"Bam." "(shell makes a pulsating tearing noise as it passes over)" "Boy." "Nothing else sounds like freedom." "280)}Blam." "Bang." ")" "420)}Blam." "Take five." "Kirby." "(Cannon fires)" "(Shell roars over)" "They're laughing in our faces." "Well." "She's got a right to." "One lousy gun." "The whole United States Army can't find her." "Sarge." "Don't you think we ought to go back." "Take one more look." "We've been out too long now." "Seems like those bombers could find her." "Can't hit what you can't see." "Well." "Let's get back to our lines." "Some five minutes." "244)}Bang 294)}bullet richochets)" "Stay put." "Watch our flanks." "There may be more of them." "194)}Bang 274)}Bang" "You dirty Hyney." "Take this back to your Kaiser." "304)}Bang" "Halt." "Hände hoch." "Hands up." "Verstehen." "Understand me?" "What's going on here?" "You talk English?" "Sure I do." "Why shouldn't I." "Cause you're a Heinie." "That's why." "A Heinie?" "I'm an American." "You're a cockeyed liar." "Tell me.." "What's going on here?" "I'll ask the questions." "Where'd you get that uniform?" "Where'd I get my uniform." "Aw shut up." "Come on." "Come on." "Let's go." "Straight ahead." "will ya." "Now look." "I'm an American soldier." "go on." "Take a look at my dog tags." "Yeah." "You probably stole them off of some Yank." "Come on." "Get outta here." "Move." "That a way." "Vamoose." "94)\fs36}Pow" "Shell passes over." "Boom." "Sit down." "Take a little rest." "will ya?" "Who are you?" "What are you doing going around in that old uniform." "Look." "My name is Saunders." "I'm a Sergeant." "A Sergeant in the United States Army." "Now you saw all my men." "Do you think we're all spies?" "Maybe this is your jumping off place." "You been infiltrating all along the line." "You did it before." "Once up at the mine." "(A bird can be heard)" "Hey." "It's a magpye." "we got droves of them back home." "What a racket they make." "Where's home." "Indiana." "Did you ever hear of it?" "Sure." "I've been there." "There?" "uhh..." "There's a song." "On the banks of the" "What?" "On the banks of the Warbash." "Hey." "You're pretty well trained there Fritzy." "Won't do you no good though." "We're too smart for you." "We're gonna take your von Hindenberg and wrap him up and ship him back to president Wilson for Christmas." "Look." "Whoever you are." "It's not von Hindenberg." "It's not President Wilson." "It's Hitler and President Roosevelt." "And this is World War 2." "Bad mistake." "Teddy Roosevelt ain't been in office for years." "(A shell rips overhead)" "Watch it Fritzy." "I don't want to have to kill you." "Better get you over to headquarters." "They want some prisoners." "Now come on." "Get your helmet." "Get outta here." "Think we ought to take a looksie?" "Where?" "The sarge said to wait." "Yeah." "But he's been out a long time." "He's in trouble." "Krauts." "Pull out." "I'll cover ya." "You heard me." "Get going." "What about Saunders?" "We can't get to him." "Now move out." "That's my place." "You live there?" "Move." "Come on." "Come on." "Marie." "honey." "Come on." "Move." "Marie." "honey." "Come on down." "Marie." "That your wife?" "She will be." "Soon as Black Jack Pershing kicks you krauts out of France." "Is that her picture?" "Very beautiful." "How long.." "How long you been here?" "Huh?" "Uh." "I guess." "And a..well when.." "When you Germans pulled out of the village. when we" "We came in." "Then you started shelling us again." "Marie." "She must be out in the barn." "Come on outside.." "Marchia." "Marie." "Marie." "I want her to know I'm taking you over to headquarters." "Comprendez." "Marie." "Marie." "How come you're not with your outfit?" "Uh." "Cause I" "Because uh.." "Most of them's killed off." "Wiped out." "That's how come." "A couple of miles back there in the woods." "We was just beginning to dig in." "Just infantry." "Taking all that heavy stuff you was throwing at us." "Day after day." "And we was holding out." "Then our supplies ran out." "We couldn't get any ammo." "No food." "We was taking everything he was giving us." "Trapped up in them woods." "me and Terry." "Terry's as good a man as you'll ever see." "Terry." "Terry." "Terry." "Move out." "Terry." "Terry." "Move out." "Uh." "Terry." "Get down." "(man screaming)" "(woman screaming)" "No!" "Philip." "Marie honey." "Honey." "What's the matter?" "Marie." "Marie." "It's me." "Marie." "Honey." "You." "Get out." "Quick." "Quick." "Marie." "Marie." "It's Phil." "C'est moi ici." "Madam." "Madam." "American." "I'm an American." "I know." "You speak English?" "I learned from Philip." "He never could learn the French." "You're a fool." "You should'a grabbed the gun." "Killed me." "She needed help." "Now listen to me." "I'm trying to tell you that I am an American." "Qu'est-ce que c'est la?" "What is it?" "He's a German." "I've got to take him to Headquarters." "Will you be all right now?" "Will you wait a minute." "whatever you're gonna do." "Why don't you think of her." "She could use a drink." "Ah." "Give you a second chance to kill me?" "What is all this talking about shooting?" "He's a German spy." "Spy?" "Philip think you are..?" "Of course." "Of course you are a spy." "Your uniform." "Come on." "Philip." "I don't feel well." "Please do get me some cognac." "Please." "I do not let him escape." "I" "Please." "pull the trigger." "I'll be right back." "Yes." "What's going on here?" "What is it?" "What is he doing running around in that uniform?" "Monsieur." "Monsieur." "Philip thinks" "It is 1918." "The other war." "Whew." "He even thinks I'm still his fiancee." "As it was them." "Philip was a very good soldier." "Very brave." "He fought by himself." "Trying to destroy the Bouche." "Till the Americans found him." "He got a medal." "here." "The shock of the guns." "You mean he's shell shocked." "Yes." "He went to the hospital." "He stayed there till the war was over." "he came back here." "25 years." "monsieur." "how was he after?" "Was he better?" "Farm work was good for him." "He's happy." "I'm happy." "and take over the village." "Philip begins.. to brood." "He stays on farm." "Never leaves." "Talks to nobody." "the gun's fire starts." "He patrol around the house." "I find Philip standing in the woods." "Shouting." "at nothing." "He thinks he's..back in the first war." "Fighting the old battle." "I call to him." "He doesn't hear me." "He runs back to the house." "Oh." "It's terrible." "I find him on his knees." "Searching in the trunk." "For his old uniform." "His rifle." "He runs out screaming that he's going to fight the Boche." "I tried to follow him but..." "he rushed away." "I looked for him everywhere but couldn't find him." "I'm so frightened Monsieur." "Help Philip." "Please do help him." "Of course I will." "I'll send a medic." "Marie." "I couldn't find the" "Phil." "Sit down." "come on." "Sit down." "look." "Want some chickens?" "Fresh Chicken." "Catch some." "Why didn't you shoot him?" "He's not a German." "He's an American." "Look at his uniform." "His uniform is like all others." "Keep this in the bond just to be on the safe side." "I'll send help for him as soon as I can." "An American is in the house." "Take cover." "Get down." "Phil." "Get rid of this." "_" "Freider." "Get his machine gun and take cover." "I'm going out back and around." "Cover me." "I know where I'm going." "I know the grounds." "Philip." "(G)_" "Marie." "Marie." "Philip." "Oh." "Marie." "Are you alright." "Oh." "Ohh." "Oh my." "Ohh." "Aww." "You did pretty good soldier." "You too." "this is French Cognac." "24 but never breaks." "Aww." "Open it Philip." "ah." "For now we will not think of war." "I will cook a chicken." "Monsieur?" "Chicken huh." "I'd like to but I have to get back to my outfit." "Will you have a drink with us first." "Thank you." "194)} Bam." "That gun." "I hate it." "Yeah." "That's Frieda." "Naw." "That gun is Big Bertha." "A patrol." "We were out hunting for her." "You found nothing?" "No." "They got it hidden away pretty good somewhere." "Yeah." "You got to hand it to them Heinies." "Getting that big gun way up there on Rouge Calean." "Rouge." "Rouge Calean." "Yes that's..that's a small hill near here." "Aahh." "Calien means hill." "A rochstag." "Are you sure that's where the location of this gun is?" "Sure I'm sure." "As of this morning" "Up around Rouge Calean." "I was sneaking around up there." "there she was." "Squatting there right on her tracks." "Oh." "She's a terror." "She got a barrel as long as a barn." "grenades and honor." "I was coming back here to get some dynamite when I ran into you." "Philip." "Do you think you saw the gun or are you." "Are you sure?" "and goes back into the hill." "Is she on railroad tracks?" "Yeah." "The biggest flatcar you ever saw." "Well." "What direction is it from here?" "Do you know?" "Ah." "You know that whole Battalions been hunting for that gun." "Phil?" "Could you.." "Could you pinpoint this on a map." "Umm." "Well." "it wouldn't say Rouge Calean." "Rouge Calean's a local name you know." "I can point out the place to you on a map." "are you sure?" "Are you positive?" "I can swear on a stack of bibles." "I.." "Look." "We're wasting time." "I can take you there on foot." "We'll blow the gun ourselves." "Now wait a minute Phil." "I want you to come to Headquarters with me." "I want you to show them on a map exactly where that gun is." "No no." "Come on." " Philip." "bub." "please." "Phil." "Wait." "Phil." "Stop him Sergeant." "He will kill himself." "Phil." "Let's do this the right way." "This is the right way." "No." "It's a heavily armed installation." "You can't expect us to walk up there with an armful of dynamite and knock it out." "We'll get picked off by a dozen sentries." "No we won't." "We'll sneak up on them." "We'll wait till it's dark'" "Philip." "You're a child." "A small boy sometimes." "you must not do this." "You must not think of this gun." "You must not think of this war." "Well we.." "We're at war with the Germans." "We have... remember." "There's only our farm." "This farm." "This house." "Far from the north of the world." "There is nothing outside for you Philip." "Everything is here." "Marie." "I've got my duty." "Phil." "A soldier's duty is to accomplish his mission." "Now the quickest and best way of knocking out that gun is to get back to intelligence and report it's position." "Yeah." "Yeah alright." "Uh." "Help me put this back." "No." "No." "You go." "No Marie." "I need his help." "He can't help anybody." "Not even himself." "He's confused." "I know he's confused but." "I have to take that chance." "Sometimes he makes sense." "A lot of sense." "Marie." "Again?" "Yes." "Again." "I go with him." "Alright." "We'll all go." "(Gun is firing as fast as it can be loaded.)" "How nice it is." "Yeah." "Mighty pretty." "I was just thinking the same thing." "About you and me." "And how I'm gonna rebuild that farm after the war." "And another thing." "Saunders." "Did you see the model T tractors." "No." "I haven't." "Aw." "Henry Ford was making them when I got shipped across." "I'm gonna get one for the farm." "That'll do it." "That'll.." "It beats following the old gray mare." "We better hustle." "Yeah." "We'll be crossing the main road in a minute." "There she is." "we'll be home free." "(vehicles can be heard)" "Help us get across." "Not until they go by us." "How long can this convoy be." "Long enough." "Bam." "That gun is still doing damage and we're stuck here." "We got to get across the road." "Yeah." "Or under it." "There's a culvert." "There's a culvert about a quarter of a mile this side of the bridge." "We can go under the road." "Are you sure Philip." "I know of no culvert." "Sure I'm sure." "When was it?" "Last week." "Dan and I crawled through it." "We were stringing wire." "Phil." "Phil." "Is there a culvert?" "Sure." "There's a culvert." "there's no route going in." "it's hiding here." "I know it is." "Right about here." "Where was it." "Perhaps another place nearby." "No no." "It's right here." "I know." "Terry." "He was hiding from the Heinies." "What you're talking about happened 25 years ago." "The ground doesn't change _ Sergeant." "5 different places for all I know." "We're just gonna have to try to get across that road." "Told you it was here." "Carl." "Americaners." "254)}Bang" "Don't die." "Don't die.." "Philip." "Philip." "Don't die." "Don't die Philip." "Marie." "Come on." "Sergeant?" "I don't know." "I'm gonna have to get him back to our lines." "No." "You can't move him." "He's going to die if you move him." "No." "He's gotta..." "Be gentle." "(They are fired upon.)" "Get down." "Sounds like a M-1." "Hold your fire." "I'm a GI." "I'm with another American and a French woman." "Come on out." "Just you." "Hands up over your head." "Out there is a man and a woman." "He's hurt pretty bad." "He can pinpoint the big gun." "Come on." "Go get 'em." "He's over there." "How ya doing soldier?" "Did they get Big Bertha." "Yeah." "We got her." "I bet by the time I'm well.." "The jerries will be kaput." "Finished." "Sure they will." "I feel kinda good." "I was talking to Doc before and he says you're going to be okay in about a week." "No." "I didn't mean that." "I mean" "I feel kinda good about helping to get the Big Bertha." "Why the long face?" "it'll be peace forever won't it?" "won't it?" "soldier." "Peace forever." "After we win this one." "I'll be seeing you Phil." "Subs by Jack T"