In Love and War

In this wartime drama, the effects of WW II upon three disparate Marines are chronicled. One is a coward who develops courage in the heat of battle and then falls in love. Another is a daring heroic sergeant who rushes off to the South Pacific after marrying his pregnant girlfriend. He is killed there. The third marine is an intellectual married to a socialite who commits suicide. He then gets involved with a Hawaiian nurse. During that relationship he begins to reassess the natures of love and war.