Luitenant Thomas W. Hart is een jonge officier die enkele maanden voor het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog gevangengenomen wordt. Samen met enkele lotgenoten wordt hij vrijwel meteen naar een Duits gevangenenkamp gestuurd. Daar maakt hij kennis met kolonel William A. McNamara, de leider van de Amerikaanse krijgsgevangenen in het kamp. Na een tijdje geeft McNamara de luitenant de opdracht twee kleurlingen in zijn barak op te nemen. De twee mannen zijn Amerikaanse piloten, maar ze kunnen op weinig sympathie van hun collega's rekenen. Kort nadien wordt er een moord gepleegd en aan luitenant Tommy Hart wordt gevraagd de valselijk beschuldigde te verdedigen.
Fourth-generation Army Col. William McNamara is imprisoned in a brutal German POW camp. Still, as the senior-ranking American officer, he commands his fellow inmates, keeping a sense of honor alive in a place where honor is easy to destroy, all under the dangerous eye of the Luftwafe vetran Col. Wilhelm Visser. Never giving up the fight to win the war, McNamara is silently planning, waiting for his moment to strike back at the enemy. A murder in the camp gives him the chance to set a risky plan in motion. With a court martial to keep Visser and the Germans distracted, McNamara orchestrates a cunning scheme to escape and destroy a nearby munitions plant, enlisting the unwitting help of young Lt. Tommy Hart. Together with his men, McNamara uses a hero's resolve to carry out his mission, ultimately forced to weigh the value of his life against the good of his country.
Fourth-generation Army Col. William McNamara is imprisoned in a brutal German POW camp. Still, as the senior-ranking American officer, he commands his fellow inmates, keeping a sense of honor alive in a place where honor is easy to destroy, all under the dangerous eye of the Luftwafe vetran Col. Wilhelm Visser. Never giving up the fight to win the war, McNamara is silently planning, waiting for his moment to strike back at the enemy. A murder in the camp gives him the chance to set a risky plan in motion. With a court martial to keep Visser and the Germans distracted, McNamara orchestrates a cunning scheme to escape and destroy a nearby munitions plant, enlisting the unwitting help of young Lt. Tommy Hart. Together with his men, McNamara uses a hero's resolve to carry out his mission, ultimately forced to weigh the value of his life against the good of his country.