During Operation Market Garden, paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne race to seize the vital bridges at Nijmegen. As savage street fighting erupts, German counterattacks close-in on lightly defended landing zones—putting inbound gliders, vital reinforcements and the entire Allied plan at risk.

On his first day of command, American Colonel George Mabry leads a broken battalion through the unforgiving Hurtgen Forest, to take the Roer River dams before the Nazis flood the area. The mission will take them through booby traps, minefields, bunkers, and enemy ambushes, as they fight one of the most gruelling battlefields of World War 2