Plot
After hard fighting in the Battle of San Pietro Infine, Battle of San Pietro, the infantrymen of the American 36th Infantry Division (United States), 36th Infantry Division are given five days of much needed rest. Sergeant Joe "Pete" Peterson meets Women's Army Corps, WAC Lieutenant Eleanor "Ellie" MacKa in a cemetery. However, his attempts to become better acquainted are brushed off. Later, Pete's friend and commanding officer, Major Blackford, tells him he has been given a battlefield promotion, battlefield commission and is now a second lieutenant. When Sergeant McFee becomes upset because he has not received a letter from his wife in a long time, Pete takes him to the post office to investigate and finds Ellie working there. This time, Ellie offers to buy Pete a drink in celebration of his promotion. Although he agrees, she still tries to keep things from becoming serious, revealing that she almost married another soldier, except he was killed, and does not want to risk falling in love again. However, when the division's leave is cut short, she cannot stay away. Pete gets her to agree to marry him on his next leave. Blackford assigns Pete and his platoon to take out a German roadblock. Pete spots two deadly German 8.8 cm Flak 18/36/37/41, 88 guns commanding the road on which American tanks are advancing. However, when one of his men urges him to attack the guns, Pete rejects the idea; with Ellie on his mind, he has become overcautious. The 88s knock out the lead American tank, from which Blackford is directing the attack. The major is killed. Pete himself is wounded by an artillery barrage and wakes up in a hospital. Blaming himself for his friend's death (even though he knows he could not have reached the guns in time anyway), Pete sinks into a depression, unwilling to see anyone. A visit from Ellie brings him out of it. Pete tells her that he has been given a three-day leave before being sent back to the United States, safely out of combat. Together out in the countryside, they get married. However, Pete's guilt makes him decide to rejoin his unit. Ellie does not try to stop him. Afterward, she discovers she is pregnant, which means she will have to leave the army. Pete is hit when he reconnoiters ahead, and his men are ordered to retreat, leaving him behind. Unwilling to believe her husband is dead, Ellie searches everywhere for him without success. When Rome is Liberation of Rome, liberated, she finally finds him; he had been taken prisoner, but was freed when the Germans retreated.Cast
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