The deadly mission. Learning of a Nazi plot to attack Washington with deadly nerve gas, Major Wright leads twelve convicts on a suicide mission deep into occupied France to destroy the secret factory where the poison is made. The fatal mission. Twelve top Nazis are ordered to the Middle East, where they are to organize a Fourth Reich, and only Major Wright and his convict commando squad can stop them.

Kelly's heroes: World War II soldiers learn of a fortune of gold bars that the Germans have stashed in enemy territory, and decide to steal the loot. The dirty dozen: Twelve tough criminals are offered absolution if they undertake a suicide mission into Nazi Germany.