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- This is Armed Forces Radio
- London, invasion at last.
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- Allied armies assault enemy held
- France from sea and skies
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- smashing onto the Nazi held
- beaches of Normandy.
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- A vast air armada of allied
- paratroopers and gliders invade
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- Holland from the skies to free
- the desperate Dutch people from
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- the clutches of their
- Nazis masters.
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- Thousands of Hollanders pour
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- onto the roads and streets to
- greet the allied liberators.
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- Fighting desperately rifle to
- rifle, American GI's repel and
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- destroy a massive
- German panzer army.
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- General Patton's tanks rush in
- from the South destroying Nazi
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- forces and rescuing our boys
- trapped behind enemy lines.
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- American shock troops capture
- the Ludendorff Bridge and race
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- over the Rhine river, slashing
- deep into the heart land
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- of Nazi Germany.
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- Entire American tank divisions
- fan out against ever weakening
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- enemy resistance, as Russian
- troops assaulted his underground
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- headquarters, Adolph Hitler took
- his own life rather then
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- being captured alive.
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- Nazi Germany
- teeters on surrender
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- as the Fatherland crumbles.
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- Hundreds of thousands of the
- captured enemy clog the roads as
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- the furious allied
- onslaught races forward.
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- Our frontline combat soldiers
- battle their way deep into enemy
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- territory followed by an endless
- bucket brigade of support
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- troopers who roll on day and
- night keeping our fighting boys
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- brimming with bullets,
- boots and bread.
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- The expanding gap between the
- frontline spearhead and the
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- critical rear guard a vast
- moonscape of wrecked
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- battle debris and enemy
- dead is a no man's land
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- our GI's have nicknamed,
- "The Void,"
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- this is Armed
- Forces Radio London.
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- That rain is really coming down.
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- You got them?
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- Dead in my sight.
- It's a kill shot.
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- What's McConkie saying?
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- Still waiting for him to
- give us the go ahead.
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- This waiting game is killing me.
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- We have to be patient.
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- 00:02:51,638 --> 00:02:54,306
- Company command wants us to wait
- to engage the enemy
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- till they give us the signal.
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- It's stuffy in here we need
- some fresh air.
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- Sarge?
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- Relax Simms you haven't had a
- bath in a week,
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- consider it a blessing.
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- Roger that.
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- McConkie wants us to wait 'til
- it's completely dark out there,
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- then he will give us
- the signal to fire.
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- Mitchell?
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- Mitchell are you ready?
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- I'm good... and ready to move.
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- Seek, strike, destroy.
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- Seek, strike, destroy.
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- Do you know why I've
- brought you out here?
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- We have a problem that needs
- to be discussed.
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- This morning three men tried to
- escape, two of them were shot.
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- Someone helped these
- men to get out.
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- I want to know,
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- by whom.
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- I do not tolerate this kind of
- behavior in my stalag.
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- Next time I will not be
- so forgiving.
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- Do not doubt me, there
- will be no escape.
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- Copy that out.
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- McConkie has given the command
- to engage, fire when ready.
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- - Ready?
- - Clear
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- On the way.
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- Come on.
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- Sergeant Atwood,
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- McConkie wants to see you and
- Whitaker right away.
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- Max.
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- She's slowly dying on you.
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- She'll make it.
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- I bet you if I asked her nice and
- she'd take me all the wayback to Pocatello.
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- Or you can trade her in
- for a new one.
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- Now those are fighting words.
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- Don't talk about my
- lady like that.
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- What? Do you think you can
- take me pops?
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- Any day of the week, and
- twice on Sunday?
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- Oh yeah, what'cha
- going to do grandpa?
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- Oh, and you missed,
- what'cha going to do?
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- Look at that I got
- Nelson in a Nelson.
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- I'm sorry.
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- Don't apologize to me
- apologize to the lady.
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- - I'm sorry ma'am.
- - Its miss.
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- I'm sorry miss, that was very
- rude of me to say and
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- it won't happen again.
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- Hey, knock it off enough of the
- horse play we got to get moving.
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- All right, all right.
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- Don't mess with Ramrod,
- Ping Pong.
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- Good advice.
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- Atwood, Whitaker we need the two
- of you to do a little of hit and
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- run for our boys up
- in Braunlage.
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- Atwood you are going to be
- acting sergeant on this one.
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- Baker company is having a little
- bit of trouble with some
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- stubborn Germans here on the
- east side of the village.
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- Can't they just get the...
- mayor?
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- Bürgermeister?
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- Yeah, Bürgermeister to convince him
- that the war is basically over?
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- Well, they tried but they shot him and
- this is just a little pocket of resistance
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- that Vsomehow slipped through the cracks.
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- I need you guys to go in there
- shake'm up a little bit.
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- Do you want us to take any infantry
- or security boys with us sir?
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- No the two M18s will suffice.
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- We can leave right away?
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- Captain I'm one man short
- on my gun team.
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- The assisting gunner got his hand
- caught behind the breach this morning.
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- Shattered his wrist.
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- Any available replacements?
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- No you will just going to have to
- make due for the next few days.
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- What about Nelson?
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- He knows the drill we could
- promote him, move to
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- loader on your team.
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- That's a good solution
- let's go with that.
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- You know with Hitler being dead
- and Russians taking Berlin this
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- might be the last bit of
- action you boys see.
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- This whole thing is going to be
- over in a week mark my words.
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- I don't want anyone to die
- today, so by the book.
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- Yes sir.
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- 00:08:26,806 --> 00:08:28,724
- And General Allen is going
- to be coming forward today
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- I want the both of you back
- here for the General's visit.
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- We'll take care of the issue in
- Braunlage and we'll get right back.
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- Excellent thank you
- gentlemen dismissed.
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- Sir.
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- - Atwood.
- - Yes sir.
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- Tell Simms that was a heck of a
- shot last night, guard tower
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- 2600 yards it's got to be
- some kind of record.
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- I'll let him know
- you're pleased.
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- Avenging Angel.
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- Hey what are you doing?
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- Hey Simms. I like that
- that's a good name.
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- Simms.
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- You know I saw one the other day
- you are going to love this,
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- 00:09:02,642 --> 00:09:05,110
- these boys named their
- Hellcat...
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- 00:09:05,111 --> 00:09:08,146
- Hey. Why don't you get
- back to work?
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- Driving trucks,
- shining shoes I don't care...
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- just stay away from my Hellcat.
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- Do you understand you're
- not welcomed here.
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- What are your deaf?
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- Go on leave.
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- 00:09:39,946 --> 00:09:42,714
- Looking like Corporal Cracker
- there taking a liking in you.
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- 00:09:42,715 --> 00:09:44,451
- Yeah he is a real charmer.
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- 00:09:45,552 --> 00:09:48,987
- You'd think that being out here fighting
- against the greatest race haters in the world
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- we wouldn't still be having
- this problem in the US of A.
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- It's called irony or hypocrisy
- depending on which side of the
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- boarder you're on.
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- Colored don't need
- drinking fountains...
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- 00:10:02,101 --> 00:10:03,680
- that's how it was when we left
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- and that's how it's
- going to be when we get back,
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- 00:10:10,343 --> 00:10:13,080
- somebody told me you used to
- drive one of them tanks.
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- 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:17,951
- Well somebody told you wrong,
- M18 isn't a tank, it's a tank destroyer,
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- I was a Hellcat
- commander for two years.
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- 00:10:22,221 --> 00:10:24,274
- You got to have some good
- stories I bet?
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- 00:10:25,391 --> 00:10:29,194
- Good stories, I got some of
- those, got some not so
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- 00:10:29,195 --> 00:10:30,997
- good ones as well.
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- 00:10:32,398 --> 00:10:35,166
- Now they got you driving trucks?
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- 00:10:35,167 --> 00:10:38,370
- They busted us down at the
- service unit three months ago,
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- General said, and I quote,
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- "If this battalion was
- a horse, I'd shoot it."
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- It's a long story.
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- I'm all ears.
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- Some other time you know let's-
- let's get this jimmies
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- loaded up and moving.
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- Alright.
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- 00:10:59,425 --> 00:11:03,428
- Welcome gentlemen to the Owens
- Express, watch your heads,
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- our next schedule stop is HQ,
- hot showers, clean beds and
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- some good grub.
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- 00:11:14,206 --> 00:11:16,041
- Good morning, good morning?
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- Where did you get that?
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- I liberated it; had to get
- something for my brother to
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- prove I was here.
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- 00:11:22,181 --> 00:11:23,815
- You know they are never going to
- let you bring that home.
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- 00:11:23,816 --> 00:11:25,285
- Never say never.
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- 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:27,685
- Did you find any more treasures?
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- 00:11:27,686 --> 00:11:30,288
- Back at the guards' barracks,
- they ditched all kinds of stuff
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- 00:11:30,289 --> 00:11:32,190
- before they high tailed
- it out of here.
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- 00:11:32,191 --> 00:11:34,292
- Talking about treasures-
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- 00:11:34,293 --> 00:11:35,760
- Found some of those
- dime novels you love,
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- I want your cigarettes.
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- 00:11:42,301 --> 00:11:43,835
- Here you go.
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- 00:11:43,836 --> 00:11:46,304
- Seriously, how was that
- a fair trade?
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- 00:11:46,305 --> 00:11:48,339
- He doesn't smoke he reads,
- what's the problem?
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- 00:11:48,340 --> 00:11:50,508
- You ever heard of a highway
- robbery, that stack a toilet
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- 00:11:50,509 --> 00:11:52,577
- paper you got there is
- maybe worth one pack.
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- 00:11:52,578 --> 00:11:54,345
- Those are hard to find.
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- 00:11:54,346 --> 00:11:56,414
- It's okay what I'm I going
- to do with smokes?
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- 00:11:56,415 --> 00:11:59,052
- See its all copacetic.
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- 00:11:59,752 --> 00:12:01,252
- Thanks Danny Boy.
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- Don't call me that.
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- 00:12:03,089 --> 00:12:05,356
- - It's your nickname.
- - I don't want a nickname.
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- 00:12:05,357 --> 00:12:09,094
- Everyone's got a nickname,
- Nelson is Ping Pong,
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- 00:12:09,095 --> 00:12:11,431
- Simms is Judy-
- - Hold on Judy?
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- 00:12:12,398 --> 00:12:14,300
- Yeah your first name is Carey,
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- Carey Grant.
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- I'm sorry I'm not
- following this at all.
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- 00:12:20,372 --> 00:12:22,308
- Judy! Judy! Judy!
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- 00:12:23,409 --> 00:12:25,376
- He said it in
- "Bringing Up Baby".
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- 00:12:25,377 --> 00:12:29,114
- No! No! No! You are getting that
- confused with Larry Storch the
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- 00:12:29,115 --> 00:12:32,217
- comedian who does the impression
- of Carey Grant with Judy Garland
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- 00:12:32,218 --> 00:12:33,353
- in the stage show.
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- Susan! Susan! Susan!
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- That's what Carey Grant
- said in "Bringing Up Baby".
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- Exactly.
- Thank you.
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- 00:12:39,392 --> 00:12:42,827
- Okay I'm fine with
- calling him Susan.
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- Ping Pong, you are being
- promoted to loader on Max's team
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- 00:12:45,464 --> 00:12:48,333
- until we find a replacement for
- Kelly; get a good system worked
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- 00:12:48,334 --> 00:12:49,868
- out with your gunner, alright?
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- 00:12:49,869 --> 00:12:51,237
- No problem Sarge.
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- We'll show you how a real
- gun team works.
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- 00:12:54,540 --> 00:12:58,276
- Oh yeah, you do that Max,
- alright.
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- 00:12:58,277 --> 00:13:01,412
- Alright everybody McConkie needs
- his Hellcats up in Brownlog.
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- 00:13:01,413 --> 00:13:07,852
- Brownlog? It's a Braunlage,
- Braunlage.
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- 00:13:07,853 --> 00:13:09,287
- You done?
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- 00:13:09,288 --> 00:13:12,457
- We are not fighting the German
- language or the people,
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- we are fighting the Nazis.
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- 00:13:15,030 --> 00:13:17,662
- So we need to persuade the
- Germans to come out with
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- their hands up.
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- 00:13:19,465 --> 00:13:21,668
- We got a lot of work to do.
- Lets load up.
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- 00:13:27,940 --> 00:13:30,608
- Mitchell, I need another two
- rounds of armor piercing
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- 00:13:30,609 --> 00:13:33,113
- - for the ready rack.
- - You got it.
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- 00:13:36,615 --> 00:13:39,252
- Danny!
- Get down here!
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- 00:13:42,855 --> 00:13:45,256
- You want to dig a fox
- hole for fun?
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- No why would I want to do that?
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- Because you are a numbskull,
- I told you yesterday,
- 224
- 00:13:49,962 --> 00:13:52,664
- "don't smoke around the ammo".
- 225
- 00:13:52,665 --> 00:13:54,465
- I know I'm sorry I forgot.
- 226
- 00:13:54,466 --> 00:13:57,202
- You forgot?
- He forgot.
- 227
- 00:13:57,203 --> 00:13:58,907
- How do you forget, you're the loader,
- 228
- 00:13:59,107 --> 00:14:01,272
- you handle ammo more than
- anybody on this crew?
- 229
- 00:14:01,273 --> 00:14:02,707
- I don't know why I forget,
- I just-
- 230
- 00:14:02,708 --> 00:14:06,978
- Keep it up, and you'll be digging a fox hole
- for each man on this team, you got me?
- 231
- 00:14:06,979 --> 00:14:07,979
- Yes Sarge.
- 232
- 00:14:09,949 --> 00:14:11,551
- Sometimes I wonder about you.
- 233
- 00:14:12,852 --> 00:14:15,920
- You don't have to wonder
- anymore, it's been confirmed,
- 234
- 00:14:15,921 --> 00:14:19,624
- Barlow's IQ test results
- came back negative.
- 235
- 00:14:19,625 --> 00:14:21,327
- Here you go Danny Boy.
- 236
- 00:14:44,483 --> 00:14:48,536
- Sorry for the delay gentlemen but
- we are going to finally get you out of here.
- 237
- 00:14:51,457 --> 00:14:54,727
- Lieutenant, you feeling okay?
- 238
- 00:14:55,661 --> 00:14:59,731
- I'm fine, just a
- little knackered.
- 239
- 00:14:59,732 --> 00:15:02,667
- So what happened out there?
- 240
- 00:15:02,668 --> 00:15:05,570
- What did Shonbeck do to you?
- 241
- 00:15:05,571 --> 00:15:07,840
- Well, that is a long story.
- 242
- 00:15:08,941 --> 00:15:10,551
- I don't know where he came from,
- 243
- 00:15:10,751 --> 00:15:13,468
- but he caught us coming up
- past a farm of Quedlinburg.
- 244
- 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:16,714
- Shonbeck took us
- out into the woods,
- 245
- 00:15:16,715 --> 00:15:18,751
- I was sure he was
- going to kill us.
- 246
- 00:15:36,068 --> 00:15:42,507
- Lieutenant Goss, 12 kilometers
- is quite far on foot,
- 247
- 00:15:42,508 --> 00:15:45,643
- I'm surprised you were not
- caught sooner.
- 248
- 00:15:45,644 --> 00:15:49,682
- Your stolen uniform however
- do help I have to admit.
- 249
- 00:15:51,417 --> 00:15:53,419
- Shall we take a walk gentlemen.
- 250
- 00:15:56,689 --> 00:16:00,725
- You see the dilemma here is that
- there are strict orders to shoot
- 251
- 00:16:00,726 --> 00:16:04,429
- any enemy soldiers who disguise
- themselves as Germans.
- 252
- 00:16:04,430 --> 00:16:05,698
- Stop here.
- 253
- 00:16:07,333 --> 00:16:08,668
- Turn around,
- 254
- 00:16:11,003 --> 00:16:12,472
- kneel down.
- 255
- 00:16:17,476 --> 00:16:23,681
- My favorite pistol, my father
- took it from a British officer
- 256
- 00:16:23,682 --> 00:16:27,051
- he killed in the great war,
- it's much better than
- 257
- 00:16:27,052 --> 00:16:28,487
- our 9mm Luger.
- 258
- 00:16:30,122 --> 00:16:34,592
- Do you know why the British
- changed from the 455 Webley to
- 259
- 00:16:34,593 --> 00:16:36,596
- the standard issue Enfield?
- 260
- 00:16:41,633 --> 00:16:43,636
- Do you lieutenant?
- 261
- 00:16:44,636 --> 00:16:46,306
- You're British,
- 262
- 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:49,776
- perhaps some insight.
- 263
- 00:16:53,078 --> 00:16:57,684
- No? Neither do I.
- 264
- 00:16:58,817 --> 00:17:03,456
- It just seem odd to use
- the Enfield over the Webley,
- 265
- 00:17:05,624 --> 00:17:06,859
- such a waste.
- 266
- 00:17:10,062 --> 00:17:14,467
- There is a game we liked to play
- on the Russian front;
- 267
- 00:17:16,402 --> 00:17:19,537
- whomever is the last
- man standing,
- 268
- 00:17:19,538 --> 00:17:21,606
- well he can be on his
- way and run off
- 269
- 00:17:21,607 --> 00:17:24,577
- into the woods,
- whatever he pleases.
- 270
- 00:17:26,009 --> 00:17:28,746
- It seems like a rather generous
- offer considering the
- 271
- 00:17:28,747 --> 00:17:30,616
- seriousness of your crime.
- 272
- 00:17:33,419 --> 00:17:39,524
- It's very simple you just put it
- to your head, pull the trigger
- 273
- 00:17:39,525 --> 00:17:44,931
- and then of course if you are
- still alive you pass it on.
- 274
- 00:17:52,638 --> 00:17:55,375
- Go on take it.
- 275
- 00:17:58,409 --> 00:18:00,778
- I certainly don't want
- to be the one to choose
- 276
- 00:18:00,779 --> 00:18:02,515
- that wouldn't be fair.
- 277
- 00:18:08,554 --> 00:18:09,655
- Simple.
- 278
- 00:18:15,861 --> 00:18:20,865
- Now if you don't want to
- consider my offer, I can kill
- 279
- 00:18:20,866 --> 00:18:24,670
- you all now then get back to
- more pressing matters.
- 280
- 00:18:31,677 --> 00:18:32,879
- Very good.
- 281
- 00:19:29,268 --> 00:19:30,953
- All right Mitchell, move us out.
- 282
- 00:19:35,974 --> 00:19:37,743
- Mitchell, lets go.
- 283
- 00:19:39,678 --> 00:19:41,814
- Shhhh, I'm saying a prayer.
- 284
- 00:19:43,582 --> 00:19:45,051
- Amen Sarge.
- 285
- 00:19:45,651 --> 00:19:47,019
- Amen.
- 286
- 00:20:28,727 --> 00:20:30,194
- What's going on?
- 287
- 00:20:30,195 --> 00:20:33,297
- German blew a hydro dam last
- night flood the whole area.
- 288
- 00:20:33,298 --> 00:20:35,866
- We got the engineers up there
- looking for needed repairs.
- 289
- 00:20:35,867 --> 00:20:37,268
- So what about the rest
- of our trucks?
- 290
- 00:20:37,269 --> 00:20:39,904
- We let them risk it all but the
- last track that crossed.
- 291
- 00:20:39,905 --> 00:20:41,072
- It got caught up in something
- 292
- 00:20:41,073 --> 00:20:42,907
- tipped over the
- bridge into the river,
- 293
- 00:20:42,908 --> 00:20:44,409
- luckily no one died.
- 294
- 00:20:44,410 --> 00:20:46,377
- It is going to take most of the
- day to repair that bridge.
- 295
- 00:20:46,378 --> 00:20:47,679
- So what do we do?
- 296
- 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:50,881
- You, you need to take
- 520 to St. Andreasberg,
- 297
- 00:20:50,882 --> 00:20:52,617
- they got a bailey
- bridge up there where
- 298
- 00:20:52,618 --> 00:20:53,618
- you can cross.
- 299
- 00:20:53,619 --> 00:20:54,885
- And how far is that?
- 300
- 00:20:54,886 --> 00:20:56,220
- 20 miles, take you an hour.
- 301
- 00:20:56,221 --> 00:20:58,122
- A lot better than
- waiting around here
- 302
- 00:20:58,123 --> 00:20:59,659
- for who knows how long.
- 303
- 00:21:00,392 --> 00:21:01,694
- Thanks.
- 304
- 00:21:02,750 --> 00:21:03,961
- Hey what's the hold up.
- 305
- 00:21:03,962 --> 00:21:05,884
- We are going to take
- the alternate route
- 306
- 00:21:05,886 --> 00:21:08,308
- through St. Andreasberg
- so into the void we go.
- 307
- 00:21:09,735 --> 00:21:13,004
- Sorry gentlemen MPs are telling
- us the bridge is out so we got
- 308
- 00:21:13,005 --> 00:21:14,372
- to take a detour.
- 309
- 00:21:14,373 --> 00:21:18,409
- I don't mind the drive it's
- rather pleasant actually.
- 310
- 00:21:18,410 --> 00:21:20,945
- Lieutenant Goss here on the
- other hand I'm not so sure he
- 311
- 00:21:20,946 --> 00:21:22,615
- likes the potholes.
- 312
- 00:21:23,649 --> 00:21:25,544
- You can ride upfront if
- you want sir.
- 313
- 00:21:33,925 --> 00:21:35,127
- Lieutenant Goss.
- 314
- 00:21:36,394 --> 00:21:39,664
- Sergeant Jesse Owens nice to
- meet you lieutenant
- 315
- 00:21:39,665 --> 00:21:44,101
- Jesse Owens as in Olympic gold
- medalist Jesse Owens.
- 316
- 00:21:44,102 --> 00:21:45,102
- You got it.
- 317
- 00:21:45,795 --> 00:21:49,006
- Well it can't be to shabby being
- confused with him I dare say.
- 318
- 00:21:49,007 --> 00:21:50,808
- He seems like an all right guy.
- 319
- 00:21:50,809 --> 00:21:51,709
- All right.
- 320
- 00:21:51,710 --> 00:21:53,978
- The man won three gold medals.
- 321
- 00:21:53,979 --> 00:21:55,546
- Four gold medals sir.
- 322
- 00:21:55,547 --> 00:21:59,417
- Four gold medals and he broke a
- world record made the Germans
- 323
- 00:21:59,418 --> 00:22:01,103
- look like a bunch of
- old pansies.
- 324
- 00:22:02,821 --> 00:22:06,025
- I could lap him, let's go.
- 325
- 00:22:26,812 --> 00:22:28,781
- Danny Boy got any gum?
- 326
- 00:22:29,515 --> 00:22:31,482
- Not if you are no going
- to call me that.
- 327
- 00:22:31,483 --> 00:22:33,217
- I told you it's your nickname.
- 328
- 00:22:33,218 --> 00:22:35,720
- I told you I don't
- want a nickname.
- 329
- 00:22:35,721 --> 00:22:39,123
- Tough, that's your nickname you
- know like the song,
- 330
- 00:22:39,124 --> 00:22:42,426
- ♪ Oh Danny Boy the pipes,
- 331
- 00:22:42,427 --> 00:22:47,498
- ♪ the pipes are calling
- from glen to glen,
- 332
- 00:22:47,499 --> 00:22:50,935
- ♪ and down the mountain side.
- 333
- 00:22:50,936 --> 00:22:57,141
- ♪ The summer's gone,
- and all the flowers are dying.
- 334
- 00:22:57,142 --> 00:22:59,211
- That's an Irish song.
- 335
- 00:23:01,146 --> 00:23:06,150
- ♪ 'Tis you, 'tis you must go
- and I must bide.
- 336
- 00:23:06,151 --> 00:23:10,087
- I'm not Irish and neither
- are my ancestors.
- 337
- 00:23:10,088 --> 00:23:12,091
- Come on give me a piece.
- 338
- 00:23:18,797 --> 00:23:19,999
- Thanks.
- 339
- 00:23:22,901 --> 00:23:31,041
- ♪ 'Tis I'll be here in
- sunshine or in shadow.
- 340
- 00:23:31,042 --> 00:23:34,812
- ♪ Oh Danny Boy,
- oh Danny Boy,
- 341
- 00:23:34,813 --> 00:23:39,251
- ♪ I love you so.
- 342
- 00:23:42,154 --> 00:23:44,054
- Feeling any better sir?
- 343
- 00:23:44,055 --> 00:23:47,191
- Now that I can see where we
- are going, much.
- 344
- 00:23:47,192 --> 00:23:50,350
- Well since you could see allow
- me to give you the grand tour,
- 345
- 00:23:51,897 --> 00:23:55,466
- welcome to the Void 100 miles of
- debris and carnage after our
- 346
- 00:23:55,467 --> 00:23:59,537
- troops crossed the Rhine they
- advanced over 15 miles a day.
- 347
- 00:23:59,538 --> 00:24:03,073
- These are the leftovers, yeah we
- get to go home and the people of
- 348
- 00:24:03,074 --> 00:24:07,077
- this country get to stand around
- and stare at this.
- 349
- 00:24:07,078 --> 00:24:08,881
- You like driving trucks?
- 350
- 00:24:10,949 --> 00:24:14,018
- As they say it is better than
- riding at the back of the bus
- 351
- 00:24:14,019 --> 00:24:17,256
- Sorry I'm not familiar
- with that saying.
- 352
- 00:24:18,748 --> 00:24:22,327
- It's what bus drivers said to us,
- colored folks back home in America.
- 353
- 00:24:22,329 --> 00:24:27,032
- "Negros have to ride in the back of
- the bus even if the bus is empty."
- 354
- 00:24:28,233 --> 00:24:31,837
- What kind of rubbish is that, it
- hardly seems fair?
- 355
- 00:24:34,239 --> 00:24:35,975
- I would say so sir.
- 356
- 00:25:09,608 --> 00:25:11,911
- Back it up!
- Back it up!
- 357
- 00:25:20,318 --> 00:25:22,988
- Gotta move, let's go, lets go.
- 358
- 00:25:40,005 --> 00:25:42,339
- Take this through
- St. Andreasberg.
- 359
- 00:25:42,340 --> 00:25:43,641
- Sankt Andreasberg.
- 360
- 00:25:43,642 --> 00:25:49,313
- And then you turn right
- along this road here.
- 361
- 00:25:49,314 --> 00:25:51,984
- Okay got it.
- 362
- 00:25:53,919 --> 00:25:56,020
- Simms you look forward
- to going home?
- 363
- 00:25:56,021 --> 00:25:59,123
- You know what I'm looking
- forward to, nice clean pair of
- 364
- 00:25:59,124 --> 00:26:02,326
- pajamas, it's going to be nice not
- to have to sleep in this anymore.
- 365
- 00:26:02,327 --> 00:26:04,194
- That does sound good.
- 366
- 00:26:04,195 --> 00:26:05,662
- I'm worried about etiquette.
- 367
- 00:26:05,663 --> 00:26:09,066
- I'm going to say or do something
- wrong I know it, like forget how
- 368
- 00:26:09,067 --> 00:26:12,470
- to use a glass and end up drinking straight
- out of the milk bottle or something.
- 369
- 00:26:12,471 --> 00:26:17,408
- The thing you remember when you
- get home is that, these are
- 370
- 00:26:17,409 --> 00:26:21,178
- ladies they ain't like these
- French apples so you can't just
- 371
- 00:26:21,179 --> 00:26:25,282
- walk up to them and say, "how
- much?" Try something like,
- 372
- 00:26:25,283 --> 00:26:31,055
- "lovely day won't you agree?"
- Or, "pardon me but have you ever
- 373
- 00:26:31,056 --> 00:26:32,990
- "seen the Eiffel Tower?"
- 374
- 00:26:32,991 --> 00:26:35,928
- Yeah then you can ask
- them how much?
- 375
- 00:26:40,365 --> 00:26:42,001
- Is that you?
- 376
- 00:26:44,235 --> 00:26:45,669
- You stink I'm not joking
- 377
- 00:26:45,670 --> 00:26:47,037
- It's the K-rations
- 378
- 00:26:47,038 --> 00:26:52,476
- Well don't eat the K-rations,
- the C-rations are safer.
- 379
- 00:26:52,477 --> 00:26:55,713
- I don't like meat that comes in
- a tin, K-rations have this bar
- 380
- 00:26:55,714 --> 00:26:58,215
- of chocolate in them and it's
- cheap and waxy probably
- 381
- 00:26:58,216 --> 00:26:59,316
- what does it to me.
- 382
- 00:26:59,317 --> 00:27:01,053
- Then don't eat it.
- 383
- 00:27:02,253 --> 00:27:04,388
- Maybe it's the D-bars.
- 384
- 00:27:04,389 --> 00:27:07,691
- You've been eating
- D-bars as well?
- 385
- 00:27:07,692 --> 00:27:09,593
- No wonder you smell like that.
- 386
- 00:27:09,594 --> 00:27:11,061
- I like sweets.
- 387
- 00:27:11,062 --> 00:27:15,199
- Well you know what you don't
- smell sweet, you better climb in
- 388
- 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:18,235
- your fart sack and sleep it off
- tonight, no more
- 389
- 00:27:18,236 --> 00:27:21,540
- K-rations and no D-bars.
- 390
- 00:27:24,275 --> 00:27:25,409
- He's got a point.
- 391
- 00:27:25,410 --> 00:27:28,480
- Yeah and so does the end
- of my finger...
- 392
- 00:27:30,181 --> 00:27:31,951
- pull the pin.
- 393
- 00:27:36,421 --> 00:27:37,556
- Barlow!
- 394
- 00:27:39,257 --> 00:27:42,292
- The Hellcats weighs like
- 35,000 pounds.
- 395
- 00:27:42,293 --> 00:27:44,294
- You should be able to
- cross there.
- 396
- 00:27:44,295 --> 00:27:47,031
- That bailey bridge will hold the
- weight of your Hellcats.
- 397
- 00:27:47,032 --> 00:27:49,033
- All right thanks, good.
- 398
- 00:27:49,034 --> 00:27:51,035
- Hey Mack, can I buy a bottle
- of soda from you?
- 399
- 00:27:51,036 --> 00:27:52,171
- Sure.
- 400
- 00:27:57,175 --> 00:27:58,275
- It's quarter.
- 401
- 00:27:58,276 --> 00:27:59,176
- What?
- 402
- 00:27:59,177 --> 00:28:01,111
- It's a nickel back at the CP.
- 403
- 00:28:01,112 --> 00:28:04,049
- Out here, it's a quarter.
- 404
- 00:28:30,775 --> 00:28:33,039
- I don't think they are
- following us anymore.
- 405
- 00:28:35,413 --> 00:28:36,948
- Cheers.
- 406
- 00:28:40,819 --> 00:28:42,287
- That's east right?
- 407
- 00:28:42,754 --> 00:28:44,089
- Yeah.
- 408
- 00:28:45,557 --> 00:28:47,391
- So if we head that way.
- 409
- 00:28:47,392 --> 00:28:50,062
- Yeah it will take us back
- to the main road.
- 410
- 00:28:50,795 --> 00:28:52,064
- Yeah.
- 411
- 00:29:10,281 --> 00:29:15,486
- All right boys listen up, we are
- going to take the scenic route.
- 412
- 00:29:15,487 --> 00:29:18,489
- So we are going to head up to
- 520 through St. Andreasberg
- 413
- 00:29:18,490 --> 00:29:20,392
- Sankt Andreasberg.
- 414
- 00:29:21,392 --> 00:29:23,656
- You just won't leave it alone,
- will you Max?
- 415
- 00:29:25,163 --> 00:29:27,464
- Up through Sankt Andreasberg...
- 416
- 00:29:27,465 --> 00:29:29,676
- and then we are going
- to cross at the river
- 417
- 00:29:51,189 --> 00:29:53,659
- Lieutenant come look at this.
- 418
- 00:30:15,914 --> 00:30:20,484
- Let's go up in that tower and
- see where we're at right?
- 419
- 00:30:20,485 --> 00:30:23,589
- Yeah, let's go.
- 420
- 00:31:21,479 --> 00:31:25,516
- Max, why don't you come up here
- and practice your German.
- 421
- 00:31:43,268 --> 00:31:46,503
- He and his family are their way
- to their uncle's farm house.
- 422
- 00:31:46,504 --> 00:31:49,773
- Simms, search him.
- 423
- 00:31:49,774 --> 00:31:52,444
- Arms up.
- 424
- 00:32:01,286 --> 00:32:04,602
- He said, the farmhouse is about
- eight kilometers this direction.
- 425
- 00:32:07,425 --> 00:32:10,495
- Up at the next turn and then
- down the little Canyon Road.
- 426
- 00:32:15,566 --> 00:32:17,830
- It looks like his name is
- Frederick Kardoff.
- 427
- 00:32:23,675 --> 00:32:25,076
- Ask him about the car.
- 428
- 00:32:32,350 --> 00:32:34,561
- We drove over a big hole a
- couple of times-
- 429
- 00:32:37,789 --> 00:32:40,357
- Something happened and now the
- car won't start,
- 430
- 00:32:40,358 --> 00:32:41,692
- he doesn't know.
- 431
- 00:32:41,693 --> 00:32:43,428
- See if this matches up.
- 432
- 00:32:45,563 --> 00:32:46,632
- It was loaded.
- 433
- 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,636
- Look at his boots, those
- are military issue,
- 434
- 00:32:52,637 --> 00:32:54,404
- he must be deserter,
- 435
- 00:32:54,405 --> 00:32:56,090
- ditched his uniform
- I'm guessing.
- 436
- 00:32:59,477 --> 00:33:01,380
- - Mitchell?
- - Yeah.
- 437
- 00:33:02,413 --> 00:33:05,851
- Come look at the car; see if you
- can get it to work.
- 438
- 00:33:08,019 --> 00:33:09,488
- I'm a coming.
- 439
- 00:33:11,489 --> 00:33:13,858
- Who's the girl?
- 440
- 00:33:17,362 --> 00:33:19,564
- It's his wife Gerta.
- 441
- 00:33:22,367 --> 00:33:24,303
- His daughter Aunna.
- 442
- 00:33:25,403 --> 00:33:27,773
- I need some wire,
- just give me a second.
- 443
- 00:33:32,577 --> 00:33:34,611
- - Danny.
- - Yeah.
- 444
- 00:33:34,612 --> 00:33:35,570
- Bring me some K-rations.
- 445
- 00:33:35,770 --> 00:33:36,847
- What about the 10 and ones?
- 446
- 00:33:36,848 --> 00:33:40,417
- No, the K-rations, I'm sure
- you've got some tucked in
- 447
- 00:33:40,418 --> 00:33:41,553
- there somewhere.
- 448
- 00:33:53,798 --> 00:33:55,600
- Yeah, I think I got it.
- 449
- 00:33:56,601 --> 00:34:00,103
- It's just the linkage
- arm to the carburetor,
- 450
- 00:34:00,104 --> 00:34:01,840
- a little bolt fell off,
- 451
- 00:34:02,807 --> 00:34:05,476
- that should hold,
- have him start it.
- 452
- 00:34:12,683 --> 00:34:14,419
- This looks fine.
- 453
- 00:34:32,737 --> 00:34:33,939
- Let him go.
- 454
- 00:34:35,073 --> 00:34:36,373
- Sergeant, we should report him.
- 455
- 00:34:36,374 --> 00:34:38,744
- Corporal, I'm letting him go.
- 456
- 00:34:40,745 --> 00:34:43,880
- Now let's help these
- people and be on our way,
- 457
- 00:34:43,881 --> 00:34:45,724
- Barlow give the
- rations to the lady.
- 458
- 00:35:47,778 --> 00:35:49,448
- Owens.
- 459
- 00:36:01,626 --> 00:36:03,593
- - Keep an eye on this window.
- - Okay.
- 460
- 00:36:03,594 --> 00:36:05,437
- I'm going to go and
- check this room.
- 461
- 00:36:45,570 --> 00:36:49,508
- Owens, I found a way out.
- Come on.
- 462
- 00:36:52,009 --> 00:36:53,977
- We can get out this way.
- 463
- 00:36:53,978 --> 00:36:55,045
- Yeah, that's good.
- 464
- 00:36:55,046 --> 00:36:56,813
- Yeah, help me grab this.
- 465
- 00:36:56,814 --> 00:36:57,916
- Alright.
- 466
- 00:36:58,349 --> 00:36:59,784
- Not too heavy.
- 467
- 00:37:00,251 --> 00:37:02,087
- Shh-shh.
- 468
- 00:37:02,787 --> 00:37:04,122
- All right you go first.
- 469
- 00:37:46,831 --> 00:37:48,131
- Owens.
- 470
- 00:37:48,132 --> 00:37:50,066
- What?
- 471
- 00:37:50,067 --> 00:37:51,836
- Can you hear that?
- 472
- 00:37:52,770 --> 00:37:55,639
- Yeah, that's armor coming.
- 473
- 00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:56,906
- No, don't, don't...
- 474
- 00:37:56,907 --> 00:37:58,408
- No, no, don't shoot.
- 475
- 00:37:58,409 --> 00:37:59,576
- Don't move.
- 476
- 00:37:59,577 --> 00:38:01,778
- You saw us this morning
- at the stalag.
- 477
- 00:38:01,779 --> 00:38:02,979
- Criss-cross.
- 478
- 00:38:02,980 --> 00:38:05,086
- Shoe lace, the counter
- sign is shoe lace.
- 479
- 00:38:09,787 --> 00:38:11,261
- What are you doing out here?
- 480
- 00:38:12,657 --> 00:38:14,759
- MPs redirected us up
- this road...
- 481
- 00:38:16,727 --> 00:38:18,361
- we got ambushed, they took out
- 482
- 00:38:18,362 --> 00:38:21,600
- our trucks with artillery fire,
- we lost everybody.
- 483
- 00:38:22,900 --> 00:38:26,111
- This is Lieutenant Goss and I'm
- Sergeant Owens with the 514th.
- 484
- 00:38:28,005 --> 00:38:29,608
- Let's check it out.
- 485
- 00:38:32,710 --> 00:38:35,078
- Danny, give the
- lieutenant a weapon.
- 486
- 00:38:35,079 --> 00:38:36,179
- Okay, will do.
- 487
- 00:38:36,180 --> 00:38:37,983
- Simms, take a 50.
- 488
- 00:38:41,152 --> 00:38:43,353
- Here you go sir, you've
- got a full clip.
- 489
- 00:38:43,354 --> 00:38:45,088
- Where are these Germans exactly?
- 490
- 00:38:45,089 --> 00:38:47,857
- They are dug in.
- A few kilometers from here.
- 491
- 00:38:47,858 --> 00:38:50,161
- All right.
- Lead the way lieutenant.
- 492
- 00:38:59,370 --> 00:39:01,172
- No sign of any Germans...
- 493
- 00:39:02,707 --> 00:39:04,655
- There's another place
- we should check.
- 494
- 00:39:24,095 --> 00:39:28,066
- Well, they're not leaving
- any time soon.
- 495
- 00:39:30,735 --> 00:39:32,236
- It's a tank.
- 496
- 00:39:32,237 --> 00:39:36,185
- It's about 30 meters up from a couple
- of rocks on the west side of the road.
- 497
- 00:39:36,540 --> 00:39:41,978
- It's a Panzer, dug in deep,
- it's in firing position.
- 498
- 00:39:41,979 --> 00:39:44,716
- And there is the
- commanding officer.
- 499
- 00:39:46,851 --> 00:39:50,019
- Klaus Shonbeck he is a
- retired tank commander.
- 500
- 00:39:50,020 --> 00:39:52,155
- He teaches at the Tank Corp
- Training School.
- 501
- 00:39:52,156 --> 00:39:57,762
- Well, apparently he's come
- out of retirement.
- 502
- 00:40:09,540 --> 00:40:11,743
- Hey Mitchell is everything okay?
- 503
- 00:40:13,811 --> 00:40:16,446
- No, she is just leaking
- a little.
- 504
- 00:40:16,447 --> 00:40:19,482
- You know what they say;
- Hellcats don't leak oil.
- 505
- 00:40:19,483 --> 00:40:21,918
- Yeah, they just mark
- their territory.
- 506
- 00:40:21,919 --> 00:40:25,155
- - That's right, you know Hellcats.
- - Oh yeah.
- 507
- 00:40:25,156 --> 00:40:27,223
- Did almost two years of
- trainings in maneuvers at Camp
- 508
- 00:40:27,224 --> 00:40:31,127
- Hood with the 827th and came
- here and saw action in November.
- 509
- 00:40:31,128 --> 00:40:33,196
- 827th, really?
- 510
- 00:40:33,197 --> 00:40:34,564
- That's part of the
- 12th division.
- 511
- 00:40:34,565 --> 00:40:35,800
- Yeah, you got it.
- 512
- 00:40:36,901 --> 00:40:39,068
- So where did you guys get
- these Hellcats?
- 513
- 00:40:39,069 --> 00:40:41,104
- I don't really know, they just
- showed up in March.
- 514
- 00:40:41,105 --> 00:40:42,305
- March?
- 515
- 00:40:42,306 --> 00:40:44,240
- We were in tow guns
- for most of the war,
- 516
- 00:40:44,241 --> 00:40:47,043
- and then they
- switch us over the M18s.
- 517
- 00:40:47,044 --> 00:40:50,947
- Only two weeks of training
- and maneuvers, why?
- 518
- 00:40:50,948 --> 00:40:53,183
- It's just that they took
- our Hellcats in February
- 519
- 00:40:53,184 --> 00:40:56,853
- and I'm looking at this registration number
- and it looks awfully familiar.
- 520
- 00:40:56,854 --> 00:40:58,188
- Really?
- 521
- 00:40:58,189 --> 00:40:59,257
- Hey Simms.
- 522
- 00:40:59,857 --> 00:41:00,991
- What?
- 523
- 00:41:00,992 --> 00:41:02,887
- Do you think he is
- telling the truth?
- 524
- 00:41:03,093 --> 00:41:04,494
- Which part?
- 525
- 00:41:04,495 --> 00:41:08,127
- Do you think these Hellcats used to
- belong to a bunch of colored boys?
- 526
- 00:41:08,833 --> 00:41:10,300
- No, he's lying.
- 527
- 00:41:10,301 --> 00:41:12,268
- No wonder I don't like
- riding in them.
- 528
- 00:41:12,269 --> 00:41:16,105
- Hey, were you the one who
- assaulted the officer
- 529
- 00:41:16,106 --> 00:41:17,809
- with an axe?
- 530
- 00:41:20,711 --> 00:41:24,280
- You know, I knew a couple of the white
- officers assigned to your battalion.
- 531
- 00:41:24,281 --> 00:41:26,184
- Heard all kinds of
- crazy stories.
- 532
- 00:41:26,849 --> 00:41:29,586
- Said you were always leaving
- your Hellcats unguarded,
- 533
- 00:41:29,587 --> 00:41:33,124
- wandering off, looking for
- places to sleep, hide,
- 534
- 00:41:34,158 --> 00:41:36,194
- disobeying direct orders.
- 535
- 00:41:37,261 --> 00:41:38,897
- Not in my gun team.
- 536
- 00:41:41,599 --> 00:41:45,403
- They said you were untrained,
- undisciplined and substandard.
- 537
- 00:41:47,004 --> 00:41:48,106
- But hey,
- 538
- 00:41:49,307 --> 00:41:52,465
- what do you expect from a bunch
- of boys with low AGCT scores?
- 539
- 00:41:57,181 --> 00:42:00,016
- We've got a panzer dug in,
- it's about two kilometers
- 540
- 00:42:00,017 --> 00:42:01,351
- up this road.
- 541
- 00:42:01,352 --> 00:42:05,054
- They've got at least a dozen
- foot soldiers with them.
- 542
- 00:42:05,055 --> 00:42:08,124
- Simms, get the CP on the horn.
- 543
- 00:42:08,125 --> 00:42:10,126
- On it.
- 544
- 00:42:10,127 --> 00:42:14,065
- Arctic Forward, this is Hellcat
- #2, are you there?
- 545
- 00:42:20,304 --> 00:42:23,172
- Over. Arctic Forward, this is
- Hellcat #2, do you copy?
- 546
- 00:42:23,173 --> 00:42:24,242
- Over.
- 547
- 00:42:28,646 --> 00:42:30,213
- Hellcat #1, this is
- 548
- 00:42:30,214 --> 00:42:33,017
- Hellcat #2, do you hear me?
- 549
- 00:42:36,186 --> 00:42:37,921
- I read you, go ahead.
- 550
- 00:42:37,922 --> 00:42:40,133
- Ping Pong how does that
- signal sound, over.
- 551
- 00:42:41,202 --> 00:42:44,360
- Like you are talking into a tin
- can, is your antenna hang up?
- 552
- 00:42:44,361 --> 00:42:45,929
- No.
- 553
- 00:42:45,930 --> 00:42:47,697
- Try channel two.
- 554
- 00:42:47,698 --> 00:42:49,133
- Roger that.
- 555
- 00:42:51,635 --> 00:42:55,338
- Arctic Forward, this is
- Hellcat #2, do you copy?
- 556
- 00:42:55,339 --> 00:42:56,875
- Over.
- 557
- 00:43:01,452 --> 00:43:02,979
- Hey Nelson our radio is crap,
- 558
- 00:43:02,980 --> 00:43:06,316
- can you call the CP and give him
- an update on the situation here?
- 559
- 00:43:06,317 --> 00:43:08,086
- Roger, will do.
- 560
- 00:43:09,253 --> 00:43:11,988
- Arctic Forward, this is Hellcat
- 1, do you read me?
- 561
- 00:43:11,989 --> 00:43:13,024
- Over.
- 562
- 00:43:15,125 --> 00:43:18,328
- Arctic Forward, this is
- Annie, do you copy?
- 563
- 00:43:18,329 --> 00:43:19,898
- Over.
- 564
- 00:43:25,369 --> 00:43:26,304
- Hey Sarge.
- 565
- 00:43:26,504 --> 00:43:29,973
- We are getting nothing on either radio;
- I'm guessing it's the mountains.
- 566
- 00:43:29,974 --> 00:43:31,274
- Well keep trying.
- 567
- 00:43:31,275 --> 00:43:32,310
- You got it.
- 568
- 00:43:33,811 --> 00:43:38,381
- Well the way I figure, we just
- knock out this panzer ourselves
- 569
- 00:43:38,382 --> 00:43:39,849
- and be on our way.
- 570
- 00:43:39,850 --> 00:43:42,251
- Sure we shouldn't wait for some
- support to get in here?
- 571
- 00:43:42,252 --> 00:43:43,922
- It's one lousy panzer.
- 572
- 00:43:44,655 --> 00:43:46,658
- We've got two tank destroyers.
- 573
- 00:43:47,992 --> 00:43:52,150
- Besides, what kind of support do you give
- to the guys who do all the supporting?
- 574
- 00:43:53,163 --> 00:43:55,431
- All right, but you said he
- is dug in deep.
- 575
- 00:43:55,432 --> 00:43:57,266
- There is no way to get around
- him for a kill shot.
- 576
- 00:43:57,267 --> 00:44:01,337
- Yeah, and he is old, slow,
- its armor is thin.
- 577
- 00:44:01,338 --> 00:44:03,031
- A round a 76 millimeters armor piercing;
- 578
- 00:44:03,032 --> 00:44:05,274
- we'll go straight through
- that front glacial plate.
- 579
- 00:44:05,275 --> 00:44:08,277
- Okay, when we are talking 1500
- yards, that's one thing.
- 580
- 00:44:08,278 --> 00:44:10,046
- But you said this is close,
- real close,
- 581
- 00:44:10,047 --> 00:44:11,514
- he gets off one shot.
- 582
- 00:44:11,515 --> 00:44:15,351
- One good hit and he cuts us open
- like a can of backed beans.
- 583
- 00:44:15,352 --> 00:44:16,487
- Max.
- 584
- 00:44:17,603 --> 00:44:21,025
- What happens if somebody comes down
- this road from the other side?
- 585
- 00:44:21,225 --> 00:44:22,460
- They are dead.
- 586
- 00:44:23,694 --> 00:44:24,852
- But we can prevent it.
- 587
- 00:44:25,863 --> 00:44:29,495
- The boys at Baker are counting on us;
- we've got to move this out, now.
- 588
- 00:44:30,334 --> 00:44:33,137
- I say we take out the Germans
- and be on our way.
- 589
- 00:44:36,140 --> 00:44:37,408
- Okay John.
- 590
- 00:44:37,775 --> 00:44:39,242
- I'm game.
- 591
- 00:44:39,243 --> 00:44:41,079
- But do not get me killed.
- 592
- 00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:45,715
- All right, what's the plan?
- 593
- 00:44:45,716 --> 00:44:48,284
- My gun team will move out in
- front of the Jimmy's, we'll cut
- 594
- 00:44:48,285 --> 00:44:50,319
- immediately to the right.
- 595
- 00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:54,057
- The Germans will track us try
- to get a kill shot.
- 596
- 00:44:54,058 --> 00:44:57,226
- At that point you guys come out
- from around the truck and you
- 597
- 00:44:57,227 --> 00:44:59,130
- fire on the panzer's position.
- 598
- 00:45:00,097 --> 00:45:01,798
- You are going to play decoy?
- 599
- 00:45:01,799 --> 00:45:05,136
- Yeah and you are going to
- knock them out.
- 600
- 00:45:07,304 --> 00:45:08,304
- Okay.
- 601
- 00:45:10,474 --> 00:45:13,743
- Holland, Rodger, let's load up.
- 602
- 00:45:13,744 --> 00:45:18,548
- I was thinking, Sergeant Owens
- should ride with us.
- 603
- 00:45:18,549 --> 00:45:20,116
- Sarge, I don't think it's
- a great idea-
- 604
- 00:45:20,117 --> 00:45:21,452
- Shut your pie hole.
- 605
- 00:45:26,457 --> 00:45:29,392
- I think it would be best if he
- stays here with the lieutenant.
- 606
- 00:45:29,393 --> 00:45:32,430
- Owens was a gun commander
- with the 827th.
- 607
- 00:45:33,864 --> 00:45:37,268
- A second pair of eyes up
- front would only help.
- 608
- 00:45:38,302 --> 00:45:39,370
- John,
- 609
- 00:45:41,572 --> 00:45:43,107
- he knows the drill.
- 610
- 00:45:48,212 --> 00:45:52,283
- Owens, you can ride upfront.
- 611
- 00:45:54,351 --> 00:45:55,486
- Let's move them out.
- 612
- 00:46:04,595 --> 00:46:07,563
- Welcome to the bread box.
- 613
- 00:46:07,564 --> 00:46:10,233
- Kind of nice being back
- in the Hellcat?
- 614
- 00:46:10,234 --> 00:46:16,474
- Oh yeah, feels like home,
- if you live in a box.
- 615
- 00:46:19,143 --> 00:46:24,547
- Hey, I'm sorry about Simms, you
- have just got to ignore him.
- 616
- 00:46:24,548 --> 00:46:27,150
- I've met plenty of his
- kind in my day.
- 617
- 00:46:27,151 --> 00:46:28,484
- I can handle it.
- 618
- 00:46:28,485 --> 00:46:30,419
- He is a bit of an odd duck.
- 619
- 00:46:30,420 --> 00:46:33,422
- He is a real stickler about
- following all the rules.
- 620
- 00:46:33,423 --> 00:46:35,126
- By the book?
- 621
- 00:46:35,893 --> 00:46:39,228
- Yeah, I think they call
- that anal retentive.
- 622
- 00:46:39,229 --> 00:46:40,651
- You've got half that right.
- 623
- 00:46:43,834 --> 00:46:47,472
- Atwood, we are all ready up
- here, ready to roll.
- 624
- 00:46:53,510 --> 00:46:56,646
- Danny Boy, what have we
- got in the spread?
- 625
- 00:46:56,647 --> 00:46:59,448
- We've got three rounds of armor
- piercing and two rounds of high
- 626
- 00:46:59,449 --> 00:47:01,184
- explosives in the ready rack.
- 627
- 00:47:01,185 --> 00:47:02,952
- Go ahead and load us up
- with armor piercing.
- 628
- 00:47:02,953 --> 00:47:04,522
- You've got it Sarge.
- 629
- 00:47:09,660 --> 00:47:15,364
- Max, load up with AP. Once you
- light them up you hit them
- 630
- 00:47:15,365 --> 00:47:17,233
- again just to be sure.
- 631
- 00:47:17,234 --> 00:47:18,402
- Roger that.
- 632
- 00:47:19,436 --> 00:47:22,371
- Any more of your chaps come up
- the road; I'll hold them up
- 633
- 00:47:22,372 --> 00:47:23,472
- till you get back.
- 634
- 00:47:23,473 --> 00:47:25,208
- Great, see you soon.
- 635
- 00:47:25,209 --> 00:47:26,309
- God speed.
- 636
- 00:47:26,310 --> 00:47:27,416
- Mitchell take us out.
- 637
- 00:47:35,452 --> 00:47:38,888
- Ramrod, keep it steady
- at this speed.
- 638
- 00:47:38,889 --> 00:47:40,358
- Roger that.
- 639
- 00:47:44,494 --> 00:47:47,698
- Where are you Fritzy,
- coming to get you.
- 640
- 00:48:03,313 --> 00:48:05,615
- Condron, stop here.
- 641
- 00:48:05,616 --> 00:48:06,483
- Fire when ready.
- 642
- 00:48:06,484 --> 00:48:09,187
- - Clear.
- - On the way.
- 643
- 00:48:11,555 --> 00:48:15,326
- Another round of AP. One yard to
- the left and slightly lower.
- 644
- 00:48:16,660 --> 00:48:18,529
- - Clear.
- - On the way.
- 645
- 00:48:21,932 --> 00:48:24,267
- Mitchell, stop here.
- 646
- 00:48:24,268 --> 00:48:25,668
- Fire on my signal.
- 647
- 00:48:25,669 --> 00:48:27,371
- Two yards to the left.
- 648
- 00:48:31,375 --> 00:48:34,212
- Two panzers right flank, move,
- move, move, move.
- 649
- 00:48:35,545 --> 00:48:38,216
- Whitaker, get out of there.
- 650
- 00:49:12,616 --> 00:49:15,686
- Hey we've got Germans
- on the west.
- 651
- 00:49:28,532 --> 00:49:31,335
- Sergeant's been hit.
- He's hit.
- 652
- 00:49:41,645 --> 00:49:43,579
- What now?
- Where do we go?
- 653
- 00:49:43,580 --> 00:49:46,617
- Mitchell don't stop, keep
- moving, follow the road.
- 654
- 00:50:06,603 --> 00:50:07,805
- Over here.
- 655
- 00:50:19,583 --> 00:50:20,785
- What happened?
- 656
- 00:50:21,852 --> 00:50:23,786
- They're all dead.
- 657
- 00:50:23,787 --> 00:50:25,088
- Oh my eyes are burning
- 658
- 00:50:25,089 --> 00:50:27,656
- I'm going ahead to find the
- rest of the chaps.
- 659
- 00:50:27,657 --> 00:50:29,392
- You going to be okay?
- 660
- 00:50:29,393 --> 00:50:30,527
- Yeah I'm fine.
- 661
- 00:50:30,528 --> 00:50:32,461
- I'm not going anywhere
- with this leg
- 662
- 00:50:32,462 --> 00:50:34,163
- Take my rifle.
- 663
- 00:50:34,164 --> 00:50:35,566
- It's got a full clip.
- 664
- 00:50:37,534 --> 00:50:38,836
- I'll guard the road...
- 665
- 00:50:40,570 --> 00:50:42,405
- let them know I'm here.
- 666
- 00:50:42,406 --> 00:50:43,674
- God speed.
- 667
- 00:50:50,614 --> 00:50:52,148
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
- 668
- 00:50:52,149 --> 00:50:54,917
- Hey Mitchell, this bridge is
- never going to hold our weight.
- 669
- 00:50:54,918 --> 00:50:56,620
- Back it up.
- Back it up.
- 670
- 00:51:10,434 --> 00:51:12,435
- Whitaker, this is Simms.
- Do you copy?
- 671
- 00:51:12,436 --> 00:51:13,702
- Over.
- 672
- 00:51:13,703 --> 00:51:14,972
- Sarge is dead.
- 673
- 00:51:16,106 --> 00:51:17,907
- Mitchell, did any of
- them make it out?
- 674
- 00:51:17,908 --> 00:51:19,910
- I couldn't see anything.
- 675
- 00:51:21,511 --> 00:51:23,212
- I saw three German tanks.
- 676
- 00:51:23,213 --> 00:51:25,483
- Whitaker got one of
- them for sure.
- 677
- 00:51:26,917 --> 00:51:28,484
- We're trapped.
- 678
- 00:51:28,485 --> 00:51:30,719
- Since we can't go across this
- bridge the only way out of here
- 679
- 00:51:30,720 --> 00:51:33,456
- is to go back up that road
- where those krauts are.
- 680
- 00:51:33,457 --> 00:51:35,891
- It won't be long before they
- come looking for us.
- 681
- 00:51:35,892 --> 00:51:37,728
- We got to get out of here.
- 682
- 00:51:39,229 --> 00:51:41,964
- This is Hellcat #2.
- Does anyone read me?
- 683
- 00:51:41,965 --> 00:51:43,467
- Copy.
- 684
- 00:51:48,238 --> 00:51:50,741
- Do you read me?
- Is there anyone out there?
- 685
- 00:51:51,875 --> 00:51:55,513
- This is Avenging Angel if anyone
- can read me, copy.
- 686
- 00:52:24,775 --> 00:52:27,543
- Looks like we're stuck here 'til
- someone comes looking for us.
- 687
- 00:52:27,544 --> 00:52:29,512
- There's higher ground, next
- to that building.
- 688
- 00:52:29,513 --> 00:52:32,181
- Maybe we can get a stronger
- signal from there.
- 689
- 00:52:32,182 --> 00:52:35,586
- Danny, leave him, mount up.
- 690
- 00:52:57,251 --> 00:52:59,041
- Arctic Forward, this is
- Hellcat #2.
- 691
- 00:52:59,042 --> 00:53:00,544
- Do you copy?
- 692
- 00:53:04,781 --> 00:53:07,017
- Does anybody read me?
- Over.
- 693
- 00:53:12,956 --> 00:53:15,558
- Arctic Forward, this
- is Avenging Angel.
- 694
- 00:53:15,559 --> 00:53:16,727
- Do you copy?
- 695
- 00:53:20,564 --> 00:53:21,599
- Do you hear that.
- 696
- 00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:25,870
- It's still not good enough.
- 697
- 00:53:37,847 --> 00:53:38,949
- Lieutenant.
- 698
- 00:53:41,218 --> 00:53:43,052
- Whitaker is wounded but
- he'll be okay.
- 699
- 00:53:43,053 --> 00:53:44,264
- He's guarding the road.
- 700
- 00:53:45,855 --> 00:53:47,791
- Everybody else was killed.
- 701
- 00:53:53,330 --> 00:53:55,297
- Atwood is dead.
- 702
- 00:53:55,298 --> 00:53:57,067
- So what do you suggest we do?
- 703
- 00:53:58,301 --> 00:54:00,538
- Well, you should ask him not me.
- 704
- 00:54:03,707 --> 00:54:05,774
- Why would I do that?
- 705
- 00:54:05,775 --> 00:54:06,597
- He's a sergeant.
- 706
- 00:54:06,797 --> 00:54:07,978
- He outranks all of you.
- 707
- 00:54:09,012 --> 00:54:10,846
- This is not my army
- you remember.
- 708
- 00:54:10,847 --> 00:54:12,982
- This is a segregated army.
- 709
- 00:54:12,983 --> 00:54:14,917
- I'm not going to take
- orders from him.
- 710
- 00:54:14,918 --> 00:54:17,620
- Corporal, I suggest you put your
- differences aside and let-
- 711
- 00:54:17,621 --> 00:54:18,887
- I'll take the
- commander's position.
- 712
- 00:54:18,888 --> 00:54:20,723
- Barlow you're the gunner now.
- 713
- 00:54:20,724 --> 00:54:22,225
- What?
- Hold on, are you nuts?
- 714
- 00:54:22,226 --> 00:54:23,626
- - I haven't been trained for that.
- - What are you talking about?
- 715
- 00:54:23,627 --> 00:54:26,496
- You have plenty of time in the
- gunner's seat when we did maneuvers.
- 716
- 00:54:26,497 --> 00:54:27,630
- Yeah that was like three hours.
- That's it.
- 717
- 00:54:27,631 --> 00:54:29,064
- Barlow, shut up.
- 718
- 00:54:29,065 --> 00:54:30,799
- You're the gunner now.
- 719
- 00:54:30,800 --> 00:54:33,002
- Owens was a gun commander
- for two years.
- 720
- 00:54:33,003 --> 00:54:35,070
- He knows Hellcats better
- than any of us.
- 721
- 00:54:35,071 --> 00:54:36,972
- Mitchell, you heard what I said.
- 722
- 00:54:36,973 --> 00:54:39,041
- I'm not going to take
- orders from a nigger.
- 723
- 00:54:39,042 --> 00:54:40,876
- Corporal, you figure it out.
- 724
- 00:54:40,877 --> 00:54:42,244
- Shonbeck is sure to be coming
- 725
- 00:54:42,245 --> 00:54:44,013
- down that road and
- when he does...
- 726
- 00:54:44,014 --> 00:54:46,415
- - I'm going to kill him.
- - Lieutenant, wait.
- 727
- 00:54:46,416 --> 00:54:47,718
- Take this.
- 728
- 00:55:03,867 --> 00:55:06,802
- Have you ever taken out
- an enemy tank?
- 729
- 00:55:06,803 --> 00:55:08,937
- Nine tanks in Hauton.
- 730
- 00:55:08,938 --> 00:55:10,305
- Another four in...
- 731
- 00:55:10,306 --> 00:55:11,506
- Let's just ditch the Hellcats
- and get out of here.
- 732
- 00:55:11,507 --> 00:55:14,810
- Barlow, pull apart the firing
- mechanisms
- 733
- 00:55:14,811 --> 00:55:15,969
- and spread the pieces.
- 734
- 00:55:16,547 --> 00:55:18,947
- I'll break apart the
- gun sight myself. Mitchell...
- 735
- 00:55:18,948 --> 00:55:20,282
- smash the battery.
- 736
- 00:55:20,283 --> 00:55:21,984
- I'm not leaving the Hellcat
- here for the Nazis.
- 737
- 00:55:21,985 --> 00:55:23,019
- I'm staying right here.
- 738
- 00:55:23,020 --> 00:55:25,087
- You crazy, they've
- got three tanks.
- 739
- 00:55:25,088 --> 00:55:26,288
- So the minute you're
- outnumbered,
- 740
- 00:55:26,289 --> 00:55:29,126
- you want to run?
- Ain't that a hoot.
- 741
- 00:55:33,997 --> 00:55:35,733
- I don't want to die today.
- 742
- 00:55:36,833 --> 00:55:38,360
- Mitchell and I can handle it.
- 743
- 00:55:39,769 --> 00:55:42,033
- If you and Barlow want to
- run then go ahead.
- 744
- 00:55:43,707 --> 00:55:45,776
- But I wasn't raised to
- run from a fight.
- 745
- 00:55:47,977 --> 00:55:49,845
- Why would we risk our lives?
- 746
- 00:55:49,846 --> 00:55:50,846
- For what?
- 747
- 00:55:52,015 --> 00:55:55,484
- American vehicles are going to
- be coming down that road.
- 748
- 00:55:55,485 --> 00:55:58,055
- It's the main route until
- they fix the bridge.
- 749
- 00:55:59,889 --> 00:56:04,728
- Everyone, including the General
- will be using that road.
- 750
- 00:56:06,062 --> 00:56:07,297
- Be a hero Simms.
- 751
- 00:56:08,364 --> 00:56:10,417
- They might just give you
- a medal for it.
- 752
- 00:56:11,868 --> 00:56:12,868
- Me? No.
- 753
- 00:56:13,948 --> 00:56:17,106
- It's you that's driven by some
- kind of a heroic destiny okay?
- 754
- 00:56:17,107 --> 00:56:19,408
- This is your proving ground.
- 755
- 00:56:19,409 --> 00:56:20,543
- What are you trying to say?
- 756
- 00:56:20,544 --> 00:56:23,011
- You know exactly what I'm
- trying to say.
- 757
- 00:56:23,012 --> 00:56:26,215
- This is your last chance to make
- something of yourself, right?
- 758
- 00:56:26,216 --> 00:56:29,752
- The war is over but you want to
- go to back to the cotton fields
- 759
- 00:56:29,753 --> 00:56:30,920
- to tell your papa how you-
- 760
- 00:56:30,921 --> 00:56:33,190
- led a group of
- white boys into battle.
- 761
- 00:56:36,025 --> 00:56:39,461
- My father is dead,
- and he was not a cotton picker,
- 762
- 00:56:39,462 --> 00:56:40,964
- he was a soldier.
- 763
- 00:56:42,432 --> 00:56:45,969
- He fought in France in 1917,
- 764
- 00:56:46,903 --> 00:56:50,205
- in one of the most
- decorated battalions.
- 765
- 00:56:50,206 --> 00:56:53,175
- He was awarded the
- Legion of Honor by the French
- 766
- 00:56:53,176 --> 00:56:57,114
- but the Americans wouldn't
- award medals to Negros.
- 767
- 00:56:58,982 --> 00:57:02,953
- When he came back home and asked
- for equal treatment,
- 768
- 00:57:05,789 --> 00:57:07,758
- he was lynched...
- 769
- 00:57:09,793 --> 00:57:13,061
- and that's the
- last time I saw him,
- 770
- 00:57:13,062 --> 00:57:15,464
- hanging there from that tree.
- 771
- 00:57:15,465 --> 00:57:18,934
- If it's God's Will that
- I go home alive,
- 772
- 00:57:18,935 --> 00:57:22,805
- I will not brag
- about days like this...
- 773
- 00:57:22,806 --> 00:57:25,342
- when I had to fight to
- beside someone like you.
- 774
- 00:57:30,547 --> 00:57:34,116
- It's always the same
- story for the Negro.
- 775
- 00:57:34,117 --> 00:57:37,020
- First your country,
- then your rights.
- 776
- 00:57:38,254 --> 00:57:40,958
- So we fight our
- country's battles,
- 777
- 00:57:43,893 --> 00:57:46,528
- but we never seem to
- get the rights
- 778
- 00:57:46,529 --> 00:57:47,596
- or the simple respect
- 779
- 00:57:47,597 --> 00:57:50,334
- of human dignity
- for what we've done.
- 780
- 00:57:52,168 --> 00:57:53,771
- Guys there is a tank coming.
- 781
- 00:57:56,539 --> 00:57:57,906
- I got it. I got it.
- 782
- 00:57:57,907 --> 00:57:59,309
- Move, move, move.
- 783
- 00:58:25,635 --> 00:58:27,536
- That panzers just went
- behind the building.
- 784
- 00:58:27,537 --> 00:58:29,972
- Look I can't hit him
- if I can't see him.
- 785
- 00:58:29,973 --> 00:58:32,341
- If that tank comes around that
- corner you take him out.
- 786
- 00:58:32,342 --> 00:58:33,943
- It's that simple.
- 787
- 00:58:33,944 --> 00:58:36,645
- I'm going up in that tower so I
- can see exactly where they are.
- 788
- 00:58:36,646 --> 00:58:38,949
- Okay? Got it?
- 789
- 00:58:40,183 --> 00:58:41,550
- Simms, you got it?
- 790
- 00:58:41,551 --> 00:58:43,353
- Shut up. I got it.
- 791
- 00:59:30,333 --> 00:59:33,303
- Owens is saying that the
- tank is stopped.
- 792
- 00:59:34,938 --> 00:59:37,339
- I heard tank fire.
- Is everything okay?
- 793
- 00:59:37,340 --> 00:59:41,109
- There is an enemy tank on the
- other side of this building.
- 794
- 00:59:41,110 --> 00:59:43,013
- Hey come get this.
- 795
- 00:59:51,354 --> 00:59:54,391
- That gentlemen, is radio wire.
- 796
- 00:59:55,224 --> 00:59:57,294
- Owens just built you an antenna.
- 797
- 01:00:03,266 --> 01:00:04,968
- Okay, try it now.
- 798
- 01:00:06,302 --> 01:00:09,973
- Arctic Forward this is Hellcat
- #2, do you copy? Over.
- 799
- 01:00:11,240 --> 01:00:14,209
- This is Hellcat #2 to
- Arctic Forward, do you copy?
- 800
- 01:00:14,210 --> 01:00:15,477
- Over.
- 801
- 01:00:15,478 --> 01:00:19,314
- This is Arctic Forward go
- ahead Hellcat 2, over.
- 802
- 01:00:19,315 --> 01:00:22,217
- We've been ambushed by
- three German tanks,
- 803
- 01:00:22,218 --> 01:00:24,419
- they are old panzers,
- Atwood is dead,
- 804
- 01:00:24,420 --> 01:00:28,090
- Whitaker's gun team's been
- taken out, Annie is destroyed.
- 805
- 01:00:28,091 --> 01:00:32,060
- Please repeat, how many
- enemy tanks? Over.
- 806
- 01:00:32,061 --> 01:00:34,029
- One is immobilized,
- there are still two more
- 807
- 01:00:34,030 --> 01:00:35,346
- trying to maneuver on us.
- 808
- 01:00:36,014 --> 01:00:39,067
- Sir, we are getting a radio
- message from Atwood's gun team.
- 809
- 01:00:39,068 --> 01:00:41,737
- - Where are they?
- - It's hard to hear them sir.
- 810
- 01:00:41,738 --> 01:00:44,006
- What is your current location?
- Over.
- 811
- 01:00:44,007 --> 01:00:47,075
- We are located four kilometers
- south of Sankt Andreasberg,
- 812
- 01:00:47,076 --> 01:00:50,278
- behind an abandoned
- mill off the 520.
- 813
- 01:00:50,279 --> 01:00:52,983
- We are trapped in a box canyon.
- 814
- 01:00:57,287 --> 01:01:00,155
- They've been ambushed here right
- off the 520, the bridge is
- 815
- 01:01:00,156 --> 01:01:02,257
- under repair, the MP is
- re-directed among the
- 816
- 01:01:02,258 --> 01:01:03,592
- alternative road.
- 817
- 01:01:03,593 --> 01:01:05,761
- Okay, radio HQ quickly, tell
- them not to let the
- 818
- 01:01:05,762 --> 01:01:06,996
- General leave, it's not safe.
- 819
- 01:01:06,997 --> 01:01:09,164
- - Roger that.
- - And get somebody there now.
- 820
- 01:01:09,165 --> 01:01:10,267
- Yes sir.
- 821
- 01:01:10,800 --> 01:01:12,334
- Did it work?
- 822
- 01:01:12,335 --> 01:01:13,661
- We were able to radio company command
- 823
- 01:01:13,662 --> 01:01:15,704
- and they're scrambling to
- get us some help, but for now
- 824
- 01:01:15,705 --> 01:01:17,272
- they are saying
- we're on our own.
- 825
- 01:01:17,273 --> 01:01:20,175
- Now that tank is not going to
- move, he's fixed on waiting for
- 826
- 01:01:20,176 --> 01:01:23,045
- us to come out first, if they
- Germans get their third tank up
- 827
- 01:01:23,046 --> 01:01:26,048
- and running they are going to come
- here and find a way to force us out.
- 828
- 01:01:26,049 --> 01:01:28,517
- What about that PAK-40 we found?
- 829
- 01:01:28,518 --> 01:01:30,185
- Yeah that's a good idea.
- 830
- 01:01:30,186 --> 01:01:32,755
- - You guys started on towed guns right?
- - Yeah, what's it to you?
- 831
- 01:01:32,756 --> 01:01:35,835
- Well if we want a fighting chance it's
- going to have to be you and I up there,
- 832
- 01:01:36,035 --> 01:01:37,594
- Simms are you going to do this or not?
- 833
- 01:01:40,930 --> 01:01:43,732
- Sir, the General left 20 minutes
- ago; they are sending the
- 834
- 01:01:43,733 --> 01:01:45,067
- MPs to catch him.
- 835
- 01:01:45,068 --> 01:01:47,069
- This is not good, who do we have
- on this side that we can
- 836
- 01:01:47,070 --> 01:01:48,471
- send out there?
- Do we have any armor?
- 837
- 01:01:48,472 --> 01:01:50,405
- I can get a half-track and put
- together a security team.
- 838
- 01:01:50,406 --> 01:01:52,075
- Do it and do it quickly.
- 839
- 01:01:53,583 --> 01:01:56,478
- So they surrounded us, began to
- bombard the village with
- 840
- 01:01:56,479 --> 01:01:59,483
- artillery fire every 45 minutes,
- 841
- 01:02:00,750 --> 01:02:04,086
- we held them off for 22
- hours straight.
- 842
- 01:02:04,087 --> 01:02:05,756
- That's 22 hours gentlemen.
- 843
- 01:02:07,090 --> 01:02:09,933
- We weren't going to give them
- one inch of that village.
- 844
- 01:02:20,203 --> 01:02:21,571
- What is it?
- 845
- 01:02:22,238 --> 01:02:24,041
- Thought I heard something.
- 846
- 01:02:27,510 --> 01:02:29,279
- You think you brought
- enough gear?
- 847
- 01:02:32,548 --> 01:02:34,317
- This is not a camping trip.
- 848
- 01:02:43,259 --> 01:02:46,161
- How the hell are we supposed
- to move this thing?
- 849
- 01:02:46,162 --> 01:02:48,689
- I don't know, we are just
- going to do it somehow.
- 850
- 01:03:48,357 --> 01:03:50,260
- Come on; come on keep going,
- 851
- 01:03:52,228 --> 01:03:53,296
- a little more.
- 852
- 01:03:53,896 --> 01:03:55,230
- Alright to the left.
- 853
- 01:03:55,231 --> 01:03:57,400
- Right there, right there.
- 854
- 01:03:58,467 --> 01:04:01,203
- I think this is as close as we
- are going to get it.
- 855
- 01:04:01,204 --> 01:04:02,571
- Hey get some ammo.
- 856
- 01:04:02,572 --> 01:04:04,374
- Let's hope this works.
- 857
- 01:04:11,480 --> 01:04:13,533
- Hey why is he moving,
- give me some ammo.
- 858
- 01:04:15,218 --> 01:04:16,653
- Alright get back, get back.
- 859
- 01:04:22,491 --> 01:04:23,591
- Hurry he's moving.
- 860
- 01:04:23,592 --> 01:04:25,329
- We've got to move it
- to the right.
- 861
- 01:04:28,497 --> 01:04:29,764
- They missed.
- 862
- 01:04:29,765 --> 01:04:31,633
- The Germans are backing up
- this might be your
- 863
- 01:04:31,634 --> 01:04:33,203
- chance to knock them out.
- 864
- 01:04:41,677 --> 01:04:43,180
- Right there.
- 865
- 01:04:51,587 --> 01:04:53,290
- Simms, get down.
- 866
- 01:04:59,495 --> 01:05:00,564
- Germans.
- 867
- 01:05:08,271 --> 01:05:10,972
- We can't stay here; we've got to
- get back to the mill.
- 868
- 01:05:10,973 --> 01:05:12,374
- Let's fall back, ready?
- 869
- 01:05:12,375 --> 01:05:13,476
- Go! Go! Go!
- 870
- 01:05:41,704 --> 01:05:43,240
- On the way.
- 871
- 01:05:46,709 --> 01:05:49,512
- Direct hit, hit him again.
- 872
- 01:05:50,046 --> 01:05:53,250
- - Hurry!
- - I'm trying.
- 873
- 01:05:55,551 --> 01:05:56,720
- On the way.
- 874
- 01:07:39,155 --> 01:07:42,424
- Arctic Forward to Hellcat 2,
- I repeat, Arctic Forward to
- 875
- 01:07:42,425 --> 01:07:44,459
- Hellcat 2, do you read me?
- Over.
- 876
- 01:07:44,460 --> 01:07:45,861
- Wolsey what's happening?
- 877
- 01:07:45,862 --> 01:07:48,730
- They are not responding anymore
- sir, they are just gone.
- 878
- 01:07:48,731 --> 01:07:50,132
- Okay, keep trying to get them.
- 879
- 01:07:50,133 --> 01:07:52,434
- I need to know where they are
- and where the General is.
- 880
- 01:07:52,435 --> 01:07:53,736
- Yes sir.
- 881
- 01:07:53,737 --> 01:07:55,237
- Arctic Forward to Avenging
- Angel are you there?
- 882
- 01:07:55,238 --> 01:07:58,807
- I repeat Arctic Forward to
- Avenging Angel, do you read me?
- 883
- 01:07:58,808 --> 01:07:59,876
- Over.
- 884
- 01:08:06,482 --> 01:08:09,886
- Tank, there's a tank on our
- right, back up, back up.
- 885
- 01:08:14,123 --> 01:08:17,692
- I can't see, I'm driving blind,
- how far back can I go?
- 886
- 01:08:17,693 --> 01:08:20,797
- Go 40 feet straight back and
- then swing to the left.
- 887
- 01:08:39,275 --> 01:08:41,749
- The transverse isn't working,
- electrical is out.
- 888
- 01:08:41,750 --> 01:08:43,952
- Use the hand crank...
- 889
- 01:08:43,953 --> 01:08:45,787
- It's jammed, something's wrong.
- 890
- 01:08:45,788 --> 01:08:47,457
- Alright, hold on.
- 891
- 01:10:13,976 --> 01:10:15,076
- It's clear.
- 892
- 01:10:15,077 --> 01:10:16,811
- Check that, look are
- they all dead?
- 893
- 01:10:16,812 --> 01:10:18,047
- Yeah, they're dead.
- 894
- 01:10:25,321 --> 01:10:27,288
- See any more Germans?
- 895
- 01:10:27,289 --> 01:10:32,695
- No, sure hope Danny and Mitchell
- took out that last German tank.
- 896
- 01:10:37,032 --> 01:10:38,535
- Thirsty?
- 897
- 01:10:41,737 --> 01:10:42,872
- I'm fine.
- 898
- 01:10:53,282 --> 01:10:54,283
- It was me.
- 899
- 01:10:56,085 --> 01:10:57,770
- What are you talking
- about Owens?
- 900
- 01:10:58,554 --> 01:11:01,089
- I'm the one who assaulted that
- white officer that you
- 901
- 01:11:01,090 --> 01:11:02,959
- asked about earlier.
- 902
- 01:11:05,039 --> 01:11:06,461
- His name was Captain Davis.
- 903
- 01:11:06,462 --> 01:11:08,029
- Listen I don't want to hear any
- more about it Owens.
- 904
- 01:11:08,030 --> 01:11:09,599
- I think you do.
- 905
- 01:11:10,628 --> 01:11:14,102
- Back in early February we'd just
- come up fighting in Colmar Pocket.
- 906
- 01:11:14,103 --> 01:11:18,339
- We just lost four Hellcats and
- morale was really low.
- 907
- 01:11:18,340 --> 01:11:20,183
- We were ill prepared
- for the winter.
- 908
- 01:11:24,475 --> 01:11:27,949
- Harris and Cooper put this fire
- out, you all know better than that.
- 909
- 01:11:27,950 --> 01:11:29,484
- Come on give us a break Sarge.
- 910
- 01:11:29,485 --> 01:11:32,086
- We're just trying to survive
- here; I'd rather take a licking
- 911
- 01:11:32,087 --> 01:11:34,824
- for having a fire,
- than freezing to death.
- 912
- 01:11:39,428 --> 01:11:42,430
- Is it too much to ask for
- some extra socks?
- 913
- 01:11:42,431 --> 01:11:45,667
- Uncle Sam just wants you to kill
- some Nazis, he don't care about
- 914
- 01:11:45,668 --> 01:11:48,002
- your little old ugly black feet.
- 915
- 01:11:48,003 --> 01:11:50,171
- Sarge, when are we going to get
- the proper gear,
- 916
- 01:11:50,172 --> 01:11:51,975
- gloves, something?
- 917
- 01:11:53,876 --> 01:11:57,011
- Look I'll ask just like
- I've been doing.
- 918
- 01:11:57,012 --> 01:11:59,914
- You need to put this fire out
- get back to the Hellcat you
- 919
- 01:11:59,915 --> 01:12:01,683
- boys need to sober up.
- 920
- 01:12:01,684 --> 01:12:04,786
- Five more minutes,
- just five more minutes.
- 921
- 01:12:04,787 --> 01:12:06,788
- I can almost feel my feet.
- 922
- 01:12:06,789 --> 01:12:08,356
- Come on Owens.
- 923
- 01:12:08,357 --> 01:12:11,125
- What would your mama say if she
- saw you carrying on like this?
- 924
- 01:12:11,126 --> 01:12:13,062
- I don't have a family Sarge,
- 925
- 01:12:14,430 --> 01:12:16,588
- you are the closest thing
- to a mama I got.
- 926
- 01:12:19,101 --> 01:12:20,970
- Got nobody to go home to?
- 927
- 01:12:24,006 --> 01:12:27,375
- Go home; you think we
- are going home?
- 928
- 01:12:27,376 --> 01:12:29,911
- He thinks we are going to
- survive this war.
- 929
- 01:12:29,912 --> 01:12:32,847
- We aren't going to make it
- out of here Sarge.
- 930
- 01:12:32,848 --> 01:12:34,982
- You aren't going to make it and
- we certainly aren't
- 931
- 01:12:34,983 --> 01:12:36,052
- going to make it.
- 932
- 01:12:38,053 --> 01:12:39,789
- It will keep you warm.
- 933
- 01:12:46,762 --> 01:12:48,731
- Five more minutes.
- 934
- 01:12:49,932 --> 01:12:51,966
- To the 827th.
- 935
- 01:12:51,967 --> 01:12:54,003
- 827th.
- 936
- 01:12:54,870 --> 01:12:58,906
- Lord!
- Finally he drinks with his crew,
- 937
- 01:12:58,907 --> 01:13:00,842
- I never thought I'd see the day.
- 938
- 01:13:00,843 --> 01:13:02,278
- You are right about that.
- 939
- 01:13:05,114 --> 01:13:06,247
- You paint this?
- 940
- 01:13:06,248 --> 01:13:08,816
- Yeah, it's good right?
- 941
- 01:13:08,817 --> 01:13:09,984
- Oh yeah, it's good, it's good.
- 942
- 01:13:09,985 --> 01:13:11,919
- You know my nephew is a painter,
- 943
- 01:13:11,920 --> 01:13:13,868
- yeah looks like
- something he would do.
- 944
- 01:13:14,957 --> 01:13:16,458
- He is 5 years old.
- 945
- 01:13:20,929 --> 01:13:22,764
- You've got jokes
- 946
- 01:13:22,765 --> 01:13:24,233
- That ain't funny.
- 947
- 01:13:26,902 --> 01:13:28,936
- What in the hell is
- going on over here.
- 948
- 01:13:28,937 --> 01:13:32,075
- You want to invite the Germans
- over here to kill us.
- 949
- 01:13:37,179 --> 01:13:38,981
- Well, well, well,
- 950
- 01:13:40,783 --> 01:13:42,118
- you are all drunk.
- 951
- 01:13:45,187 --> 01:13:47,223
- Owens over here.
- 952
- 01:13:51,126 --> 01:13:53,194
- This is how you run
- your gun team?
- 953
- 01:13:53,195 --> 01:13:56,197
- They know better than to start a
- fire, they're just freezing sir.
- 954
- 01:13:56,198 --> 01:13:58,933
- We need socks, gloves and
- warm coats sir.
- 955
- 01:13:58,934 --> 01:14:01,003
- And you'll get it,
- 956
- 01:14:02,171 --> 01:14:04,006
- as it's available.
- 957
- 01:14:04,850 --> 01:14:07,008
- - Hey you driver.
- - Corporal Harrison sir.
- 958
- 01:14:07,009 --> 01:14:09,944
- Well Harrison you go get that
- Hellcat right now, I don't want
- 959
- 01:14:09,945 --> 01:14:12,246
- to see you out of that driver
- seat 'til daybreak.
- 960
- 01:14:12,247 --> 01:14:13,983
- - Yes sir.
- - Let's go.
- 961
- 01:14:18,020 --> 01:14:20,056
- The rest of you are
- going on patrol.
- 962
- 01:14:22,115 --> 01:14:25,326
- Owens, I want you to take them
- up to that trail up there and I
- 963
- 01:14:25,327 --> 01:14:29,031
- want to know if there are any Krauts
- on the other side of that river bank.
- 964
- 01:14:29,231 --> 01:14:30,765
- I don't know if it's a good idea
- sir, they are drunk.
- 965
- 01:14:30,766 --> 01:14:36,237
- It's a great idea and you can
- walk off that drunken stupor.
- 966
- 01:14:36,238 --> 01:14:38,374
- Get going before I write you up
- 967
- 01:14:39,608 --> 01:14:42,143
- and I want you to
- report back to me,
- 968
- 01:14:42,144 --> 01:14:43,212
- personally,
- 969
- 01:14:44,179 --> 01:14:45,314
- in one hour.
- 970
- 01:14:50,018 --> 01:14:51,287
- Yes sir.
- 971
- 01:15:01,864 --> 01:15:05,633
- Here we are fighting in the US
- army against an enemy that
- 972
- 01:15:05,634 --> 01:15:08,569
- thinks they are better than
- everybody else but everybody in
- 973
- 01:15:08,570 --> 01:15:11,072
- this army think they are
- better than us.
- 974
- 01:15:11,073 --> 01:15:14,175
- How come we ain't got nobody
- fighting for us?
- 975
- 01:15:14,176 --> 01:15:17,178
- It's like a dog chasing its own
- tail you get that?
- 976
- 01:15:17,179 --> 01:15:18,913
- Yeah, we got it
- Smitty now shut up.
- 977
- 01:15:18,914 --> 01:15:20,014
- You shut up Gaines.
- 978
- 01:15:20,015 --> 01:15:22,216
- Both of you shut up,
- you are too loud.
- 979
- 01:15:22,217 --> 01:15:24,285
- Now we wouldn't be out here if
- you weren't drunk.
- 980
- 01:15:24,286 --> 01:15:26,154
- I ain't drunk.
- 981
- 01:15:27,256 --> 01:15:28,656
- Get down, get down.
- 982
- 01:15:28,657 --> 01:15:30,026
- maybe a little drunk.
- 983
- 01:15:31,193 --> 01:15:33,895
- Smitty no more talking.
- 984
- 01:15:33,896 --> 01:15:36,898
- Just give me my flask I'll
- be quite as a wisp.
- 985
- 01:15:36,899 --> 01:15:39,901
- You'll get your flask when we
- are done with this patrol.
- 986
- 01:15:39,902 --> 01:15:44,171
- Well will you hurry it up,
- it's taking forever.
- 987
- 01:15:44,172 --> 01:15:46,073
- You don't know where we are,
- do you?
- 988
- 01:15:46,074 --> 01:15:47,076
- And you do?
- 989
- 01:15:48,410 --> 01:15:51,989
- I can lead us up to that river bank
- and back to camp in five minutes.
- 990
- 01:15:53,048 --> 01:15:57,018
- I'd love to see that,
- you take point.
- 991
- 01:15:57,019 --> 01:15:59,253
- You want him on point Sarge
- as drunk as he is?
- 992
- 01:15:59,254 --> 01:16:01,188
- Maybe it will sober him up.
- 993
- 01:16:01,189 --> 01:16:03,190
- Just don't be drinking out
- of my flask now.
- 994
- 01:16:03,191 --> 01:16:06,996
- I won't, now you promise
- no more talking.
- 995
- 01:16:07,963 --> 01:16:09,365
- Go on.
- 996
- 01:16:11,667 --> 01:16:13,615
- Now I mean it Sarge
- don't be drinking-
- 997
- 01:16:15,037 --> 01:16:17,273
- Down get down, take cover.
- 998
- 01:16:19,608 --> 01:16:22,209
- Cooper get behind the tree,
- 999
- 01:16:22,210 --> 01:16:24,881
- get down, put your
- head down Cooper.
- 1000
- 01:16:34,423 --> 01:16:37,224
- Gaines put your head down.
- 1001
- 01:16:37,225 --> 01:16:39,260
- You are going to run and I'm
- going to cover you, you got it?
- 1002
- 01:16:39,261 --> 01:16:40,394
- Okay.
- 1003
- 01:16:40,395 --> 01:16:46,168
- On three, one, two, three.
- 1004
- 01:16:50,639 --> 01:16:52,108
- Gaines!
- 1005
- 01:17:02,684 --> 01:17:06,022
- Davis knew he was sending us on
- a suicide mission.
- 1006
- 01:17:08,457 --> 01:17:11,993
- When I got back to camp I got
- real drunk when I went in to
- 1007
- 01:17:11,994 --> 01:17:14,063
- report that's when I attacked.
- 1008
- 01:17:14,988 --> 01:17:18,199
- A week later they busted us down
- to truck detail and every day
- 1009
- 01:17:18,200 --> 01:17:20,201
- since then I've wondered if
- I hadn't done that,
- 1010
- 01:17:20,202 --> 01:17:22,271
- there might still be an 827.
- 1011
- 01:17:29,144 --> 01:17:31,013
- Would you look at that,
- 1012
- 01:17:33,215 --> 01:17:35,016
- Hellcats coming back.
- 1013
- 01:17:35,017 --> 01:17:36,317
- It's been hit.
- 1014
- 01:17:36,318 --> 01:17:38,185
- Which means if they
- are coming back,
- 1015
- 01:17:38,186 --> 01:17:40,713
- there's probably a German
- tank right behind them.
- 1016
- 01:17:52,300 --> 01:17:53,701
- We can use this.
- 1017
- 01:17:53,702 --> 01:17:56,303
- You want to shoot an enemy tank
- with a Panzerfaust?
- 1018
- 01:17:56,304 --> 01:17:58,240
- How are you going to
- get that close?
- 1019
- 01:17:59,148 --> 01:18:02,043
- Well the weakest spot on a tank
- is the underbelly right?
- 1020
- 01:18:02,044 --> 01:18:03,310
- Right.
- 1021
- 01:18:03,311 --> 01:18:05,179
- If we can convince the Germans
- 1022
- 01:18:05,180 --> 01:18:07,148
- that out Hellcat's on
- its last leg,
- 1023
- 01:18:07,149 --> 01:18:09,450
- then we might be able to
- move them into a position where
- 1024
- 01:18:09,451 --> 01:18:10,852
- we can knock them out.
- 1025
- 01:18:10,853 --> 01:18:13,538
- How are you going to get a shot
- underneath the tank?
- 1026
- 01:18:16,458 --> 01:18:18,260
- I'll show you.
- 1027
- 01:18:27,536 --> 01:18:29,438
- We've got Germans on the wall.
- 1028
- 01:18:52,194 --> 01:18:54,363
- Okay I think I got them all.
- 1029
- 01:18:55,564 --> 01:18:57,066
- You doing okay?
- 1030
- 01:18:59,134 --> 01:19:01,268
- - Danny Boy?
- - I'm fine.
- 1031
- 01:19:01,269 --> 01:19:04,205
- Danny, Simms, I'm under the
- Hellcat, open up.
- 1032
- 01:19:04,206 --> 01:19:05,439
- Mitchell are you hearing that?
- 1033
- 01:19:05,440 --> 01:19:07,208
- Shut up it's me Simms.
- 1034
- 01:19:07,209 --> 01:19:09,145
- Danny, open the escape hatch.
- 1035
- 01:19:11,302 --> 01:19:12,513
- Why are you down there?
- 1036
- 01:19:12,514 --> 01:19:13,848
- What happened to the Hellcat?
- 1037
- 01:19:13,849 --> 01:19:16,183
- They got a shot off so now the
- turret won't work.
- 1038
- 01:19:16,184 --> 01:19:17,585
- Are they following you?
- 1039
- 01:19:17,586 --> 01:19:19,153
- Yeah, I'm pretty sure there's
- one heading this way.
- 1040
- 01:19:19,154 --> 01:19:20,388
- Look we have an idea.
- 1041
- 01:19:20,389 --> 01:19:23,124
- I need rags, anything we can
- set on fire okay?
- 1042
- 01:19:23,125 --> 01:19:24,494
- Where's that metal bucket.
- 1043
- 01:19:45,914 --> 01:19:47,416
- Put the gun down Shonbeck.
- 1044
- 01:20:07,369 --> 01:20:13,509
- Lieutenant, do you know what we
- do to prisoners that escape?
- 1045
- 01:20:20,348 --> 01:20:21,484
- We kill them.
- 1046
- 01:20:23,852 --> 01:20:25,387
- We kill them.
- 1047
- 01:20:43,939 --> 01:20:45,708
- Hans, come here.
- 1048
- 01:22:14,562 --> 01:22:16,498
- Danny!
- Danny!
- 1049
- 01:22:17,399 --> 01:22:18,715
- Hey give me your lighter.
- 1050
- 01:22:22,671 --> 01:22:25,506
- Okay I'm going to light this on fire
- and it's going to start to smoke.
- 1051
- 01:22:25,507 --> 01:22:26,908
- That should make the Hellcat
- look like it's in bad shape.
- 1052
- 01:22:26,909 --> 01:22:30,346
- Hopefully he'll follow you right
- down over this opening.
- 1053
- 01:22:34,082 --> 01:22:36,684
- Let's hope Owens' plan works,
- you got it?
- 1054
- 01:22:36,685 --> 01:22:37,853
- I got it.
- 1055
- 01:22:40,422 --> 01:22:42,723
- Okay, crew's ready to go?
- 1056
- 01:22:42,724 --> 01:22:46,567
- I don't recommend standing there, guard
- the hall and keep the Germans out.
- 1057
- 01:22:50,332 --> 01:22:52,648
- You know you're going to get
- yourself killed.
- 1058
- 01:22:53,023 --> 01:22:55,602
- It's the only way we are going
- to get a kill shot.
- 1059
- 01:22:55,603 --> 01:22:59,441
- If that tank comes over this
- opening then we've got a shot.
- 1060
- 01:23:01,743 --> 01:23:02,845
- Good luck.
- 1061
- 01:23:15,790 --> 01:23:17,593
- Okay it's smoking.
- 1062
- 01:23:18,827 --> 01:23:21,363
- I hope those Germans follow us.
- 1063
- 01:25:36,764 --> 01:25:38,434
- Come on.
- 1064
- 01:26:43,798 --> 01:26:45,999
- What happened to here?
- 1065
- 01:26:46,000 --> 01:26:47,503
- We were ambushed.
- 1066
- 01:26:48,636 --> 01:26:50,304
- Three panzers hiding.
- 1067
- 01:26:50,305 --> 01:26:52,463
- They are waiting for
- Americans to pass by.
- 1068
- 01:27:14,629 --> 01:27:16,532
- Hell of a mess wouldn't you say?
- 1069
- 01:27:18,666 --> 01:27:20,636
- A lot of people died today sir.
- 1070
- 01:27:21,836 --> 01:27:23,679
- Corporal Simms told me
- what you did.
- 1071
- 01:27:24,173 --> 01:27:26,306
- He said if you hadn't been here
- to take charge those Germans
- 1072
- 01:27:26,307 --> 01:27:28,742
- would still be
- holding this road.
- 1073
- 01:27:28,743 --> 01:27:31,112
- Thanks to you a lot of lives
- were saved today.
- 1074
- 01:27:32,280 --> 01:27:34,014
- Just doing my duty sir.
- 1075
- 01:27:34,015 --> 01:27:37,884
- The Corporal also said you
- set a good example.
- 1076
- 01:27:37,885 --> 01:27:40,822
- Made good decisions, assertive.
- 1077
- 01:27:44,025 --> 01:27:46,815
- I'm going to recommend you for
- a Silver Star Sergeant.
- 1078
- 01:27:48,630 --> 01:27:50,364
- It's really not necessary sir.
- 1079
- 01:27:50,365 --> 01:27:52,933
- You are going to tell me how to
- run my division Sergeant?
- 1080
- 01:27:52,934 --> 01:27:54,970
- - No sir.
- - I didn't think so.
- 1081
- 01:27:59,641 --> 01:28:01,810
- Let me take a look
- at your leg Sarge.
- 1082
- 01:28:05,013 --> 01:28:06,915
- Looks like you made it.
- 1083
- 01:28:08,650 --> 01:28:09,818
- Yes.
- 1084
- 01:28:13,721 --> 01:28:15,090
- Do you have my pistol?
- 1085
- 01:28:48,890 --> 01:28:50,225
- How you doing?
- 1086
- 01:28:51,993 --> 01:28:53,829
- I'm not really sure.
- 1087
- 01:29:00,101 --> 01:29:01,803
- You did good Danny,
- 1088
- 01:29:05,106 --> 01:29:06,174
- really good.
- 1089
- 01:29:07,842 --> 01:29:08,944
- Thanks.
- 1090
- 01:29:22,824 --> 01:29:25,192
- You know I'm surprised
- you're still alive.
- 1091
- 01:29:25,193 --> 01:29:26,293
- The back blast from that
- 1092
- 01:29:26,294 --> 01:29:27,979
- Panzerfaust
- should've killed you.
- 1093
- 01:29:29,731 --> 01:29:31,867
- Maybe I've got an angel
- watching over me.
- 1094
- 01:29:33,968 --> 01:29:35,203
- Yeah maybe you do.
- 1095
- 01:29:45,747 --> 01:29:47,149
- Thanks.
- 1096
- 01:30:06,868 --> 01:30:07,969
- So sergeant,
- 1097
- 01:30:09,804 --> 01:30:12,752
- what was the name of that
- Hellcat you were talking about?
- 1098
- 01:30:15,476 --> 01:30:18,913
- When I look at the name of this
- thing and I ask the private...
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