General Owen Lansbury, the head of British Intelligence in the Near East, bails out of his damaged plane behind enemy lines. After his rescue in the desert, he insists upon leading the Rat Patrol on a mission to disrupt a German oil pipeline, despite his deteriorated condition. The Rats contemplate mutiny when the injured and delirious general tries to take control of the team.

Moffitt runs into an old girlfriend, now a French Resistance fighter. She joins the Rat Patrol on a mission to rescue a French space scientist.