The first film for Melvyn Douglas after his three years in the U.S. Army during WWII, where he rose to the rank of Major.
Cobb's Los Angeles to Chicago plane ticket reveals the fare of $98.26 which would equate to $1,127 in 2017.
Similar to the Steven Spielberg war movie years later, "Saving Private Ryan", this post World War II melodrama has a character finding out if her husband's sacrifice was worth it, as in the modern time prologue and epilogue of the Spielberg film.