"barking.)" "Boards creak." "AAh." "Hey Sarge." "How long we gonna be here?" "just" "Live for the minute Doc." "I got all I want." "A nice quiet summer's day in the country." "(The thunder of big guns is heard) 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 a rundown on the situation up there would you Lieut." "We have about 60% casualties Sir." "What?" "Present effectiveness?" "and fast." "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." "and I'll..." "I'll try to send somebody to releive you." "Thanks." "Get me King Company." "Yes Sir." "Good morning." "Yeah." "It's morning alright." "Why?" "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." "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." "you sure got lucky." "Nobody issued boots like that to us." "The only thing they issued us was wet Vauxhalls." "Haha." "Moseby." "Give you 20 bucks for them." "I ain't selling." "Any Georgia boys in this here outfit?" "no Georgia boys here." "30 bucks" "I said." "Any Mississippi boys?" "None of them either. 40 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. 50 bucks." "he'd turn over in his grave just knowing one of his kin was in the Yankee army." "he'd rise right out of his grave and kick me bow-legged." "Any Tennessee boys?" "Any Tennessee boys?" "huh." "You'll look like a French poodle." "Lovelace." "Put it to work." "That's what I came up here for Sgt. Gonna kill me a mess of krauts." "huh." "Yup." "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?" "they got another habit of shooting at us." "but it'll take a little time." "I never was much for ducking." "Pullin in the head's a Yankee trait." "we're fighting a kinda funny war up here." "we think we're doing pretty good." "we get loaded." "Don't you boys ever fight out in the open?" "Tell him Braddock." "That's against the rules Lovelace." "You 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." "you sure got a good start." "Hey." "Here comes the chief." "Alright." "Up and on." "Let's go." "Well let's move." "Get the lead out." "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." "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." "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?" "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." "Braddock." "why don't they call up some of those Picadilly commandos." "Then they'd have reserves for three armies." "we're going into previously prepared positions." "No digging." "Okay." "Let's go." "Dumbkoff." "no digging"." "shuddup." "You need the exercise." "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." "and I'm giving you one right now." "Dig...a hole." "I don't actually prepare to be in the Yankee army in the first place." "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." "you wouldn't like it at all." "Holes in the ground." "Two times castles of them." "Worse than rabbits." "Sir." "From Poland." "(Polish language)" "I'm finished." "Take him." "(protesting in Polish)" "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?" "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." "Ted?" "He might." "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." "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." "it's great sir." "Including the beautiful waitress." "240)}(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." "one way or another." "Confirmation?" "It's a nice educated word for patrol." "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." "and be merry." "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." "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." "in World War Two we got a thing that's called firepower." "Excuses." "Where'd you get your training Lovelace." "Georgia." "didn't they tell you anything about it?" "They told me a lot of things." "But 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." "is a part of the United States." "60 bucks for those boots." "Sergeant." "You're wasting your time." "Just like me." "just like you." "and you don't do no fighting from a hole in the ground." "Oh no?" "Just you wait and see." "I ain't gonna wait too long." "That's for sure.. I'm just gonna have to get put some place else." "Sgt. Saunders." "Yes Sir." "See you for a minute." "60 bucks?" "Sergeant." "doesn't he." "Yeah." "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 round." "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." "Sgt." "I said I'm gonna pick four volunteers." "You mean I can't go." "Lovelace." "you need the exercise." "you say that every time." "you go." "Thanks a lot Sarge." "Don't mention it." "Richer." "I guess you know I need you." "(German)" "That's right." "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." "that's it." "What's these patrols like Sergeant?" "Like?" "You ever been on a turkey shoot down in Georgia." "I have." "patrol's just like a turkey shoot." "you're the turkey." "All set Yes Sir." "clicka) 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?" "we disengage and move out fast." "What?" "You heard me." "Alright." "Everybody stay five yards behind the man in front." "Now let's go." "soldier." "What?" "The helmet." "It makes too much noise going through a hedgerow." "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." "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)" "we'll wind up in Paris." "We're not gonna get to Paris tonight." "Hurry." "Let's go." "What do you think you're doing." "Taking my boots off." "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." "Forget the book." "Now get across there." "Come on." "Get across there." "Where you been." "barefoot." "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." "{\alphaHFF}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?" "Lieutenant?" "What else did they say." "One said French coffee was lousy." "Did anybody tell them that cognac kills the taste." "Been better if we'd stopped those tanks right here." "and just let them all fall in." "don't we." "bricks?" "That's armor plate." "You never even tried nothing." "knock it off." "Let's get outta here." "Diamond formation." "Going back." "(vehicle noises can be heard) 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." "and I personally will shoot you." "Got it." "Got it." "Got it what." "Sir." "Now let's go." "Lovelace." "Lovelace." "(twig snaps)" "Passwort" "Come on!" "identifizieren Sie sich." "in German)" "(Germans fire)" "naught." "Names." "but I'm hit." "Bad?" "Shoulder." "I don't know." "Saunders." "Okay." "Braddock." "Think he's in the middle." "Wolenski." "Lieut." "Moseby." "Moseby." "220)}Blam." "I can't get 'em from here." "Can you?" "they shoot it off." "I just found that out." "(German)" "Lieutenant." "Lovelace?" "Lieut." "Nice work." "Thanks." "Let's see that shoulder." "You did all of this?" "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 before it gets lighter." "Come on." "Let's get cracking." "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." "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." "Gotz Humphrey." "Humphrey. was willst du?" "(German)" "Don't move." "now the rest of ya.." "How do you say surrender?" "You know." "Give up?" "Any of you fellas speak English?" "Yeah." "I speak a little." "drop your rifles." "everything." "Okay." "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." "Now I'm gonna take y'all back to the Yankee lines." "D'ya hear?" "like good little injuns." "First injun that tries anything is gonna get stitched right up the middle." "Ya understand?" "Yah." "Understand." "Figured you would." "I'm gonna give you the honor of carrying them boots of mine." "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?" "Can't say can't?" "I'm not sleepy." "Did you hear it?" "Hear what?" "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." "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." "I don't know?" "you don't know?" "He went back for his boots." "For his boots?" "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." "huh?" "Moseby B. Lovelace." "He must have died with his boots off." "(German)" "What y'all jabbering about." "you know." "You pick up them boots." "huh." "Just who mined it?" "uh." "We did." "Engineers." "Then I reckon you know where you put the mines." "and we'll all come out on the other side in one piece." "but..." "It is almost certain death to go through this field." "hear." "Move!" "(A loud blast)" "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." "Huh?" "What?" "What?" "doesn't he?" "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." "You mean another patrol?" "this time everybody's invited." "Battalion decided there was a nice mile of unoccupied ground." "They want us to stake a claim to it." "Brad." "When." "there 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 around like it's the third day at Gettysburg." "I got a feeling." "Yoo Hoo Hoo." "Sergeant." "Halleluyaa." "you had quite a night." "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." "from Biloxi Mississippi." "Do me a heap of visiting over there." "Not today you wont." "We're moving forward pretty soon." "don't ya." "but don't let it get around." "What's this?" "Come on." "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." "Well 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 backward as they is at kissing pretty girls." "Subtitles by Jack T. Comment:" "Marked=0,0:45:27.37,0:45:30.34,Default,0,0,0,0.55 SECOND DELAY FOR WD TV SYNCH."