The Red Beret

The Red Beret aka The Red Devils, The Big Jump and retitled Paratrooper for the US release is a 1953 Technicolor British war film directed by Terence Young and starring Alan Ladd, Leo Genn and Susan Stephen.

Back in Britain, after visiting Dawes, Canada is recognised by an American airman. He tells Penny that he resigned his commission from the USAAF after ordering his best friend and copilot to parachute out of their bomber when an experimental rocket got stuck. His friend was killed when his parachute did not open properly. Canada blamed himself and refuses any responsibility that might endanger anyones life. When Snow confronts Canada with what he has learned from a security investigation that he has ordered, Canada wrongly assumes that Penny told what she learned, and he breaks up with her.The units next operation involves attacking and destroying an airfield at Bne during the invasion of North Africa. With Major Snow wounded and the men trapped in a minefield, Canada must risk others to extricate the unit. One of his friends, who is Polish, finds a Panzerschreck, so he decides to use it to blow a path though the minefield. Canada, the Pole and Taffy Evens Donald Houston use it to extricate their unit, while Snow and the rest of the men cover them. Although Snow and most of the men get out, the regimental sergeant major dies from the wounds he received when he entered the minefield. Afterward, Canada and Penny become reconciled and Canada promise to think about the commission Snow offered him. ........

Source: Wikipedia