On April 4, 1943, ten american POW's and two Philipino convicts broke out of the Davao Penal Colony, a supposedly escape proof Japanese Army Prison.Called the "greatest story of the Pacific War" by the U.S. War Department, this astonishing and true account demonstrates that Lt. Col. William E. Dyess and his comrades are some of WWII's most extraordinary, yet little known heroes.