
A US Army sergeant who participated in the First World War now leads a rifle squad in the same division wherein he’d served, the First Infantry. The squad participates in fight motion from storming Vichy French Africa into the lengthy siege of Sicily and Italy, into D-Day at Omaha Beach, and onward via the push to Germany. Along the way the squad receives worried in several incidents with civilians, along with a French female approximately to give birth and also in a firefight in an insane asylum. Throughout the war the Sergeant has engaged in a mini-warfare of wills with Pvt. Griff, a semi-pacifist whose convictions are destroyed in a bad scene amid the human genocide of a concentration camp in 1945. tt0080437