Battleground (film)

Battleground is a 1949 American war film that follows a company in the 327th Glider Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division as they cope with the Siege of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. It stars Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban and George Murphy, and features James Whitmore. It was directed by William Wellman from a script by Robert Pirosh.

In midDecember 1944 Pvt. Jim Layton Marshall Thompson and his buddy Pvt. William J. Hooper are fresh replacements assigned to separate companies in the 327th Glider Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. As a newcomer Layton receives a chilly welcome. PFC Holley Van Johnson returns to the company after recuperating from a wound.Instead of going on leave in Paris, the squad is trucked back to the front to help stop a surprise German breakthrough in the Ardennes. They stop that night in the town of Bastogne. The platoon is put up for the night in the apartment of a local young woman, Denise Denise Darcel, with whom Holley hopes to fraternize. The next morning, led by Platoon Sgt. Kinnie James Whitmore, they are ordered to dig in on the outskirts of town. Just as they are nearly done, they are ordered to a new location and have to dig in again. ........

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