"(Dog runs off, barking.)" "Boards creak." "AAh." "Hey Sarge." "How long we gonna be here?" "Maybe 48 hours, maybe 10 minutes, I don't know., just" "Live for the minute Doc." "I got all I want." "la nice quiet summer's day in the country." "(The thunder of big guns is heard)" "Do you hear this?" "Boy, somebody's sure getting it." "Let 'em." "Boy, somebody's sure getting it." "Let 'em." "We had our turn." "And in spades too." "Hold on Adam 6." "I got them now Sir." "Adam 6." "Tom?" "What's the report." "Sorry Col. but Captain Craig's dead." "This is Lieut." "Peterson." "Ohh..." "Well give me the rundown on the situation up there would you Lieut." "We have about 60% casualties Sir." "What?" "Present effectiveness?" "I should say..nil Sir." "We need replacements, and fast." "Well, I'll tell you a secret Lieut." "The Battallion has already had it's replacements." "You know how many we got?" "Ten." "Ten men for the entire Batallion." "Yeah, I know, I know." "We just don't have any choice." "You just hold tight up there, and I'll..." "I'll try to send somebody to relieve you." "Thanks." "Get me King Company." "Yes Sir." "Good morning." "Yeah." "It's morning alright." "Why?" "Is here King Company, 2nd platoon." "Yeah." "And we're selling it cheap today." "Ya wanna buy it?" "I'm the replacement." "THE replacement." "Name's Lovelace." "Moseby Lovelace." "Lovelace?" "You got somethink aging' my name?" "Nah." "It's too early in the day." "Hey!" "Where'd you get those boots." "Uh." "They gave 'em to me at the ruffel raffle." "They gave 'em to you?" "The Army gave you these things?" "They're new stock." "A couple of us boys got 'em." "Moseby, you sure got lucky." "Nobody issued boots like that to us." "The only thing they issued us was wet foxholes." "Haha." "Tell you what, Moseby." "Give you 20 bucks for them." "I ain't selling." "Any Georgia boys in this here outfit?" "No, no Georgia boys here." "How about, uh thirty bucks" "Ain't selling, I said." "Any Mississippi boys?" "None of them either." "Forty bucks." "I said I ain't selling." "Looks like I got put in the wrong outfit." "Not if you sell me those boots." "Okay." "Here's my last offer. fifty bucks." "Listen Sergeant." "If'n my grandpa could see me now, he'd turn over in his grave just knowing one of his kin was in the Yankee army." "But if I was to sell my shoes to a Yankee, he'd rise right out of his grave and kick me bow-legged." "Any Tennessee boys?" "Any Tennessee boys?" "Hey uh hey." "How does that feel." "Nice and cool, huh." "You'll look like a French poodle." "What are you going to do with that when you get it together again, Lovelace." "Put it to work." "That's what I came up here for Sgt." "Gonna kill me a mess of krauts." "Real tiger, huh." "Yup." "Well, I'll tell you something kid." "We don't see too many krauts up here." "They got a habit of keeping their heads down." "You boys don't though." "Do you?" "Yeah we do." "Cause every time we put up our heads, they got another habit of shooting at us." "Course we're trying to break them of their habit, but it'll take a little time." "I never was much for ducking." "Pullin in the head's a Yankee trait." "Well, we're fighting a kinda funny war up here." "See, if we take one hedge row in one day, we think we're doing pretty good." "And if we take 3 hedgerows, why, then we.." "We go down to the corner bar and we, we get loaded." "Don't you boys ever fight out in the open?" "Tell him Braddock." "That's against the rules Lovelace." "They get out in the open and they penalize you 50 years of your life." "I don't reckon to go around ducking behind something all the time." "Well that's a good idea." "On one condition." "You leave me those boots in your will." "Don't figure on getting myself killed at all." "Maybe not Lovelace." "But when you talk like that, you sure got a good start." "Hey." "Here comes the chief." "Alright." "Up and at 'em." "Let's go." "Well let's move." "Get the lead out." "What's up, Lieut." "We're taking over for Adam company." "Why." "Nobody told us we're in reserve." "Yeah." "Nobody told us we weren't either." "Come on Sgt. Saddle 'em up." "Alright tiger." "Sharpen your teeth." "Maybe you can bite somebody." "Come on." "Let's move it." "Richel, Wolenski, Doc." "Let's move it." "Nobody ever tells us anything." "I'm gonna write my congressman." "I don't think he knows I'm here." "Pick up, Caje." "What's the matter?" "We're getting ready to go back up the front line." "You mean to say I been sleeping two days already?" "Over 10 minutes." "Okay, let's go." "I wish I was on the nice cool deck of a destroyer right now." "About 500 miles out in the middle of nowhere." "Don't they have any other reserves but us Sergeant." "Seems to be, Braddock." "Hey, why don't they call up some of those Picadilly commandos." "Then they'd have reserves for three armies." "Don't sweat it , Caje." "There's a brighter side." "If we're relieving Adam, we're going into previously prepared positions." "No digging." "Okay." "Let's go." "Come on." "Eye piece." "You wouldn't, Dumbkoff." "But the man said, "no digging"." "Aw, shuddup." "You need the exercise." "The only exercise I need, is a long distance swim back to New York." "You keeping busy?" "Yes Sir." "Why ain't you digging a fox hole?" "Sgt. I came up here to fight." "Not to dig holes in the ground." "You come up here to obey orders, and I'm giving you one right now." "Dig...a hole." "I don't actually prefer to be in the Yankee army in the first place." "This isn't the Yankee Army, Lovelace." "This is the United States Army, and while you're in it you'll do as you're told." "Now dig." "Yes Sir." "There's no cause to get riled about it." "Soldier, if I really got riled," "You wouldn't like it at all." "Holes in the ground." "In time, bat's will love 'em." "Worse than rabbits." "But I'm Polish, Sir." "From Poland." "(Polish language)" "I'm finished." "Take him." "(protesting in Polish)" "Well, Ted." "What did you learn?" "Care to cut his throat yet." "No such luck." "What was it the POW was sounding off about?" "He says he's Polish." "Hates the Germans." "Do you believe him?" "Don't know, frankly." "I don't know about something else he said." "What was that?" "He claims that all the German troops in this sector were to be pulled back a mile." "A mile?" "On a 2000 yard front." "He might be telling the truth, Ted?" "He might." "Well... if I were planning to attack, and the front lines were only three hedgerows apart." "First thing I'd do is pull my own troops back far enough so they'd be out of danger from my own artillery." "Well, there's one way to find out." "There's gonna be some patrol action tonight." "Been meaning to ask you." "How do you like officer's mess." "Oh, it's great sir." "Including the beautiful waitress." "(phone rings) Oh, it's great sir." "Including the beautiful waitress." "(phone rings)" "Always happened at home too." "Just when I was sitting down to eat dinner." "King six." "Yes colonel." "We've straightened out the line." "We're all dug in." "What?" "Yes Sir." "I understand." "Right." "Never a dull moment on the all complete tour of sunny France." "What's up Sir." "Battalion had a report that the krauts may have pulled back a mile along our front." "They want confirmation, one way or another." "Confirmation?" "It's a nice educated word for patrol." "Officer, Sergeant, and four men." "As far out as they can go." "Alright." "I'll take it." "Do I have time to finish my cherries jubilee before I go." "Live it up Lieutenant." "Eat, drink, and be merry." "Please, Sir." "I know the rest of the line." "Hey Frankie." "Hey Sarge." "You got a cigarette." "How about a cigar." "Yeah." "You're too anxious." "Hey." "I'm exercising." "Don't overdo it." "Okay." "Oh Lovelace." "This is a very nice foxhole." "I'm very proud of you." "Well, I sure ain't." "Why not." "Cause a brave man don't hide in no hole." "He stands up and meets his enemy face to face." "That's the way they done it in the war between the states." "Well, you see, in World War Two we got a thing that's called firepower." "Excuses." "Where'd you get your training Lovelace." "Fort Benning, Georgia." "Well, didn't they tell you anything about it?" "Oh." "They told me a lot of things." "There's Yankees even running Fort benning Georgia these days." "Look I'm gonna tell you something and you just get it through your head." "You are in the United States Army, whether you like it or not, Georgia, is a part of the United States." "Now look, if it will make you feel better," "I'll offer you, sixty bucks for those boots." "Sergeant." "You're wasting your time." "Just like me." "Whaddya mean, just like you." "Cause the only way you're gonna win this war is by fighting, and you don't do no fighting from a hole in the ground." "Oh no?" "Well." "Just you wait and see." "I ain't gonna wait too long." "That's for sure." "If you Yankees don't heave up off your haunches and start doing some fighting," "I'm just gonna have to get put some place else." "Sgt. Saunders." "Yes Sir." "See you for a minute." "Sixty bucks?" "No, Sergeant." "The Sergeant sure does want those boots, doesn't he." "Yeah." "Well, I can't say as I blame him." "Well he ain't gonna get 'em." "They're the only good things the Yankee army gave me." "Except for my rifle." "Are they kidding." "Nope." "Alright." "Let's go." "Gather round here." "Everyone that is." "Come on." "Gather around." "Come on." "Move it." "Braddock." "Come on Braddock." "Alright Gather round." "At ease." "The Lieut. and I are taking out a very exclusive group tonight." "I'm gonna pick four tuxedo type volunteers to go alone." "Sounds like us to me, Sgt." "I said I'm gonna pick four volunteers." "You mean I can't go." "Alright." "I guess it's time you started learning, Lovelace." "Just a minute, tiger." "I'm not finished." "Braddock, you need the exercise." "Aw, you say that every time." "Well it's true every time." "Wolenski, you go." "Thanks a lot Sarge." "Don't mention it." "Richer." "I guess you know I need you." "(German)" "That's right." "Alright." "We'll take off at 2100, and I want all the men that are going on the patrol to put mascara all around their big blue eyes and all over their faces." "Everybody got that?" "Yeah." "Okay." "Okay, that's it." "What's these patrols like Sergeant?" "Like?" "You ever been on a turkey shoot down in Georgia." "Sure, I have." "Well, patrol's just like a turkey shoot." "Except, you're the turkey." "All set" "Yes Sir." "Good." "(clicka, clicka...clicka, clicka, clicka)" "Now look, this is a recon patrol." "Nothing more." "We don't want any prisoners." "We're not looking for trouble." "All we want to do is find out if the krauts have moved back." "What if we run into a kraut patrol?" "If they don't see us, we ignore them." "If they see us first, and open fire, we disengage and move out fast." "What?" "You heard me." "Alright." "Everybody stay five yards behind the man in front of you." "Now let's go." "Get rid of that top, soldier." "What's that?" "The helmet." "It makes too much noise going through a hedgerow." "(clicka, clicka, clicka)" "We're not looking for a fight." "You heard the Lieutenant." "I coulda broke them fellas and found the lines." "You and me with this or I'll blow you up." "Well we know they've moved back this far." "So now we know." "So let's get back." "You got a problem Braddock." "No, but this thing's getting hairier every minute." "I want to find out how far they've moved back." "I was afraid you would Lieut." "Let's go." "(clicka, clicka, clicka)" "(clicka, clicka, clicka)" "We go any further Lieutenant, we'll wind up in Paris." "We're not gonna get to Paris tonight." "Alright." "Let's go." "What do you think you're doing." "Taking my boots off." "What, are you bucking for section eight." "Sergeant." "I don't figger on getting my shoes wet." "You just listen to me." "You're on a patrol." "I'm just protecting government property like it says in the book." "Just forget the book." "Now get across there." "Come on." "Get across there." "Where you been." "Stonewall Jackson wanted to go wading, barefoot." "Are we going on, Lieutenant." "No." "We came out over a mile already." "I don't think... (Engine noise approaches)" "Company." "(German)" "How many did you count." "I counted twelve." "That's what I got." "Richer?" "Yes Sir." "Did you understand what they said." "Yes Sir." "They said the tanks were going to a tank park in a place called Annais Woods." "It's about 2km down the road they said." "Just those tanks?" "Any others?" "They didn't say." "But one of them said the tanks were gonna attack this morning." "Attack who?" "They got any alternatives, Lieutenant?" "What else did they say." "They said French coffee was lousy." "Did anybody tell them that cognac kills the taste." "Been better if we'd stopped those tanks right here." "Yeah, sure." "We coulda all went out in the middle of the road, dug a hole, and just let them all fall in." "We all got grenades, don't we." "What do you think those tanks are made of, bricks?" "That's armor plate." "You never even tried nothing." "Alright, knock it off." "Let's get outta here." "Diamond formation." "Going back." "(vehicle noises can be heard)" "(Clicka, clicka)" "What do you think you're doing?" "Killing krauts." "That's what we're..." "You heard the order." "We don't fight." "Are you trying to get us killed." "Those two shots could wake up the whole German army." "Did you fire those 2 shots?" "Did he." "Now you listen to me soldier." "You fire that rifle once more, and I personally will shoot you." "Got it." "Got it." "Got it what?" "Got it, Sir." "Now let's go." "Lovelace." "Lovelace." "(twig snaps)" "(German)" "Comrade!" "(German)" "(Richer, in German) Uh, das ist valtis, ist a.." "(Germans fire)" "(Hears gunfire)" "Hell, naught." "Names?" "Richer." "But I'm hit." "Bad?" "Shoulder." "I don't know." "Saunders." "Okay." "Braddock." "Think he's in the middle." "Wolenski." "He's here with me." "He got it, Lieut." "Moseby." "Moseby." "Blam." "I can't get 'em from here." "Can you?" "If you raise a finger, they shoot it off." "I just found that out." "(German)" "It's me, Lieutenant." "Lovelace?" "Still want to take that shot at me, Lieut." "Nice work." "Thanks." "Let's see that shoulder." "You did it huh, Lovelace." "Sergeant." "I been telling you that's what I'm supposed to do." "The draft board expects it of me." "That's the only one got hurt?" "Wolenski's dead." "Dead?" "Saunders." "Send somebody out for him after it gets light." "Come on." "Let's get cracking." "Well, let's move, Lovelace." "Y'all go on Lieut." "I'll catch up with ya." "What for?" "I left my boots down at that creek." "You Wh?" "We'll wait for you for 5 minutes." "Yes Sir." "By the Clock." "Yes Sir, I, I hurry." "Speaking German." "(Clicka." "Clicka.)" "(Clicka." "Clicka." "Clicka)" "(Clicka." "Clicka.)" "(Clicka." "Clicka." "Clicka)" "(Clicka." "Clicka.)" "(Clicka." "Clicka.)" "(Clicka." "Clicka.)" "Rouse." "I said rouse all." "Gutz" "Humphrey." "Humphrey. was willst du?" "(German)" "Don't move." "Bang Ba Ba Ba Ba" "(body splashes into water)" "Alright, now the rest of ya.." "(fires a short burst)" "How do you say surrender?" "You know." "Give up?" "Any of you fellas speak English?" "Yeah." "I speak a little." "Now that's just fine." "Now, drop your rifles." "Your gun belts, everything." "Okay." "It's more than 5 minutes, isn't it Sir?" "Yeah." "Did you hear any more firing?" "Just the one time." "Sounded like a Shnauzer." "We can't wait any longer." "Let's go." "What about Lovelace?" "We'll have them look for him when they come out to pick Wolenski up in the morning." "Let's go." "Sorry kid." "Sorry." "Now I'm gonna take y'all back to the Yankee lines." "D'ya hear?" "When ya get over here I want ya to walk in front of me, single file, like good little injuns." "First injun that tries anything is gonna get stitched right up the middle." "Ya understand?" "Yah." "Understand." "Figured you would." "Seeing as how you speak English so good, I'm gonna give you the honor of carrying them boots of mine." "You take mighty good care of 'em, or you'll be the sorriest kraut this side of perdition." "Now come on." "Come on." "Move." "Move." "Come on." "Pick it up." "How ya doing?" "Catch a nap?" "Naw." "I'm not sleepy." "Did you hear it?" "Hear what?" "All that firing out there." "Well, sure sounded pretty close." "I almost have a feeling it's the patrol." "At night everything sounds right on top of you." "Could'a been 5 miles out somewhere." "Clicka." "Clicka." "Clicka." "Clicka." "Clicka." "Clicka." "Clicka." "Clicka." "Clicka." "Clicka." "We thought you guys would never get back." "Alright." "Knock it off." "We're not finished yet." "Braddock?" "Braddock." "You stay here." "Thanks, Lieut." "Sergeant." "You and Richer come with me." "You want to let me look at it." "No." "I want him to go down to Battallion aid station." "I'm gonna sit down." "I either been on my feet or my stomach all night long." "Aah." "Wolenski and Lovelace got it eh." "Wolenski got it." "Lovelace, I don't know?" "Whaddaya mean, you don't know?" "He went back for his boots." "For his boots?" "Yeah." "Real cotton-picking oddball, Lovelace." "What was he doing barefooted?" "He didn't want to get his boots wet crossing a creek out there." "And you guys let him?" "Nobody asked my opinion." "He wanted to." "And that's when he got it, huh?" "Yeah, Moseby B. Lovelace." "He must have died with his boots off." "(German)" "What y'all jabbering about." "Minen,." "Mined." "This field." "It is mined, you know." "You pick up them boots." "Mined, huh." "Just who mined it?" "Um, uh." "We did." "Engineers." "Then I reckon you know where you put the mines." "So you walk where you didn't put 'em, and we'll all come out on the other side in one piece." "Ah, but, but..." "It is almost certain death to go through this field." "If you don't get a wiggle on, it's certain death too." "And no almost about it neither." "Y'all get cracking, hear." "Move!" "BLAM" "That's a Bouncing Betty." "A mine?" "Yeah." "Cut you right off at the hip pocket." "You think it could be Lovelace?" "I don't know." "Right here Sir." "Near Annais Wood." "That's where we saw them." "That's where they were bringing up all the heavy stuff I told you about." "Looks like a perfect setup for rockets." "We just might be able to give those krauts a little bit of a surprise." "Get me Checkmate Blue Six." "Braddock." "Hmm?" "What?" "What?" "A guy's got a right to get some sleep, doesn't he?" "Come on, Braddock." "We're moving out." "Hot food?" "I've been there Sarge." "Very uninteresting country." "I don't think it's worth a second trip." "I know." "But maybe you'll like it better this time." "They've taken down all the billboards." "Give me another patrol?" "No, this time everybody's invited." "Battalion decided there was a nice mile of unoccupied ground." "They want us to stake a claim to it." "You're in the real estate business, Brad." "When." "Any minute now they're gonna send over the rockets, and then we're gonna move in." "I'll leave left you a bedroll, here huh." "What about Lovelace?" "I don't know." "I got a feeling about old Lovelace." "One minute he doesn't want to get his feet wet." "The next minute he's coming on like the third day at Gettysburg." "I got a feeling." "Yoo Hoo Hoo Hoo." "Sergeant." "Halleluyaa." "Hi ya Tiger." "You had quite a night huh?" "Kinda busy." "I had me four of them, but" "One fella stepped on a mine, and the other fella got involved in it, to his misfortune." "How come you came in that direction?" "I reckon I zigged when I should have zagged." "Come up there on the Baker Company Front." "Wouldn't you know something, Sarge." "There's two boys from Biloxi in Baker Company." "Twin boys, from Biloxi Mississippi." "Gonna do me a heap of visiting over there." "Not today you wont." "We're moving forward pretty soon." "Well now." "You Yankees move pretty fast once y'all start moving, don't ya." "Yeah, but don't let it get around." "What's this?" "Oh." "Let's take a look at it." "This looks like a map for a minefield." "I should'a knowed that." "These fellas was laying mines all night they told me." "it's gonna save us a lot of trouble." "Braddock." "Get this right back to the Lieut." "on the double." "He'll know what to do with it." "Okay Sergeant." "Frankie." "Take these prisoners down to the Company CP." "Come on." "Schnell." "Let's go." "Wait a minute." "Lovelace." "Did you come all the way back barefoot." "Course I did Sergeant." "Georgia boys just as good going barefoot as they is at kissing pretty girls." "Subtitles by Jack T."