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By the end of the year 1943, the Allied front faced a crushing defeat, but it was due to the unseen aid of song and poetry that helped revive the spirits of our weakened soldiers, turning the tide in the war. Clyde Chapman, a tortured soul, teeming with arrogance, was forced to witness the death of a long time friend during the siege of Omaha beach, protecting his friend's engagement ring for the fiancee back in Britain. One night in Normandy, Eddie Brooks, an intelligent, young soldier from Franklin, Tennessee, questions Chapman about the ring's origin. After recounting the tormenting tale, Clyde is left mentally wounded and broken. Elsewhere in Europe, George Middleton, a trembling British Lance Corporal and writer of the poem is forced into reading it aloud for the boisterous Sergeant Desmond Stuart, stating that it is for his family back on the Home Front. The evoking words reach Daily Herald Journalist, Evelyn Williams, for the first time, securing her with comfort from ...

Credited cast:
David R. Butler David R. Butler - Pvt. Eddie Brooks
Graham Hoadly Graham Hoadly - Lt. Desmond Stuart
Lucy Howard Lucy Howard - Pippa Hill
Neil Jennings Neil Jennings - Sgt. Harry Campbell
Guillaume LeGal Guillaume LeGal - Nazi Prisoner
Tom Machell Tom Machell - Lcpl. George Middleton
Alice Maguire Alice Maguire - Evelyn Williams
Matt Martin Matt Martin - Pvt. Clyde Chapman
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