Fashion notes from the jungle / Peter Bowman -- Night watch / Thomas Heggen -- Discussion at a latrine / Norman Mailer -- Mutiny on the Caine / Herman Wouk -- Pharmacist's mate (surgery in a submarine) / George Weller -- A guy can't even take a leak / Peter Bowman -- They called it Hill 609 / Drew Middleton -- His heart finally broke in Napels / John Horne Burns -- There were so many little towns / Joe David Brown -- Over here (movie night near Foggia) / Robert Lowry -- It would be nice if she lived / William Herber -- Request for Sherwood Anderson / Frank Brookhouser -- Somewhere in Germany / Lester Atwell -- A cemetery at Hoga Point / James A. Michener -- World is full of human beings / Irwin Shaw -- War in Boone City / MacKinlay Kantor -- Poor everybody / Robert McLaughlin -- It is just a part of war / Eric Sevareid -- Receipt of some postcards / Anton Myrer -- Night they brough Captain Waskow down / Ernie Pyle -- A man who fought for China / Marion Hargrove -- Some men who were at Remagen / Ken Hechler -- A squadron C.O. / A. J. Liebling -- Brief testament of a young American / Bert Stiles -- Portrait of a general / Drew Middleton -- Death of a president / from Time -- Man with a ski nose / John Steinbeck -- Guy the GIs loved (Ernie Pyle's war) / from Time.

Introduction / Frank Brookhouser -- Death comes to Pearl Harbor / Walter Lord -- Call a solemn assembly / Ruth Portugal -- "Youah ass belongs to me" / Robert Leckie -- "Everybody outranks me" / Weldon Hill -- War comes home to the people / from Time -- Social night in the PX / Irwin Shaw -- Bad day for Willie Keith / Herman Wouk -- That famous four-letter word / Robert Leckie -- Nomenclature appraised / Raymond Zauber -- There is always a line / Henry McLemore -- Strike up a stirring music / Berry Fleming -- Well, this is it / Robert McLaughlin -- Americans arrive in France / Irwin Shaw -- Air drop on Normandy / Laurence Critchell -- A lovely day for strolling / Ernie Pyle -- It's only an island / Anton Myrer -- Only clear sound is a cry / Allen R. Matthews -- Snow will cover him / Allen Lyon -- Squad leader Donatti / James Garrett -- Soldiers get a greeting / Van van Praag -- Town of St. Lô / Robert J. Casey -- Objective: an Italian farmhouse / Harry Brown -- A soldier gets a gift / Allan Lyon -- Way laughter comes / Joe David Brown -- They call him "G.I. Joe" / Peter Bowman -- Platoon in action / Norman Mailer -- A sub against destroyers / Harley Cope and Walter Karig -- Terra firma is wonderful / Eugene Brown -- Foxhole life / Anton Myrer -- And somehow you are terribly moved / Ernie Pyle -- A day in the life of 32968894 / Lester Atwell -- Life expectancy was brief / George Morrill -- A room with a lot of views / Bert Stiles -- Flesh and blood / Laurence Critchell -- Routine at a bomber station / John Steinbeck -- Stare that tells / Ernie Pyle.

There were very few of the old men left / Mack Morriss -- V-E Day on Okinawa / Gordon Cobbledick -- A kid thought the moon had fallen / Clark Lee -- Today's target: Nagasaki / William L. Laurence -- Days became so beautiful / Allan Lyon -- A guy's thoughts went back / Lester Atwell -- Kilroy was here / Peter Viereck -- De Gaulle, the whore, and him / Frank Brookhouser -- A damn civilian again / Merle Miller -- How the sergeant lived and died / Robert Wallace -- For Memorial Day: 1946 / Frank Brookhouser -- GI / Debs Myers -- First war dead come home / Mery Berger -- Welcome to Arlington / John Dudley Chamberlain, Jr. -- Smell of death / John Mason Brown -- Ones that stink the worst / Donald Haguall, as told to Ralph G. Martin.