After the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, Ralph Rush trains with the Army Air Corps before attending college. With reinforcements in demand, trained college students are sent to the Battle of the Bulge in 1944. Here Ralph joins one of General George S. Patton’s fighting divisions, where he and his fellow “college boys” are perpetually chosen for dangerous and unwanted tasks, such as digging for land mines. Because of his position far behind enemy lines in Germany, Michael was the first American to enter the Ohrdruf Concentration Camp, which was the first concentration camp to be liberated by the Allies.