Release, runtime and language

1944 · 112 mins · English

Directed by

Lloyd Bacon

Starring

Ward Bond, Thomas Mitchell, Roy Roberts, Bobby Driscoll, Anne Baxter, Edward Ryan

The film follows a tight‑knit group of brothers who grow up together in Iowa during the Great Depression, enlist as a unit in World War II, and are killed in action during a single battle in the Pacific theater. It is a dramatization of true events.