A chronicle of the movements of a squad, from the US 1st Infantry Division, through WWII, from a beach-head assault in North Africa to the liberation of a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. The sergeant, played by Marvin, and four young riflemen are the only ones to survive the war, and one (Carradine) is Fuller's surrogate, and this is Fuller telling his own story, synthesising every thought he ever had about the experience of warfare, no heroics, no anti-heroics, no 'drama' to speak of, ins find out more...