In the time of WW2 Sgt Holt and his platoon were ordered to clear the forest from the enemy troops, with no mercy. The men experienced the war cruelty and learned that each freed meter cost them victims.
A group of german soldiers are lost in Russia when they see soviet soldiers attacking a german MG postion.
The young Sergeant Hartwig and his comrades are in France. They are supposed to take propaganda photos there. But they have no idea that they are in the middle of the invasion by the Allied forces.