Battle Cry

In January 1942, All-American athlete Danny Forrester is one of many young men responding to a call for Marine Corps recruits. Traveling by train from Baltimore, Maryland, Forrester encounters other recruits en route to the Marine training camp near San Diego, including womanizing lumberjack Andy Hookans, bookish Marion Hotchkiss, Navajo Indian Shining Lighttower, troublemaking "Spanish" Joe Gomez, L.Q. Jones of Arkansas, Speedy of Texas, and the Philadelphian Ski, who is eager to escape the slums, but upset to leave his girlfriend Susan.