Jeffery (Popeye) Ross was a shy young man until he met Lillian Crawford the love of his life one night at a church dance. When the U.S. enters World War II he want nothing to do with it until he gets Lillian his teen age girlfriend pregnant realizing he needed to do something feeling the pressure from his guardian Mrs. Hutchinson he joins the Army. In the Army he meets his best friend 1st Sgt. Willie Banks III a fierce fighter that shows the enemy no mercy. Assigned to a truck division who's only duty was to drive supplies to the troops on the frontline his division found themselves thurst into the horrors of the war. Fighting their way though Europe Jeffery found himself in situations that if 1st Sgt. Banks wasn't there with his quick thinking he would have died. When the war ended he found himself torn between staying in the Army or getting out.