There are several storylines happening at once which makes the plot a little difficult to follow. However, that also speaks to the chaotic nature of the environment.

An impressively produced bit of WWII propaganda filmmaking with Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard and Veronica Lake playing nurses who learn war is hell, but romance eases the pain.

Those who might be tempted to derisively write off this drama about American nurses in World War II as a “woman's weepie” had best reconsider, since it's as brutal as Objective, Burma!, Wake Island, or any other he-man WWII offering from the period.

Paramount went out of its way to deglamorize its stars, Claudette Colbert, Veronica Lake and Paulette Goddard as WWII army nurses, but even by the era's standards this well-intentioned tribute was fake, prompting critic James Agee's nasty review.