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Six stories unfold in various regions, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley as American military personnel interact with a variety of Italian locals over eighteen months in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces retreat.

It's 1943 and World War II is raging in Europe. In New York, Arturo and Flora the daughter of a restaurant owner are in love, but she is promised in marriage to the son of a Mafia boss. There is a way around this, but to be able to marry Flora, Arturo needs to get permission from her father, who lives in a village in Sicily. Arturo doesn't have any money, so the only way he can get to Sicily is to enlist in the U.S. Army, which is preparing for a landing on the island.

ในช่วงสงครามโลกครั้งที่ 2 หน่วยรบพิเศษได้ก่อตั้งขึ้นโดยประกอบด้วยหน่วยรบพิเศษของกองทัพแคนาดาและหน่วยรบพิเศษของกองทัพสหรัฐฯ ที่เคยถูกคุมขังในเรือนจำทหารมาก่อน หลังจากช่วงแรกของความขัดแย้งระหว่างทั้งสองกลุ่ม ความเป็นศัตรูก็เปลี่ยนมาเป็นความเคารพและมิตรภาพ และหน่วยรบพิเศษนี้ถูกส่งไปที่อิตาลีเพื่อปฏิบัติภารกิจอันตรายที่ก่อนหน้านี้ถือว่าเป็นไปไม่ได้ที่จะทำได้

In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to attempt to take a fortified farmhouse, as tension and casualties mount.

During World War II, Italian villagers hide their wine from the German army.

In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning to attack by way of Greece rather than Sicily.

War correspondent Ernie Pyle joins Company C, 18th Infantry as this American army unit fights its way across North Africa in World War II. He comes to know the soldiers and finds much human interest material for his readers back in the States. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2000.

A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson, in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and France, and ending in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where they face the true horror of war.