Eileen realizes Ace never loved her the way he loves Hana-ogi and she leaves to see Nakamura. Eileen and her mother are present for the exchange, and Ace apologizes for hurting her. When the General refuses on the grounds that he cannot allow an exception, Ace tells him that he will be in the same situation, since he intends to marry Hana-ogi. Ace goes to General Webster and pleads Joe's case, asking that he be allowed to remain in Japan. When Joe and many others who are married to Japanese are targeted for transfer back to the United States, Joe realizes that he will not be able to take Katsumi, who is now pregnant. Joe suffers further prejudice at the hands of openly hostile Colonel Crawford, pulling extra duty and all the less attractive assignments. When she overhears that Joe's house has been under surveillance by the Army, she believes that Ace is in danger and goes there to warn him. Eileen realizes that Ace's attentions are no longer focused on her and begins a friendship with a famous Kabuki performer, Nakamura.
Ace eventually apologizes, then agrees to be Joe's best man at the wedding.Īce falls in love with a Japanese entertainer, Hana-ogi, who is the lead performer for a Takarazuka-like theater company, whom he meets through Katsumi.
Ace and Joe have an argument during which Ace uses a racial slur to describe Katsumi.
The Air Force, including Ace, is against the marriage.
While Ace and Eileen have been together for years, their relationship has become strained.Īirman Joe Kelly, who is Ace's enlisted crew chief, is about to wed a Japanese woman, Katsumi, in spite of the disapproval of the United States military establishment, which will not recognize the interracial marriage because it is generally illegal under American law. He has been reassigned from combat duties in Korea by General Webster, the father of his fiancée, Eileen. Army general, is stationed at Itami Air Force Base near Kobe, Japan. Fighter ace Major Lloyd "Ace" Gruver, of the United States Air Force, the son of a U.S.
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