War-weary Captain Willoby and his men are the occupation force on an island of lovely women...and are forbidden to fraternize.

West Point staffer Marty Maher (b. 1876), who came there from Tipperary as a waiter, enlisted in 1898, instructed several generations of plebes in boxing, swimming and tradition, stayed at West Point all his life, his romance and marriage to Mary O'Donnell, and his declining years after her death (1948). He was buried there in 1961.