Frontline Combat#3(1951)

Sailors aboard a U.S. Destroyer are busy shaving while Seaman 2/C Yearling gets on them about dirtying up newly cleaned sinks, when General Quarters is called after the ship hits a mine. During the confusion and lights going out, Yearling gets trapped in a flooded compartment, whose door has been shut and secured to prevent the rest of the ship being flooded, not knowing Yearling is inside.

General Rommel makes his way across northern Africa, lacking supplies. In an interesting development, he stops into a British hospital to look around, then moves on to a Polish POW camp, moving his troops, at a tremendous cost, to El Alamein. All the while, Nazis are committing reprisals against prisoners that have dared to kill German soldiers, then the news comes that German soldiers have tried to kill Adolf Hitler. When it is learned that Rommel had a hand in the plot to kill Hitler, he commits suicide.

Corporal Meers, who considered himself a master of strategy, watched as U.N. soldiers conducted an orderly retreat over a bridge spanning a small Korean river. Musing over wars of the past, he considered this war nothing more than being dull and half-hearted when compared to those in the distant past. He viewed war as man's natural element and a way to curb over-population. As the last of the unit withdrew, he could see the enemy in sight, and opened fired as the bridge blew up, taking his left with it.

French Captain Le Blanc steered his frigate to the American colonies, accompanying four ammunition ships, in the on-going fight against the British and King George. Sending the supply ships on, Le Blanc decided to engage a British man-of-war single handedly, aiming for the ship's rigging, while dodging the enemy's broadsides quite skillfully. In the end, the British ship had to surrender, even though they were better armed and equipped than the French frigate.

American soldiers, plucked from occupation duty in Japan, and sent into the heat of battle in the Korean War, are taken prisoner. One of them, Benedict, brown-noses the enemy and is put in charge of marching his fellow grunts towards Seoul. But Benedict soon learns that even turn-coats pay a price.

As U.S. Army jeeps roll across France toward Chalon in WW2, a Frenchman remembers the wars involving the French: back to the times when Attila the Hun raced across toward the same destination and met defeat at the hands of the Romans, then the British in the 1300's, on to the time of Napoleon and his defeat at the hands of the Russians, and then WW1. Now it is the era of WW2, and all the man can think of is all the wasted lives and how much France has had to suffer.