1 00:00:07,774 --> 00:00:14,737 l've seen death. l've seen my friends, my men, being killed. 2 00:00:14,948 --> 00:00:21,365 And this is-- lt doesn't take too many days of that. . . 3 00:00:21,579 --> 00:00:24,829 . . .and you change dramatically. 4 00:00:25,082 --> 00:00:28,831 We had no food, didn't have ammunition. lt was cold. 5 00:00:29,086 --> 00:00:34,127 We didn't have clothes. lf you built a fire, something would shoot at you. 6 00:00:34,383 --> 00:00:37,882 Everywhere you look, you would see dead people. 7 00:00:38,095 --> 00:00:41,214 A dead soldier there, here. Ours, theirs. 8 00:00:41,431 --> 00:00:46,508 Then civilians, besides. . . . Dead animals. 9 00:00:46,769 --> 00:00:49,058 So death was all over. 10 00:00:49,314 --> 00:00:54,604 You don't have a chance, when your friends go down. . . 11 00:00:54,819 --> 00:00:59,445 . . .to really take care of them as you might. 12 00:00:59,698 --> 00:01:05,819 And especially if you're under attack, moving or whatever, and. . . . 13 00:01:07,081 --> 00:01:10,449 l withstood it well. . . 14 00:01:10,709 --> 00:01:16,249 . . .but l had a lot of trouble in later life. . . 15 00:01:16,464 --> 00:01:22,253 . . .because those events would come back. . . 16 00:01:22,470 --> 00:01:25,839 . . .and you never forget them. 17 00:04:09,629 --> 00:04:11,207 After Bastogne... 18 00:04:11,423 --> 00:04:15,835 ...Easy Company was called to push the Germans through the Bulge. 19 00:04:16,094 --> 00:04:19,344 We were here this morning. We came this way. 20 00:04:19,597 --> 00:04:22,931 Here's the logging road coming into here. 21 00:04:23,101 --> 00:04:25,638 -So you go right there. -Take it easy! 22 00:04:25,895 --> 00:04:30,142 -Stop crying or l'll nail it to your head. -lt's made of wood. 23 00:04:30,316 --> 00:04:34,016 -Move them out. -Yes, sir. 2nd Platoon, let's go. 24 00:04:34,278 --> 00:04:39,616 I was glad to be out of my foxhole and moving, even if only to get warm. 25 00:04:39,867 --> 00:04:43,532 Spread out. Keep your interval. 26 00:04:49,751 --> 00:04:53,962 E Company was sent to clear the woods near the town of Foy... 27 00:04:54,214 --> 00:04:58,959 ...in preparation for what we knew would be the assault on Foy itself. 28 00:04:59,135 --> 00:05:00,250 l see it, Buck. 29 00:05:00,428 --> 00:05:03,132 Watch for mines. 30 00:05:04,932 --> 00:05:09,926 During that 1 000-yard attack, we encountered sporadic machine-gun fire... 31 00:05:10,104 --> 00:05:15,015 ...and had a couple casualties, but overall met little resistance. 32 00:05:18,195 --> 00:05:22,275 Nelson! Look. Nelson! 33 00:05:23,742 --> 00:05:29,577 Hoobler's run-in with the German was the most dramatic moment of the day. 34 00:05:37,755 --> 00:05:38,870 Halt! 35 00:05:40,966 --> 00:05:42,924 Halt! 36 00:06:06,616 --> 00:06:08,655 Oh, shit. 37 00:06:20,879 --> 00:06:22,504 Thank you. 38 00:06:27,886 --> 00:06:32,180 Hoobler had been talking about getting a Luger since Normandy. 39 00:06:32,390 --> 00:06:35,724 He went from foxhole to foxhole telling everyone. 40 00:06:35,935 --> 00:06:38,473 Down he goes like a sack of potatoes. 41 00:06:38,730 --> 00:06:42,644 Outstanding accuracy on my part, if l do say so myself. 42 00:06:42,900 --> 00:06:45,308 -Which you do. -Which l do. 43 00:06:45,570 --> 00:06:48,855 Shifty, l could've given you a run for your money. 44 00:06:49,115 --> 00:06:53,029 No, l'm not a good shot. Dad was an excellent shot. 45 00:06:53,285 --> 00:06:55,408 He'd shoot the wings off a fly. 46 00:06:55,663 --> 00:06:58,580 That German, what'd you think he was doing? 47 00:06:58,832 --> 00:07:02,700 Recon. He must have figured nobody'd hear a horse. 48 00:07:02,961 --> 00:07:05,666 He was just trying to get out of Dodge. 49 00:07:05,922 --> 00:07:08,674 -What happened to the horse? -Don't know. 50 00:07:08,884 --> 00:07:11,421 Probably still running. Hope he's okay. 51 00:07:12,178 --> 00:07:15,013 -You dug in? -Yeah, yeah. 52 00:07:15,265 --> 00:07:18,052 Just thought l'd take a walk. 53 00:07:18,309 --> 00:07:20,978 You're a good shot. Glad you're on our side. 54 00:07:21,145 --> 00:07:22,972 Thanks, Lip. 55 00:07:23,231 --> 00:07:25,140 -Hey, Lip? -Yeah. 56 00:07:25,358 --> 00:07:29,225 -Thanks for the help. -You got it, Shifty. 57 00:07:29,486 --> 00:07:34,113 -Hey, Lip? You got a sec? -Yes, sir. 58 00:07:36,285 --> 00:07:38,573 Give him a hand. 59 00:07:39,788 --> 00:07:42,705 -Where's Dike? -He's around. 60 00:07:42,958 --> 00:07:46,825 -Could you be more specific, sergeant? -Not really, sir. 61 00:07:47,087 --> 00:07:52,128 l haven't seen him all day and l have to figure out how we ended up. 62 00:07:52,383 --> 00:07:54,957 -Two wounded. -Who? 63 00:07:55,219 --> 00:07:59,169 -Brown and Stevenson. -Goddamn it. Where's Dike? 64 00:07:59,432 --> 00:08:01,258 Where does he go? 65 00:08:01,517 --> 00:08:05,182 l don't know, but l wish he'd stay there. 66 00:08:05,437 --> 00:08:08,687 -Shut up, boys. -Shutting up, sarge. 67 00:08:09,066 --> 00:08:11,023 What the hell was that? 68 00:08:12,444 --> 00:08:16,524 -Patrol? -No, we would've heard. 69 00:08:16,782 --> 00:08:19,818 -One man, maybe a sniper. -That was no rifle. 70 00:08:20,076 --> 00:08:23,113 -What do you see, Shift? -Nobody out there. 71 00:08:23,371 --> 00:08:25,198 -Are you sure? -Uh-huh. 72 00:08:25,415 --> 00:08:28,119 -lt's Hoob. He's shot! -Sniper? 73 00:08:28,376 --> 00:08:32,788 -No, no, he, he shot himself. -Medic! 74 00:08:33,047 --> 00:08:34,790 -What happened? -Doc. 75 00:08:35,049 --> 00:08:36,460 lt's my fucking leg. 76 00:08:36,675 --> 00:08:40,424 -You'll be all right. -lt just went off. 77 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:46,053 What are you doing with a loaded gun in your pants? Damn it! Goddamn it! 78 00:08:46,226 --> 00:08:48,266 -l wasn't touching it. -Medic! 79 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:52,185 -Where are you hit? -ln my leg. 80 00:08:52,357 --> 00:08:56,900 -Take it easy, buddy. -Don't look, Hoob. lt'll be fine. 81 00:08:57,112 --> 00:09:00,527 -Hurts like a son of a bitch. -lt's gonna be okay. 82 00:09:00,782 --> 00:09:03,699 -Doc! -Don't worry about it, Hoob. 83 00:09:03,868 --> 00:09:07,782 -You'll be all right. You hear me? -Warm him up! 84 00:09:08,039 --> 00:09:09,497 Keep him warm. 85 00:09:09,749 --> 00:09:13,793 -How's it looking, doc? -Let me see it. 86 00:09:14,044 --> 00:09:17,994 Can we get him some blankets or something? 87 00:09:18,257 --> 00:09:21,423 -Keep talking to him. -Listen to me, it's okay. 88 00:09:21,635 --> 00:09:23,793 Think it was a German leg? 89 00:09:24,012 --> 00:09:27,381 -lt's not that bad. -You're gonna be fine. 90 00:09:27,641 --> 00:09:30,476 Hold on. Put this across him. 91 00:09:30,685 --> 00:09:35,098 -Wrap him up. Wrap him up. -Here you go. Here you go. 92 00:09:35,356 --> 00:09:41,311 -Lip, you said l was a great shot? -You are. You're a great shot. 93 00:09:41,571 --> 00:09:44,690 You jump out of planes. You're tough, man. 94 00:09:44,949 --> 00:09:47,700 -lt's not that bad. -Stay with us, Hoob. 95 00:09:47,952 --> 00:09:50,953 -lt's all right. -Doc, what are we gonna do? 96 00:09:51,205 --> 00:09:54,656 -How we doing, doc? -l can't see a thing. 97 00:09:54,917 --> 00:10:00,955 -Let's get ready to move him. -Relax, take it easy. Take it easy. 98 00:10:01,214 --> 00:10:03,705 Doc. Doc! 99 00:10:15,978 --> 00:10:18,054 Perc, l'll need a jeep. 100 00:10:23,861 --> 00:10:28,938 He was wearing so many clothes we couldn't tell how bad he was bleeding. 101 00:10:29,116 --> 00:10:34,358 He was already dead. The bullet cut the main artery in his leg. 102 00:10:34,621 --> 00:10:39,082 lt wouldn't have made a difference if you had known. 103 00:10:39,292 --> 00:10:42,708 Cut that main artery in the leg, that's it. 104 00:10:42,962 --> 00:10:49,581 Yes, sir. l'm gonna go back and make sure the boys are all dug in, sir. 105 00:10:49,844 --> 00:10:55,431 -Lip? Where's Dike? -You want to see him, sir? 106 00:10:55,683 --> 00:10:59,930 No, l just would have expected this kind of news from him. 107 00:11:00,187 --> 00:11:04,979 Well, l was there, sir. Figured it might as well be me. 108 00:11:17,245 --> 00:11:21,788 Where's Dike? I probably heard that question a thousand times... 109 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:24,954 ...and I probably asked it a few times myself. 110 00:11:25,211 --> 00:11:30,252 There were long stretches where we didn 't know where Lieutenant Dike was. 111 00:11:30,424 --> 00:11:32,666 He'd disappear for hours. 112 00:11:32,927 --> 00:11:36,592 It wouldn 't have been bad if he was one of the guys... 113 00:11:36,764 --> 00:11:40,713 ...but he was supposed to be leading the company. 114 00:11:41,101 --> 00:11:44,850 Captain Winters was a CO we could all respect. 115 00:11:45,022 --> 00:11:48,106 Moose Heyliger would have done a good job... 116 00:11:48,275 --> 00:11:51,940 ...but he was accidentally shot by a sentry. 117 00:11:52,112 --> 00:11:53,985 Then came Norman Dike. 118 00:11:54,239 --> 00:11:58,023 l want security around the company CP. 119 00:11:58,284 --> 00:12:01,534 Dike wasn 't bad because he made bad decisions... 120 00:12:01,704 --> 00:12:04,788 ...he was bad because he made no decisions. 121 00:12:04,999 --> 00:12:08,747 Battalion S3 is planning a move. . . 122 00:12:08,919 --> 00:12:12,917 . . .so l will probably be called away regularly. 123 00:12:13,132 --> 00:12:14,674 Any questions? 124 00:12:14,925 --> 00:12:20,264 Yeah. What's the formation you're wanting us to go for? 125 00:12:21,014 --> 00:12:26,601 At present, as per usual, but l'll clarify that with you at a later time. 126 00:12:26,853 --> 00:12:28,762 Yes, sir. 127 00:12:31,357 --> 00:12:34,192 l gotta make a call. 128 00:12:41,575 --> 00:12:44,612 -Let's move it out. -Right. 129 00:12:48,123 --> 00:12:51,077 Dike was a favorite of somebody at Division. 130 00:12:51,251 --> 00:12:54,786 He'd been sent down to get combat experience. 131 00:12:54,963 --> 00:12:58,379 It seemed like E Company was an annoyance to him. 132 00:12:58,550 --> 00:13:03,377 Something he had to get through before he could continue up the ladder. 133 00:13:03,638 --> 00:13:07,683 -We're screwed. -l'm glad Dike's never around. 134 00:13:07,934 --> 00:13:12,596 You know what? We're doing all right, even with Foxhole Norman. 135 00:13:12,855 --> 00:13:16,354 We're doing all right now. ln case you ain't noticed. . . 136 00:13:16,609 --> 00:13:20,903 . . .there's a town over there, right? ln that town are Germans. 137 00:13:21,113 --> 00:13:23,402 -These Germans got tanks. -l know. 138 00:13:23,574 --> 00:13:26,658 And our side's gonna want to go into that town. 139 00:13:26,910 --> 00:13:30,575 Guess who they're gonna want to go knock on the door? 140 00:13:30,831 --> 00:13:34,365 l know, all right? lt's me you're talking to here. 141 00:13:34,626 --> 00:13:40,296 We gotta do all this with a CO who's got his head so far up his ass. . . 142 00:13:40,507 --> 00:13:43,875 . . .that lump in his throat is his goddamn nose. 143 00:13:44,135 --> 00:13:46,970 -Hey, first sergeant. -Hey, boys. 144 00:13:47,221 --> 00:13:50,341 -Hey, Lip. -Hey, Muck, what's the word? 145 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:56,887 Sitting around freezing our ass off, singing Dike's praises. 146 00:13:57,147 --> 00:14:00,766 Oh, yeah. Lieutenant Dike. 147 00:14:01,985 --> 00:14:05,734 Well, l'll tell you. . . 148 00:14:05,948 --> 00:14:09,316 . . .l wouldn't want to be a replacement officer here. 149 00:14:09,576 --> 00:14:14,950 Get thrown in with guys who've known each other for what, two years? 150 00:14:15,832 --> 00:14:19,082 You've been in combat together since Normandy. 151 00:14:19,335 --> 00:14:25,338 He's supposed to just show up and lead them? How does a guy do that? 152 00:14:25,591 --> 00:14:30,549 How could anyone really hope to gain respect of the toughest. . . 153 00:14:30,763 --> 00:14:37,015 . . .most professional, most dedicated sons of bitches in the entire ETO? 154 00:14:37,227 --> 00:14:41,972 lf you ask me, a guy'd have to march off to Berlin. . . 155 00:14:42,190 --> 00:14:46,686 . . .and come back with Hitler's mustache or something. 156 00:14:49,447 --> 00:14:54,987 Anyway, listen. You guys don't worry about Dike. All right? 157 00:14:55,244 --> 00:14:56,620 Yeah. 158 00:14:56,829 --> 00:15:00,578 We all do our jobs, everything'll be fine. 159 00:15:04,795 --> 00:15:07,369 -See you, sarge. -Yeah, boy. 160 00:15:08,382 --> 00:15:13,174 I don 't know if I believed that, but as first sergeant, it was my job. 161 00:15:13,345 --> 00:15:17,971 Not to protect Dike, but to protect the integrity of the company. 162 00:15:18,225 --> 00:15:21,261 You know what Dike's problem is, don't you? 163 00:15:21,436 --> 00:15:24,390 He's another arrogant, rich jerk from Yale. 164 00:15:24,648 --> 00:15:28,312 Oh, God, not another one of those. 165 00:15:30,695 --> 00:15:35,357 Division wouldn't let me replace him just because l got a bad feeling. 166 00:15:35,533 --> 00:15:38,949 Even if they would, who'd l put in his place? 167 00:15:39,912 --> 00:15:40,943 Shames? 168 00:15:41,205 --> 00:15:43,114 Do not talk when l'm talking! 169 00:15:43,332 --> 00:15:46,167 Shames has seen too many war movies. 170 00:15:46,418 --> 00:15:50,463 You crapheads did not listen to a word l said, did you? 171 00:15:51,548 --> 00:15:52,579 Or Peacock? 172 00:15:52,841 --> 00:15:57,218 He tries hard, but he's not cut out to take men into combat. 173 00:15:57,387 --> 00:16:02,428 I'm not making him Company CO when I don 't want him as a platoon leader. 174 00:16:02,684 --> 00:16:06,977 -What about Compton? -He's the only real choice. 175 00:16:08,106 --> 00:16:11,272 Buck's a real combat leader, but you know... 176 00:16:12,693 --> 00:16:16,987 ...I want Easy to have at least one experienced platoon leader. 177 00:16:17,156 --> 00:16:21,236 Not that it matters anyway, because l can't get rid of Dike. 178 00:16:23,203 --> 00:16:27,331 We all know who you'd like to have running Easy. 179 00:16:27,582 --> 00:16:30,749 Trouble is, it's not your job anymore, Dick. 180 00:16:31,002 --> 00:16:34,288 You've gotta find somebody. 181 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:43,923 We agreed Buck would've been the best choice... 182 00:16:44,098 --> 00:16:47,432 ...if Winters had been able to get rid of Dike. 183 00:16:49,020 --> 00:16:53,480 But Buck wasn 't the same as before he got shot in Holland. 184 00:16:53,649 --> 00:16:55,227 He was more serious. 185 00:16:55,401 --> 00:16:58,604 -He had a Luger in his pants. -Jesus. 186 00:16:58,862 --> 00:17:03,109 Don't you two do something stupid like that, all right? 187 00:17:03,367 --> 00:17:06,320 -We'll try not to, Buck. -l mean it. 188 00:17:06,536 --> 00:17:09,241 And you, Wild Bill. 189 00:17:09,456 --> 00:17:14,995 l've invested too much goddamn time shaping you into something useful. 190 00:17:15,253 --> 00:17:19,582 -You do something crazy-- -l know, you'll kill me. 191 00:17:19,841 --> 00:17:23,007 Even if you're dead, l'll still kill you. 192 00:17:23,928 --> 00:17:27,795 l'll see you later. l'm gonna check on the other guys. 193 00:17:32,478 --> 00:17:36,143 -Crazy Joe McCloskey. -What? 194 00:17:36,356 --> 00:17:40,568 This guy used to hang out at Delancey's and stare at people. 195 00:17:40,819 --> 00:17:46,489 l know who Crazy Joe is. What's that got to do with anything? 196 00:17:46,741 --> 00:17:49,197 Buck kind of reminds me of him now. 197 00:17:50,119 --> 00:17:54,497 -What? -Ever since he got shot in Holland. 198 00:17:54,665 --> 00:18:00,454 Wait. What are you saying, he's nuts? Because Crazy Joe was nuts. 199 00:18:00,629 --> 00:18:03,666 l'm not saying he's nuts. l'm just saying. . . . 200 00:18:03,841 --> 00:18:06,047 What? What are you saying? 201 00:18:06,302 --> 00:18:07,879 -Forget it. -What? 202 00:18:08,137 --> 00:18:11,173 Forget it. Come on, you've seen him, Bill. 203 00:18:11,390 --> 00:18:16,597 -He's all wound up like a spring. -Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's fine. 204 00:18:19,147 --> 00:18:23,358 lt wasn't getting shot that got him, it was that hospital. 205 00:18:23,610 --> 00:18:28,900 -l've been there, okay? lt ain't pretty. -Yeah. 206 00:18:29,115 --> 00:18:33,326 Besides, once he was up and around, he was his old self again. 207 00:18:34,495 --> 00:18:37,994 l'm telling you, Buck Compton's fine. 208 00:18:40,167 --> 00:18:42,539 -l'm serious. -Sure. Nothing stupid. 209 00:18:42,795 --> 00:18:45,795 -We got it, right? -We got it. 210 00:18:46,048 --> 00:18:48,420 All right. George? 211 00:18:51,094 --> 00:18:53,502 Nothing stupid, Buck. 212 00:19:00,770 --> 00:19:02,976 Who is he talking to? 213 00:19:03,147 --> 00:19:08,521 Morons who volunteered to jump out of a good airplane. Can you get more stupid? 214 00:19:08,694 --> 00:19:10,936 -Probably not. -Right. 215 00:19:11,197 --> 00:19:14,815 -l swum across the Niagara once. -Yeah. 216 00:19:16,744 --> 00:19:21,701 -l swear. On a bet. -What, in a barrel? 217 00:19:21,957 --> 00:19:25,907 No. l didn't go over the falls. l swam across the river. 218 00:19:26,169 --> 00:19:28,743 -l don't know. -Ten miles up. 219 00:19:29,005 --> 00:19:31,461 -That current is damn strong. -Yeah. 220 00:19:31,675 --> 00:19:36,502 Must have carried me two miles downstream, but l got across. 221 00:19:36,763 --> 00:19:40,677 Now, personally, l didn't think it was all that stupid. . . 222 00:19:40,933 --> 00:19:45,476 . . .but my mom, my sister Ruth, they gave me all kinds of hell. 223 00:19:45,730 --> 00:19:48,814 -Yeah, l bet, Muck. -So did Faye. 224 00:19:49,066 --> 00:19:52,565 -Sweet Faye Tanner. -Shut it, George. 225 00:19:52,820 --> 00:19:56,438 They had a point. You're an idiot. 226 00:20:16,342 --> 00:20:20,755 l heard about Hoobler. Shame. 227 00:20:21,389 --> 00:20:24,639 Yes, sir. lt is. 228 00:20:25,851 --> 00:20:28,389 -ls that the Luger? -Yes, it is. 229 00:20:28,645 --> 00:20:32,857 -What are you gonna do with it? -l don't know yet. 230 00:20:34,401 --> 00:20:40,273 -Where you from? Where'd you grow up? -Huntington, West Virginia. 231 00:20:40,490 --> 00:20:43,111 -Huntington? -Yes, sir. 232 00:20:43,368 --> 00:20:46,037 l don't know it. 233 00:20:46,287 --> 00:20:49,537 What kind of work did you do there? 234 00:20:49,791 --> 00:20:53,491 My brother and l helped my mom run a boarding house. 235 00:20:53,753 --> 00:20:55,911 And your father? 236 00:20:58,382 --> 00:21:04,752 He was killed when l was 1 0, sir. Automobile accident. 237 00:21:06,431 --> 00:21:08,139 That's sad. 238 00:21:13,396 --> 00:21:15,934 Why'd you decide to join the paratroopers? 239 00:21:16,191 --> 00:21:19,891 l read an article about paratroopers in Life. 240 00:21:20,111 --> 00:21:23,231 Talked about the training, how hard it was. 241 00:21:23,448 --> 00:21:27,825 lt said if you wanted to make it, you had to be the best. 242 00:21:28,077 --> 00:21:30,782 And l wanted to fight with the best, sir. 243 00:21:31,038 --> 00:21:33,446 You miss it? 244 00:21:33,707 --> 00:21:36,494 -Miss what? -Huntington. 245 00:21:39,588 --> 00:21:44,499 Honestly, sir, l try not to think about it that much. 246 00:21:47,179 --> 00:21:49,088 Where are you from, s--? 247 00:22:08,741 --> 00:22:12,904 -Captain Nixon, sir? Captain Nixon? -What? 248 00:22:13,704 --> 00:22:17,452 Sorry to disturb you. This came from Division. 249 00:22:20,627 --> 00:22:22,002 All right. 250 00:22:25,882 --> 00:22:28,836 -Morning. -Eviction notice? 251 00:22:29,094 --> 00:22:32,509 Something that'll help your leadership problem. 252 00:22:32,764 --> 00:22:36,049 -Dike's transferred? -l can't help with that. 253 00:22:36,309 --> 00:22:40,472 Division has decided to pluck one officer from each regiment. . . 254 00:22:40,730 --> 00:22:45,391 . . .that served in Bastogne, send him to the States on a 30-day furlough. . . 255 00:22:45,609 --> 00:22:49,025 . . .get him banging the drum for the war bond drive. 256 00:22:49,279 --> 00:22:52,066 Turns out l've been plucked. 257 00:22:54,618 --> 00:22:58,366 -That's fantastic, Lew. Good for you. -Thank you. 258 00:22:58,622 --> 00:23:01,457 -How does your leaving help? -l'm not going. 259 00:23:01,708 --> 00:23:05,326 l've seen the States. That's why l came to Europe. 260 00:23:05,587 --> 00:23:10,544 Wish they'd told me there was a war. Anyway, this thing's wasted on me. 261 00:23:10,717 --> 00:23:15,295 But l'm sure we could find an officer who could use a trip home. 262 00:23:16,555 --> 00:23:20,470 Peacock, l can't think of anybody who deserves this more. 263 00:23:20,726 --> 00:23:22,304 Thanks. 264 00:23:23,646 --> 00:23:28,354 -Really glad that you're going home. -Best news l've heard in weeks. 265 00:23:28,609 --> 00:23:30,019 Hell of a guy. 266 00:23:30,235 --> 00:23:33,438 Thanks, guys. lt really means a lot, you know? 267 00:23:33,697 --> 00:23:37,315 Get out of here. Three cheers for Lt. Peacock. 268 00:23:37,575 --> 00:23:41,787 Hip, hip, hooray. Hip, hip, hooray. Hip, hip, hooray. 269 00:23:54,717 --> 00:23:57,338 lf they come here, smile for the camera. 270 00:23:57,595 --> 00:24:00,465 Got to keep morale up for folks back home. 271 00:24:00,681 --> 00:24:04,429 -Why? -Damned if l know. 272 00:24:04,643 --> 00:24:07,181 What's waiting for us in Foy? 273 00:24:07,437 --> 00:24:11,304 At least one company from the 1 0th Panzer Grenadiers. 274 00:24:11,566 --> 00:24:15,943 They've got one 88, although we haven't been able to spot it. 275 00:24:16,196 --> 00:24:19,113 -Armor? -As of last night, three Tigers. 276 00:24:19,365 --> 00:24:22,152 -Would you excuse me a moment, sir? -Yeah. 277 00:24:22,368 --> 00:24:25,571 How do l feel about being rescued by Patton? 278 00:24:25,830 --> 00:24:29,578 Well, l'd feel peachy if it wasn't for one thing. 279 00:24:29,792 --> 00:24:34,086 We didn't need to be fucking rescued by Patton. You got that? 280 00:24:34,338 --> 00:24:35,500 -Joe. -Sir. 281 00:24:35,672 --> 00:24:37,712 Excuse us for a moment. 282 00:24:37,966 --> 00:24:39,045 Sorry, sir. 283 00:24:39,259 --> 00:24:43,304 Sorry about what? Patton? l couldn't agree more. 284 00:24:43,555 --> 00:24:46,840 -What are you doing? -l want to head back. 285 00:24:47,100 --> 00:24:50,967 You don't have to. Get back to the aid station. 286 00:24:51,146 --> 00:24:54,680 l'd really like to head back with the fellas, sir. 287 00:24:56,859 --> 00:25:01,568 -All right, then go. -Thank you, sir. 288 00:25:05,743 --> 00:25:09,076 Joe had been at the aid station for three days... 289 00:25:09,288 --> 00:25:13,665 ...and everybody was glad to have him back. Especially Bill. 290 00:25:13,876 --> 00:25:15,334 -Hey, Joe. -Hey, Bill. 291 00:25:15,544 --> 00:25:20,122 -What you doing back here? -Making sure you're on top of things. 292 00:25:20,382 --> 00:25:25,838 l'm on top of things. Tied me own boots once last week. All by meself. 293 00:25:26,012 --> 00:25:30,341 -Look who l found. -Joe Toye, back for more. 294 00:25:30,516 --> 00:25:31,797 How are you, Joe? 295 00:25:31,976 --> 00:25:35,926 -Good. Escaped from the aid station. -Where'd you get hit? 296 00:25:36,105 --> 00:25:38,940 -What's that? -lt's Webb. Replacement. 297 00:25:39,191 --> 00:25:43,520 Thought it was some guy l've known for years and forgot. 298 00:25:43,779 --> 00:25:47,527 Joe got hit in the arm. Gift from the Luftwaffe. 299 00:25:47,783 --> 00:25:50,986 -Lot of you been injured? -lt's called wounded. 300 00:25:51,203 --> 00:25:53,776 lnjured is when you fall out of a tree. 301 00:25:54,039 --> 00:25:58,286 There's enough crap flying around, you're bound to get dinged. 302 00:25:58,501 --> 00:26:02,119 Almost every one of these guys have been hit once. 303 00:26:02,380 --> 00:26:06,841 Except Alley. He's a two-timer. He landed on broken glass. . . 304 00:26:07,051 --> 00:26:09,803 . . .and got peppered by a potato masher. 305 00:26:10,054 --> 00:26:13,505 Bull got a piece of exploding tank in Holland. 306 00:26:13,724 --> 00:26:18,350 And George Luz here has never been hit. You're one lucky bastard. 307 00:26:18,604 --> 00:26:22,055 -Takes one to know one. -Consider us blessed. 308 00:26:22,274 --> 00:26:26,272 Liebgott got pinked in the neck in Holland. 309 00:26:26,528 --> 00:26:29,149 Next to him, that's Popeye. 310 00:26:29,364 --> 00:26:33,231 He got shot in his scrawny little butt in Normandy. 311 00:26:33,493 --> 00:26:37,111 Buck got shot in his rather large butt in Holland. 312 00:26:37,372 --> 00:26:41,239 Easy Company tradition, getting shot in the ass. 313 00:26:41,459 --> 00:26:46,880 Even 1 st Sgt. Lipton, he got a couple pieces of tank shell burst. 314 00:26:47,131 --> 00:26:51,757 One chunk in the face. Another chunk almost took out his nuts. 315 00:26:52,011 --> 00:26:58,891 -How are those nuts, sarge? -Doing fine, Bill. Nice of you to ask. 316 00:27:00,894 --> 00:27:06,813 On January 3rd, most of E Company headed to our old position in the woods. 317 00:27:07,067 --> 00:27:11,978 A few men remained attached to D Company to hold the line. 318 00:27:12,614 --> 00:27:14,653 Good luck, ladies. 319 00:27:15,783 --> 00:27:17,610 Been nice knowing you. 320 00:27:18,619 --> 00:27:23,032 -Wouldn't drink if l were you. -Be careful if he offers a cigarette. 321 00:27:23,290 --> 00:27:25,449 lf who offers us a cigarette? 322 00:27:25,668 --> 00:27:27,376 -Speirs. -Who? 323 00:27:27,628 --> 00:27:30,119 Lieutenant Speirs. 324 00:27:31,965 --> 00:27:37,256 Lieutenant Ronald Speirs was one of the platoon leaders. He was a legend. 325 00:27:38,138 --> 00:27:43,345 -The stories are all bullshit anyway. -What stories? 326 00:27:43,518 --> 00:27:44,846 What stories? 327 00:27:45,020 --> 00:27:48,684 Supposedly Speirs shot one of his men for being drunk. 328 00:27:48,857 --> 00:27:52,142 You're kidding! That's unbelievable. 329 00:27:52,360 --> 00:27:56,856 There's another one about him giving cigarettes to 20 POWs. . . 330 00:27:57,114 --> 00:28:00,697 -. . .before killing them. -He shot 20 POWs? 331 00:28:00,910 --> 00:28:02,986 l heard it was 30. 332 00:28:03,204 --> 00:28:06,204 -Christenson. -Lieutenant Speirs. 333 00:28:06,457 --> 00:28:09,825 -l got the name right, didn't l? -Yes, sir. 334 00:28:11,295 --> 00:28:16,122 -What are you men doing out here? -We're watching the line, sir. 335 00:28:17,801 --> 00:28:20,588 You might want to reinforce your cover. 336 00:28:20,845 --> 00:28:23,004 Lieutenant Dike said not to. 337 00:28:23,264 --> 00:28:28,009 -That we're only gonna be here one day. -Lieutenant Dike said that? 338 00:28:28,269 --> 00:28:31,270 Then forget what l said. 339 00:28:32,732 --> 00:28:34,274 Carry on. 340 00:28:37,695 --> 00:28:40,731 Anyone care for a smoke? 341 00:28:44,785 --> 00:28:46,908 You? 342 00:28:48,330 --> 00:28:51,165 Late in the afternoon on January 3rd... 343 00:28:51,333 --> 00:28:54,748 ... we returned to our old position in the woods. 344 00:28:54,919 --> 00:28:58,169 You gotta be fucking kidding me! 345 00:28:58,423 --> 00:29:01,340 Someone's gonna fucking die. 346 00:29:01,509 --> 00:29:06,550 Look at this shit! Those 1 st Battalion fuckers took a dump in my foxhole. 347 00:29:06,722 --> 00:29:10,138 Think they shit in everyone's foxhole, Joe. 348 00:29:11,477 --> 00:29:15,344 l don't think they wanted to spend much time aboveground. 349 00:29:17,232 --> 00:29:20,601 The Germans had been shelling our old position. 350 00:29:20,861 --> 00:29:24,989 There were signs of tree bursts everywhere. 351 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:29,736 Light and noise discipline. We're getting close. 352 00:29:38,544 --> 00:29:41,545 Across the field, I could see enemy troops. 353 00:29:41,797 --> 00:29:46,839 I still couldn 't see their artillery, but I knew it was down there. 354 00:29:48,971 --> 00:29:52,719 The Krauts have been pounding this area with 88s. 355 00:29:52,975 --> 00:29:58,431 -They got this whole stretch targeted. -Maybe they've got a new target. 356 00:29:58,689 --> 00:30:00,895 -No, they're waiting. -For what? 357 00:30:01,149 --> 00:30:05,063 -For us to reoccupy the position. -We should fall back. 358 00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:10,658 lt's our job to hold the line here. We just need to fortify the covers. 359 00:30:10,909 --> 00:30:16,532 -lf they've got us targeted, maybe-- -We hold the line here. Lipton's right. 360 00:30:16,789 --> 00:30:19,992 We're gonna strengthen our covers and hang in. 361 00:30:20,209 --> 00:30:25,250 We're not gonna fall back. Right, lieutenant? 362 00:30:27,299 --> 00:30:32,127 -Right, lieutenant? -Fine. You all take care of it. 363 00:30:32,387 --> 00:30:35,092 l gotta go talk to Regiment. 364 00:30:37,392 --> 00:30:40,512 -We better get moving. -Yeah. 365 00:30:43,606 --> 00:30:45,646 -Here you go. -Thanks, Lip. 366 00:30:45,900 --> 00:30:50,028 -l'll get you more branches. -l appreciate that. 367 00:31:12,717 --> 00:31:16,133 lncoming! Take cover! 368 00:31:18,807 --> 00:31:20,182 Take cover! 369 00:31:24,270 --> 00:31:25,895 They're 88s. 370 00:31:26,147 --> 00:31:28,186 Come on, find some cover! 371 00:31:28,399 --> 00:31:30,807 They've got us zeroed! 372 00:31:31,819 --> 00:31:35,899 Find some cover. Find a foxhole. Come on, take cover! 373 00:31:36,156 --> 00:31:40,201 -Get in the holes. -Take cover! 374 00:31:44,206 --> 00:31:45,997 Come on, find some cover! 375 00:31:49,502 --> 00:31:51,542 Take cover! 376 00:31:52,756 --> 00:31:54,214 Shit. 377 00:32:03,391 --> 00:32:07,803 Come on, find some cover. Find some cover! 378 00:32:15,569 --> 00:32:18,523 For some reason, all I could think about... 379 00:32:18,739 --> 00:32:21,739 ... was the Fourth of July when I was a kid. 380 00:32:21,908 --> 00:32:26,451 I loved to make my own firecrackers, cherry bombs, ladyfingers. 381 00:32:26,705 --> 00:32:32,410 I loved to blow up dirt clods and pop bottles. Looked forward to it all year. 382 00:32:32,669 --> 00:32:38,789 That day, I saw the most awesome display of firepower I'd ever seen. 383 00:32:39,050 --> 00:32:42,964 I wouldn 't have laughed if I'd known what happened to Joe Toye. 384 00:33:43,194 --> 00:33:46,942 -We should see if anybody's hit. -That's what they want. 385 00:33:47,198 --> 00:33:50,401 Krauts will try to draw us out in the open. 386 00:34:00,252 --> 00:34:05,626 Stay in your foxholes. Stay in your foxholes! 387 00:34:05,841 --> 00:34:08,414 Can you walk? Find a foxhole. 388 00:34:08,718 --> 00:34:10,877 l gotta get up. 389 00:34:14,099 --> 00:34:16,305 l gotta get up. 390 00:34:18,394 --> 00:34:20,719 l gotta get up. 391 00:34:23,024 --> 00:34:25,431 l need my helmet. 392 00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:29,646 -l need help! -You hear that? 393 00:34:29,905 --> 00:34:32,361 -l need help! -ls that Joe? 394 00:34:34,284 --> 00:34:36,324 Yeah, l think that's Joe. 395 00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:39,658 Stay. 396 00:34:39,915 --> 00:34:44,873 -Stay down! Stay down! -Stay down! Stay in your foxholes! 397 00:34:45,128 --> 00:34:49,042 -Stay in your foxholes! -Help! 398 00:34:49,299 --> 00:34:54,210 -Help! Anyone there? -Jesus. 399 00:34:54,429 --> 00:34:59,470 l gotta get up. l gotta get up. 400 00:35:01,394 --> 00:35:07,396 Shit. Come on, Joe. Come on, buddy. Come on. Come on, pal. 401 00:35:07,566 --> 00:35:10,602 You said you'd get to the States before me. 402 00:35:10,778 --> 00:35:13,529 You ain't going anywhere. You're okay. 403 00:35:13,780 --> 00:35:17,481 -l gotta get my helmet! -Forget it, Joe. 404 00:35:17,742 --> 00:35:21,526 -Anyone there? Help! -Hang on. 405 00:35:23,915 --> 00:35:26,157 -Who's that? -Heff! Babe! 406 00:35:26,417 --> 00:35:29,667 -Hang on. -Come on, get me out of here, Lip! 407 00:35:31,464 --> 00:35:33,255 l gotta get to the hole! 408 00:35:33,424 --> 00:35:37,635 -l got you. Come on, Joe, l got you. -l gotta get to the hole! 409 00:35:40,181 --> 00:35:41,972 Come on, Joe. 410 00:35:43,767 --> 00:35:45,309 Hang on. 411 00:35:45,686 --> 00:35:46,800 -You okay? -Yeah. 412 00:35:47,062 --> 00:35:49,055 Come on. Come on! 413 00:35:49,231 --> 00:35:52,101 Think l overdid the cover for my foxhole? 414 00:35:52,651 --> 00:35:56,565 -lncoming! -lncoming! 415 00:35:57,697 --> 00:36:00,318 Take cover! 416 00:36:07,498 --> 00:36:10,582 Come on! Come on! Hurry up! 417 00:36:10,835 --> 00:36:14,500 Guarno! You're gonna get bombed! Come on! Come on! 418 00:36:14,755 --> 00:36:17,424 Move it, Bill! Move it. 419 00:36:18,550 --> 00:36:23,461 -Come on, Joe. -Hold on, l'll be there! l'll help! 420 00:36:24,222 --> 00:36:26,796 No! 421 00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:30,552 Medic! 422 00:36:36,484 --> 00:36:40,351 During the second barrage, I wasn 't laughing anymore. 423 00:37:17,523 --> 00:37:18,554 Lip! 424 00:37:21,444 --> 00:37:23,732 Are you okay? 425 00:37:26,490 --> 00:37:28,946 Stay down! 426 00:37:29,201 --> 00:37:32,949 -You stay down! -1 st Sgt. Lipton? 427 00:37:33,205 --> 00:37:37,499 You get things organized here. l'm gonna go for help. 428 00:37:40,712 --> 00:37:43,333 What the fuck? 429 00:37:47,385 --> 00:37:49,710 -Where is he going? -l don't know. 430 00:37:49,887 --> 00:37:52,639 Get Battalion on the line to notify BAS. 431 00:37:52,807 --> 00:37:54,846 Battalion's up, Lip. 432 00:38:07,821 --> 00:38:10,277 Medic! 433 00:38:19,416 --> 00:38:22,831 Stay ready! They might be trying to come through. 434 00:38:23,002 --> 00:38:25,042 -You okay, One Lung? -Sergeant! 435 00:38:25,213 --> 00:38:26,541 How you doing, Popeye? 436 00:38:26,714 --> 00:38:29,834 Hundred percent ready to kill Germans, Lip! 437 00:38:40,436 --> 00:38:43,389 -Doc, what can l do? -Hold this. 438 00:38:45,524 --> 00:38:47,682 -You got a smoke? -Yeah. 439 00:38:48,693 --> 00:38:54,032 Jesus. What's a guy gotta do to get killed around here? 440 00:38:54,199 --> 00:38:57,532 -Bill, you go first. -Whatever you say, doc. 441 00:38:57,744 --> 00:39:00,116 Over here. Take this man. 442 00:39:00,371 --> 00:39:05,496 -Hey, they got old Guarnere this time. -We got you, soldier. 443 00:39:08,254 --> 00:39:10,081 Just lie back. 444 00:39:13,926 --> 00:39:17,591 Hey, Joe, l told you l'd beat you back to the States. 445 00:39:18,931 --> 00:39:20,508 Hey, Lip. 446 00:39:23,727 --> 00:39:25,518 How's Buck? 447 00:39:26,771 --> 00:39:29,476 -Luz, how's Buck? -He's fine. 448 00:39:29,733 --> 00:39:31,974 -You sure? -Yes, he's fine. 449 00:39:32,485 --> 00:39:35,735 l think you should probably go talk to him. 450 00:39:38,116 --> 00:39:39,907 All right. 451 00:39:49,585 --> 00:39:54,330 Some say Buck changed after he was shot in Holland. Maybe. 452 00:39:54,590 --> 00:39:59,501 Something happened to him when he saw Toye and Guarnere on the ground. 453 00:40:08,603 --> 00:40:13,561 The report said Compton was being taken off because of bad trench foot. 454 00:40:13,733 --> 00:40:17,647 Didn 't say anything about him losing his friends. 455 00:40:23,784 --> 00:40:26,453 Buck was a great combat leader. 456 00:40:26,704 --> 00:40:29,907 He was wounded in Normandy and again in Holland. 457 00:40:30,082 --> 00:40:34,245 He received the Silver Star for taking out those German guns. 458 00:40:34,419 --> 00:40:37,586 He took everything the Krauts could throw. 459 00:40:38,632 --> 00:40:40,589 Lieutenant Compton? 460 00:40:42,135 --> 00:40:47,093 ''UCLA did not make the Rose Bowl, probably because you weren't there. 461 00:40:47,348 --> 00:40:52,508 l'm sure you're teaching your young soldiers the joy you have of the sport. 462 00:40:52,770 --> 00:40:58,523 How we all know what an exciting young man you are, how your heart and love--'' 463 00:41:01,945 --> 00:41:06,903 I guess he just couldn 't take seeing Toye and Guarnere all torn up. 464 00:41:07,159 --> 00:41:11,026 No one ever thought any less of him for it. 465 00:41:20,672 --> 00:41:22,296 Hey, Bull. 466 00:41:23,174 --> 00:41:27,337 With Buck off the line, there was no alternative to Dike. 467 00:41:27,511 --> 00:41:29,504 At least none we could see. 468 00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:31,174 Thanks. 469 00:41:33,225 --> 00:41:34,850 Hey, Muck. 470 00:41:36,020 --> 00:41:39,270 -Muck. l'm looking for Lt. Dike. -Yes, sergeant. 471 00:41:39,439 --> 00:41:43,817 We were stuck with Dike. And he was off taking a walk. 472 00:41:48,657 --> 00:41:51,693 Lightning Six, Kidnap. 473 00:41:51,951 --> 00:41:54,489 We've cleared all the green area. . . . 474 00:41:54,662 --> 00:41:56,987 We'd cleared the woods east of Foy. 475 00:41:57,165 --> 00:42:01,992 Later, E Company and the rest of the 506 cleared the woods west of Foy. 476 00:42:02,169 --> 00:42:04,458 There was little resistance. 477 00:42:04,714 --> 00:42:08,414 -We have KlA. -Thirteen. 478 00:42:08,592 --> 00:42:12,376 You fellas know l got no reason to bullshit you, right? 479 00:42:12,638 --> 00:42:14,547 Look, this is what l saw. 480 00:42:14,723 --> 00:42:18,056 lt was so unbelievable you might not believe me. 481 00:42:18,226 --> 00:42:22,058 You-know-who runs up. No helmet, no gear, nothing. 482 00:42:22,230 --> 00:42:28,600 '' 1 st Sgt. Lipton, you organize things here, and l'm gonna go for help. '' 483 00:42:28,820 --> 00:42:31,062 ''l need to polish my oak leaves. '' 484 00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:33,148 -Hey, Luz. -Complete asshole. 485 00:42:33,324 --> 00:42:36,360 -That's really good. -Fellas. 486 00:42:36,536 --> 00:42:39,453 -Good night, all. -See you, Luz. 487 00:42:39,664 --> 00:42:41,039 Sarge? 488 00:42:41,207 --> 00:42:44,161 Two things. First, great impression of Dike. 489 00:42:44,335 --> 00:42:47,585 -l thought it was off. -You got it pretty good. 490 00:42:47,755 --> 00:42:52,879 Second, don't do it anymore, especially the part about what he said to me. 491 00:42:53,051 --> 00:42:56,467 -lt doesn't do anybody any good, okay? -l got you. 492 00:42:56,638 --> 00:42:58,013 All right. 493 00:43:00,809 --> 00:43:02,801 Wiseass. 494 00:43:08,649 --> 00:43:10,559 lncoming! 495 00:43:28,293 --> 00:43:32,207 Luz! Luz! Come on! Luz! Hurry! 496 00:43:32,464 --> 00:43:35,963 Move! Luz! 497 00:43:36,176 --> 00:43:41,846 Stay down! Stay down! Come on! Get in here! Luz, come on! 498 00:43:42,098 --> 00:43:44,767 Luz! Come on, Luz! Come on! 499 00:43:45,017 --> 00:43:47,425 Come on! Luz! 500 00:44:16,506 --> 00:44:20,206 -Muck and Penkala! -What? 501 00:44:20,468 --> 00:44:23,338 Muck and Penkala got hit! 502 00:44:31,270 --> 00:44:33,013 Medic! 503 00:44:37,150 --> 00:44:39,820 -Hashey! -Shit, it's my shoulder. 504 00:44:40,070 --> 00:44:43,521 Come on! Get up! Move! 505 00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:50,825 Stay down! lncoming! 506 00:45:12,517 --> 00:45:16,052 -l thought you didn't smoke. -l don't. 507 00:45:27,448 --> 00:45:31,446 The shell that hit the foxhole Luz and I were in was a dud. 508 00:45:31,619 --> 00:45:37,123 The one that hit Muck and Penkala 's foxhole wasn 't. That's the way it was. 509 00:45:37,333 --> 00:45:40,250 Muck and Penkala were good men. 510 00:45:42,671 --> 00:45:44,711 Their death hit Malarkey hard. 511 00:45:44,923 --> 00:45:48,292 His best friends were Compton, Muck and Penkala. 512 00:45:48,468 --> 00:45:52,133 In less than a week, he'd seen two of them die. 513 00:45:53,515 --> 00:45:56,350 -The word? -The men on the line are okay. 514 00:45:56,518 --> 00:45:58,309 Food has been resupplied. 515 00:45:58,561 --> 00:46:01,764 We'll hunker down. We might get relief soon. 516 00:46:02,023 --> 00:46:04,229 Okay? All right. 517 00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:29,000 Later that day, we were in our old position overlooking Foy. 518 00:46:29,174 --> 00:46:32,210 We were all worried about Malarkey. 519 00:46:32,469 --> 00:46:34,461 Hey, Malark? 520 00:46:38,599 --> 00:46:45,480 Didn't l hear you say you wanted to bring a Luger home to your kid brother? 521 00:46:53,322 --> 00:46:58,067 Well, why don't you give him that? 522 00:47:01,955 --> 00:47:04,742 -lt's Hoob's, right? -Yeah. 523 00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:09,128 Yeah, l was gonna get rid of it, but l. . . . 524 00:47:09,379 --> 00:47:11,371 l don't know. 525 00:47:12,715 --> 00:47:18,054 Captain Winters was wondering if you wanted to go back to Battalion. . . 526 00:47:18,304 --> 00:47:21,174 . . .and work as his runner for a few days. 527 00:47:24,351 --> 00:47:28,396 Tell him thanks. l'm gonna stay here. 528 00:47:29,815 --> 00:47:34,441 Why don't you come back for an hour or so, say goodbye to Buck? 529 00:47:34,611 --> 00:47:37,232 l'm sure it'll mean a lot to him. 530 00:47:42,327 --> 00:47:43,489 All right. 531 00:47:46,706 --> 00:47:48,864 You be careful with that. 532 00:47:50,209 --> 00:47:52,700 Getting 50 yards back for an hour... 533 00:47:52,879 --> 00:47:56,923 ...could make a big difference in a soldier's state of mind. 534 00:48:00,219 --> 00:48:02,924 The morning after the shelling... 535 00:48:03,097 --> 00:48:07,225 ...I saw a soldier try to dig a foxhole with his bare hands. 536 00:48:07,392 --> 00:48:11,141 He didn 't notice that he had torn off his fingernails. 537 00:48:11,313 --> 00:48:15,856 I got him out of there quickly. Not for his sake, but for ours. 538 00:48:16,109 --> 00:48:21,898 Fear is poison in combat. Something we all felt but didn 't show. You can 't. 539 00:48:22,156 --> 00:48:25,821 It's destructive, and it's contagious. 540 00:48:27,578 --> 00:48:29,950 Told you l'd get you started. 541 00:48:36,295 --> 00:48:40,127 Buck was never the same after Toye and Guarnere got hit. 542 00:48:40,299 --> 00:48:43,833 I guess he just needed some time away from it all. 543 00:48:56,022 --> 00:48:59,557 The January 3rd barrages and January 9th shelling... 544 00:48:59,734 --> 00:49:03,103 ...marked the low point for the men in E Company. 545 00:49:03,279 --> 00:49:05,686 Even then, very few actually broke. 546 00:49:05,865 --> 00:49:12,152 But I knew the terror and pressure we'd been under could take their toll. 547 00:49:12,329 --> 00:49:16,623 I was afraid the men would lose focus, suffer a drop in morale. 548 00:49:16,792 --> 00:49:20,291 And that was dangerous, especially in combat. 549 00:49:20,462 --> 00:49:23,629 More of which lay in store for us. 550 00:49:25,050 --> 00:49:27,422 We'd cleared east and west of Foy. 551 00:49:27,594 --> 00:49:32,932 It was time for the inevitable assault on Foy itself. I was dreading it. 552 00:49:33,099 --> 00:49:37,262 The men who trained at Toccoa wouldn 't get through unscathed. 553 00:49:37,437 --> 00:49:42,063 I was beginning to wonder if any of us would make it through at all. 554 00:49:42,233 --> 00:49:46,526 We would lead the attacks. The problem was, in my estimation... 555 00:49:46,695 --> 00:49:49,613 ...E Company still did not have a leader. 556 00:50:00,792 --> 00:50:06,415 Before the attack, I did something I'd never have imagined myself doing. 557 00:50:14,096 --> 00:50:15,804 Lip! 558 00:50:17,475 --> 00:50:21,555 -Didn't figure you for a smoking man. -Neither did l. 559 00:50:25,357 --> 00:50:28,856 D Company, Lieutenant Speirs, patrol order. 560 00:50:30,237 --> 00:50:31,612 So? 561 00:50:31,863 --> 00:50:34,734 We've been watching Foy, not much activity. 562 00:50:34,991 --> 00:50:38,028 -Want a coffee? -No, thank you, sir. 563 00:50:40,163 --> 00:50:43,911 -How's Easy's status? -The men are good. Prepared. 564 00:50:44,083 --> 00:50:46,040 l lead 2nd Platoon tomorrow. 565 00:50:46,252 --> 00:50:51,839 They're the weakest after losing Toye and Guarnere and Muck and Penkala. 566 00:50:52,091 --> 00:50:54,498 l have every confidence in the men. 567 00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:56,385 Good. 568 00:51:01,058 --> 00:51:05,138 But on the other hand, l have no confidence in our CO. 569 00:51:06,063 --> 00:51:09,182 Lieutenant Dike is an empty uniform, captain. 570 00:51:09,441 --> 00:51:13,901 He's just. . . . He's not there, sir. 571 00:51:15,238 --> 00:51:19,983 -He'll be there tomorrow. -l understand he'll be there physically. 572 00:51:20,243 --> 00:51:24,786 Tomorrow will be the real deal. He'll have to lead those men. 573 00:51:25,039 --> 00:51:28,574 He's gonna have to make decisions, sir, and. . . 574 00:51:28,834 --> 00:51:33,295 . . .l think he's gonna get a lot of Easy Company men killed. 575 00:51:37,134 --> 00:51:41,001 -Thank you, sergeant. That'll be all. -Yes, sir. 576 00:51:44,307 --> 00:51:49,218 I said what I had to say. There was nothing Winters could do. 577 00:51:52,357 --> 00:51:56,022 Couldn 't remove a well-connected company CO... 578 00:51:56,194 --> 00:51:59,728 ...because of the misgivings of a first sergeant. 579 00:51:59,906 --> 00:52:04,069 You got an eighth of a mile to cross before you get into Foy. 580 00:52:04,243 --> 00:52:06,070 There's very little cover. 581 00:52:06,328 --> 00:52:09,780 Two sections of machine guns will give you cover. 582 00:52:09,999 --> 00:52:13,996 3rd Battalion will come from the east to cause distraction. 583 00:52:14,169 --> 00:52:16,162 D Company will be in reserve. 584 00:52:16,338 --> 00:52:19,374 The point is, you gotta move in there fast. 585 00:52:19,633 --> 00:52:23,844 Before they can bring their mortars and artillery down on you. 586 00:52:24,012 --> 00:52:25,839 -Clear? -Clear. 587 00:52:26,097 --> 00:52:30,426 l'm relying on you. Get it done. 588 00:52:43,864 --> 00:52:47,529 -Covering fire! -Let's go. Keep it moving. 589 00:52:49,620 --> 00:52:52,111 Suppressing fire! 590 00:52:54,499 --> 00:52:56,373 -Go, go, go! -Keep moving! 591 00:53:03,049 --> 00:53:05,042 Let's go! Let's go! 592 00:53:07,387 --> 00:53:10,340 -Suppressing fire! -Feuer! 593 00:53:11,849 --> 00:53:13,972 Keep them tight, Shames! 594 00:53:15,394 --> 00:53:17,636 -Keep moving! -Keep moving! 595 00:53:19,607 --> 00:53:21,184 Krauts in the open! 596 00:53:23,902 --> 00:53:26,144 Keep moving! Keep moving! 597 00:53:26,405 --> 00:53:28,113 Three inside! 598 00:53:30,742 --> 00:53:32,699 Wait a minute. Where's Foley? 599 00:53:33,912 --> 00:53:36,367 -Randleman! -Coming through! Run! 600 00:53:36,623 --> 00:53:38,366 Liebgott! 601 00:53:39,292 --> 00:53:41,331 Where the hell is 1 st Platoon? 602 00:53:44,755 --> 00:53:47,673 -Hold up! -Keep moving! 603 00:53:47,925 --> 00:53:50,001 Easy Company! Hold up! 604 00:53:50,177 --> 00:53:54,341 -2nd Platoon! Hold up! Hold up! -Will you move? 605 00:53:54,598 --> 00:53:57,385 -Get me Foley on the radio. -Move! 606 00:53:57,643 --> 00:54:03,017 -Sir, l think we should take cover. -Find some cover! Find some cover! 607 00:54:03,273 --> 00:54:04,471 What? 608 00:54:06,651 --> 00:54:08,691 -Easy Red, Easy-- -Six, over. 609 00:54:08,945 --> 00:54:11,151 Six, Easy Red. Go ahead. 610 00:54:11,865 --> 00:54:14,402 Easy Red, stand by for the Six. 611 00:54:14,617 --> 00:54:20,572 Foley, you get back here where l can see you, goddamn it! 612 00:54:20,832 --> 00:54:24,746 1 st Platoon, hold up! Hold up! Take cover! Martin! 613 00:54:25,002 --> 00:54:27,042 -Come with me! -With you, sir. 614 00:54:28,589 --> 00:54:29,964 Feuer! 615 00:54:31,675 --> 00:54:34,166 Fall back! Fall back! 616 00:54:35,220 --> 00:54:36,595 Take cover! 617 00:54:37,222 --> 00:54:40,223 -Goddamn it. -Go forward! 618 00:54:41,685 --> 00:54:45,054 -Herron, on me. -Move back. 619 00:54:45,230 --> 00:54:46,640 Stay on my ass. 620 00:54:46,898 --> 00:54:50,812 -Hold fast, 2nd Platoon! -Follow Lipton! Take cover! 621 00:54:51,069 --> 00:54:53,939 What are we doing? Why are we stopped? 622 00:54:54,197 --> 00:54:56,652 Fall back! Fall back! 623 00:54:56,908 --> 00:54:59,149 Roger, Kidnap. Stand by for Six. 624 00:54:59,410 --> 00:55:03,110 -Lieutenant, what's the plan? -l don't know! 625 00:55:03,789 --> 00:55:05,782 Get Dike on that radio now! 626 00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:08,751 -What's the plan? -Captain Winters, sir. 627 00:55:08,919 --> 00:55:12,999 -Give us a plan! -Okay. Foley, take your men-- 628 00:55:13,382 --> 00:55:18,921 Take your men around the village and attack from the rear. 629 00:55:19,596 --> 00:55:21,423 We cannot stay here! 630 00:55:21,639 --> 00:55:24,261 Want 1 st Platoon to attack by itself? 631 00:55:24,434 --> 00:55:28,431 -We'll provide suppressing fire. -We'll be alone out there. 632 00:55:28,604 --> 00:55:32,269 We will provide suppressing fire! 633 00:55:38,656 --> 00:55:41,229 Get going forward! 634 00:55:41,492 --> 00:55:45,988 You need to talk to Captain Winters, sir. 635 00:55:47,998 --> 00:55:50,240 Sir! Okay, here it is. 636 00:55:50,500 --> 00:55:54,083 We go on a flanking run and attack from the rear. 637 00:55:54,337 --> 00:55:57,540 Take them. Find cover behind this table. 638 00:55:57,799 --> 00:56:00,088 Go! Go! 639 00:56:00,301 --> 00:56:02,460 -Shit! -Jesus Christ. 640 00:56:03,429 --> 00:56:06,264 Webb, move up! Find cover! 641 00:56:15,899 --> 00:56:17,442 Suppressing fire now! 642 00:56:19,736 --> 00:56:22,310 Perconte! l got you! 643 00:56:22,531 --> 00:56:25,022 Give me some cover. 644 00:56:26,576 --> 00:56:30,277 -How you doing, Perconte? -They shot me in my ass! 645 00:56:31,956 --> 00:56:35,491 -Stay down. -We lost five men. Can you locate? 646 00:56:35,752 --> 00:56:41,256 -The building with the caved-in roof! -The building with the caved-in roof! 647 00:56:47,012 --> 00:56:52,386 Sir, we are sitting ducks here. We have to keep moving! 648 00:56:52,643 --> 00:56:57,388 -You've got to keep moving! -Dick! Captain Winters! 649 00:56:57,648 --> 00:57:03,187 You do not go out there! You're the battalion commander. Get back here! 650 00:57:03,945 --> 00:57:09,236 -l understand your attachment to Easy-- -Speirs! Get yourself over here! 651 00:57:09,492 --> 00:57:12,695 Go relieve Dike and take that attack on in. 652 00:57:16,249 --> 00:57:19,700 -Go, soldier! -Webb, fall back. You're too exposed! 653 00:57:20,544 --> 00:57:25,087 -Fall back! Fall back! -Come on, Webb! Let's go, kid! 654 00:57:27,051 --> 00:57:30,301 -Hang on, Perco. -Feuer! 655 00:57:32,723 --> 00:57:36,886 -What are we doing? -Let's go! 656 00:57:37,686 --> 00:57:40,852 -l'm taking over. 1 st Sgt. Lipton! -Here! 657 00:57:41,022 --> 00:57:44,356 -What do we got? -The company is spread out here. 658 00:57:44,526 --> 00:57:46,851 1 st Platoon tried an end-around. 659 00:57:47,028 --> 00:57:49,982 They're pinned by a sniper in that building. 660 00:57:50,156 --> 00:57:54,616 l want mortars and grenade launchers. l want 1 st to go straight in. 661 00:57:54,785 --> 00:57:57,870 -Everybody else, follow me. -Thank God! 662 00:57:59,123 --> 00:58:01,827 -Move it! -3rd Platoon, let's go! Go! 663 00:58:03,168 --> 00:58:06,003 You heard the word. 2nd Platoon on the CO! 664 00:58:06,255 --> 00:58:09,090 -Sergeant Alley! -Got it, sarge! 665 00:58:12,719 --> 00:58:16,005 Okay, 1 st Platoon! Move out! Move out! 666 00:58:16,264 --> 00:58:20,178 -On your feet, 2nd Platoon! -Move out! 667 00:58:20,435 --> 00:58:24,764 Get on your goddamn feet! Move it! Come on! 668 00:58:27,692 --> 00:58:31,855 Come on, let's get the bastards! Right flank! 669 00:58:32,113 --> 00:58:33,690 Feuer! 670 00:58:35,741 --> 00:58:38,742 -Come on, move out! -Fire! 671 00:58:38,994 --> 00:58:41,450 -Feuer! -Take cover! 672 00:58:41,705 --> 00:58:43,283 Feuer! 673 00:58:44,791 --> 00:58:48,290 -Go, go, go! -Come on! Come on! 674 00:58:50,255 --> 00:58:51,879 Radio, get over here. 675 00:58:52,132 --> 00:58:55,216 -Take cover! -Fire! 676 00:58:55,885 --> 00:58:57,048 Sir. 677 00:58:57,345 --> 00:58:58,376 Lipton. 678 00:58:59,764 --> 00:59:02,302 Streetfight, ltem. Easy Six. Over. 679 00:59:02,475 --> 00:59:06,223 -What do you see, Lipton? -Armor and a lot of infantry. 680 00:59:06,479 --> 00:59:09,812 l Company's supposed to be on the other side. 681 00:59:09,982 --> 00:59:11,476 -Radio, anything? -No. 682 00:59:11,650 --> 00:59:14,817 lf we don't connect with l, they'll slip away. 683 00:59:15,070 --> 00:59:18,356 -That's right. Wait here. -ltem! ltem! Easy Six. 684 00:59:18,615 --> 00:59:20,407 What the hell? 685 00:59:31,961 --> 00:59:35,412 At first the Germans didn 't shoot at him. 686 00:59:35,715 --> 00:59:38,881 They couldn 't believe what they were seeing. 687 00:59:39,135 --> 00:59:41,542 That wasn 't the astounding thing. 688 00:59:41,721 --> 00:59:47,924 The astounding thing was, he hooked up with I Company and came back. 689 01:00:19,507 --> 01:00:24,252 We took over 1 00 German prisoners. After that, it was mostly cleanup. 690 01:00:24,511 --> 01:00:29,007 Let's go, move it. Move it. Take them down to the barn. 691 01:00:32,811 --> 01:00:34,435 Sit down! 692 01:00:37,857 --> 01:00:41,937 -Sniper! -Take cover! Take cover! 693 01:00:45,573 --> 01:00:47,981 Come on! Come on! 694 01:00:48,201 --> 01:00:50,074 Where is he? 695 01:00:51,203 --> 01:00:54,240 Shit. l can't see him. 696 01:00:57,042 --> 01:00:59,498 Second floor, building on the right. 697 01:00:59,753 --> 01:01:03,204 Don't miss, Shifty. Now! 698 01:01:24,360 --> 01:01:28,358 Over here. l need help. Can you guys come here and help me? 699 01:01:28,531 --> 01:01:32,694 Mellet, Herron, Sowosko and Ken Webb were killed by a sniper. 700 01:01:32,868 --> 01:01:35,869 There would have been more if not for Shifty. 701 01:01:36,038 --> 01:01:40,166 Work your party, walk your wounded to the aid station. 702 01:01:40,417 --> 01:01:43,667 Let's not just lollygag. Keep this moving. 703 01:01:43,920 --> 01:01:48,048 -Get these boys to the aid station. -Okay, sergeant. 704 01:01:59,602 --> 01:02:03,101 -You hit bad, Perconte? -Beautiful wound, Lip. 705 01:02:03,355 --> 01:02:05,478 Shot me right through my ass. 706 01:02:05,733 --> 01:02:07,061 -Hey, sarge? -Yeah. 707 01:02:07,318 --> 01:02:09,987 -ls it true about Dike? -Yeah. 708 01:02:10,237 --> 01:02:14,946 -Thank God for small mercies! -Yeah. 709 01:02:27,128 --> 01:02:32,964 We'd been looking at Foy for a month knowing that's where we had to go. 710 01:02:33,217 --> 01:02:36,420 It was a great relief to have done it. 711 01:02:37,513 --> 01:02:40,051 The men thought once we'd taken Foy... 712 01:02:40,224 --> 01:02:44,138 ... they'd get us off the line, ship us back to Mourmelon. 713 01:02:44,395 --> 01:02:46,055 But that wasn 't to be. 714 01:02:46,313 --> 01:02:50,809 Two days later, we took Noville and after that, Rachamps. 715 01:03:11,837 --> 01:03:14,874 We spent our night in Rachamps in a convent. 716 01:03:15,049 --> 01:03:19,129 It was the first time we'd spent a night indoors in a month. 717 01:03:30,939 --> 01:03:36,277 The sisters brought in their choir to sing for us. It was heaven. 718 01:03:42,950 --> 01:03:45,157 The mood of the men was relaxed. 719 01:03:45,328 --> 01:03:49,539 We were finally being relieved and would soon be in Mourmelon. 720 01:03:49,707 --> 01:03:53,076 In the morning, we found out Mourmelon would wait. 721 01:03:53,252 --> 01:03:55,624 Hitler had launched a counteroffensive. 722 01:03:55,796 --> 01:03:58,713 We were bound for Hagenau to hold the line. 723 01:03:58,882 --> 01:04:05,051 But for that night, we didn 't know it yet. That night, we were okay. 724 01:04:22,989 --> 01:04:27,401 I tried to make a roster for the company to see who we had left. 725 01:04:27,576 --> 01:04:32,404 We'd come into Belgium with 1 2 1 men and officers plus 24 replacements. 726 01:04:32,664 --> 01:04:38,418 That's 1 45 total. We were going out with 63. 727 01:04:39,087 --> 01:04:43,666 Guarnere was badly wounded, and Hoobler died accidentally. 728 01:04:46,761 --> 01:04:49,466 Joe Toye had lost his leg. 729 01:04:55,353 --> 01:04:59,481 Among the dead were Herron, Mellet, Sowosko, Kenneth Webb... 730 01:04:59,690 --> 01:05:04,268 ...Harold Webb, Alex Penkala and Skip Muck. 731 01:05:07,030 --> 01:05:11,110 A month in Belgium cost us one good officer, Buck Compton... 732 01:05:11,285 --> 01:05:14,903 ...and one bad one, Norman Dike. 733 01:05:18,416 --> 01:05:24,122 But we gained a good one in the end, so I guess we came out ahead. 734 01:05:33,806 --> 01:05:37,506 -What is it? -Nothing. 735 01:05:39,186 --> 01:05:43,480 l better get back to Battalion before they disappear. 736 01:05:50,489 --> 01:05:53,489 -You wanna ask me, don't you? -Ask you what? 737 01:05:53,658 --> 01:05:57,241 You wanna know if they're true, the stories about me. 738 01:05:57,537 --> 01:06:02,199 With stories like that, everyone heard it from someone who was there. 739 01:06:02,375 --> 01:06:07,535 When you ask that person, they say they heard it from someone who was there. 740 01:06:07,713 --> 01:06:09,255 lt's nothing new. 741 01:06:09,423 --> 01:06:13,255 lf you went back 2000 years, you'd hear centurions. . . 742 01:06:13,427 --> 01:06:18,718 . . .yakking about how Tertius lopped off the heads of Carthaginian prisoners. 743 01:06:18,891 --> 01:06:25,344 Maybe they kept talking about it because they never heard Tertius deny it. 744 01:06:25,522 --> 01:06:29,733 Maybe Tertius knew there was value to men thinking. . . 745 01:06:29,901 --> 01:06:34,230 . . .he was the toughest son of a bitch in the whole Roman Legion. 746 01:06:35,073 --> 01:06:37,065 Sir? 747 01:06:38,451 --> 01:06:41,654 These men aren't concerned about the stories. 748 01:06:41,829 --> 01:06:44,746 They're just glad to have you as our CO. 749 01:06:44,915 --> 01:06:47,786 They're happy to have a good leader again. 750 01:06:48,043 --> 01:06:50,499 l've heard they've always had one. 751 01:06:50,671 --> 01:06:54,419 l'm told there's been one man they could count on. 752 01:06:54,633 --> 01:06:59,461 Led them into Bois Jacques, held them together as they were shelled. 753 01:06:59,638 --> 01:07:04,430 Kept their spirits up, kept the men focused, gave them direction. 754 01:07:04,601 --> 01:07:08,349 All the things a good combat leader does. 755 01:07:12,817 --> 01:07:15,818 Do you have any idea who l'm talking about? 756 01:07:15,987 --> 01:07:20,031 -No, sir. -Hell, it was you, first sergeant. 757 01:07:20,199 --> 01:07:25,406 Ever since Winters made Battalion, you've been the leader of Easy Company. 758 01:07:29,750 --> 01:07:36,167 Oh, and you're not gonna be first sergeant much longer, first sergeant. 759 01:07:36,339 --> 01:07:37,917 Sir? 760 01:07:38,383 --> 01:07:42,677 Winters put in for a battlefield commission. Sink approved. 761 01:07:42,846 --> 01:07:46,546 You should get the official nod in a few days. 762 01:07:48,559 --> 01:07:52,059 Congratulations, lieutenant. 763 01:08:13,917 --> 01:08:16,289 Hey, look, it's 1 st Battalion. 764 01:08:16,503 --> 01:08:18,958 -Hey! Hey! -What do you want? 765 01:08:19,130 --> 01:08:21,621 Thanks for crapping in our foxholes. 766 01:08:22,133 --> 01:08:24,706 -Hey, it's our pleasure. -Yeah. 767 01:08:24,886 --> 01:08:27,756 Enjoy the walk, boys. 768 01:08:39,608 --> 01:08:44,151 There they go, Easy Company, riding out again. 0 00:00:0,500 --> 00:00:2,00 www.tvsubtitles.net