JIMMY is a story about a teenaged boy, Jimmy Warton, who joins the US Army and finds himself in war torn Germany six months later. Jimmy had spent most of his life in Texas and Oklahoma. Arriving in Regensburg, Germany in December 1948, Jimmy joined the First Medical Battalion of the First Infantry Division. There he finds himself among a hard drinking, hard playing bunch of underutilized American soldiers in a country where there are few jobs and many more women than men. To survive, German women turned to prostitution. Jimmy tried to join in the drinking and the exploitation of women but he feels guilty with every woman. Eventually, Jimmy's drinking lands him in trouble. While he awaits trial on serious charges, Jimmy gets all the alcohol out of his system and gets help from friends he didn't know he had. One of those friends introduces Jimmy to reading books for fun, a new concept for him, and helps him turn his life around. Acquitted at his trial through a bit of luck and some research into legal procedure, Jimmy gets the chance few people get to make a fresh start with a clean record.