France 1944 and in a secret camp men prepare for a daring mission. The unusual thing is that they are German soldiers who will masquerade as U.S. troops in order to cause confusion and buy time for a last gasp German Offensive. Later, five U.S. G.I.'s travel toward the front lines and begin to suspect each other of being a German infiltrator.

A military air transport plane on a 15 hour flight from Tokyo to Seattle, Washington has engine and compass problems during a hurricane and wanders into Soviet air space. An emergency landing on uninhabited Russian soil with rough terrain is complicated further by the fact that one of the plane's passengers is an important Soviet defector.

An S.A.C. (Strategic Air Command) bomber on a routine patrol mission from March Air Force Base in the U.S. to Spain-and-back suffers an on-board fire. The co-pilot, who has dodged the responsibility of becoming a lead pilot, is suddenly thrust into command when the pilot is severely injured due to the fire. Can the co-pilot conquer his fears and master his inadequacies?

A nuclear scientist with a dark past is pursued by three different groups with very different agendas.