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Much of the picture centers on Happy's "tourist mission" through Germany from the south up to Mannheim. These sequences, actually filmed in Germany, provide a vivid picture of towns and people gutted by war. The attitudes with which Germany met defeat are typified by the characters Happy encounters. There is a corrupt SS sergeant having his last fling in a sordid military brothel, an attractive girl turned to prostitution, a Prussian general who uses the noose to maintain discipline to the last. These characters, against a background of bombed out and burning buildings, give a most effective impression...
After a series of hairsbreath but believable escapes from the Gestapo, Happy reaches Mannheim and delivers his information to his teammates. Then he surrenders himself to cover the American's return to headquarters...
...Just five years ago Walker's World War II chief, George Patton, was killed in an automobile wreck near Mannheim, Germany...
Grey Bread. The other two had a separate job. "Tiger," who had been a German Communist, had the job of spreading disaffection in Mannheim. "Paluka," a Ukranian who had joined the Free French, was to be Tiger's radio man. All three were flown over the lines. Then they jumped, buried their parachutes, established their" directions, threw away their compasses and started walking...
Only four men entered the diving competition and Matthews Hall's Don Sand-berry won the dive contest. Mannheim came in second best...