Where the activity centers by a squad of GIs in retaliation against the force of the Siegfried line, world War II drama. Reese joins a group of weary GIs ordered straight to a break area on their way into the lineup when. While the majority of the men withdraw confronting a pillbox half a dozen men are compelled to protect a front. By various ruses, they manage to convince the Germans that a force is still currently holding the positioning. Reese leads two of the men in a failed and adulterous attack on the pillbox, in. When the major platoon yields, he is jeopardized with court-martial. That face the disgrace, also in a effort to reveal he was right, he makes a attack on the pillbox.