

Somehow still conscious and not incapacitated, the Bullet Riddle, one-handed Minnesotan, steadies himself, grabs the machine gun, and fires into the brush.

And that's when an explosion throws him from the top.

Miraculously alive, Bill is dragged to safety as the singed tank crew crawls from their burning vehicle under rifle cover.

Only when another tank arrives do other grenade-lobbying infantrymen finally clear the last of the Japanese troops from behind the bandage that started it all.

Later in the night, the wounded American and Filipino soldiers are loaded into a truck bound for evacuation to a hospital.

Among them is Bill Bianchi.

He not only survives, he's back fighting a month or so later.

Bill receives the Medal of Honor for his one-handed shot through the chest courage under fire.

That's the third Medal of Honor awarded amid the action here on Bataan so far.

Meanwhile, the Battle of the Pockets drags on for days.

Sometimes there are direct attacks.

Other times, the Allies sit in foxholes waiting for Japanese soldiers to pass in the darkness.

Medical doctor Captain Paul Ashton describes one night, Very slowly and quietly, I brought my arm out into the complete darkness and touched the end of a rifle, then brought my hand along it and felt a nose and face.