
Also along is a group of war correspondents, including Constance Chesley, who is strongly attracted to Wedge, despite her romantic attachment to Bob. Wedge then accompanies his crew to another small island in the South Pacific, where they are to build an air field. Fed up with what he perceives as Navy red tape, Wedge says that his men will fend for themselves and storms out. In Washington, Wedge is enthusiastic until he learns that it will take months of military training before his men can be armed. Joyce about establishing a construction battalion.

Bob invites Wedge to accompany him to Washington, D.C. Bob Yarrow, who was in charge of the mission, but is surprised when Bob agrees that the situation must be corrected. As civilians, the workers could not be armed and sustained heavy losses.


Wedge is infuriated to learn that the men, who were working on a South Pacific island, were targeted by Japanese forces because technicians are irreplaceable. Egotistical, hard-working Wedge Donovan, the owner of a highly reputed construction company, greets members of his crew as they return from a job for the Navy.
