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It would have been surprising not to have a topic about D Day in Normandy; so many Americans - vets or not - visit this holy land for GI's who fought in 1944. So, it was so easy to imagine Lloyd Bridges playing once more a journalist or tourist, impersonating himself one of those heroes. If you watch the other episodes, the scheme is always the same. And the A PAIR OF BOOTS episode is about American Civil war, instead of WW2 in France. I have not checked, but I am sure we'll find Lloyd Bridges playing a tourist or journalist visiting Verdun war museum and thinking of WW1 trenches and slaughterhouse battlefields. In this episode, a platoon of just landed GI's find a baby in a deserted farm and decide after some talks to take him with them. Of course we think about Jack Ford's THREE GODFATHERS, but unfortunately not so long. The last two minutes worth the whole story, very touching.

Adam Shepherd is in Normandy and looking for a new angle of a story about the D Day landings.

A local priest tells Adam about an American soldier who dropped off baby infant and left. No one knew how the soldier came across the baby.

Adam imagines what must have taken place. Gough is a no nonsense soldier. The leader of his platoon.

He comes across a baby in a deserted farm. The baby is crying. Gough is prepared to leave the baby to die. He cares more about his mission. S crying baby will give their position away.

When one of his men finds the baby. They want to rescue the infant. Gough disagrees. The men in his platoon do not care, they take the baby with them. As the story unfolds, Gough's men are killed and injured.

The story is essentially a modern dilemma. Gough is hard headed and practical. His men care about right and wrong, basic decency.

Adam wants to know what happened to the baby after all these years.