(RADIO STATIC)
(AMERICAN MAN) This is Armed Forces Radio reporting from London.
Today, Supreme Allied HQ reported
American combat troops and aircraft have routed the attacking German army
at the Ardennes front.
American troops have discovered the frozen corpses of over 70 fellow Gls,
taken prisoner then fiendishly executed by their German captors.
Investigating officers at the nightmarish scene say the massacre happened
at a small crossroads near the Belgian town of Malmédy.
General Eisenhower has vowed that, upon war's end,
all German officers and soldiers responsible for this unspeakable act
will be vigorously tried for war crimes and swiftly punished.
This is Armed Forces Radio, London.
(MAN YELLS)
(GERMAN SOLDIERS GIVE INSTRUCTIONS)
(GERMAN SOLDIER SHOUTS)
(SOLDIERS SPEAK GERMAN)
Stop crying. You're making Dieter here a little nervous.
I need that.
OK, OK.
Thanks.
(SPEAKS GERMAN)
I hope you choke on 'em.
Hm!
- Was ist denn das? - Lemon powder.
Meine Frau.
- Du sprichst Deutsch? - Ja.
- Hm! - Bitte.
- Hier. - Danke.
You must be living right, Deac.
Halt! Halt!
(SHOUTING)
(SPEAKS GERMAN)
(OFFICER FIRES IN AIR)
(AMERICAN SOLDIER) Come on!
(AMERICAN MEDIC) Let's go! Up!
No!
(DEACON) Gundy, this way.
Deacon!
Out! Raus! Jetzt!
No, don't shoot. Nein shooten, nein shooten!
Shoot him! Shoot him!
Shoot him.
I surrender.
- What are you waiting for? - Shut up!
- Give me the gun! - Get off!
Why didn't you take that shot? Do you know what you just did?
(MAN WHISPERS) Deac.
Come on.
(WHISPERS) Get down low.
(SOLDIERS SPEAK GERMAN)
(ISOLATED SHOTS)
(GASPING)
- What happened, Deac? - He had a Kraut in his sights and he froze.
- He's one of ours. - Yeah.
(WHISTLES)
Get down.
Boy, am I glad to see you. Gould, I been hit. I don't know what the Sam Hill happened.
I'm Steven Gould. This is Shirl Kendrick. 285th.
- Gordon Gunderson, Nathan Greer, 101st. - Kendrick, hold still. It's a graze. I can fix it.
We gotta find shelter before dark.
Due respect, Sarge, I didn't come to the war to hide out.
Nobody asked you, Kendrick.
Look, we're behind enemy lines.
In a couple of days the bombers will drive these bastards back to Berlin.
For now they're shooting prisoners and we've got one Kraut rifle with, what...four rounds left in it.
Hell, I just want to shoot me some more Krauts.
We gotta get outta here. Deacon, you gotta go point. This way. Move it.
I don't see any weapons.
An ambulance. They mowed down a damn ambulance.
Deac. Deac.
Why don't you keep watch? I'll see if we can find some stuff we can use, then we'll get outta here.
All right?
- I hate robbing the dead. - They've already been robbed.
Just grab whatever we can use.
(GUNDERSON) Deac...
Put this on.
Put it on. We need you at the road, checking stuff out. Go on. Get.
- Damn! - What?
- I found some K rations. - And?
Some dummy took all the cigarettes out.
- How long has Deacon been gone? - Almost an hour.
- That's a nice watch, Gould. - He's not gonna miss it, trust me.
If I catch a bullet, gonna take my personals too?
You don't have anything I want, Kendrick. Except maybe your flashlight.
Funny.
Hey, Sarge, what's the deal with Deacon?
Seems a little...jumpy.
- Deacon's fine. He's just a little on edge. - Seems a nice enough fella, it's just...
He's shell-shocked. I've seen it a million times.
- Don't worry about it. - We have one weapon and he's holding it.
Yeah, we do have one weapon. How did we get that weapon, Gould?
Deac has saved my ass more times than I care to think about. He's fine.
What did you find, Deac?
Home, sweet home.
(GUNDERSON) This'll work to hole up in for a while. Deac, I want you on first watch.
Let's see if we can get a fire going. Gould, you got any matches?
No, but I found a latrine.
Like I said: home, sweet home.
Great, this thing's safe (!)
(GASPS AND SIGHS)
Hey, Gunderson.
What's the deal with you and Deacon? You guys separated at birth? Cousins?
Deacon's the squarest guy I know. He's from some backwards town in Arizona.
Doesn't drink, doesn't smoke. He doesn't even like coffee.
That's why they call him the Deacon.
My boys back in the neighbourhood, if they knew my best buddy was a good church boy like him,
they'd laugh their butts off.
I'll tell you something else about Deacon. He's the best shot I've ever seen.
- Where you from, Sarge? - Chicago, south side.
- Is that right? - How about you?
Louisiana. Small town. Really small.
How about you, Gould? Where are you from?
New York.
(GUNDERSON) What part of New York?
Brooklyn...Heights.
I like Brooklyn. Good jazz clubs.
- You want good jazz, go to the Village. - You want great jazz, go to New Orleans.
(KENDRICK) That's a good place.
(WHISPERS) Our Father in Heaven, forgive me...
...for the things I've done.
I just needed...
(GOULD) Stop.
- This is your card. - Yeah. That's a pretty good trick, Kendrick.
Got a jeep coming!
Keep going. Come on, keep going, keep go...
They're stopping.
Gunderson!
(SOLDIER SPEAKS GERMAN)
(SPEAKS GERMAN)
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATION ABOVE)
(RADIO STATIC)
(SOLDIERS SPEAK GERMAN)
- (GERMAN VOICE ON RADIO) - (AIRCRAFT OVERHEAD, EXPLOSION)
(SPEAKS GERMAN)
(CONVERSATION CONTINUES)
(GIVES ORDERS IN GERMAN)
(JEEP DRIVES AWAY)
(COUGHING)
Come on.
(GUNDERSON) I don't know. Deac, what did you get?
I couldn't hear 'em very good. Something about the Meuse river and that plane crash.
- (MOANING IN DISTANCE) - Shh.
Bloody... God...
- Stand back! Not a step closer! I have a gun! - (KENDRICK) He's a Kraut. Shoot him.
(GUNDERSON) He's a Brit. Kendrick, help him down.
- Stand back! - (GUNDERSON) All right, calm down.
- No! - Here we go.
- Get back! - Let's take it easy.
- Drop it! - You drop it!
- Keep it down! We're Americans. - Prove it!
- What? - Who was the third US President?
- Put the gun down. - Thomas Jefferson.
- Who was the fourth? - Madison.
- What's the capital of Vermont? - Hartford? I...
- Sarge! - Nobody knows that! You tell me!
Haven't the foggiest.
Sorry, boys. Where's your command post?
- Used to be that way. - Sorry for the trouble. Thank you.
(M UTTERS)
- About how far back? - About 10 to 15 miles.
- Soldier, who are you? - Flight Sergeant Oberon Winley, Royal Air Force.
- Oberon? - Winley.
Look, I'm in possession of crucial intelligence. I need to get to the nearest command centre.
You must've smashed your head on a tree.
- Or a bloody field phone, at least! - There are no field phones, and keep it down.
- Can we shoot him now, Sarge? - Shut up!
Winley, where do you think you're going?
- I was intended to fly back to Manhay. - Really?
Well, we've had bad luck.
A Panzer division went on a spoiling expedition. We're now behind enemy lines.
This isn't some spoiling expedition. This is a major German offensive.
After the Germans attacked, we were ordered to fly an emergency photo-recon mission,
to collect electronic intelligence.
We were flying under some cloud cover and snapped some rather revealing photos
but by the time we realised what we had a German fighter had shot us down.
- So you need to get to Intelligence. - Yes.
And it's damn critical I get there as soon as possible.
They've punched through all along here.
Right where we're thinnest.
Why would they do that? They're exposing their flank.
That's right.
Unless, of course, they hurry and make it to the Meuse river and cross over.
I don't get it.
If they cross the Meuse they can turn and take Liége.
Went through on my way in. One of the biggest ammo dumps I've seen.
(WINLEY) It's one of the largest in Europe.
If the Krauts take Liége, they take the ammo. Or we have to destroy it.
Either way, it's a straight shot for them to take back Antwerp.
- What is this? This ain't German. - Thank you!
I have got to get these to there, before the Germans cross the Meuse river.
- It's over 2O miles. - As the crow flies, yes.
Thank you.
And we're supposed to outrun an entire Panzer division on foot?
We could follow this rail line along here...
...and cut up through here and short-cut them.
Could save a lot of troops.
Hey.
Where'd you learn to speak German?
- What? - Your German, where'd you pick it up?
Oh, in Berlin.
What were you doing there? Going to school or something?
I was a missionary.
That must've been neat, hanging out with a bunch of Krauts, talking about God.
How is Adolf?
I loved it. It was the best time of my life.
Hey, Deac. Deac.
Wanna see a good magic trick?
I need a smoke.
Huh... So, Winley, where'd you say you were from exactly?
What is it, Kendrick? You want one of my fags, is that what it is?
Well...uh...um...
It's...
Hm.
- Forget I asked. - No problem.
How long has it been since you and Deacon have slept?
Me, two days.
Him, three or four.
The longer he goes without sleep, the more he's gonna lose it.
Thank you (I)
- What is he doing? - He's making sure all's clear.
OK, let's go. Move it.
All right, look, we've gone 12 miles. We gotta stop.
We gotta get some shut-eye. All right?
- We'll move in an hour. I'll take first watch. - No, I got it, Sarge.
No, you don't. You gotta get down there, get some sleep. All right? Go. Move it.
Careful.
- Hey, Kendrick, that was nice work, really. - Thanks, Sarge.
Yes, thank you for protecting us from the birdies. Very decent of you.
(MIMICKS WINLEY)
(GASPS)
(GERMAN CONVERSATION OUTSIDE)
- I fell asleep. - Well, you're not the only one.
What about you?
No.
- You sure you don't want some coffee? - You sure you don't want some hot lemonade?
What the hell are we doing here, Deac? This is crazy.
Yeah, you got that right.
I should be home right now.
I should be home, playing with my nephews, flirting with the girl in my dad's store.
What's her name?
I forgot her name.
And you, you should be doing...whatever you do.
- Helping my wife get ready for the baby. - You didn't tell me you were having a baby.
I got the letter on Thursday. She says she knows it's gonna be a girl.
- Huh. She must be due pretty soon, then? - Yeah. January 18th.
- That's my birthday. - I know.
(GUNDERSON) Huh. Hm.
Thursday...the day we hit Elsenborn.
You'll be all right, Deac.
We just gotta get Winley to Manhay, win the war and go home.
Hey, Deac.
I got some lemonade packets. I'll trade you for a couple of butts.
Kendrick, give it a rest. Nobody has any smokes, especially not him.
I just need a smoke.
(GUNDERSON) I gotta figure out where the hell we are.
- So, Gould, what's your secret? - My what?
Your big secret you don't tell the other chaps round the camp-fire.
I mean, we've all got them. I'm sure Kendrick here has 10 or 20.
- Yeah. I don't have one of those. - Rubbish!
Look, even if I did, why would I tell you?
You don't have to tell me, of course.
It's just we're on this fearless mission together
and I've found when men can share anything with each other, anything,
it creates a certain esprit de corps. You follow?
Forget it.
Righty-ho. You can play as you want.
I never kissed my wife till the day we were married.
All right, Deacon.
You see, I feel close already.
When I was 15 I showed up at school with a shiner and a bloody lip.
I told the guys I got it playing stickball.
But I actually got it 'cause I got beat up by Alice Palisky.
Alice Palisky. Good.
All right, all right, I got one.
One time when I was, uh, in high school I was working on my dad's truck.
And it had one of them vacuum tubes. You know what I'm talking about.
And uh...and I figured out that if I held it just so and sucked...
(SUCKS m)
...I could give myself hickeys.
I had 'em all over my neck, and I told my buddies that I had a girl from outta town.
But, the truth be known, I never kissed a girl before, ever.
(LAUGHS) Sump,!
- (KENDRICK) What's so funny? - Sorry, everyone.
It's just, well...hickeys, huh? I guess we've found a new nickname for Kendrick.
Let's go. We're making good time but we gotta keep moving.
So, Winley, what's your secret, huh?
Good grief, you think I'd tell you chaps? I've just barely met you.
- Is all Brits as charming as Winley? - I don't know.
What the hell's he doing?
- No. - Dead.!
(DEACON) No. No.
No, no! Don't kill me! (MOANS)
(GUNDERSON) Get him down. Cover his mouth.
- Right here. - (MOANS AND SOBS)
- Deacon... Shh... It's OK. - Be quiet. Quiet.
- Can you do something? - He needs a warm place to sleep.
We don't have that!
- What can you do for him here? - Deacon! Deacon! Listen to me.
Do not get us killed. Look at me. Look at me. Open your eyes. Look at me.
(DEACON HYPERVENTILATES)
Relax. Breathe.
I'm gonna take my hand away from your mouth. Do not scream. OK?
Did you see 'em?
- Tell me you saw 'em. - It's OK, Deac.
(GOULD) Let's get him up.
- (DEACON GASPS) - (GOULD) Gunderson.
Talk to me.
All right.
Last Thursday we ran into some Krauts in a little town on the Elsenborn Ridge.
They were pulling out but this one little bastard was holed up inside a church.
I sent Deac in to take him out.
It was dark in there. Somebody took a shot at him.
So he threw in a grenade, sprayed the room.
Went up and took the guy out.
In the room...there was two women and six kids.
It was a mess.
When it was over, Deac just...flipped out.
Our CO gave me a jeep to have him checked out at Saint-Vith.
We got captured about an hour before you guys ran into them at Malmédy.
You don't mention this to him. Do you understand me, Gould?
All right, what do we do?
We keep him talking. We don't let him go off by himself.
And please put that rifle in somebody else's hands.
Yep.
...47, 48, 49, 50, 51. Come on. Damn.
- Oberon, what is that, some kind of code? - No, it's the way I write.
- I hope somebody can translate that. - Of course. I can.
You're the only one who knows what that says?
- That more or less sums it up. - So, us not letting you die is pretty important?
Yes.
Great.
Kendrick. You got watch.
Winley, give me your gun. I'm gonna scout a bit.
I'll be right back.
(BLOWS NOSE)
- That is sick. - Yes. I'm sure you prefer to use your fingers.
(COUGHS UP PHLEGM)
That's much better, Hickey. Very distinguished.
Better than carrying it in your pocket.
Is it good reading?
- Do you believe in a life after this one? - Not a chance in hell.
When we first got here... I was working on this kid...
He was shot up pretty bad. He kept saying, "Please, God. Please, God." Over and over.
Like it meant something.
He was so sincere about it, I thought it might work.
Then two minutes later he was dead. There wasn't a thing I could do about it.
When I looked into his eyes... there was nothing there.
Nothing.
That's when I realised that...this is it.
It's funny.
What can possibly be funny about that?
No, I don't mean "funny" funny. It's...it's just that uh...
We were just outside Sainte-Mere-Eglise.
We were getting pounded pretty hard.
And I was holding this...this kid on my lap and...
...he was shot up pretty good.
And I remember him praying.
And I was praying, too.
And all of a sudden he...
...he was gone.
And that was...that was it, really. That was the first time that I...
...that I really watched somebody die.
But right then I knew that he was...
...he was in a better place than that.
- How convenient for you. - Convenient?
That's what I was thinking about what you said.
Funny,huh?
(BRANCHES CREAK)
- (GOULD) Where are you from? - (DEACON) Arizona.
I know, Arizona. Where in Arizona?
- Snowflake. - Snowflake? Never heard of it.
What do you do in Snowflake for fun?
Hunting.
- What do you hunt? - Whatever's in season.
So you like to shoot things?
Forget I asked.
- So why do you like the Krauts so much? - 'Cause I know 'em.
I know that most of 'em are just like you and me. They just wear a different uniform.
So Adolf Hitler is a pretty nice fella? Once you get to know him? It's just a different uniform?
- That's not what I said. - Those guys at Malmédy are just like us?
If it makes it easier to hate 'em, go ahead.
If it weren't for them I'd be finishing med school, fixing Billy's leg 'cause he broke it on his bicycle,
but instead I'm taking lead out of his 17-year-old brother's gut,
who wanted to serve and lied about his age.
And now he's spitting up blood, lying in the dirt and asking God to come and save him.
It's more than a different uniform.
They didn't cross by yet.
- They must be stalled somewhere in here. - Yeah. This weather can't be helping much.
- How far is it to Manhay? - About 15 kilometres.
All right. This weather keeps up, we should be able to beat 'em.
Get there by dark. Let's move out, come on.
Kendrick!
Kendrick! Kendrick!
- (KENDRICK MOANS) - OK, buddy, OK.
- (KENDRICK GROANS) - Kendrick, can you hear me?
- We can't do this here. - We gotta get outta this.
- If we stop there's no way we'll make it in time. - If we can't move, they can't. We can't move.
Get him up.
- (GUNDERSON) Come on. - (GOULD) We're going. Careful, careful.
- (KENDRICK) I'm so cold. - (GOULD) Stand right there and do not move.
No, no, you can't sit down. You gotta keep moving. Get up.
- (KENDRICK MUTTERS) - (GOULD) Get up. Keep moving.
# (OPERA)
I'll go check it out. Winley, give me your gun.
(GOULD) ...just stand there and keep your eyes open.
- I'll go with you. - I got it, Deac.
- But, Sarge, I can... - Corporal!
Don't worry about it. Just open the door.
(COCKS PISTOL)
# (Lehér: Vilia from The Merry Widow)
It's OK. OK. It's OK. I'm not gonna hurt you.
- I'm American. - (SPEAKS FRENCH)
Put the knife down. Put it down. I don't want...
- (SPEAKS FRENCH) - Put it down.
(SPEAKS FRENCH)
It's OK. I'm putting the gun down.
OK? Put the knife down.
I'm an American, OK?
It's OK, it's OK.
- Hm? OK? - American?
(SPEAKS FRENCH)
- American? - (WHISPERS) OK.
It's OK, fellas, it's OK.
- Uh, this is Madame Thearey. - Catherine.
Catherine. Catherine. Uh, and this is Sophie.
- Dis "bonjour", ma chérie. - Bonjour.
(ALL) Bonjour.
Ils sont tous américains?
Are... Yeah, yeah. We're all Americans. Uh, except for him.
- He's British. He's from England. - Anglais?
Bien.
(CATHERINE SPEAKS FRENCH)
- Merci. - Merci.
Merci, Catherine.
What did she just say?
Goodbye.
In French.
(WINLEY) Gunderson?
It's 1500 hours.
We did everything we could, Winley.
We certainly did.
Still, here I sit, all nice and comfy, while...
You boys have been super but I'm figuring I'd best get on with it.
Look, if I start now I can probably get there before morning.
Yeah. You could try.
I just don't know what your frozen dead body will do for anybody.
You can give these to Kendrick if you want.
Cheerio.
Winley!
(DOOR CREAKS AND CLOSES)
You let him go.
- He's not our prisoner, Gould. - He's gonna die out there.
Yes, he is.
(WIND HOWLS)
- Catherine. - Bonjour. Et bien.
- Bread. - Thank you.
- Ou est I'Anglais? - Oh. Winley. Uh...
- Quest-ce que c'est? - Deac?
We got company.
(SPEAKS GERMAN)
- Oh! Sophie! - Catherine!
(SPEAKS GERMAN)
(SOLDIER SPEAKS GERMAN)
Non! Non!
(SOLDIERS SPEAK GERMAN)
Hénde hoch! Hénde hoch!
Waffe fallen Lassen!
- (RELOADS) - You gotta take him, Deac.
Dead.!
Deac, get the Luger! We gotta catch him.
(CATHERINE AND SOPHIE SPEAK FRENCH)
(M UTTERS)
Damn!
Come on.
- Did you get him? - We lost him.
- What happened to Deadeye? - I couldn't hit him.
- Couldn't or wouldn't? - I did not miss on purpose!
- That's a lie! - That's enough!
If Deacon says he missed, he missed. We got other things to worry about.
Look what I found.
I heard gunshots, so I started back through the woods and found this little bugger!
Praying his little Jerry head off!
- I say shoot him now. - Shut up.
I'm with Kendrick. Let's shoot him.
- We don't shoot prisoners. - He does.
- Shoot him! - Shut up!
- Shoot him! - Winley, put it down!
- (GERMAN SOLDIER SOBS) - You will obey my orders!
Rut“?
- Erinnerst Du dich an Mich? - Greer! Greer!
(GOULD) What's going on?
(RUDI AND DEACON SPEAK GERMAN)
- Deacon! - (RUDI SPEAKS GERMAN)
This is Rudolf Gertz from Berlin. When I was on my mission I taught his family.
Sie sollen Mich nicht téten. Sie sollen Mich nicht téten.
I never miss.
Gundy, I didn't hit him...but I never miss.
(GERMAN PRAYER)
(RUDI PRAYS IN GERMAN)
- Sergeant? - Hm?
Did you give my cigarettes to...?
- Thanks. - No problem.
So, Winley, why did you come back?
I heard gunshots. I realised I was probably going to die out there, I'm not proud of it.
You made a choice. You're still alive. That's good for you.
Yes, that's true.
It's midnight. Gould, you're up.
I see our prisoner of war's having fun.
(SPEAKS GERMAN)
What did he say his name was?
Adolf?
- Gives me the creeps. - It's Rudolf.
Whatever.
Hey, Winley, I'll make you a deal.
You pick a card, any card, then put it back in the deck.
If I can find your card in this deck, you give me one of them smokes.
What do you say?
Deal.
OK.
You got it?
OK, now you just tell me when to stop.
Stop.
This is your card.
Nope. Sorry, Hickey.
This is your card.
(RUDI SPEAKS GERMAN)
The French lady's coming.
- Bonjour, Catherine. - Bonjour.
Thank you. Thank you, all.
Allez.
- Joyeux Noél. - Merci.
Merci.
Fréhliche Weihnacht.
Danke schén.
You get back... I got it.
(SPEAKS GERMAN)
Deacon! Where is he?
Wheres the Kraut, Deacon?
- You let him go. You let him go! - (GUNDERSON) No, no. Deacon! Deacon.
- Let's go, right now! - Hey! Who had watch, Gould?
- Who had watch? - I did.
- And I fell asleep. - Then Deacon didn't let anybody go.
- Yes, I did. - What?
- What do you wanna do, take him with us? - No, I want to shoot him, remember?
What were you thinking?
I made a trade.
Rudi told me the weather's shut down all movement on either side
and Manhay's in the middle of heavy fighting, so we couldn't get Winley through.
But an unknown number of Germans are pushing toward this town, Lierneux.
- That's less than six kilometres away. - Right.
Those are our nearest boys. I think we can make it through to 'em.
Yeah, sure (!)
- Through a fully armed Kraut division! - We sneak through.
I like it. I don't love it but I like it.
With our full arsenal of two pistols and a bolt-action.
Kendrick, did you check the back of that rig?
(DEACON) It's not much but we gotta make it count.
It's outta gas. Tank's empty.
All right. Run it as far as you can on fumes, then ditch it.
Take some grenades.
- (KENDRICK) What kinda name is Oberon? - (WINLEY) It's from Shakespeare.
- You ever heard of him? - Yeah.
- What kind of a name is Shirl? - It's short for Shirley.
- Shirley? - Yes. Shirley.
Don't get me wrong, I love the name Shirley. In fact it's my mother's name.
- You trying to get us killed? - Is that what you think?
Marching through enemy lines, there's no danger there (!)
Hell, it seems like the right thing to do.
- We die trying? - Yeah, maybe.
If someone killed innocent women and children, this is a way to make up for it.
Is that what your little Bible tells you, huh? Is this your penance?
You know what?
- Here! - What?
Take it. I can get another one.
- I don't want your book. - Really?
With all your questions you seem awful curious.
Get back in formation.
(SOLDIERS SPEAK GERMAN)
Let's take 'em.
Or not. We lay low.
- Keep moving? - Good thinking, Kendrick.
- What, are we a mile from Lierneux? - Sounds about right.
Sun's starting to peek through. Let's go, boys.
- How you doing? - All right.
You know, this really is beautiful country.
I knew you liked her.
I think I wanna learn French.
(GUNSHOT)
Gunderson!
(GUNDERSON GASPS AND SPLUTTERS)
(SOLDIER) Achtung!
Was war das?
- Stay with me, Gundy. - (DEACON) Gundy! Gundy! I'm coming!
Breathe, breathe.
No! Help him.
- He's dead. - No, he's not.
(GERMAN OFFICERS GIVE ORDERS)
- Deac... Look, he's gone. - Gundy!
Come on. Come on, we gotta go.
We've gotta go. Now.
- All right. - Come on, come on.
(SOLDIER SPEAKS GERMAN)
(SOLDIERS SPEAK GERMAN)
- Come on, Winley. Let's go. - I can't.
(SOLDIERS SPEAK GERMAN)
(WINLEY GROANS)
- Go see if we're being followed. - Go to hell.
- Now! - You go! Or want to save your own skin?
- I'll go. - You're not going anywhere.
Deacon! Deac!
- They're all over the place. - What do we do now?
We need to find a place I can work on him.
- Can he move? - Yes. Yes, I can move.
Follow me.
- (WINLEY MOANS) - (GOULD) OK, OK.
Deacon! I need your help.
Fingers in here. When I open the wound, push the muscle aside.
- Don't scream. - Please, God.
It's all right.
(KENDRICK) You're doing all right, you're doing great.
- Open a little further. - I'm trying.
- (GOULD) Come on. Almost there. - (WINLEY GROANS)
- I got it. - (KENDRICK) That's it.
I got it.
(KENDRICK) Hold still. Hang in there, Winley.
- (GOULD) You need to go to an aid station. - Shh!
Krauts.
(WHISTLES A TUNE)
(SPEAKS GERMAN)
Germans on the walls!
- Here. - Heads up!
- Let's go. - Keep moving, come on!
(GUNFIRE)
(GOULD) Germans on the right flank!
Get in the hole!
- Damn them! - I got it!
(SOLDIERS SPEAK GERMAN)
- Pass auf! - Granate!
Let's go, let's go!
- Kendrick, get Winley outta here. - (DEACON) Yeah, go.
- (KENDRICK) We're gonna make it. - Ready? Move, move!
Feuef!
(SOLDIERS SPEAK GERMAN)
(GOULD) Grenade! Move!
(SOLDIERS SPEAK GERMAN)
Come on, come on.
Stay with me, stay with me. We're gonna make it. We're gonna make it.
Shh.
- Get down. - Go.
Fire in the hole.
Granate!
Oh, God. Crikey.
Hang on, hang on.
Gould will be here in a second. Just hang on.
Just a second. Hang on.
(WHISPERS)
I'm sorry.
Go!
(WINLEY GASPS)
- Where are they? - Right there.
(GOULD) Winley!
Winley!
(DEACON) Where is he?
- Winley! - Winley!
- Winley! Winley! - Winley! Come on.
- Winley. Winley. Winley, come on. - Hang on, Winley.
(GOULD) Say something.
Right here.
I can't swim.
Is that your big secret?
- Where's Kendrick? - Kendrick's dead.
(SPEAKS GERMAN)
Gott sei mit euch.
We gotta get these clothes off him.
- So, what now? - I don't know. How's your German?
All right. The German line's about a half mile up that way.
This road'll take us straight through the clearing. Our boys are dug in on the other side.
- Are we ready? - Get Winley through, save some lives.
That's the idea.
- (ENGINE STARTS) - Hey.
I didn't sign up.
I tried to dodge the draft.
And my father came and found me.
Was that your big secret?
Uh-huh!
- Did you get that, Winley? - Mm.
(SOLDIERS SPEAK GERMAN)
Gould, cover up those weapons.
All right, Winley? Look sick.
(SPEAKS GERMAN)
(MOANS SOFTLY)
(SPEAKS GERMAN)
Vielen Dank.
(SPEAKS GERMAN)
(ENGINE REVS)
(SPEAKS GERMAN)
- (SPEAKS GERMAN) - (SPEAKS GERMAN)
(SOLDIERS SPEAK GERMAN)
- Hang on. - (SPEAKS GERMAN)
- (GOULD) Go, go, go! - (DEACON) Get down!
- What's going on? - I can't tell.
I think they're trying to make a push.
- There's a jeep coming. - Get the Sarge on the radio. Let me see.
Foxtrot 2-9er calling Foxtrot 0-2.
(SOLDIERS SPEAK GERMAN)
We got a jeep coming from outta nowhere. Over. Out.
Nah, that's one of our jeeps but that's a Jerry flag on the hood. What are they trying to do?
Don't know what you got in mind, Jerry, but it ain't gonna happen.
The flag! Now! Get it!
(SOLDIERS SPEAK GERMAN)
Hang on a second. Let me see.
- Incoming! - We're American!
- What is it? - We got two Krauts coming in there.
(DEACON) Incoming!
Feuef!
- (WINLEY MOANS) - You're gonna be ok.
(SOLDIERS SPEAK GERMAN)
They're shooting at each other.
I think those boys are ours. Let's give 'em some cover fire.
Cover fire! Into the trees, on me.
I'm out, I'm out.
You take Winley and go and I'll cover you.
I'm not gonna leave you.
- You go now! - No!
III be right behind you.
(WINLEY GROANS)
(GOULD) OK.
- (GOULD) Move. - (WINLEY GASPS)
(SOUNDTRACK MUSIC COVERS SPEECH)
(SOLDIERS TALK IN DISTANCE)
You saved my life.
Be at peace, Deacon.
(SOLDIERS SPEAK GERMAN)
(AMERICAN SOLDIER IN DISTANCE) Move it. Come on. Let's go.