
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.
Saunders, deafened by a grenade explosion, hides with a scrawny dog in the ruins of an abbey.
Saunders files charges against a double medal-winner, a veteran of D-Day, after the soldier disobeyed a direct order while on patrol.
Saunders may have to fight to the death with a German captain (Alfred Ryder) he and Kirby found in a winery.
Hanley is left alone to find a missing OSS officer in a German-held town after a mine explosion injures the other members of his patrol.