The guests include famed German actress Annelise Hackermann, American Brigadier General Harold Foster and Canadian war correspondent Sean O’Hara.

Hackermann has married Roland, and although their union is a happy one, she lives in hiding due to her secret Jewish heritage making her a target of the Nazis' racial policies.

In America, Foster's younger son John flunks out of college and subsequently joins the Army like his older brother Ted, despite his father's reservations.

In Paris, Wehrmacht Lt. Kurt Zimmer begins a transactional relationship with Danielle, a beautiful French woman whose husband was killed by the Germans and prostitutes herself to the occupying personnel to survive.

Having requested a transfer to the North African front, Zimmer is given a "farewell" assignment in France to oversee the transportation of a massive train-mounted cannon targeted by guerillas.

Thanks to his efforts, the Allied tanks manage to break through the German defenses; Roland is killed as his position is overrun, and Scott loots the "In God We Trust" medallion off of his body.

With the Battle of the Mareth Line ending in an Allied victory, Scott gifts John the medallion, and he notes its similarities to his father's own without realizing the significance.

[4] Leonard Maltin writes: "Amateurish muddle about WW2 combines tired vignettes with well-known stars, dubbed sequences with others, and newsreel footage narrated by Orson Welles.