MacTaggart's war

It was 1940, the year of disaster. Facing Nazi conquest, England placed her final hopes on a gigantic shipment of gold placed aboard a battle cruiser bound for Canada. MacTaggart is a middle-aging Scotsman assigned to the Bank of England as chief protector of a shipment of 1940 bullion being secretly removed from an invasion-wary England to Canada. But news of this shipment has leaked to a money-hungry British officer, who takes off for the states and contacts two equally money-hungry U.S. Army officers in Fort Sam Belwin, South Carolina: one is a West Point graduate (1930) now about to be court-martialed for theft of petty cash; the other is a former football star who is falling to pieces under debt and a nagging showgirl wife. These three gents naturally plan a heist of the bullion, a heist which is to take place in the small railroad-station village of Wingate in the Canadian wilderness. After rounding up several down-and-outers who are specialists in armaments, the heisters hit a small U.S. bank for funds, then take off for the Big Stuff in Canada.