Duration : 160 Min
A U.S. Army sergeant who served in World War I now commands a rifle unit in the same division in which he served, the First Infantry. The unit participated in combat operations, from the attack on Vichy in French Africa to the long siege of Sicily and Italy to D-Day on Omaha Beach and finally the attack on Germany. Along the way, the unit is involved in several incidents involving civilians, such as a French woman about to give birth and a shooting at a psychiatric facility.During the war, the sergeant was involved in a small battle of wills with Lieutenant Griff, a semi-pacifist whose faith was shattered during a horrific scene of human genocide in a concentration camp in 1945.
