"Come on." "Let's not bunch up." "Come on fellas." "Let's get back to our positions." "Let's go." "Hey." "There's a jeep coming." "Must be the hot chili promised us." "Alright Sergeant." "Get a chow line started." "Is that an order?" "Or are you looking for volunteers." "And don't let them bunch up." "It's just in time." "Flu, colds are starting." "Hey." "I read in the stars and stripes that we're the best fed army in the world." "Huh." "My stomach was beginning to doubt it." "Well, they do it, they do the best they can." "Let's go." "(Heavy artillery is heard in background)" "Hey, Stop." "These two are beautiful." "Hey boys." "Hold it." "Ohhh." "(Click)." "Now turn towards me a little." "A little more." "I've got you at a lousy angle." "That's it." "(Click)." "Now, a few more for Eleanora, huh." "Oh." "This is what I came to see." "A real G.I." "Tough looking." "(Click)." "Battered." "(Click)." "Filthy, dirty." "Beautiful." "Okay, Lady?" "Now wait." "I'm not through with you." "I'm a war correspondent." "I'm here to get front line reactions for 20 million readers, okay." "Do you feel the people at home are giving you enough backing to win this war, or do you feel they should be asked to make further sacrifices." "Further sacrifices?" "Well sure." "There's rationing of all kinds." "There's meat shortages, gasoline." "Look lady." "I've got a shortage of my own to worry about right now." "Now, okay soldier." "But I asked you a question, and I want an answer." "Hey you." "Goliath." "(Click)" "(Click)" "(Click)" "(Click)" "(Click)" "(Click)" "Now here, on this map, is the village of Trois Anges." "English translation, three angels." "Here it is right here." "As far as we know, Trois Anges is unoccupied." "Kind of a no-man's land." "The artillery noise, is from 12 corps firing into the enemy supply area, right here." "Over this way, beyond the hills." "Now then." "Here are Lieut." "Hanley," "And platoon Sergeant Sergeant Saunders who have been detailed to answer any questions you might have of a tactical nature." "Questions?" "How close are the nearest Germans?" "Berlin's only a thousand miles in that direction, Eleanora, if you care to start hiking." "I capture Berlin, by Eleanora Glory Hunt." "Very funny." "You ought to be with the USO." "You do a much better job entertaining the troops, than you do writing about them." "Touche, Laurie." "Oh shut up." "How close are the nearest German soldiers, Lieut." "Well, we haven't had much contact with them lately." "When was the last contact?" "About 10 days ago." "There's a rumor up in army, that the American troops could advance, but they're being held back for some political reason." "Would you like to comment on that." "Well, Eleanora, you see, whenever there's a slowdown, why, some armchair strategist starts that rumor." "Lieut." "Well, uh." "I'm just a platoon leader ma'am." "I can hardly handle my own rumors let alone commenting on the army's." "Alright." "And what do you think, Saunders." "Could we advance toward that town, that Trois Anges if we wanted to." "Just an opinion." "I really don't know." "Oh brother." "I just arrived from the United States." "We'd never know." "(Click)" "I'll give you a copy of this for your wartime scrapbooks." "I'll caption it "Fearless correspondents in the thick of battle"." "Alright." "I have a question you can answer." "I'm looking for front line reaction." "Well." "I have a more personal question." "When do we get back to where it's warm?" "Yes." "My malaria's started again." "You're confusing malaria with DT's." "Lieut." "I want to meet your most forward man." "It seems only fitting." "She's our most forward woman." "I'm going to see some men." "Pretty nasty dig." "Well, I hate women who just have to prove they're better than men." "Come to think of it, who loves them." "Ah, Look out for her, will ya." "I, uh, I know how she can get get under your skin but" "She can do us a lot of good." "This is about one of the best magazine photographers in the business." "Sergeant." "Yes Sir." "Cooperate." "But don't let her out of your sight." "Well." "There's a story, about a month or so ago," "She visited some navy shipyard up near Seattle and tried to stow away on a submarine bound for combat patrol off Japan." "Well, there's no submarines around here, Sir." "Well, you know what I mean." "Don't let her.." "Don't let her sign a separate Peace Treaty or anything." "That's a good way to get your head blown off." "It's my head." "I'm temporarily in charge of it till I get you back to the Captain." "Then you can do what you want with it." "Now let's go, and stay low." "Is this your most forward position?" "That's right." "This is an observation post." "Nelson." "This is Eleanor Hunt." "She's a famous magazine photographer." "I'm a war correspondent." "Private." "What's out there?" "Trees." "Fresh air." "Germans." "I uh, I like to think that it's just trees and fresh air." "What's the matter with you." "I'm going out there." "What for, Lady?" "The Lady's bored." "The Lady wants to find a little excitement out there." "Excitement." "In this place." "Sergeant." "I came here to cover a war." "Since I've been here, I haven't heard one single shot fired in anger." "I haven't seen one dead German." "Private Nelson." "What's your home town." "Look out." "Blam." "Well now you've seen one." "It's my job." "I have to have these people safely back in a rear area by nightfall." "Wonder where she could have gotten to." "She knew she had to leave." "Here's Hanley." "Saunders took her to the forward area, and then" "Bonjour, mes amis." "Regarde." "Viva avec les Americains." "Vive avec les Américains." "Les hommes courager de la Resistance." "This car passed us along a logging road." "First thing I knew she was getting aboard." "Best thing I thought was to stick with her." "Well, Captain Smith." "And where do you think these Resistance children have just come back from." "I don't know." "Trois Anges." "Um huh." "While the American army sits on it's inertia." "These half piece civilians come back and forth at will." "Why?" "Well, Miss Hunt." "It's General Hunt, Captain." "Look Eleanora." "Maybe the army has something more important in mind just now than taking some little village." "Maybe they're spread out too thin here to spare the men." "Maybe it would create a salient where they could be out-flanked." "Or maybe" "Why don't you stop trying to run the war." "Why don't you, shave." "Alright then, Miss Hunt." "Please get aboard." "Frere Jacques." "Avoir." "Est merci." "Avoir Lucien." "Bon Voyage." "A bientot." "Well." "I could do without her." "Where's your sense of public relations, Sergeant." "Hey Sarge." "What is it?" "The Lieut. is taking out a patrol." "He wants you and Caje." "And he says to pick 2 other guys, and meet at the OP right away." "I'll go if you want." "Well what, what kind of patrol." "Along the road." "The female photographer's disappeared." "Oh no." "Yeah." "And the public relations officer is here with orders from the colonel." "Umm uh?" "Wake up Kirby." "Wake up Kirby." "Kirby." "What?" "We're going for a walk in the woods." "We figure she's somewhere here, around Trois Anges." "Trouble is, the enemy could move in to this area, at any time." "We've gotta find your girlfriend." "My what?" "She went off with those French Resistance boys she met yesterday." "If I hadn't awakened we still wouldn't know about it." "She left this on my desk for me to cable for her this morning." "News Magasyn." "Armed only with camera." "Escorted by valiant resistance fighters." "Just before dawn, your reporter went through American lines,becoming first correspondent to visit village Trois Anges." "I guess she found her submarine, eh." "Or a suitable substitute." "Get a couple of jeeps out of Company." "The ones with the machine guns mounted." "Be ready to leave in 10 minutes." "Yes Sir." "Move out." "Stay here." "S'il vous plait." "He is going to find out if it is safe." "If there are any Germans in the village." "Also we find out something even more important." "If someone perhaps gives us a little breakfast." "I hate to get shot on an empty stomach." "Knock knock Knock knock knock." "Knock knock." "Knock knock knock." "Psst." "Ah, It's you." "Shh." "What do you want?" "The Boches ." "They are in the village." "We 're not going there ." "They are no longer here." "Since then, not a German." "Oh." "Quickly." "Can you offer a bite to eat." "Is there a small breakfast room nearby." "I have nothing to offer." "For the Americans?" "For Americans?" "Yes." "American." "Eh, mademoiselle." "Les Americans." "Celebration." "Here." "No." "No no no." "Our saviors." "They're here." "Hello." "May God be with them." "The Americans are here." "Les Americans." "Cela-la-brationne." "No." "That's not why." "Are you done?" "Look." "No no." "It is an American tourist." "Hey." "Look." "Here comes your boys in arms." "Look." "Soldiers." "Oh no." "It's not the liberation." "They probably just came after me." "Les Americans." "Celebrations, celebrations." "(church bells start ringing)" "Hello." "Hello." "Welcome America." "We have long awaited you." "Hello America." "We love you." "We thank you." "No no." "It is not time to celebrate." "But no." "Hey, Lieut." "I bet they think we're the Liberation." "Now All, Attention." "Beep Beep Beep Beeeep" "Attention." "Beep Beep Beep Beeeep" "Beep Beep Beep Beeeep" "Beep Beep Beep Beep" "Beep Beep Beeep" "We're reconnaissance patrol." "Reconnaissance." "Beep Beep Beeep" "We're reconnaissance patrol." "Reconnaissance." "Beep Beep Beep Beep" "Caje, tell them." "Beep Beep Beep Beep" "Caje, tell them." "It is not the liberation." "Arise children of the motherland." "The day of glory has arrived!" "ya ya ya" "Miss Hunt." "You're to go back with us now." "Those are orders." "Did you hear me, Miss Hunt." "You go back with us now." "Those are orders." "Get in that jeep." "These people can hardly wait for the Liberation." "They don't know why the Americans haven't come before this and neither do I." "Well now you're here." "Now get this through your head." "We couldn't hold this town even if we wanted to." "We don't have enough men." "Now get in that jeep." "We're going back." "Hi ya men." "Royal Canadian Air Force." "Sam McKelnick Fraser." "Shot down near here 2 weeks ago." "(Cheering and clapping)" "Here's the one they should clap for." "Madam Claudia Michelin." "But for her, me and a lot of others would be in some blasted German prison camp." "(more cheering and clapping)" "I am triumphant." "I am happy." "Tonight is welcome." "Welcome." "There is a brave one who has done far more than me." "Monsieur Desjardins, the School Master." "(clapping and praises)" "And Monsieur le Doctor Bouvier." "All champions." "Bang" "Caje." "You gotta make them understand." "This is a patrol." "Not the Liberation." "Tell 'em." "Listen." "You don't understand." "We are just an investigative patrol." "We are not a liberating force." "We are not liberators." "Understand?" "Uh." "Ohh." "That's war." "Caje." "You tell them if there are any traitors in town and the Germans come back, we cannot protect the patriots who revealed themselves." "(Caje explains in French)" "Alright Lady." "You're under army orders." "Get in that jeep." "Okay okay." "I've got my story and I've got my pictures." "But I'd rather it didn't end with an American retreat." "Thank you Jacques ." "You did well." "Canada." "There's room in the jeep for ya." "OK." "Madam." "I wish you'd come with us for your own personal safety." "Monsieur." "Every family in Trois Anges, has sent at least one son, or brother, or sweetheart to la guerre, the war." "There are many of our sons who who have died for their country." "or our blessed wounded." "There are no traitors here in Trois Anges." "Madam." "There's great risk for you and the others." "Monsieur." "It is my work, huh." "To stay here, and help those who cannot, escape." "They look for us here." "I cannot run away." "Monsieur." "You have your work." "And so do I." "You do not run away from battle when there is a risk you may die." "Nor do I." "The Americans have their orders." "They think that traitors are among us." "If you must leave, go." "What we want, is not to be." "I will stay here." "I stay here, Emma." "Monsieur." "We all stay here." "Many mothers are here." "Merci." "Et bonne chance." "Good Luck." "Alright." "Let's get outta here." "Littlejohn." "Let's go." "I, uh," "Take it easy now." "Take it easy." "Look." "You are leaving." "You are not at Trois Anges." "No comprend." "No comprend." "No comprend." "Caje." "Give him some water, huh." "Well, Lieut." "He says that he and his friend, the other Resistance guy." "Well, after we left, they drove past the village." "They ran into some Germans, and his friend got killed." "He thinks the Germans are heading for the village." "They are heading to Trois Anges." "Sergeant." "Round up a couple men for reconnaissance." "Caje." "That means you and Kirb." "Come on." "Let's go." "Lieut." "Hanley, 2nd platoon." "Let me speak to the Captain." "Sir, Lieut Hanley." "Permission requested for a recon." "What's happened." "The Germans are in the village." "How many." "There's about 20, 30." "They are coming to village after you leave." "To, uh, catch dis Americans." "American parachutists." "Yes." "But they are hiding." "Where are they hiding?" "I don't know." "Madam Michelin, She has very many hiding places." "Let's go." "Alright." "No, not you." "You better stay here." "(German)" "There it is." "Kirby." "You stay here." "Cover us." "We'll try to get down and get a closer look." "Let's go." "There are no traitors in Trois Anges." "The Nazis are in there alright." "Well." "What do we do, Sarge?" "Follow orders." "Avoid contact." "We pull back to Mazange as soon as possible." "Hide." "That guy who said that war was hell." "Man." "He sure said a mouthful." "Sir." "I want permission to go into Trois Anges." "Find those paratroopers and get 'em out before any of the Underground people break under interrogation." "But Sir." "They may not break." "I want to get them out too, if they're still alive." "They're very special people." "Yes Sir." "I have a plan." "Thank you, Sir." "Sergeant." "Get a squad." "You know who." "A squad." "Yeah." "That's all they're gonna let us take with us." "We're gonna have to get in there." "Raid the place." "And sneak those people out." "Take the jeeps with machine guns on 'em." "Right." "The uh, path you found." "It crosses the main road, right outside the village." "You mean the one right here." "Yeah." "Are you sure it's wide enough for a jeep?" "It's wide enough." "Let's go, Sergeant." "Hey, Lieutenant." "We got company." "What are you doing here?" "I saw Jacques, that Frenchman, and he told me what you were up to." "So I borrowed one of Captain Smith's jeeps." "Borrowed." "Why Lady, if you were back in the states, you'd get 10 years for that." "Lieutenant, what you're doing is an important part of my story." "The most important part." "Miss Hunt." "Go back." "You're delaying us." "Lieutenant." "Don't worry about me." "I couldn't care less about you." "Except, you're holding us up." "If I could spare a man, I'd send you back with him, under arrest." "Alright alright." "I'll stay out of your way." "I'll stay right here." "All I ask is that when it's all over, you let me go into that village." "I'll take you on a personally conducted tour." "Alright." "Let's go." "Not one German?" "None that I could see." "Alright." "Kirby." "Caje." "Nelson." "Smith." "Take that jeep." "Circle around the rear of the village." "We'll go in from the front." "Let's go." "I wonder." "if he knows something now the rest of us don't." "Come give me a hand with this man." "I say nothing." "I did not talk." "I say nothing." "I did not talk." "Old man just died." "He said he didn't talk." "I got a great picture for you." "Come on." "Come on." "Most of the Nazis pulled out before we got here." "They left behind some of their best interrogators." "And a few mementos." "He's one of the lucky ones." "He'll probably survive." "(Church bell begins)" "Those are people in there." "Bong" "Those are people in there." "Not words on a page." "Pictures in a magazine." "And not part of a story." "A part of humanity." "But you wouldn't know that, would you." "Bong" "What happened to the paratroopers." "Bong" "Nobody broke." "They were hidden in a root cellar." "The old French Lady's house." "You know, the one that made the speech." "Madam Michelin." "What happened to her?" "Bong" "Bong" "Bong" "Bong" "Bong" "Bong" "Bong" "(Click)." "Bong (Click)." "Bong" "What are you anyway?" "(Click)." "I've told you already Sergeant." "This is my job." "Bong I've told you already Sergeant." "This is my job." "Bong" "(Click)." "Bong" "(Click)." "Alright." "Take ten." "Come on you guys." "I got some mail here." "Hey." "Ha ha." "One of you guys." "Get the mail." "Hey uh, Kirby." "Littlejohn." "Hey uh." "Whats this Mcquire here." "Sergeant Saunders." "Here's a big one for you." "Yeah." "Dear Sergeant Saunders." "Please read this story." "You had a lot to do with it." "What happened at Trois Anges will never be found in history books." "It isn't big enough for that." "But as long as courage is virtuous, and love of man precious" "It's story will deserve the telling." "His body, a living diary, bearing indelible entries to the end of his days." "At Trois Anges, I fought, I suffered." "I nearly died." "Recent antagonists," "But death with one final charitable gesture." "has wiped away all trace of enmity." "The courageous and the quick." "Dead," "And the compassionate." "From those who will never forget." "The Tribute of Tears." "Now I know." "They're not part of the story." "They're part of Humanity." "But you wouldn't know that, would you." "Now, I know." "Maybe." "Just maybe." "Subtitles by JackT."