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- DirectorBernard McEveetyStarsRick JasonVic MorrowBeau BridgesA new squad member is aggressive and naive - because he's really only 15. Orville Putnam's actual age is discovered by a knowing French bartender he puts his unsubtle moves on, to impress his fellow infantrymen. Orville swears Fauvette to secrecy, but then the squad is ordered to recon a treacherous hill whose treetops are stuffed with German snipers. Sgt. Saunders understands that Orville is covering up for his lack of combat experience, but doesn't know the whole truth about the orphaned teen.
- DirectorRobert AltmanStarsVic MorrowRick JasonJohn ConsidineSgt. Saunders has to search a deserted town for Germans with 3 very inexperienced soldiers, in which one may be a coward.
- DirectorRobert AltmanStarsRick JasonVic MorrowAlexander DavionA time-bomb dropped by the Germans crashes into a French church pinning Hanley down, and only an American-hating British lieutenant can defuse it.
- DirectorByron PaulStarsRick JasonVic MorrowShecky GreeneThe French Resistance helps Lt. Hanley find a downed American Col. living with a beautiful woman, but leaks are getting their people killed.
- DirectorRobert AltmanStarsRick JasonVic MorrowAlbert PaulsenLt. Hanley is captured and forced by a Nazi general to help him and his daughter escape, after an attempt on Hitler's life.
- DirectorPaul StanleyStarsVic MorrowRick JasonSteven RogersA GI private is killed after taking over an enemy machine gun and killing dozens of Nazis, but his best friend falsely claims he did the shooting.
- DirectorBurt KennedyStarsVic MorrowRick JasonPierre JalbertA top professional baseball player joins the squad and becomes a liability when he freezes up during combat, and a member is shot.
- DirectorBurt KennedyStarsVic MorrowRick JasonJack HoganA battle-hardened corporal joins Sgt. Saunders squad, but remains distant and aloof from the other members, causing dissension in the ranks.
- DirectorLaslo BenedekStarsRick JasonVic MorrowJoan HackettA French father and his lovely daughter make room for wounded GI's in their mansion , but Nazis capture it and they must try to notify Division.
- DirectorRobert AltmanStarsVic MorrowRick JasonJeremy SlateA pretty female Lt. married to a corporal, has also fallen in love with her Capt., and the husband might be killed when he has to fill in for an AWOL private.
- DirectorBernard McEveetyStarsRick JasonVic MorrowDenise AlexanderCommand gives Lt. Hanley 3 hours to rescue an old man, pretty librarian, and 5 children from the Germans, or they will bomb the town they are in.
- DirectorPaul StanleyStarsRick JasonVic MorrowElizabeth AllenA coldhearted photo journalist accidentally causes a town to believe they are liberated and when the Nazis move in with their murderous torture methods, she learns the true meaning of human suffering during war.
- DirectorBurt KennedyStarsRick JasonVic MorrowSteven RogersA slightly wounded Sgt. Saunders travels to the aid station in an ambulance with a beautiful nurse, a doctor who has lost his nerve and a driver who never had any nerve.
- DirectorTed PostStarsVic MorrowRick JasonLee MarvinA bitter demolition Sgt. escorted by Saunder's squad to blow up a bridge, feels his men are bunch of incompetent fools, that will get him killed before reaching the target.
- DirectorJohn PeyserStarsRick JasonVic MorrowJames CoburnSgt. Saunders suspects a GI corporal and lieutenant, with a Nazi colonel in custody, are really impostors who want to sabotage command. But Saunders isn't believed by Lt. Hanley.
- DirectorTed PostStarsVic MorrowRick JasonRichard BasehartSgt. Saunder's squad is captured and placed in a temporary stockade, where they are interrogated by a cruel SS officer.
- DirectorTed PostStarsVic MorrowRick JasonRichard BasehartStill interred in a German POW camp, Sgt. Saunders and his squad must find a way to escape before they are all killed.
- DirectorJames KomackStarsRick JasonVic MorrowKarlheinz BöhmThe squad finds a German field hospital in a French village. Sgt. Saunders and a German soldier must travel together to get a truckload of plasma, but they have an uneasy alliance with each other.
- DirectorBernard McEveetyStarsVic MorrowRick JasonJames CaanSaunders' squad rescues a badly wounded pilot in the woods and his recon film, but then they are chased by a resourceful Nazi Sgt.
- DirectorJohn PeyserStarsVic MorrowRick JasonMilton SelzerSaunders' squad happens upon a Nazi concentration camp, occupied only by a few starving Poles. SS overseers killed most prisoners, then fled with the strongest inmates, but in their hurry to flee left behind these men, mostly from the same village. The squad has orders to move on, but few of the liberated are able to walk with them. The men's leader, their former mayor, begs Saunders to stay and help, while their former kapo, also a Pole, wants out with the squad, before the furious prisoners kill him.
- DirectorVic MorrowStarsRick JasonVic MorrowJack HoganWhile falling back under intense pressure from the attacking Germans, Lt. Hanley stops to help one of his men who is severely wounded. The Germans are advancing rapidly, so Hanley and his man take refuge in a vacant pillbox. As the rains begin to fall, Hanley attempts to head for his own lines, but is stopped when three German soldiers also enter the pillbox, making for a dramatic standoff. Hanley must make a decision to save his man and kill the Germans, or surrender himself.
- DirectorBernard McEveetyStarsVic MorrowRick JasonJohn DehnerHanley refuses to let an elderly French ex-general lead Sgt. Saunder's squad in their search for an observation post, but he follows them anyway to prove his usefulness.
- DirectorBernard McEveetyStarsVic MorrowRick JasonEd NelsonA soldier is assigned to guide Sgt. Saunder's squad to a hidden German artillery post, because he knows where they are located. Saunders is warned to keep a close watch on the soldier, but he doesn't know the reason why.
- DirectorSutton RoleyStarsVic MorrowRick JasonAlfred RyderSaunders and Kirby are searching the buildings of an abandoned French winery when they are spotted by two Germans who are using the tower for an observation post. A firefight ensues, and one of the Germans and Kirby are both badly wounded. The German officer, Heismann, snatches Kirby and takes him into the tower building. The wounded German attacks Saunders with a knife, but Saunders finishes him. Saunders has seen the Germans are setting up a large artillery position nearby, and Heismann uses the wounded Kirby to convince Saunders to surrender before he can report the artillery location to his HQ. While Heismann talks to Saunders, Kirby recovers enough to throw the German's radio outside where Saunders can see it is now broken. Heismann is so infuriated he decides to hunt Saunders with his special hunting rifle as if he were prey. Heismann and Saunders play cat and mouse among the many winery buildings while Saunders looks for the radio Kirby left in another building. He finds the radio, but his Thompson craps out, and he leaves the Thompson behind while he attempts to contact his HQ on the radio. Heismann finds Saunders' Thompson and smiles in satisfaction knowing Saunders is disarmed. His smile disappears, however, when finds the GI radio and realizes Saunders has reported the German artillery location. At this point, Heismann has nothing left to salvage except the satisfaction of killing his prey.
- DirectorJohn PeyserStarsVic MorrowRick JasonRonald HowardA British unit holding a depot doesn't know that Allied units around them are retreating from a Nazi offensive, because the Brits' radio is broken. Sgt. Saunders' squad can't join the pullback, because Lt. Hanley orders Saunders' crew to march to the railhead in France, to let the Brits know they are being surrounded.