"(Cannon shell is heard ripping by overhead)" "(Machine gun firing a steady stream)" "He's gonna be alright there now." "Yes Sir." "Queen six." "This is King 2." "I can give you the Lieutenant now." "Lieutenant." "It's Captain Power." "He's been trying to get you all morning Sir." "Yes Sir." "right away." "Lieutenant?" "Battalion's pulling back to Averanche." "That's a shame." "we stay." "We stay?" "We're the rear guard." "They need eyes to cover the withdrawal." "Have they checked lately?" "We're just about blind." "You get a replacement today." "eh." "One?" "One." "Don't they know that we're under strength in this Company Lieutenant?" "and he'll punch it for you." "your squad gets him." "He'll take Grady Long's place." "He will?" "Delaney?" "Yes Sir." "End of the line." "Yes Sir." "right over there." "Thank you Sir." "Good luck." "Yes Sir." "You too Sir." "Let's go." "reviewing plans) as far as the branch." "Group there and wait." "Not before dark." "Won't get 100 yards before they spot us." "That's the whole idea." "According to intelligence there's a concentration of enemy armor here in the area of Leiya." "They haven't committed themselves as yet." "Regiment doesn't dare move forward one more mile." "What good is pulling out gonna do?" "3rd battalion is right here in the center of the line." "the Germans are more than likely to throw tanks in to fill the gap." "at Leiya." "Where does that leave us?" "and direct artillery fire." "And get our heads blown off." "There's always that." "in the clock tower." "day and night." "you keep off the streets and be careful to stay away from windows." "This town has to play dead." "That's the only way we can draw them out." "I'll join you before morning." "Any questions?" "no questions." "Sergeant." "Who are you?" "Sir." "Delaney." "replacement from Averanche." "K-company isn't it?" "What's left of it." "Delaney." "Thank you Sir." "though." "What the Lieutenant means is that they're about to put us between a rock and a hard place." "Sergeant?" "They drafted him." "Saunders." "You might as well go with him Delaney." "You'll be assigned to his squad." "Yes Sir." "You'll need every man you can get." "Yes Sir." "What did you say your name was again?" "Delaney." "I understand you're a BAR man Is that right?" "That was my primary weapon in basic training." "I never did.." "You were a cook's helper?" "Up until now." "Delaney." "(Kirby making imitation gun noises)" "(More gun noises)" "Kirby." "Kirby." "old buddy." "That's all." "That's what I call a gun." "That's what you're supposed to call a rifle." "Don't you remember anything they taught you in basic training Kirby?" "right?" "like digging your hole deeper than anyone else." "Always volunteering to be the getaway man." "You kill me Littlejohn." "It's crossed my mind." "I never saw anything so pretty." "A man could really chop something up with this baby." "Just think how long I been trying to get my hands on it." "You figure the Sergeant's going to give it to you?" "one way or the other." "he hasn't said much of anything ever since Grady got it." "They were close." "Yeah." "Well." "he'd tell you." "Tell us what?" "That I'm the one who oughta take over his gun." "You know how many times I cleaned it for him." "I can field strip this thing with my eyes closed." "That's a fact." "A man gets the feeling for a weapon." "You know he." "the trigger pull." "You know exactly what you can expect from it in a bind." "Kirby." "Huh?" "Don't you ever think of anything else but shooting and killing?" "ain't it?" "ain't it?" "Yeah." "But we don't have to be all the time saying it out in words." "Littlejohn." "Hey Littlejohn." "Yeah." "You seen my helmet?" "I can't find it anywhere." "Was it all beat up and black with the chinstraps burned off?" "Yeah." "That's it." "that's it." "What are ya doing?" "what does it look like I'm doing Billy." "Boiling water." "but.." "Well." "You can't expect us to cook a chicken dry." "Can you?" "A chicken?" "Braddock spotted some tracks out behind the barn." "He went stalking off after them." "but he said." "Hey Littlejohn Look." "Braddock." "Watch it." "Ha Ha Ha." "Hold on to it." "Don't let it get away boy." "Ha ha ha." "Ha ha." "I swear you're a hunter." "A born hunter." "That's nothing." "How's the water coming?" "Be boiling in a minute." "Good." "Good?" "Braddock?" "No use burning any more chinstraps than we have to." "Right Kirby?" "Kirby:" "Right." "That's right." "Billy:" "Yeah." "But I... right?" "now it's chicken." "What if there was an air raid or something I could get a hole knocked in my skull?" "Don't you think of anybody but yourself?" "boy." "And you begrudge us cooking her." "Well.." "go get a knife and cut her head off." "You want me to kill her?" "can we?" "I couldn't kill a chicken." "I don't understand you." "Up and at em." "Saddle up." "Sarge?" "We're moving." "Where to?" "You'll find out." "Hurry up." "We haven't got all day." "Get that fire out." "you see what I mean." "What do I do with this chicken Sarge?" "That's your problem." "settle down." "This is Delaney." "He's a new man." "He's gonna be with us." "This is Caje." "Hi." "Hi." "The one with the chicken is Braddock." "Littlejohn." "Hi." "Howdy." "Nelson." "Kirby." "Hi." "Kirby." "Yo." "Catch up Grady's rifle." "Give it to him." "I figured that...." "I said give it to him." "Fall back Kirby." "Nelson." "Yes Sir." "Carry Delaney's ammo." "Yes Sir." "Delaney." "straighten out." "where they going?" "Averanches." "Knock it off." "We stay." "Right step." "Hard!" "thunder)" "It's a stinking situation." "Like the Sergeant said." "Somebody's got to size up that German armor." "Hah." "I'm not talking about that." "I'm talking about giving that new man Grady's gun." "You know what he was before we got him don't ya?" "that's what he was." "Where does he get off thinkin' he'd take Grady's place?" "people forget awful easy." "Sure can forget ya." "You think the Sergeant's gonna forget Grady Long?" "if you ask me." "Kirby." "not your mouth." "Got some things need saying." "Like why I didn't give you Grady's gun?" "That's one of them." "It's a long story." "Tell it." "Kirby." "I'm not man enough." "Is that what you're saying?" "that's it." "I'm every bit as good as that cook." "I'm not gonna be brought down." "not standing here shooting off your mouth." "You two get downstairs." "Send up Braddock and Littlejohn." "I didn't mean." "Do like I tell ya." "Sergeant." "Coffee?" "I thought I gave orders there's not to be any cook fires." "I kept it low just for coffe." "Figured the other guys could use it." "Having to stay up the night and watch." "Delaney." "that's what the other guy said." "Delaney." "Takes awhile for a squad to get used to a new man." "They'll uh." "They'll come around." "sure." "We had a young fella come into our kitchen back at Fort Bragg. the mess Sergeant put him in charge of canned goods and vegetables." "a new man usually starts off at the bottom." "hauling out garbage and low jobs like that." "we didn't take very kind to that fella." "starting out right near the top." "Canned goods and vegetables is just one step away from setting tables and serving officers mess." "Sure gave that guy a rough time." "things like that." "Turned out he wasn't half bad after all." "Wasn't his fault they gave him an important job right off." "Like I've given you." "The squad depends on the BAR man." "First one they look to when they get in trouble." "And you don't think you can handle it." "Sergeant." "maybe better." "I'd count it a favor if you took that gun away from me." "Gave it to Kirby or one of the others." "According to your record you're qualified to handle a Browning automatic rifle." "How can I be." "I've been stuck in a kitchen for 2 years." "It'll all come back to you." "In the mean time..." "In the meantime you just do as I tell you." "what do you think you're doing with that chicken?" "I'd eat it but you won't let us build a fire." "You know a better way to let the Germans know we're here?" "What's the matter with him?" "Grady Long." "Billy?" "Yeah." "You go on guard after Saunders and Caje." "Right." "Braddock?" "Yeah." "What are we watching for?" "remember." "Delaney." "Yeah." "You're a cook right?" "just a helper." "right?" "2 years." "a la king and rickosey." "Fricassee." "Well." "I think this bird deserves something better than a hat full of hot water." "something fancy." "celery seed and maybe a bay leaf or two." "It'd be a crying shame for this pure bird to get cooked plain." "Let me see her." "No." "no." "She's 6 pounds if she's an ounce." "That's bad huh?" "4 at the most." "You'll have to stew her." "Stew her?" "Are you sure?" "Yep." "Sorry honey." "Delaney." "There's something been bothering me." "but uh" "How old are you?" "Forty." "Forty!" "Those Draft boys are murderers." "Don't they realize this is a young man's war?" "if I were you..." "I wasn't drafted." "You weren't?" "I joined." "no kidding." "It was the only way I could get in." "You wanted in the army?" "How come?" "Wisconsin." "No." "Well." "I come from there. 210 from Chicago." "You know something?" "I never got to any of those places." "I never got anyplace till the war." "I was a clerk in a grocery store." "Now look at me." "Been to London." "maybe even Berlin." "You'd had a better chance to get there if you would have stayed in the kitchen." "And not get yourself transferred to a line outfit." "I know." "Then why did you do it?" "Being a cook in the army is like being a clerk in Hannah." "It's a way to stay alive." "There's even more important things than that." "Name one." "Well going home after the war." "or didn't do." "Living with it." "Look." "I'm not much of a deep thinker." "But I know one thing." "Anybody that got himself into this man's war when he didn't have to." "Is okay in my book." "but OK." "Any questions?" "No." "No questions." "You guys gonna talk all night." "Kirby?" "Yeah." "Drop dead." "Littlejohn?" "Yeah." "What's the matter?" "You're gonna be mad at me again." "I am." "Why?" "Look." "I'm looking." "it's gone." "Gone." "it was loose and I was trying to bend it so it wouldn't come out." "And I dropped it and I can't find it." "Don't let go of the handle." "I won't." "I won't." "Billy?" "Well." "I was just trying." "You were just trying to blow your head off." "Not to mention the rest of us." "It's gotta be here someplace." "he'll really give it to me good." "Like he did the time you washed your rifle in soap and water." "yeah." "I guess you're just gonna have to stay up all night and hold that handle Billy." "I can't do that." "Only thing you can do if you want to stay in one piece." "Billy." "Hmm." "Give it here." "(loud thunder roars)" "Thanks." "Nothing doing." "Delaney." "Hang on to that." "Littlejohn." "What's the matter now?" "I thought I heard something." "What?" "it sounded like a... (magazine snap is heard)" "The bolt slipped." "I was trying to put the magazine back." "let me help you." "commonly known as a BAR." "portable machine rifle." "Fed from a magazine." "Capable of firing from 200 to 350 rounds a minute." "Provided of course that the man behind it ain't a kitchen cop that don't know his trigger housing from his butt plate." "Knock it off Kirby." "Delaney." "right?" "I said." "You said you gave him Grady's rifle because he's qualified to carry it." "Now that's a lie and you know it." "a lousy rotten..." "I've had all I want to take from you Kirby." "Sergeant." "Listen." "(Vehicles approaching)" "Tanks." "Sergeant." "There's somebody moving out there." "They're coming in." "corporal." "Yes Sir." "What's coming in out there Lieutenant." "Sounds like the whole German army." "I thought it was a recon patrol but it's not." "the works." "I'll get the men ready to move out." "We're not moving." "They're all around us." "We can call a fire mission." "Make a run for it." "You'd never make it 50 yards." "We got to keep our heads down and sweat this one out." "Like you said Lieutenant." "At least we're in a position to judge their strength and direct artillery fire." "Trouble is we're smack in the middle of our own target." "How about that radio." "Checkmate King six." "This is Checkmate King 2." "Over." "Checkmate King six." "Checkmate King six." "This is Checkmate King 2 This is Checkmate King 2." "Over." "Can't raise them Lieutenant." "Keep trying." "Sergeant." "About them putting us between a rock and a hard place." "Things are tough all over Lieutenant." "Checkmate King six." "This is Checkmate King 2." "Over." "(chicken clucking noisily)" "(the noisy chicken gets German's attention)" "(German)" "(German)" "(they are called back at crucial moment)" "(German)" "From what I could see up there they've got about 50 pieces of medium and heavy armor scattered in and around this town." "I'd give my right arm to call a fire mission right now Lieutenant." "if you did Sergeant." "we're fixed." "I got Battalion." "Checkmate King 2." "Over." "Yes Sir." "Yes Sir we are." "Yes Sir." "Roger out." "What did Battalion say Lieutenant?" "Sit still." "Wait till they pull out." "You got a better suggestion Sergeant." "I already made it." "Call a fire mission." "Wait till it starts coming in and make a run for it." "You wouldn't stand a chance." "This town is crawling with krauts." "They've already sent out patrols." "They're bound to find us sooner or later Lieutenant." "Lieutenant." "Lieutenant." "Look." "Everybody through that door." "Quick!" "Move!" "." "(German)" "Buckmeyer." "Yes Sir." "Can you make out what they're saying?" "(German)" "(German)" "(German)" "(German)" "(German)" "Sir." "That tears it." "Well Lieutenant." "Buckmeyer." "Yes Sir." "Get me Division Artillery." "Yes Sir." "Men ready to go Sergeant." "Yes Sir." "We got 3 minutes." "There will be over 50 pieces of artillery firing at your first insurgent target." "planes if we're lucky." "I'll head for the outskirts of town." "Tell your men to follow me and stay spread out." "There's a fringe of timber just outside the outskirts." "we've got it made." "Yes Sir." "Sergeant." "Good luck." "Same to you Lieutenant." "Leave your packs." "We're going to make a run for it." "Lieutenant and I will lead out." "Delaney." "Fall in at the rear." "Nelson." "Stick with 'em." "just..." "Just stick on my tail." "Any questions?" "Alright." "Hey Delaney." "Are you alright." "Yeah." "Yeah." "I'm alright." "Won't be long now Sergeant." "Lieutenant." "Corporal." "Yes Sir." "Keep the radio fired up." "I want to stay in contact with Division." "Yes Sir." "26 Lieutenant." "Fire!" "Go!" "Go." "Delaney." "Delaney." "You hit." "No." "Well come on." "Come on." "We gotta get outa here." "Go on." "I'll follow you." "Go on." "Get the BAR man up here." "Yes Sir." "Where's Delaney." "I saw him go down." "Was he hit." "No Sir." "I tried to get him up." "I couldn't." "I told you Sarge I told you." "Shut up." "Delaney!" "Delaney!" "Come on." "Get up." "I can't." "You listen to me Delaney." "We've got to knock out that gun or our whole squad's gonna get it." "Braddock." "All of them." "You can't tell me that you're going to stay here with your head stuck in the ground and let that happen." "Because if you are you better get used to it." "Cause you're gonna spend the rest of your life with your head stuck in the ground trying to forget that you blew those men to pieces." "Men you depend on." "Now are you going to help me blow up that gun or not." "Are you!" "Cover me." "Delaney." "434)}Boom" "Let's go." "Come on." "Let's go." "294)}Beep" "Sergeant." "Yes Sir." "Time to get going." "William D. Delaney." "I didn't even know his first name." "Doesn't seem right asking a man to die without even knowing his name." "I was wrong Lieutenant..." "Wrong?" "I gave Delaney Grady's gun because..." "I didn't want to lose one of the others the way I lost Grady." "I thought if it was..." "Someone I didn't know it would be..easier." "It's not." "join Battalion." "Yes Sir." "Who are you?" "Sir." "Baker?" "Sergeant." "He's taking Delaney's place." "You got a first name Baker?" "Yes Sir." "What is it?" "Albert.." "Albert Baker Sir." "Albert Baker." "Subtitles by JackT"