
This gritty 1960s drama depicts the lives of a U.S. platoon fighting its way across Europe during World War II. The show is a relatively realistic portrait of the fighting, refusing to glamorize either the soldiers or the war itself. Instead, it concentrates on the struggles of the soldiers to maintain their own humanity.
A soldier (John Cassavetes) is accused having a self-inflicted wound when he is recognized as one of few survivors of an earlier campaign.
A hostile Signal Corps sergeant (Jack Lord) threatens a mission to lay wire to an outpost.
Saunders orders all his men on a mission arranged by Hanley, despite a soldier's knee complaints.
A soldier (Dennis Weaver) endangers the squad by returning to an evacuated farm to help a newborn calf.