The film is based on a true history from the First World War. 1914-1918.
In 1917, the Americans get into the war to fight on the side of the French and British troops against the invading German armies in France Erich.
They were convinced, their struggle intended to protect democracy in the world.
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- Button your ???. - Sir.
Bras, he is one of those ???.
???'s coming in! Fire!
Cover! Fire!
- Covering fire! - Covering fire!
Run.
Come on.
Here!
Get this man covered.
77 US-Division Headquarters
- Good morning, Captain. - Major,
..general Alexander want to see you immediately.
- What's going on? - I don't know.
They're planning something big.
Ten-hut!
Gentlemen.
General, Colonel,
..men.
Three divisions, two American, one French
..going to attack along the Argonne sector.
The 77th Division going and clean out the Argonne Forest.
- Major Whittlesey. - Sir.
Your battalion is going to take and hold Charlevaux Mill.
General Alexander's permission to speak for for this, sir?
Major?
I lost a platoon just probing out area this morning.
We have to live with acceptable losses, Major.
Colonel.
- Artillery report, sir. - Acceptable losses, General?
It's suicide to attack the Argonnian force while we're unprepared.
Why is it none of my other officers feel this way?
Did you studied tactics and art of war in ??
General, we need time to resupply.
- We're low on food, ammunition, medicines... - And whose fault is that?
I ???? your civilian politics, Major.
Sounds to me like your heart is still ???
..the movement which ill-prepared our country for this war.
Is there something else on your mind?
I'll leave with my battalion into the Argonne.
But I doubt if you see me and my men again.
I guess what ??? New York lawyer.
Captain, check on the place
.. ???. - Yep.
We got it.
Most of these birds ??? around the block.
"For our gallant young men."
"Compliments of the Ladies Audubon Society Hampshire, England."
Hey, who's sending you back buddy? You look like the ???
Do not worry, Cher Ami.
You'll be alright.
Lieutenant Leak?
Yes, sir!
I'm Captain McMurtry.
Welcome to the 308th.
Captain, uh, there must be some mistake.
I'm supposed to in a Texas unit. Most of these boys are from New York.
I just don't understand a word these city-fellows were saying.
You don't have to understand them, Lieutenant.
They have to understand you.
You call up those names, you get them on a truck.
Athan... Athenasikos?
Ya.. Yadder?
- Yoder. - Yoder.
Lepa.. pasta? Lepasti!
- Lipasti. - Lipasti.
Uhh.. Krodo.. shan...
- Uhh.. Kradosh... - Krotoshinsky.
Hey, how come you guys from New York call everybody, "buddy"?
You're not from the city?
- From Big Fork, Montana. - Never heard of it.
I didn't know they let apple-knockers into this outfit.
- What do you mean by that? - Aye!
Save it for the ???, uh?
- What did he say? - Well, he thinks you might want to buy a bridge.
What bridge?
The Brooklyn Bridge! What other bridge is there?
What kind of an army is this?
We come all the way to France and they stick us with boys from Daisyville.
- Hey!! - Aye..!
Oh my god!
Gas.
Slow down.
Yo, Rosen, Cepaglia! Get in the back, we're ??.
Not us Serge, these guys are taking us to the break.
Major wants everybody on the line include you two, boys.
??????
????
What's going on, Serge?
We gonna march in a parade, in Paris.
So make sure you wear your medals.
Find yourself the hole ???.
Hey! Here, the Turkey shoot back.
Uh listen up, the crowds usually do not attack at night.
The most of those send us some ?? or raid in parties. Let me take care of that.
Just try to get some rest, some ???.
I'll teach you few things tomorrow. Get away.
??? so bad, huh?
All you got to know is keep your head down.
Right lucky?
Thank you.
?? boys ???
Yeah.
Boys ???? well.
- What do you think of general Alexander's plan? - I am a professional soldier.
- I've the luxury ??? have think about that. - I don't want to hear that from you captain.
I want you thinking all the time how we're gonna take
..the Charlevaux Mill, without killing all the boys.
I'll check on the replacements.
Lieutenant!
- Good morning, sir. - We don't salute up here, Lieutenant.
- I'm sorry, sir. - My officers of men shave everyday.
- I'm sorry, sir. - You're sorry about lot of things.
- Well, we got up here kinda late yesterday and... - Is that an excuse or an explanation?
I'm not interested in neither one.
I want you and your platoon squared away,
..make sure your men have full ration, plenty of ammo.
And wear that uniform properly. Put on dry socks if you have them,
..and straighten your helmet.
Lieutenant Leak, welcome to the 308th.
- This is a French Cho-Cho, - Chauchat!
- Its a piece of garbage, don't worry about it. - Leave it to Henchman and Hollingshead.
- Don't worry about mortar, tanks and artillery. - We don't have any of that either.
Basically we're mud crunchers,
- Gravel agitators. - Infantry.
?? don't mind.
-That's just some traveling salesman throwing iron cigars. - German artillery.
Which bring me to stuff.
- There're two kinds of stuff. - Stuff going out, ours.
Stuff coming in, theirs.
Mud crunchers must learn to judge different kind of stuff.
If you hear something that whistles and knock
..that there is a whiz-bang.
Get on the ground.
Sometimes herr whiz-bang brings along his lady friend, Minnie Waffer.
- Minenwerfer. - Minnie Warfer sounds like one of those
- ..whining hot corn ladies on 10th Avenue. - That's more like the BRT
..coming out of the tubes. - The thing is real hard to judge.
So just hit the ground anytime you hear something like that.
And don't worry if it hits you,
'cause they got a lot of other stuff like Jack Johnsons, Whimpering Willies..
The I-Cans, airplane bombs, machine guns.
And all sort of potato masher grenades,
..don't worry about any of it.
..'cause it all comes down to that.
When you go face-to-face with a mud crunching heinie bastard
..with one of these at the end of his rifle, you better stick it in him
- ..before he he sticks it in you. - That..
..you gotta worry about.
????
Did he say the duck when if it sound like a train?
..or ??? I mean to get down when it sound like a tea kettle.
Nobody said ??? tea kettle.
I don't drink tea.
What's a tea kettle will be sounds like?
Knock it off!
Yes sir.
- Would you check on Lieutenant Leak? - Yeah, ???
You should get some sleep, Major.
Not yet.
Captain,
..remember what we talked about earlier.
Good luck tomorrow.
- Lieutenant. - Captain.
Major ?????
Like a hot branding iron.
?? point?
New York lawyer.
- ?? never know, do ??? - No, ???.
?? really ???.
?? France
..not have anything to tell our children and grandchildren ??.
Now tomorrow,
..you go to the top.
You pick a point straight the head and you walk to it.
Don't worry about where everybody else is.
??? good man ??? .
Now you go 10 yards
..and then 10 more.
- 10 yards? - 10 yards at a time.
You can make the whole trip that way.
What about the Germans?
Boys know what to do with them.
You figured it up pretty ???.
Most of my men ????? before.
We planned it that way.
You've never been in a fight, are you?
Nothing like this.
And that's why you walk in front of the troops?
?? you get there before they do.
??? the one of the most experience. You can tell them what to do?
Yeah.
It's right.
- ?? - ??? just fine.
- Fix bayonets! - Fix bayonets!
Fix bayonets!
Come on!
Oh.. god...
Come on, lets go!!
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Lets go everybody, lets go!!!
Don't stop!!
Why aren't your troops moving forward, Colonel?
General, we're in contact with the enemy all along the front
..and most of my commandos need to secure their flanks
We're countering heavy resistance.
You, take this down.
''????, once captured, must under no circumstances,
..be given up in absence of a orders from division headquarters!''
We're not going backward but forward!
Captain, I want you to ?? those machine guns and take 'em out.
We got it.
Follow me! Come on. Go.
You two, up.
Lets go!
?? some ??.
- Where's the cowboy going? - He must knows something.
You think so.
He's from Roadville, he grew up with trees. You've ever been around trees?
- They got trees in Union Square. - Those don't count. Come on, lets go.
O Jesus...!
Hold the position.
You!
You run down there, you tell Lieutenant Leak to bring up
..the rest of his platoon. - Yes sir.
German Headquarters Argonne Forest
?? Two American divisions and a cuirassier division-
Attacking the three points here.
As expected is French methodical.
Americans on the other hand is wild and takes no account of the own losses.
Our reserves come.
About two hours, the situation stabilized.
What is the situation?
By our experience we know that Americans is totally unpredictable.
- The retirerer not when they should. - How uhensynsfuldt.
Americans won't leave Argonne voluntarily.
We have to chase them out.
- Captain. - Lieutenant.
Get ready to counterattack
- We have to hold this position. - We will.
- What's your name? - Private Lipasti, sir.
- Where did you learn to run like that? - I use to...
..take a shortcut home through a Mick neighborhood
..had to outrun a lotta your
- .."Irish confetti", sir. - Well, I'm glad one of my cousins
..didn't bean you with a brick.
You come with me
- ..you be my runner. - Yes, sir.
Whittlesey is taking heavy casualties.
He needs to withdraw and regroup.
Whittlesey,
..this is General Alexander. Why aren't you attacking?
We're isolate. We've no support on our flanks, general.
That's because French, and our flanks are ahead of you.
??? up the attack, Major. Get your men moving.
Are you sure they're on our flanks, General?
God damn, I'm giving you a direct order to achieve your objective.
???? losses.
We must take that ground.
Sir, the French aren't ahead of Whittlesey.
They've been stopped the Giselle Stella-line.
We need him..
..to ?? up ???
..and to our flanks can be readjust.
2 October
- Swersky. - Sir.
Cover those dead soldiers, don't ever leave them
..open like that again - Yes sir.
We need more medical supplies, sir.
I'm okay.
???,
- Captain? - I'm okay.
I've spoken with General Alexander,
..he said the French ???
The rest of the division is somewhere on our right.
We've been ordered to take the Charlevaux mill.
Sergeant Gaedeke, he think he has found a see in
..we may be able get through the German defenses.
Well, it's worth a try.
Private Chinn?
Hey, we don't have enough wire to reach our objective.
So I want you to setup a well concealed radio post.
I use runners to communicate with you, stay on the line.
Tell them advancing, we need a media resupply of food,
..ammo, water and medical for the wounded.
Yes sir.
I'll take the first group up
..and send ?? when it's clear.
I got it.
Tell Captain McMurtry to bring up the rest of the men.
We'll hold here.
Lets go! Come on.
Lipasti!
- I was looking for you. - You found me.
?????
- I got a message from the major. - Forget it, the line is cut.
I sent three guys out, no one them is come back.
I heard some rifle and grenade fire.
I think the ????? behind us.
- You got that? - Yeah.
- What's ?? up there? - ????.
- ??? girls. - ??? what to do ??
I'm a quick learner.
- You need help taking this back? - This is my post.
I'll stay here.
Take these too.
- ??? . - Thank you.
- Thanks. Yeah, you too.
Good luck for you.
Are you ??? French ???
Some of the units are already back in the trench lines.
Without the French on our flank..
..we have to withdraw.
I ???.
Order all units to pull back to our own lines.
- We contacted Whittlesey? - Lines are cut..
You keep trying.
- I wanna know where that Battalion is. - Yes, sir.
Major,
..Private Chinn's lines have been cut,
..just trying to repair.
Private Richards!
- How many birds are left? - Four, sir.
Get this message out.
Not you Cher Ami, you stay with me.
Don't worry sir, this is a good little English carrier pigeon.
?? where we are.
254th Hessian reserve regiment..
..report matches with a American tropics of unknown size.
Where?
By the Charlevaux Mill.
Are they trying to withdraw?
No, they burrow.
What a folly.
If they are there, we can surround them
..now that their French and American friends have stopped.
Mr. General?
What?
I spent 7 years in the America.
Americans don't think other be beaten.
We should eradicate unit, before anyone is looking for them.
An infantry reserve to Charlevaux will be send tonight.
I want to know if it is stupidity or courage operating these Americans.
Easy fella, you're home now!
General,
Major Whittlesey had made it
- ..into the Charlevaux Mill area. - Impossible!
He wants to know where the rest of our devision is
..and that where the French are?
He ??? ​​hold as ordered.
It looks like our Whittlesey and his city boys
..are the only ones to accomplish the mission, today.
And because of that they're stuck in the middle of the whole,
- ..god damn, German army. - Not bad for a New York lawyer.
?? patrol heard the ?? ?? man and equipment.
???? behind us.
We can't let that happen.
Have we been able to make contact ??? the flank?
No.. ..not yet.
Now..
..we need resupply.
The men are out of food, water
..?? going through the ?? of the dead for ammo.
Make sure the dead are covered.
Since more runners back, ???? get through.
Three men, different routes.
3 October
Chinn!
I'm sorry, buddy.
Where the hell you guys have been?
Where the hell did you come from?
Whittlesey's 308th. ??? reinforcement?
No, we're K-Company 307th.
??????? night.
- ?? the ?? behind us. - Don't go there, ??? more over there.
- Where the hell did you come from? - I told you, the 308th!
- No, I mean what's your location. - Where we supposed to be.
Not like you guys ??
..looking for a trick on 14th street.
We're told to take the mill, so ????
?? wait for the ?? attack in the morning.
Well, that's outstanding, Private.
??? playing hide and seek with the ?? bastards, anyhow.
Am I right?
You're an appointed man, you lead the the way.
Major.
Their attack will ?? disciplined.
They wait for the fog to ??.
They don't like to move around in this stuff.
???? (L Chateau de Deab ate in the dark)
- ??? our breakfast. - We don't have to worry about that, sir.
???? no coffee.
You're absolutely right, Lieutenant.
- It's a good idea. - Sir?
???? fires,
..?? more coffee grounds and burn them.
I want the Germans to think we're having our breakfast and we're not ready.
Yes, sir.
You know the ?????.
?? bowling alleys ??? sheets.
- That's for officers, not for guys like us. - They don't have guys like us.
You don't know anything ????.
- I don't ??? - The ????
..when the ?? officers are ?? and ?? in restaurants.
All you Jew boys of Canal Str have this position, Rosen.
In Bushwick, we look in the bright side.
There's no bright side ???? Brooklyn.
I ???? apple ?? beer over there.
Hey!
You didn't say they had beer?
- What kind of beer they got? - ????? "What kind of beer they got?"
You want an egg in it?
- Hey that won't be so bad, uh!? - Forget about it.
I'm not sending people ???????
- You gonna ???????? life ?? buttons - Hey! ??? a long life.
Hear that?
Private Chinn?
Nothing.
You ?? bastards!!
Come on, boys! Come on, boys!
????, lets go!!
????. Fire!!
???????
- Maintain your ??? - Two other ????, Joe!
Cover!!
It's like on the range, pick a target!!
Get out! Watch outs!!
- What's your name. Private? - ?? Krotoshinsky.
??? the bolt.
Now pull back, insert this clip.
Just like basic training.
Push the bolt forward.
Now you're ready to fire.
On the opposition, Private Yoder!
Krotoshinsky ??? control ??.
Yes, Major.
Get down!! Keep your heads down!
Pull back your platoon.
We form a defense in front of the medical area.
- And don't shoot, ???? - Yes, sir!!
Pull back!!
Regroup!!
Chinn, do you hear me?
Chinn? ????? Do you hear me?
Sir,they've broken our left flank.
???? McMurtry ??????.
Take every third man and reinforce Captain McMurtry. Go!
Tell Lieutenant Schenk, that he must hold.
Get down!! Get your head down!
Moving up on line!
- Moving up!! - Thank god!
Moving up!!
Come on, lets go!!!
- Lets go, everybody!! Lets go!!! - Attack!! Lets go!
Forward!
Boys!! Come on, boys!!
Lets go!
- Move forward, now!! - Don't stop!
Come on!! Lets go!!
Come on!!
I'm coming ????? the Lower East Side!
??? Private!
- Captain Nelson Holderman. - Major Charles Whittlesey.
Sir.
I've to say Major but we're not relieve force.
We're trying get back ?? Germans ?? behind us.
- Well, your time couln't be better, Captain. - So it seems, sir.
But sir,
..I got less than 80 men in my company,
..and if you don't mind me saying so..
Those Germans don't seems to please you being here.
Well, they ??? get used to it.
Yes, sir.
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- I'll try. - No.
The wounded need water. They can't wait it till night.
Sergeant Gaedeke supposed to guard here.
Shoot anyone who tries to go for water before we get that sniper.
Yes, sir.
Okay, we're here.
This is the German front.
Rest of our division is somewhere on our right flank, over that ridge.
General Alexander said that the French are on our left flank.
Lieutenant Schenk,
..I want you to take Sergeant Gaedeke and a ?? platoon
..and try to join up with the French.
- Questions? - No, sir.
Get it done!
?? we've to use this French gun?
We are Americans.
?? American weapons.
- You're not American, Krotoshinsky. - Sure, I am.
I ?? the test.
- What test? - The one they ???? Ellis Island.
- Didn't you take? - I don't have to take a test. I'm good looking.
Besides, the test doesn't make you American
..it makes you a civilian so that they can draft you and send you here.
Hey.
- Hey, I'm here 'cause I'm an American. - You're a Pole.
It is only in America, I am a Pole.
In Poland,
..I am a Jew who has to live in the ???.
I took the test, Lipasti.
Do you know what they said?
They said It could be anything I want.
Don't ever say I'm not American.
I took the test.
Where's the rest of the platoon?
- We got an ambush, sir. - General Alexander said
- ..the French were on our left flank. - They're not there.
They never been there.
- We're surrounded, Major Whittlesey. - And the men know it, sir.
If we hold on, they'll hold on.
Why do you think the Germans are trying so hard to knock us out of here?
Because where we sit,
we're threat to the entire German line.
And that's not acceptable to them, is it?
- No. - No, sir.
Then it's resolved.So we agree. We have orders to hold the position.
Our orders are to hold.
We stay here.
77th US-Division Headquarters
Colonel Johnson, what's about this.. lost battalion.
Major Whittlesey isn't lost.
We've an idea where he is, we just..
- ..can't get to it. - Whose fault is it?
It's nobody's fault.
This the way war is.
Always has been and always will be.
We've a message from Whittlesey.
They've repelled several German attacks.
..and expecting another one in the morning.
He's surrounded.
But ???? until relief.
All right.
You know, uh?
I got a pretty good idea of ​​ where the sniper is.
You do?
If we just put up his head,
I think I can get him.
What's gonna make him put up his head?
Some kind of target.
Men?
Major.
??? that sniper is really good, but we got some plan.
We gotta get water for the wounded.
????
Shoot, Yoder!
If they do not give up,
..they eradicated.
Americans will, no doubt, do everything to free these men.
Breaking through at the Argonne.
It is a disaster.
We will need special devices.
The Stomtropperne.
You get your storm troopers, Major.
We're taking the bandages out of the dead, so we can use them for the wounded, sir.
And this one is good ?? one side.
So if you can find youself a smoke, Sergeant.
I'd like a smoke.
??????
I can't see how any of this is ????, sir.
I don't wanna have this conversation, Sergeant.
I was with Black Jack Pershing,
..when we chased Pancho Villa all the way to back Peral.
You're a good officer, Major but you're different.
In some ways, you just like these men.
It's ain't your life. You got ???? go back to.
Your boys ????, Major.
You really believe, holding out here here is worth ???
For men like General Alexander, this is the way of life.
They don't realize ?????
..?? waiting to be buried.
Do you think our boys ??? ??? carts after this?
We can hold on.
We might be able to end this war.
I better go check on the men, sir.
???? for a while.
The Germans ???? to fire at these coordinates in support of Major Whittlesey.
- You confirmed the firing ?????? - Twice.
Gunners!
Lieutenant, ?? those dead heinie have water ?? food ???
Hold your position, I'll send ???? potatoes.
Don't forget the bill, Lieutenant.
??? just for you.
That's our stuff! It coming from behind!
Boys! ??? boys!!
It coming from behind!
I love those traveling salesman. I love it.
??? boy!!
???? bastards ??!
Our guys are bombing us! Take cover!
Bastards!
Take a ???
Take a cover!
Come here!
Would you go down to the medical, Sir!
Get the the wounded all on a coverage. Go right now!
??!!
Where the hell are you doing?
Oh god my leg!!
Private Richards!
Damn it! I'm sorry, sir.
Get the message out.
You must tell them to stop this, Cher Ami!
You can do it.
Add on! Guy!
I ?? you ??.
Stay alert! ???? moving behind us.
Lieutenant, come with me.
Hey! What's happened to you, buddy?
- Colonel, a message. - Read it.
"Our own artillery is dropping a barrage directly on us. For heaven's sake, stop it. Whittlesey."
Whittlesey?
Cease fire!!
Cease fire and get me ???? artillery!
Cease fire! That is.. That is an order!
- Cease fire! - Cease fire!
????
Cease fire!!
Hold up firing!!
Stop firing!!
- Fire!! - Open fire!!
Come on, move in!! Lets get these bastards!
Hold the line!
- Hold the line! - Hold the line!
Hold the line!
Why do Americans not surrendered?
Who we're surrounded?
I do not know.
I examined the dead equipment.
They have no water or food.
One of them had three balls, another had none at all.
No ammunition. Here battle should be over.
As long as they are in the middle of our line they will attack us.
Destroy strength, as madness may come to an end.
All right, George. And it's quite impressive.
??????
????
Well,
..leave it in.
My mother always said I should find somewhere where to hang my hat.
Major,
..would you read from my Bible?
"?? lord ??? trust ??? put to confusion."
" ???? escape ???? and save me."
"????"
"?????"
Sir. Sir?
- How was it? - Uh, just scratch.
?? water ???
Here.
- Thank you. - Sure
Captain McMurtry tell me,
- ..you're a lawyer before the war. - Yes, I was.
I, uh, dealt with contracts and regulations.
You know Major, uh..
..people like me and McMurtry, were professional soldiers.
????? some place else.
????? General Staff.
I don't think I had enjoy working for General Alexander.
????, do you?
No.
?????
Why are you here?
Life would be a lot simpler if we could chose our duties and ????.
But we can't.
We shouldn't.
That's why I'm here.
Lieutenant,
..I am Major Prinz.
Can I ????.
No thanks, I ate too much for lunch and..
..I'm ???
Well, have a cup of coffee.
A smoke?
It's a bad habit.
I lived in your country for seven years .
I must ?? that I prefer your tobacco.
We got plenty.
Come back, you may be my guest for dinner sometime.
So you've got plenty of food and tobacco?
???? rations for two battalions.
?????? food for 1400 men.
You Americans,
..you always have so much of everything.
No matter.
Eventually, you've to surrender.
I don't think so.
Are your officers so callous?
You're surrounded.
You've no chance for relief.
Every night you sent out patrols, and every night we kill them.
We hear the cries of your wounded, Lieutenant.
There is no dishonor in surrender.
Maybe for you.
But my guys are different.
What do you mean?
What you're up against, Major,
..is bunch of Mick,
Pollack, Dago and Jew boy gangsters from New York city.
They will never surrender.
Never.
[5 October] We know they're near the mill somewhere.
[5 October] We gotta find them.
???? bastards with our own ??? yesterday.
We find them.
It's done.
It's not done. Anyhow, why should I share this with you?
- Because I killed the guy you took it off. - Minor detail.
I'm not talking to you anymore.
Hey, Yoder!
- What's life like in Daisyville? - Big Fork!
- What're you doing on Saturday night? - There is a lot to do.
???? to late. ?????
- ???? meeting after... - Okay, okay, Friday night?
- Friday night? - What do you do for fun, Yoder?
- Hey, how come nobody calls me Bob? - Who is Bob?
He's Bob you dumb Dago. Haven't you ever heard of a first name before?
Your first name is "Private". You're gonna be Private all your life, Rosen.
- You're never gonna make Corporal. - All I wanna make is civilian.
Sometimes we go camping.
- How come every time an apple-knocker
- ..next to ??? talk about camping. - Hey, what you do when you go camping?
Sleep outside and..
- ..??? fire. - You wear same clothes everyday?
- ..and get bitten by ??? - It's part of the fun.
You heard that, Rosen? We're having fun.
- Hey, I'm not having fun. - ??? again.
You know you never gonna ??
- You disappoint your ??? mother. - You got that right?
Hey, Yoder!
Give me a kit.
Come on.
- Here you go, kid, ???. - Thanks.
- Captain? - Yes, sir.
???? what you can.
Private.
??? just cover them for now and get some rest.
Do not shoot!
If they know where we are, they also know where their is.
It's a ??? plane.
He saw them.
Add on!
Get down!!
Find a hole and stay there!!
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????
He's got something.
We got their position!
Listen up!
The division is sharing ?? break through ????.
We've to let them know exactly where we are.
??????? runners every night
..but they're either get lost or is killed.
?? rain ?? the cover we need.
I'm asking for volunteers.
I'll go.
I ??? before we got in this war.
I was this close to ?????
????
I practiced my elocution so I can get the job.
" ???? three."
At morning, at evening.
???? gentlemen and ladies.
I ??? real uniformed had gold ?? down the sides.
?? hands be clean hands ??? block.
- What happened? - ??? what ???? happen!
??? job ?? wait for me ?? back??
I'm going to be push a cart, ???? like every other ???.
We never gonna catch up those guys back home.
?? come out Montana after this ??
We'll take care of you.
?????
?????? a horse ????
???? for me, cowboy?
I've never been in an elevator.
- ???? people like you? - I volunteered.
- Oh buddy, you volunteered? - What?
What?
Me too.
Did you volunteered for this?
?? we are ????.
Captain.
I want you to check the German dead.
See if you can find some food for our wounded.
Yes, Captain.
- No, no! - Hey, hey, hey....
- My ??? - Give it to me. Shhhh..!
Okay, okay.. shhh, shhh.. okay!
Take it easy, alright?
Take it easy. It's yours.
You can have it.
- Thank you. - Alright.
Take it easy.
Hench!
I got it!
Jesus... Hench?
Hench?
Don't shoot.
I want you to take.. a message
..from me back to your commander.
I don't know if I can do that, sir.
- Would you prefer being a prisoner? - No, sir.
First I ?? you guys and now ??? messages?
Don't wanna make me some kind of a spy?
No.
You and your comrades
..are very brave.
I envy your commander having men like you.
Just look down.
I wanna save lives.
Yes, sir.
6 October
Major?
Hold your fire! Hold your fire!
- Hello, buddy. - Goodbye, comrade.
I got a message from the ???, sir.
- How did they treat you? - Fine, sir.
- ??? anything about Lieutenant Leak? - He's ???? fine.
- Good. Get some rest Private. - Thank you, sir. Get a weapon.
"This Private Hollingshead, did honor to his fatherland
..by refusing to answer questions of the German intelligance officer."
Suffering of your Wounded can be heard in the German lines.
We ???? to surrender.
..since it'll be quite useless to resist any further..
..in view of the present conditions.
Signed Major Prinz.
You know what?
I think we've got them ??,
..they may not sent it otherwise .
How should we answer it, Major?
Not acceptable.
How is that?
Never been better.
Lieutenant Leak.. fine officer.
He's from Texas.
We lost our 60 men to our own fire today.
We've less than 200 able troops left.
I do not know how they doing it.
Don't sell them short Captain.
Two days ago, we had a Chinese working our field-phone,
..an American-Indian for a runner.
They're both dead, but that's not the point.
These Italians,
..Irish, Jews and Poles,
..they'd never hire me an attorney,
..we wouldn't be seen at the same events.
But we will never..
..in our live, enjoy the company of finer soldiers
..or better men, than we do tonight..
Major,
..I was with Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders.
And I've never served with a finer officer than you.
Do you know that your men would do anything..
..go anywhere for you.
Thank you, George.
7 October
No!!!
Forward!
Moving up!
- ??? line! - Moving up!
Bastards!
Come on!!
You knocked out anything that?
Get me some ammo.
Oh, buddy...
Moving up!!
????
Moving up!!
- You okay? - I'm okay!
Back!
Gangsters.
New York gangsters.
Hey!
You dumb Dago! I thought you're really hurt.
This's an opertunity, Rosen.
I'm going to a nice hospital with nurses.
?? ever thought ?? charmer ??
- You ?? screw it ?? up. - You got that right.
I'm sorry, buddy.
Godez.., take your men out and cover the right flank.
Hackett.., take your position here.
Major Whittlesey,
..there's going to be promotions and commendations for everyone!
No wonder, why our airplanes couldn't find this place.
Well, your artillery certainly found it, General.
Where's the rest of your battalion?
Sergeant Gaedeke we couldn't find enough to bury.
Lieutenant Schenck's platoon is somewhere out there.
I sent him to link with the French which you said were on our flank, General.
- These are acceptable losses. - Not to me, sir.
I understand your feelings for your men.
They said our flanks were supported.
And you ordered my boys to attack.
You said supply would catch up with us, which it did not.
- Is that acceptable to you? - Yes, that's acceptable to me.
We were able to break through the German line because you held on here..
..because you held on here like a thorn in their belly.
Major, you did an incredible job out here,
..but you had 600 men to worry and I had 20,000 sent into action.
I have to live with that.
I sent four trucks to bring your men back.
They've been through hell.
You'll never know what they've been through,
..or what they can or they can't do.
They're better than you, General.
They're better than me,
..they always are.
Let me take you and your officers back in my staff car.
That's not acceptable , sir.
I'll stay with my men.
I understand.
Men,
..we're moving out.
Major Whittlesey, Captain Holderman and Captain McMurtry got Congress Medal of Honour.
Private Krotoshinsky got medal for special service.
Cher Ami, the wounded pigeon, brought message
..to stop shelling of Whittlesey's troops,
..now has a place of honor at the Smithsonian lnstitute.
Whittlesey's stubborn defense and the American offensive
..succeeded to break through the German line.
Whittlesey led over 500 man into the Argonne Forest.
Nearly 200 followed him away after their five-day siege.
The Great War ended five weeks later.
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