A Walk in the Sun (1945 film)

A Walk in the Sun is a World War II war film released in 1945, based on the novel by Harry Brown, who was a writer for Yank, the Army Weekly based in England. The book was serialized in Liberty Magazine in October 1944.

In 1943, the diverse group of fiftythree soldiers comprising a lead Platoon of the Texas Division anxiously await their upcoming Allied invasion of Italy on a beach near Salerno, Italy. A landing barge carries them to their objective during the predawn hours, and the increasing danger of their situation is demonstrated when their young platoon leader, Lieutenant Rand Robert Lowell, is wounded by a shell fragment that destroys half of his face. Platoon Sergeant Pete Halverson Matt Willis takes over command and orders Sgt. Eddie Porter Herbert Rudley to lead the men to the beach while he tries to find the company commander and confirm their orders.First aid man McWilliams Sterling Holloway remains with Rand, and the rest of the men hit the beach and dig in while trying to elude the shelling and machinegun fire. Sgt. Bill Tyne Dana Andrews wonders what they will do if Halverson does not return, and after the sun rises, the sergeants send the men into the woods to protect them from enemy aircraft. Tyne remains on the beach to wait for Halverson, but learns from McWilliams that both Rand and Halverson are dead. Soon after, McWilliams is shot by an enemy airplane when he goes to a bluff to view the aerial attack on the beachhead. ........

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