In 1943, the Allies are making good progress driving back the Axis powers in Italy.

In the beginning of the film, a prologue says Allied tanks were defeated by the more advanced German tanks.

In 1944, Allied prisoners at a POW camp on an unnamed Greek island are forced to excavate ancient artifacts.

Sergeant Peter King and Private Leslie Cuthbertson of the Royal Army Dental Corps passionately desire to see active service, but are held back.

Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American epic war film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat.

The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission is a 1988 made-for-TV film directed by Lee H. Katzin, and is the third sequel to the 1967 film The Dirty Dozen.

Operation Market Garden envisions 35,000 men being flown 300 miles (480 km) from air bases in England and dropped behind enemy lines in the Netherlands.

Brendan Byers III is a rich playboy who enlists to fight in the war against the Axis powers, but is classified 4-F.

The film is set against the backdrop of World War II, during Operation Market Garden, the largest full scale airborne invasion in history.

The setting is the time of the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922), and the end of the Ottoman Empire.

In 1953, Jimmy Takata (Nishikawa) suffers from "battle fatigue" (posttraumatic stress disorder), to the great concern of his wife, Mary (Tomita).

Major General Partridge (Kelsey Grammer) is in charge of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle project, which has been in development for seventeen years at a cost of $14 billion.

In French Tunisia, during the Second World War, a convoy of the French Foreign Legion is charged to recover gold bars of six billion francs from a bank in El Ksour in order to bring them into a safe place for the French government.

Admiral Canaris, head of German military intelligence, is ordered by Adolf Hitler to make a feasibility study into capturing the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.