"breakthrough." "For tank commanders there was no real front line." "They met the enemy where he could be found." "A few weeks after D-day." "US intelligence discovered that a panzer tank column had been redirected during the night to take up positions near Phalay." "Our forces were ordered to engage them The trap was set." "individual initiative took over." "The front was fluid." "often to find the enemy had closed ranks behind them." "even though cut off." "attacking as they went." "they fought on." "off the road." "Take ten!" "or a french name." "Gonna call him Harry." "Why not?" "Those tanks got out behind us about here." "Lost a battalion here." "more or less." "This road isn't even on the..map." "this is our position." "What's your guess." "Lieutenant." "Thanks for the vote of confidence." "just beyond the edge of the woods." "if we move out in the open while it's still daylight." "I'm open for opinions Sergeant." "What's yours." "I figure we have about an hour and a half." "Before what?" "coming our way." "Tanks." "we'll be sitting ducks." "Agree." "baa." "baa." "Greene." "Yes sarge." "Knock it off." "You mean this morning." "We only..can't tell who's around Just keep your eyes open." "We'll get plenty of sack time when we reach our objective." "Objective?" "What objective?" "Name one." "Paris?" "Paris is that way." "You alright." "huh doc." "Easy." "Quiet pup." "Its gonna be alright." "I'll take half the men and try to flank them." "Right." "(a noisy vehicle is heard approaching)" "A tank." "they didn't stop" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Get off." "wait a minute." "Now look Sergeant." "You heard what I said." "Get off." "we appreciate it." "it's all the same war." "Now we could use a ride." "and I got all the load I can carry." "you can walk." "Sergeant." "You in communication with your unit commander?" "No Sir." "Not any more Sir." "The captain was killed about 30 miles back." "There was 7 Panzers and 3 of us." "She's all thats left." "Now what's your objective." "Stay alive." "Let the war catch up with me." "I know you're low on fuel." "So are we." "Now we've come just as far as you have since last night only we did it on foot." "Now I know you'd like a bunch of padded feet along with you just as much as we'd like a ride on this tank." "Is that an order?" "Sergeant." "Sir." "What's eating him." "I don't know." "Lieutenant." "we'll come back and get him." "Lieutenant." "lets go." "Hop on." "Looks like we got a ride." "Morello." "Get the tank covered." "Lieutenant." "I'd certainly appreciate it if you could spare a couple of guys to help us cover up this tank." "Sure." "Doc and Kelly." "Thank you Sir." "Sergeant." "Sir." "That's the second time today you saved our necks" "Don't mention it Sir." "Thanks." "What now?" "Fuel." "and we've still got a long way to go." "house to house Watch out for booby traps." "I better go tell the Lieutenant about this." "Tell him what?" "That there were people here just a little while ago." "They probably high tailed it to the woods when the hardware started pulling in." "Wouldn't you Doc." "Wouldn't they come back when they saw Americans." "Beats me." "I'm gonna go tell the lieutenant." "Lieutenant!" "Lieutenant." "Lieutenant there's a fire burning in the fireplace back there and food cooking and the table's all set." "but there's nobody around nowhere." "Lieutenant." "looks like the tanker found something." "Morello." "Get up here." "I'm going to fuel my vehicle and move out." "Unless the Lieutenant has some objection." "You're on your own Sergeant." "Thank you sir." "You may have some problems." "Whats that." "Empty!" "Empty!" "Empty!" "Empty!" "Empty!" "Empty!" "Empty!" "Lieutenant." "Doc." "The Lieutenant will handle this." "we are friends." "Americans." "No parlez francais." "You parlez Anglais." "Ameri...cans." "Americans." "Americans." "The Enemy." "gone." "Everybody gone." "Nothing here." "Go.." "Please..." "Go." "When did the enemy leave Father." "How many were there." "Which way did they go." "Father where are the rest of your people." "Deparche.." "Gone." "Everybody." "gone." "Go...{\alphaHFF} Please...{\alphaHFF} Go" "Go..." "Please...{\alphaHFF} Go" "Go..." "Please..." "Go" "He's just saying words someone told him to say." "He knows where they are." "Sergeant!" "Doc Help me get them out of here" "over" "eat kid." "eat something." "thats good soup." "huh." "huh." "huh." "That's a funny." "Don't eat." "Anything?" "just quiet." "Doesn't make much sense how you doing shorty." "What did you feed that kid." "I don't understand it Why did they pull out so soon." "Ideal location." "Complete command of the road." "For all I know a big push could go right through here." "How's the Padre." "Docs with him." "See anything of our friend." "He's out there walking around." "All alone." "In more ways than one." "he's not mine he's nobodies but his own." "How is he?" "I wish I knew enough to be sure sir." "He just keeps mumbling and tossing." "Any English." "Somebody must have told him what to say.." "Must have." "can you hear me?" "an American officer." "We want to help you Father but we need your help." "Pas anglais." "pas anglais." "No English." "and bacon." "Chopped bacon with eggs." "Here we are..coffee." "Two shakes we'll have us a hot cup." "Morello." "My own invention." "I may patent it for the next war." "There ain't gonna be another war." "There is if they keep making us eat k-rations." "You boys having a picnic or something." "or you just want everybody within 10 miles to know that we're here." "Ah sarge." "Now put that out put that out right now." "Why don't you go into one of those empty houses." "Cause we can't." "We got orders to stay with the wagon." "right." "Something wrong with that sarge." "there's nothing wrong with following orders." "What's his problem?" "What's whose problem." "we got no problems." "Whats with Sergeant Dane?" "so whats to tell." "So with the lousy war so some guys blow their corks." "Is that why the both of you want him to drop dead." "We didn't say anything like that." "you didn't say it." "right." "he could have sold out.." "but he didn't." "he went right at em and through them." "Whatever else you say about him he's a soldier." "You gotta give him that much." "what's his problem?" "off the record he's kind of a mixed up character." "tell him." "a spoiled priest." "A what?" "He studied for 6 whole years worked like a dog." "Then they threw him out." "Why'd they throw him out?" "What happened?" "I don't know." "and all the rest of the uniform." "Everybody in our outfit knows." "every minute." "So now he raggs you." "and everybody else." "You blame him?" "how could a guy forget something like that." "but him pushing us all the time ain't gonna last forever." "Someday we're all gonna be civilians again." "I see." "Then you're gonna walk up to him in the middle of some street somewhere." "I'll say." "when that happens you be sure to let me know I want a ringside seat." "don't you." "Yeah." "(Germans eavesdropping on allied radio messages)" "(radio message)" "Sergeant." "Dane." "I was talking to Morello and Christy And they told me something." "Something that's keeping me from putting my hands on you and just throwing you right out in that street." "They told me that you were a a spoiled priest." "Is that what they call me?" "That's right." "going after the padre the way you did." "I can understand why a man that's trying to get something out of his system." "But one war is enough to fight at one time." "Why don't you just forget about the one inside you until this one is over." "I don't need any advice from you Sergeant." "A lot of things that Christy and Morello didn't tell you." "You wanna talk about it." "I don't." "because we're gonna tangle if you keep doing what you're doing." "I got into a fight." "It wasn't the first time I had trouble." "They were right." "I deserved everything that happened to me." "did you ever have anything get away from you something that you really wanted." "That you loved That you thought you couldn't be without." "But you didn't know it until it was too late." "that's what happened to me." "I wanted to be a priest more than anything in this life'" "Anything." "I even thought of going back and asking them to forgive me." "And I think they would have." "Why didn't you?" "Because of the war." "The war won't last forever." "won't it?" "Do you think I could go back now and start all over?" "A lot of us will." "Well it's not the same for me." "You know how many men I've killed?" "." "Do you know how many I've killed because I had to?" "You think it's easier for me because you're closer to God." "whatever happens to us we're gonna have to live with it." "we're just gonna have to learn to live with it." "That's the way I figure." "That's not the way I figure." "and you wanna know why?" "Because you've got no guts." "That's why you got yourself thrown out like you did." "Because way down deep inside you didn't think you were man enough." "Sergeant." "You were right" "Can I go in now?" "Why?" "What do you want to do in there." "is it?" "I want to go to confession." "Sergeant?" "He says he wants to confess." "You speak french?" "No...not much." "Father." "and your church." "forgive me for what I have done to you." "(speaking Latin)" "Thought you said he couldn't speak french." "That's Latin." "They're talking like they were friends." "They are friends." "lets leave them alone." "(Latin)" "Oh lost sheep." "lost sheep." "Oh my God." "I am not worthy." "That thou should enter under my roof." "Say but the word and my soul shall be..." "Herr Hoffman." "Yas." "Deys grece tu." "Wat ish spinnet." "Der ist neicas rec ocummin." "Deine handi oh rec americana." "on eh ras los azin." "Here a nitzan." "An who de hel de brint dan a heir a min match ena farm." "Fon achat on aussis." "en a tout." "cannon fire in distance.)" "(sounds of cannon fire approaching.)" "Sounds like the division's getting ready to break out." "Not too soon to suit me I get lonely." "what do you make of Dane?" "Seems like he and the Padre learned their Latin from the same book." "Only the Sergeant didn't get to graduate." "Who told you that?" "Morello and Christy." "I guess a man can carry a live bomb inside him just so long." "Who put it there?" "he did But that doesn't make it any easier." "Being a tank sergeant isn't the best way to becoming a priest." "Meaning he doesn't think he can get there from here." "he killed ten men today Maybe more." "And then there was yesterday And the day before." "As the guy keeps saying." "it's a stinking war." "Lieutenant." "Lieutenant." "It's the Padre." "What's he saying?" "Dans a vis." "(Speaking excitedly in french.)" "Sortir de eglise." "The church." "Let's go." "mon dieux." "Atchung" "(German)" "(shouting in french.)" "Subs by Jack T"