1 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:11,030 I've seen death, I've seen... 2 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,490 my friends, my men being killed. 3 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:19,890 This is... 4 00:00:20,370 --> 00:00:25,270 It doesn't take too many days of that and you change dramatically. 5 00:00:25,340 --> 00:00:26,940 We were hungry, we had no food... 6 00:00:27,010 --> 00:00:30,210 we didn't have ammunition, it was cold, didn't have any clothes. 7 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:31,710 You couldn't build a fire. 8 00:00:31,780 --> 00:00:34,150 If you did, some crazy thing would shoot at you. 9 00:00:34,220 --> 00:00:36,710 Every where you would look, you would see dead people. 10 00:00:36,790 --> 00:00:39,660 A dead soldier there, here. Ours, theirs. 11 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:46,930 Then civilians besides. Dead animals. 12 00:00:47,500 --> 00:00:49,470 So, death was all over. 13 00:00:49,530 --> 00:00:59,530 You don't have a chance when your friends go down to really take care of them as you might. 14 00:01:00,010 --> 00:01:04,680 And especially if you're under attack, moving, or whatever. 15 00:01:07,990 --> 00:01:10,390 I withstood it well but... 16 00:01:10,460 --> 00:01:15,020 I had a lot of trouble in later life... 17 00:01:16,490 --> 00:01:17,890 because... 18 00:01:18,330 --> 00:01:22,400 those events would come back and... 19 00:01:23,370 --> 00:01:25,200 You never forget them. 20 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:12,100 After holding the line at Bastogne... 21 00:04:12,170 --> 00:04:14,570 Easy Company was again called on to help push... 22 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:16,670 the Germans back through the Bulge. 23 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:20,170 We were here this morning and then we came this way. 24 00:04:20,250 --> 00:04:22,650 Right, so, right here's gotta be the logging road... 25 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:25,550 coming into here, which means we get right there. 26 00:04:25,620 --> 00:04:27,310 Take it easy. Stop crying, Malark... 27 00:04:27,390 --> 00:04:28,790 or I'll nail it to your head. 28 00:04:28,860 --> 00:04:30,320 Good, it's made of wood. 29 00:04:30,460 --> 00:04:32,930 Guarnere, move them out, let's go. Yes, sir. 30 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:34,760 2nd Platoon, let's go! 31 00:04:34,830 --> 00:04:37,660 I was glad to be out of my foxhole and moving again. 32 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:39,990 Even if only to get warm. 33 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:43,560 Spread out. Keep your interval. 34 00:04:50,210 --> 00:04:54,240 E Company was sent to clear the Bois Jacques the woods near the town of Foy... 35 00:04:54,310 --> 00:04:58,550 in preparation for what we knew would be the eventual assault on Foy itself. 36 00:04:59,350 --> 00:05:02,190 I see it, Buck. Watch for mines. 37 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:07,620 During that 1,000 yard attack through the woods... 38 00:05:07,690 --> 00:05:11,600 we encountered German machine gun fire and had a couple of casualties. 39 00:05:11,700 --> 00:05:14,430 But, for the most part, met little resistance. 40 00:05:24,310 --> 00:05:26,610 Hoobler's run-in with the German officer on horseback... 41 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:28,770 was the most dramatic moment of the day. 42 00:05:38,190 --> 00:05:39,280 Halt! 43 00:05:41,230 --> 00:05:42,560 Halt! 44 00:06:07,150 --> 00:06:08,380 Shit. 45 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:22,960 Thank you. 46 00:06:28,370 --> 00:06:31,540 Hoobler had been talking about getting a Luger since Normandy. 47 00:06:31,810 --> 00:06:34,180 As we dug in, he went from foxhole to foxhole... 48 00:06:34,250 --> 00:06:36,270 telling everyone how he'd finally got one. 49 00:06:36,350 --> 00:06:39,750 Down he goes, right out of the saddle, like a sack of potatoes. 50 00:06:39,950 --> 00:06:43,450 Outstanding accuracy on my part, if I do say so myself. 51 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:45,750 Which you do. Which I do. 52 00:06:45,860 --> 00:06:49,560 Hell, Shifty, I think maybe I could have even given you a run for your money. 53 00:06:49,630 --> 00:06:51,330 No, I'm not a good shot. 54 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:53,260 Now, Dad, he was an excellent shot. 55 00:06:53,330 --> 00:06:55,770 Excellent, I declare, he'd shoot the wings off a fly. 56 00:06:56,170 --> 00:06:58,870 Lip, that German, what'd you think he was doing? 57 00:06:59,010 --> 00:07:00,500 Probably a little recon. 58 00:07:00,940 --> 00:07:03,340 He must have figured nobody would hear a horse. 59 00:07:03,410 --> 00:07:05,970 I think he was trying to get outta Dodge. Yeah. 60 00:07:06,380 --> 00:07:07,750 What happened to the horse? 61 00:07:07,820 --> 00:07:11,410 I don't know, probably still running. Hope he's okay. 62 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:14,920 You dug in? Yeah. 63 00:07:15,620 --> 00:07:18,290 Yeah, just thought I'd take a walk, shoot the shit. 64 00:07:18,630 --> 00:07:21,420 You're a good shot, Hoob. Just glad you're on our side. 65 00:07:21,500 --> 00:07:22,660 Thanks, Lip. 66 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:25,420 Hey, Lip? Yeah. 67 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:29,030 Thanks for the help. You got it, Shifty. 68 00:07:29,970 --> 00:07:31,440 Lip? Yes. 69 00:07:31,510 --> 00:07:33,560 You got a sec? Yes, sir. 70 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:38,470 Give him a hand. 71 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:43,580 Where's Dike? He's around. 72 00:07:43,650 --> 00:07:45,640 Could you be more specific, Sergeant? 73 00:07:46,420 --> 00:07:47,550 Not really, sir. 74 00:07:47,620 --> 00:07:49,210 I haven't seen him all day. 75 00:07:49,290 --> 00:07:50,950 Didn't see him in the woods... 76 00:07:51,030 --> 00:07:53,050 and I have to figure out how we ended up. 77 00:07:53,130 --> 00:07:55,320 Two wounded. Who? 78 00:07:55,430 --> 00:07:59,260 Brown and Stevenson. Goddamn it. 79 00:07:59,500 --> 00:08:02,260 Where's Dike? Where the hell is he? Where does he ever go? 80 00:08:02,340 --> 00:08:04,170 I don't know, but I wish he'd stay there. 81 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:05,970 Be nice if he took Shames with him. 82 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:08,370 Shut up, boys. Shutting up, Sarge. 83 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:10,980 What the hell is that? 84 00:08:13,510 --> 00:08:15,910 Patrol? No, we would have heard. 85 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:20,050 One man, maybe a sniper. That was no rifle. 86 00:08:20,450 --> 00:08:22,150 What do you see, Shift? 87 00:08:22,860 --> 00:08:23,910 Nobody out there. 88 00:08:23,990 --> 00:08:25,220 Are you sure? 89 00:08:25,830 --> 00:08:27,620 Jesus, it's Hoob, he's shot. 90 00:08:27,700 --> 00:08:31,360 Sniper? No, he shot himself. 91 00:08:31,430 --> 00:08:32,800 Stupid. Medic! 92 00:08:32,870 --> 00:08:34,800 What happened? Doc. 93 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:37,740 Is he all right? It's my fucking leg. 94 00:08:37,810 --> 00:08:39,770 He did what? It just went off. 95 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:41,310 What happened? It just went off. 96 00:08:41,380 --> 00:08:43,040 Why is there a loaded gun in your pants? 97 00:08:43,110 --> 00:08:46,010 Buck, I wasn't touching it or nothing. Goddamn it. 98 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:48,710 I wasn't touching it, I swear. Medic! 99 00:08:48,780 --> 00:08:49,910 Where are you hit, Hoob? 100 00:08:49,990 --> 00:08:51,680 Where are you hit? In my leg. 101 00:08:51,750 --> 00:08:54,220 Hold on. 102 00:08:54,290 --> 00:08:57,550 Now, don't look. It's gonna be fine. Don't worry about it. Come on. 103 00:08:57,630 --> 00:09:01,190 It hurts like a son of a bitch. I think maybe I hit bone. 104 00:09:01,260 --> 00:09:02,700 Doc! 105 00:09:03,260 --> 00:09:05,390 Don't worry about it. You'll be all right. 106 00:09:05,470 --> 00:09:06,800 Warm him up. 107 00:09:06,870 --> 00:09:08,230 Can you hear me? 108 00:09:08,300 --> 00:09:10,930 Somebody keep him warm. Sergeant. 109 00:09:11,710 --> 00:09:14,300 Let me see it. Hang in there. 110 00:09:14,380 --> 00:09:16,500 Warm up some blankets or something for him. 111 00:09:16,580 --> 00:09:17,810 You're gonna be fine. 112 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:19,780 Keep talking to him. 113 00:09:19,850 --> 00:09:21,910 Okay, listen to me. 114 00:09:21,980 --> 00:09:23,950 Think it was a German leg? Yeah, right. 115 00:09:24,020 --> 00:09:25,820 You're gonna be fine. 116 00:09:28,190 --> 00:09:30,890 Hold on. Perconte, put this across him. 117 00:09:31,790 --> 00:09:33,420 Wrap him up. 118 00:09:33,900 --> 00:09:36,090 Hang in there. Come on. 119 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:39,260 Lip. You said I was a great shot, right? 120 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:43,630 You're a great shot. Come on, you jump out of planes. 121 00:09:43,710 --> 00:09:45,500 You're tough. He's still shivering. 122 00:09:45,570 --> 00:09:47,270 It's not that bad at all, come on. 123 00:09:47,340 --> 00:09:49,710 Stay with us. Hoob, take it easy. 124 00:09:49,780 --> 00:09:51,440 What are we gonna do? 125 00:09:51,510 --> 00:09:53,310 How are we doing? You're gonna be fine. 126 00:09:53,380 --> 00:09:55,350 We've gotta get him to an aid station. 127 00:09:55,420 --> 00:09:58,180 Hold on tight. All right, let's get ready to move him. 128 00:09:58,390 --> 00:10:00,850 Take it easy. Stay there, Hoob. 129 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:02,990 Doc. Can't see anything 130 00:10:03,060 --> 00:10:04,150 Doc! 131 00:10:12,430 --> 00:10:13,630 Jesus. 132 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:18,100 Perco, we need a jeep. 133 00:10:24,250 --> 00:10:27,910 He was wearing so many clothes, we couldn't tell how bad he was bleeding. 134 00:10:27,980 --> 00:10:31,110 By the time we got him to the aid station, he was already dead. 135 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:34,710 The bullet cut the main artery in his leg, sir. 136 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:37,380 Hell, Lip. 137 00:10:37,460 --> 00:10:40,090 It wouldn't have made a difference if you had known. 138 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:43,290 Cut that main artery in the leg, that's it. 139 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:44,560 Yes, sir. 140 00:10:45,330 --> 00:10:48,560 I'm gonna go back and make sure the boys are all dug in, sir. 141 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:51,060 Lip. 142 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:53,770 Where's Dike? 143 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:56,280 You wanna see him, sir? 144 00:10:56,350 --> 00:10:59,710 No, I just would have expected to get this kind of news from him. 145 00:11:00,420 --> 00:11:02,940 I was there, sir. 146 00:11:03,020 --> 00:11:04,880 I figured it might as well be me. 147 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:19,430 "Where's Dike?" 148 00:11:19,500 --> 00:11:21,990 I probably heard that question 1,000 times. 149 00:11:22,570 --> 00:11:24,970 I probably asked it a few times myself. 150 00:11:25,570 --> 00:11:29,070 There were long stretches where we didn't know where Lieutenant Dike was. 151 00:11:29,180 --> 00:11:32,610 He'd disappear, go off on these walks for hours at a time. 152 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:36,510 Wouldn't have been so bad if he was just one of the guys in the company... 153 00:11:36,590 --> 00:11:39,610 but Lieutenant Dike was supposed to be leading the company. 154 00:11:41,560 --> 00:11:44,690 Captain Winters was a CO we could all respect. 155 00:11:45,460 --> 00:11:47,930 Moose Heyliger probably would have done a good job... 156 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,900 but before we got a chance to find out, he was accidentally shot by a sentry. 157 00:11:52,470 --> 00:11:54,330 Then came Norman Dike. 158 00:11:54,570 --> 00:11:58,470 I want tight security around the company CP, Lieutenant Shames, that understood? 159 00:11:58,870 --> 00:12:01,710 Dike wasn't a bad leader because he made bad decisions. 160 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:04,680 He was a bad leader because he made no decisions. 161 00:12:05,380 --> 00:12:08,910 Now, Battalion S-3 is planning a move. 162 00:12:09,490 --> 00:12:13,550 So, I will probably be called away regularly. 163 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:16,320 Are there any questions? Yeah. 164 00:12:17,330 --> 00:12:19,520 What's the formation you want us to go for? 165 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:27,460 At present, as per usual, but I'll clarify that with you at a later time, Lieutenant Compton. 166 00:12:27,540 --> 00:12:28,830 Yes, sir. 167 00:12:31,870 --> 00:12:34,070 All right, I gotta make a call. 168 00:12:42,180 --> 00:12:43,520 Let's move it out. 169 00:12:48,590 --> 00:12:50,990 Dike was the favorite of somebody at Division. 170 00:12:51,290 --> 00:12:54,690 He'd been sent down to E Company to get some combat experience. 171 00:12:55,460 --> 00:12:58,760 Sometimes we got the feeling E Company was an annoyance to him. 172 00:12:59,030 --> 00:13:03,230 Something he had to get through before he could continue his march up the ladder. 173 00:13:04,010 --> 00:13:05,940 I'm telling you boys, we're screwed. 174 00:13:06,010 --> 00:13:08,440 If you ask me, I'm glad Dike's never around. 175 00:13:08,510 --> 00:13:09,540 You know what? 176 00:13:09,610 --> 00:13:13,280 We're doing all right, even with Foxhole Norman. 177 00:13:13,350 --> 00:13:15,940 Yeah, we're doing all right. We're doing all right now. 178 00:13:16,220 --> 00:13:18,850 If you noticed, there's a little town down the hill. 179 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:21,890 In that town are these guys, and these guys are called Germans. 180 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:23,790 And these Germans got tanks. I know. 181 00:13:23,860 --> 00:13:24,950 Yeah. 182 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:27,220 And our side's gonna wanna go into that town. 183 00:13:27,660 --> 00:13:31,360 Guess who they're gonna want to go knocking on the goddamn doors. 184 00:13:31,430 --> 00:13:34,030 I know, Bill, it's me you're talking to here. 185 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:39,170 Jesus Christ, we've gotta do all this with a CO... 186 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:44,010 who's got his head so far up his ass that lump in his throat is his goddamn nose. 187 00:13:44,710 --> 00:13:47,210 Hey First Sergeant. Boys. 188 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:48,410 Sarge. Lip. 189 00:13:48,490 --> 00:13:49,580 Muck... 190 00:13:49,790 --> 00:13:52,350 what's the word? You know. 191 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:55,150 Sitting around, freezing our ass off. 192 00:13:56,090 --> 00:13:58,720 Singing Dike's praises. Yeah. 193 00:13:59,060 --> 00:14:00,890 Lieutenant Dike. 194 00:14:02,370 --> 00:14:05,200 I'll tell you... 195 00:14:06,500 --> 00:14:09,730 I wouldn't wanna be a replacement officer coming in here... 196 00:14:09,970 --> 00:14:14,880 getting thrown in with a group of guys who've known each other for two years. 197 00:14:16,310 --> 00:14:19,210 They've been in combat together since Normandy. 198 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:22,540 You're supposed to just show up and lead them? 199 00:14:23,490 --> 00:14:24,980 How's a guy do that? 200 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:30,680 How could anyone really hope to gain the respect of the toughest... 201 00:14:31,060 --> 00:14:36,170 most professional most dedicated sons of bitches in the entire ETO? 202 00:14:39,700 --> 00:14:43,140 So, if you ask me, a guy'd have to march off to Berlin... 203 00:14:43,210 --> 00:14:47,140 and come back with Hitler's moustache or something. 204 00:14:49,650 --> 00:14:51,940 Anyway, listen. 205 00:14:52,620 --> 00:14:54,550 You guys, don't worry about Dike. 206 00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:56,580 All right? Yeah. 207 00:14:56,820 --> 00:15:00,120 We all do our jobs, everything will be fine. 208 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:07,660 See you, Sarge. Yeah, boy. 209 00:15:08,830 --> 00:15:10,660 I don't know if I believed any of that... 210 00:15:10,740 --> 00:15:13,000 but as Company First Sergeant it was my job... 211 00:15:13,770 --> 00:15:15,300 not to protect Dike... 212 00:15:15,370 --> 00:15:17,670 but to protect the integrity of the company. 213 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:21,580 You know what Dike's problem is, don't you? 214 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:25,440 He's just another one of those arrogant, rich jerks from Yale. 215 00:15:25,850 --> 00:15:27,780 God, not another one of those. 216 00:15:31,260 --> 00:15:35,280 Division's not gonna let me replace him just 'cause I got a bad feeling about him. 217 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:38,730 Even if they would, who'd I put in his place? 218 00:15:40,430 --> 00:15:41,420 Shames? 219 00:15:41,500 --> 00:15:44,020 Do not ever talk when I'm talking, you got that? 220 00:15:44,100 --> 00:15:46,830 He's seen too many movies. Thinks he has to yell all the time. 221 00:15:46,900 --> 00:15:51,430 Both of you little crapheads did not listen to a word I said during that briefing, did you? 222 00:15:52,140 --> 00:15:53,270 Or Peacock? 223 00:15:53,340 --> 00:15:57,370 God bless him, no one tries harder but he's not cut out to take men into combat. 224 00:15:57,820 --> 00:16:01,840 I'm not gonna make him Company CO when I don't want him as a platoon leader. 225 00:16:03,420 --> 00:16:04,820 What about Compton? 226 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:07,620 He's the only real choice. 227 00:16:08,590 --> 00:16:11,120 Buck's a real combat leader, but, you know... 228 00:16:13,130 --> 00:16:16,830 I want Easy Company to have at least one experienced platoon leader. 229 00:16:17,700 --> 00:16:20,430 Not that it matters anyway 'cause I can't get rid of Dike. 230 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:24,670 Well... 231 00:16:24,740 --> 00:16:27,300 we all know who you'd like to have running Easy. 232 00:16:27,980 --> 00:16:30,340 Trouble is it's not your job any more. 233 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:33,110 We've gotta find somebody. 234 00:16:41,130 --> 00:16:44,580 We all agreed Buck Compton would've been the best choice to run Easy... 235 00:16:44,660 --> 00:16:47,190 if Winters had been able to get rid of Dike. 236 00:16:49,430 --> 00:16:50,490 But, to be honest... 237 00:16:50,570 --> 00:16:54,030 Buck wasn't the same soldier he'd been before he got shot in Holland. 238 00:16:54,110 --> 00:16:55,800 He was more serious somehow. 239 00:16:55,870 --> 00:16:58,030 He had a goddamn Luger in his pants. 240 00:16:58,110 --> 00:17:00,580 Jesus. Dear God. 241 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:03,950 Don't you two do something stupid like that, all right? 242 00:17:04,010 --> 00:17:06,410 Try not to, Buck. I mean it. 243 00:17:07,020 --> 00:17:09,780 And you, Wild Bill... 244 00:17:10,290 --> 00:17:12,190 I've invested too much goddamn time... 245 00:17:12,260 --> 00:17:15,320 shaping you into something useful. 246 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:18,730 Do something crazy, get yourself knocked out of this thing... 247 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:20,320 I know, you'll kill me. 248 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:22,700 Even if you're dead, I'll still kill you. 249 00:17:24,470 --> 00:17:27,700 I'll see you guys later. I'm gonna check on the other guys. 250 00:17:33,010 --> 00:17:34,810 Crazy Joe McCloskey. 251 00:17:35,180 --> 00:17:36,440 What? 252 00:17:36,580 --> 00:17:39,450 This guy used to hang at the front of Delancey's and just... 253 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:41,180 you know, just stare at people. 254 00:17:41,490 --> 00:17:43,610 Yeah, I know who Crazy Joe McCloskey is. 255 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:46,320 What the hell's that got to do with anything? 256 00:17:46,860 --> 00:17:48,880 Buck kind of reminds me of him now. 257 00:17:50,530 --> 00:17:52,830 What? Ever since he got shot in Holland... 258 00:17:52,900 --> 00:17:53,890 Wait. 259 00:17:55,770 --> 00:17:57,460 What, are you saying he's nuts? 260 00:17:57,540 --> 00:17:59,700 'Cause Crazy Joe McCloskey was fucking nuts. 261 00:17:59,770 --> 00:18:03,970 That's why they called him Crazy Joe. No, I'm not saying he's nuts. I'm just... 262 00:18:04,210 --> 00:18:06,230 What are you saying? 263 00:18:06,510 --> 00:18:07,570 Forget it. 264 00:18:07,650 --> 00:18:09,440 What? Forget it. 265 00:18:10,150 --> 00:18:11,810 Come on, you've seen him, Bill. 266 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:14,680 He's all wound up like a spring. 267 00:18:14,750 --> 00:18:16,620 He's fine. 268 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:22,990 It wasn't getting shot that got him, it was being in that hospital. 269 00:18:24,100 --> 00:18:25,690 I've been there, okay? 270 00:18:26,360 --> 00:18:28,990 It ain't pretty. Yeah. 271 00:18:29,770 --> 00:18:33,170 Once he was up and moving around, he was his old self again. 272 00:18:35,070 --> 00:18:38,440 I'm telling you, Buck Compton's fine. 273 00:18:40,510 --> 00:18:43,170 I'm serious. Sure thing, Buck, nothing stupid. 274 00:18:43,250 --> 00:18:46,270 We got it, right? We got it. 275 00:18:46,350 --> 00:18:48,910 All right. George? 276 00:18:49,350 --> 00:18:50,410 Yeah. 277 00:18:51,660 --> 00:18:53,490 Nothing stupid, Buck. 278 00:18:57,730 --> 00:18:59,200 Yeah. 279 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:04,070 "Don't do anything stupid"? Who the hell's he talking to? 280 00:19:04,140 --> 00:19:07,630 Bunch of morons who volunteered to jump out of a perfectly good airplane. 281 00:19:07,710 --> 00:19:10,200 Can you get any more stupid than that? Probably not. 282 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:11,300 Right. 283 00:19:11,780 --> 00:19:15,340 I swum across the Niagara once. Yeah. 284 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:18,540 I swear. 285 00:19:19,120 --> 00:19:20,410 On a bet. 286 00:19:20,490 --> 00:19:21,920 What, in a barrel? 287 00:19:22,620 --> 00:19:23,650 No. 288 00:19:24,060 --> 00:19:27,150 I didn't go over the Falls, George. I swam across the river. 289 00:19:27,360 --> 00:19:31,690 Ten miles up from the Falls. I tell you, that current is damn strong. 290 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:32,750 Yeah. 291 00:19:32,830 --> 00:19:35,730 Must have carried me two miles downstream before I got across. 292 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:37,230 But, I got across. 293 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:41,470 Now, personally, I didn't think it was all that stupid but... 294 00:19:41,540 --> 00:19:43,770 my mom, my sister, Ruth... 295 00:19:44,010 --> 00:19:45,810 they gave me all kinds of hell. 296 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:48,610 Yeah, I bet, Muck. So did Faye. 297 00:19:49,750 --> 00:19:53,340 Sweet Faye Tanner. Shut it, George. 298 00:19:53,420 --> 00:19:56,480 Well, they had a point. You're an idiot. 299 00:20:16,740 --> 00:20:18,570 I heard about Hoobler. 300 00:20:19,810 --> 00:20:20,970 Shame. 301 00:20:21,950 --> 00:20:23,070 Yes, sir. 302 00:20:23,450 --> 00:20:24,610 It is. 303 00:20:26,350 --> 00:20:28,880 That the Luger? Yes, it is. 304 00:20:29,220 --> 00:20:30,520 What are you gonna do with it? 305 00:20:31,490 --> 00:20:32,980 I don't know yet. 306 00:20:34,930 --> 00:20:37,860 Where you from, Lipton? Where'd you grow up? 307 00:20:39,470 --> 00:20:40,900 Huntington, West Virginia. 308 00:20:40,970 --> 00:20:43,160 Huntington? Yes, sir. 309 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:45,360 I don't know it. 310 00:20:46,970 --> 00:20:48,800 What kind of work did you do there? 311 00:20:50,180 --> 00:20:53,010 My brother and I helped my mom run a boarding house. 312 00:20:54,110 --> 00:20:55,710 And your father? 313 00:20:58,950 --> 00:21:02,650 He was killed when I was 10, sir. 314 00:21:03,120 --> 00:21:04,920 Automobile accident. 315 00:21:06,990 --> 00:21:08,360 That's sad. 316 00:21:13,430 --> 00:21:16,600 So, what made you decide to join the Paratroopers? 317 00:21:16,670 --> 00:21:19,900 I read an article about paratroopers in Life magazine. 318 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:23,140 Talked about the training, how hard it was. 319 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:27,440 Said if you want to make it as a paratrooper you had to be the best. 320 00:21:28,410 --> 00:21:30,810 And I wanted to fight with the best, sir. 321 00:21:31,420 --> 00:21:32,540 You miss it? 322 00:21:34,050 --> 00:21:35,250 Miss what? 323 00:21:35,690 --> 00:21:36,950 Huntington. 324 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:43,790 Honestly, sir, I try not to think about it that much. 325 00:21:47,730 --> 00:21:49,530 Where are you from... 326 00:22:09,360 --> 00:22:10,880 Captain Nixon, sir. 327 00:22:11,360 --> 00:22:13,350 Captain Nixon, sir. What? 328 00:22:13,930 --> 00:22:17,330 Good morning, sir, sorry to disturb you. This came from Division. 329 00:22:21,770 --> 00:22:23,000 All right. 330 00:22:26,340 --> 00:22:30,740 Morning. Eviction notice? Not quite. 331 00:22:30,810 --> 00:22:33,440 But I think this will help with your leadership problem. 332 00:22:33,510 --> 00:22:36,350 Dike's being transferred? No, I can't help you with that... 333 00:22:36,420 --> 00:22:38,750 but Division has decided to pluck one officer... 334 00:22:38,820 --> 00:22:42,280 from each regiment that served in the heroic defense of Bastogne... 335 00:22:42,690 --> 00:22:45,490 send him back to the States on a 30-day furlough. 336 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:49,500 Get him out banging the drum for the war bond drive, that kind of thing. 337 00:22:49,900 --> 00:22:51,990 It turns out I've been plucked. 338 00:22:56,370 --> 00:22:59,030 That's fantastic, Lew, good for you. Thank you. 339 00:22:59,110 --> 00:23:01,130 How in the world does your leaving help me? 340 00:23:01,210 --> 00:23:02,640 It doesn't, I'm not going. 341 00:23:02,710 --> 00:23:06,170 I've already seen the States, grew up there. That's why I came to Europe. 342 00:23:06,250 --> 00:23:08,180 Just wish they'd told me there was a war on. 343 00:23:08,250 --> 00:23:10,440 Anyway, the point is, this thing's wasted on me. 344 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:12,710 But, I'm sure we can find an officer somewhere... 345 00:23:12,790 --> 00:23:15,480 in this battalion who could use a long trip home. 346 00:23:16,860 --> 00:23:18,720 Congratulations, Lieutenant Peacock. 347 00:23:18,790 --> 00:23:20,950 I can't think of anybody who deserves this more. 348 00:23:21,030 --> 00:23:22,220 Thanks. 349 00:23:24,530 --> 00:23:27,660 I'm really glad that you're going home. Okay. 350 00:23:27,730 --> 00:23:30,790 Best news I've heard in weeks. Hell of a guy. 351 00:23:30,870 --> 00:23:34,030 Thanks, guys. It really means a lot, you know? 352 00:23:34,110 --> 00:23:35,700 Get out of here. 353 00:23:36,740 --> 00:23:41,340 Three cheers for Lieutenant Peacock. Hip hip hooray. 354 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:58,500 If they come by here, you all remember to smile for the camera. 355 00:23:58,570 --> 00:24:01,160 Got to keep the morale up for them folks back home. 356 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:02,290 Why? 357 00:24:03,070 --> 00:24:04,830 Damned if I know. 358 00:24:05,140 --> 00:24:07,840 All right, Nix, what have they got waiting for us in Foy? 359 00:24:07,910 --> 00:24:11,870 At least one company from the 10th Panzer grenadiers dug in here. 360 00:24:11,950 --> 00:24:16,410 They've also got at least one 88 although we haven't been able to spot it yet. 361 00:24:16,850 --> 00:24:20,050 How about armor? As of last night, three Tigers. 362 00:24:20,120 --> 00:24:22,750 Would you excuse me for a moment, sir? Yeah. 363 00:24:22,890 --> 00:24:25,480 How do I feel about being rescued by Patton? 364 00:24:26,630 --> 00:24:30,060 I'd feel pretty peachy about it, if it wasn't for one thing... 365 00:24:30,300 --> 00:24:32,730 we didn't need to be fucking rescued by Patton. 366 00:24:33,530 --> 00:24:34,630 You got that? 367 00:24:35,070 --> 00:24:37,300 Joe. Excuse us for a moment. 368 00:24:38,470 --> 00:24:41,370 Sorry, sir. Sorry about what? 369 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:42,640 Patton? 370 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:44,240 I couldn't agree more. 371 00:24:44,310 --> 00:24:47,440 What are you doing here? I wanna head back to the line, sir. 372 00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:51,320 You don't have to do that. Get yourself back to the aid station. Heal up. 373 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:54,480 I'd really like to head back with the fellas, sir. 374 00:24:57,430 --> 00:24:59,190 All right, then go. 375 00:24:59,630 --> 00:25:01,190 Thank you, sir. 376 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:09,130 Joe Toye had been at the aid station for three days... 377 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:11,430 and everybody was glad to have him back. 378 00:25:11,610 --> 00:25:13,670 Especially Bill Guarnere. 379 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:16,140 Joe. Bill. 380 00:25:16,210 --> 00:25:17,680 Good to see you, pal. You, too. 381 00:25:17,750 --> 00:25:19,240 What the hell you doing back here? 382 00:25:19,310 --> 00:25:20,970 To make sure you're on top of things. 383 00:25:21,050 --> 00:25:24,350 I'm on top of things. Tied me own boots once last week. 384 00:25:24,850 --> 00:25:28,790 All by meself. Fellas, look who I found. 385 00:25:29,120 --> 00:25:32,520 Joe Toye, back for more. How are you, Joe? 386 00:25:32,590 --> 00:25:35,080 Yeah, doing pretty good. Escaped from the aid station. 387 00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:37,650 Where'd you get hit? What's that? 388 00:25:37,770 --> 00:25:40,760 It's Webb. Replacement. Really? 389 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:44,200 Thought it was some guy I've known for two years and I forgot his face. 390 00:25:44,270 --> 00:25:48,260 Joe got hit in the arm. New Year's Eve gift from a luftwaffe. 391 00:25:48,510 --> 00:25:51,810 A lot of you guys been injured? It's called wounded, peanut. 392 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:54,280 Injured's when you fall out of a tree or something. 393 00:25:54,850 --> 00:25:57,320 Don't worry, there's enough crap flying around here. 394 00:25:57,390 --> 00:25:59,080 You're bound to get dinged sometime. 395 00:25:59,150 --> 00:26:02,680 Almost every single one of these guys has been hit at least once. 396 00:26:02,990 --> 00:26:04,750 Except for Alley, he's a two-timer. 397 00:26:04,830 --> 00:26:07,120 He landed on broken glass in Normandy... 398 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:09,530 and got peppered by a potato masher in Holland. 399 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:10,620 You'll find out, son. 400 00:26:10,700 --> 00:26:14,190 Now, Bull, he got a piece of exploding tank in Holland. 401 00:26:14,540 --> 00:26:17,940 And George Luz here has never been hit. 402 00:26:18,010 --> 00:26:20,870 You're one lucky bastard. Takes one to know one, Skip. 403 00:26:20,940 --> 00:26:25,440 Consider us blessed. Now, Liebgott, the skinny little guy... 404 00:26:25,510 --> 00:26:27,310 he got pinged in the neck in Holland. 405 00:26:27,380 --> 00:26:30,040 Right next to him, that other skinny guy, that's Popeye. 406 00:26:30,120 --> 00:26:32,710 He got shot in his scrawny little butt in Normandy. 407 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:37,990 And Buck got shot in his rather large butt in Holland. 408 00:26:38,060 --> 00:26:41,260 Yeah, kind of an Easy Company tradition, getting shot in the ass. 409 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:44,530 Even First Sergeant Lipton over there... 410 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,900 he got a couple of pieces of a tank shell burst at Carentan. 411 00:26:47,970 --> 00:26:49,460 One chunk in the face. 412 00:26:49,910 --> 00:26:51,810 Another chunk almost took off his nuts. 413 00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:56,200 How are those nuts, Sarge? Doing fine, Bill. 414 00:26:57,210 --> 00:26:58,740 Nice of you to ask. 415 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:03,310 On the afternoon of January 3... 416 00:27:03,390 --> 00:27:07,550 most of E Company headed back to our old position in the woods overlooking Foy. 417 00:27:07,690 --> 00:27:12,550 A few men remained in the Bois Jacques attached to D Company to hold the main line of resistance. 418 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:14,890 Good luck, ladies. 419 00:27:16,360 --> 00:27:18,230 Been nice knowing you. 420 00:27:19,170 --> 00:27:21,100 Wouldn't drink too much if I were you. 421 00:27:21,170 --> 00:27:24,900 Be careful if he offers you a cigarette. What are they talking about? 422 00:27:24,970 --> 00:27:27,600 If who offers us a cigarette? Speirs. 423 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:29,910 Who? Lieutenant Speirs. 424 00:27:32,580 --> 00:27:36,280 Lieutenant Ronald Speirs was one of the platoon leaders in D Company. 425 00:27:36,420 --> 00:27:37,820 He was already a legend. 426 00:27:38,620 --> 00:27:41,350 The stories about Speirs are probably all bullshit anyway. 427 00:27:41,420 --> 00:27:42,980 What stories? 428 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:45,450 What stories? 429 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:48,990 Supposedly Speirs shot one of his own men for being drunk. 430 00:27:49,060 --> 00:27:50,330 You're kidding. 431 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:52,090 That's unbelievable. 432 00:27:52,900 --> 00:27:55,840 Yeah, and there's another one about him giving cigarettes... 433 00:27:55,900 --> 00:27:59,030 to 20 German POWs before killing them. 434 00:27:59,110 --> 00:28:03,480 He shot 20 POWs? Actually, I heard it was more like 30. 435 00:28:03,710 --> 00:28:06,810 Christenson. Lieutenant Speirs. 436 00:28:07,350 --> 00:28:10,410 I got the name right, didn't I, Christenson? Yes, sir. 437 00:28:11,890 --> 00:28:13,790 What are you men doing out here? 438 00:28:14,120 --> 00:28:16,350 We're watching the line, sir. 439 00:28:18,430 --> 00:28:21,290 Keep up the good work. You might wanna reinforce your cover. 440 00:28:21,360 --> 00:28:25,390 Lieutenant Dike said not even to bother. That we're only gonna be here one day. 441 00:28:25,470 --> 00:28:27,230 Lieutenant Dike said that? 442 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:31,210 Then forget what I said. 443 00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:34,540 Carry on. 444 00:28:38,250 --> 00:28:40,220 Anyone care for a smoke? 445 00:28:45,350 --> 00:28:46,550 You? 446 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,220 Late in the afternoon on January 3... 447 00:28:51,290 --> 00:28:54,390 we returned to our old position in the woods overlooking Foy. 448 00:28:55,460 --> 00:28:57,590 You gotta be fucking kidding me. 449 00:28:59,070 --> 00:29:01,800 Someone's gonna die. Someone's gonna fucking die. 450 00:29:01,870 --> 00:29:03,530 Guarnere, look at this shit! 451 00:29:03,770 --> 00:29:07,070 One of those 1st Battalion fuckers took a dump in my foxhole. 452 00:29:07,140 --> 00:29:10,140 I think they shit in everyone's foxhole, Joe. 453 00:29:12,250 --> 00:29:15,340 I don't think they wanted to spend much time above ground. 454 00:29:17,650 --> 00:29:19,250 While we were in the Bois Jacques... 455 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:21,650 the Germans had been shelling our old position. 456 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:23,750 There were signs of tree bursts everywhere. 457 00:29:24,090 --> 00:29:25,620 That got our attention. 458 00:29:25,830 --> 00:29:27,660 Light and noise discipline. 459 00:29:27,730 --> 00:29:29,630 We're getting close. 460 00:29:39,140 --> 00:29:42,170 Looking across the field at Foy, I could see enemy troops. 461 00:29:42,550 --> 00:29:46,350 I still couldn't see their artillery, but I knew it was down there. 462 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:53,750 Looks like the Krauts have been pounding this area with pretty big stuff, 88s. 463 00:29:53,820 --> 00:29:56,520 I'd say they got this whole stretch of the line targeted. 464 00:29:56,590 --> 00:29:59,460 They're not shelling now. Maybe they've got a new target... 465 00:29:59,530 --> 00:30:00,790 No, they're just waiting. 466 00:30:00,930 --> 00:30:03,490 For what? For us to reoccupy the position. 467 00:30:03,570 --> 00:30:05,690 Maybe we should fall back and dig in. 468 00:30:05,770 --> 00:30:07,930 No, it's our job to hold the line here. 469 00:30:08,510 --> 00:30:11,670 We've got pretty good foxholes. We just need to fortify the covers. 470 00:30:11,740 --> 00:30:15,180 If they've got us targeted, maybe... We hold the line here. 471 00:30:15,350 --> 00:30:16,640 Sergeant Lipton's right. 472 00:30:16,710 --> 00:30:19,880 We're gonna strengthen our covers and we're gonna hang in. 473 00:30:19,950 --> 00:30:22,010 We're not gonna fall back. 474 00:30:23,750 --> 00:30:25,020 Right, Lieutenant? 475 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,560 Right, Lieutenant? Fine. 476 00:30:30,690 --> 00:30:32,630 You all take care of it. 477 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:34,760 I gotta go talk to Regiment. 478 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:40,500 We'd better get moving. Yeah. 479 00:30:43,910 --> 00:30:46,380 Here you go, Bill. Thanks, Lip. 480 00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:49,710 I'll get you some more branches. I'd appreciate that. 481 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:15,670 Incoming! 482 00:31:15,810 --> 00:31:17,400 Take cover! 483 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:21,340 Take cover! 484 00:31:25,380 --> 00:31:29,220 Take cover! Come on, find some cover! 485 00:31:29,290 --> 00:31:31,020 They got us zeroed! 486 00:31:32,420 --> 00:31:35,050 Find some cover, find a foxhole! 487 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:37,720 Come on, take cover! 488 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:39,760 Take cover! 489 00:31:44,330 --> 00:31:46,770 Come on, find some cover! 490 00:31:50,010 --> 00:31:52,100 Take cover! 491 00:31:53,810 --> 00:31:54,900 Shit. 492 00:32:03,990 --> 00:32:07,120 Come on, find some cover! 493 00:32:15,870 --> 00:32:18,890 For some reason, at that moment, in that half-finished foxhole... 494 00:32:18,970 --> 00:32:22,000 all I could think about was the Fourth of July when I was a kid. 495 00:32:22,210 --> 00:32:25,870 I loved to make my own firecrackers, cherry bombs, ladyfingers. 496 00:32:27,250 --> 00:32:30,150 I loved to blow up dirt clods and pop bottles and the like. 497 00:32:30,210 --> 00:32:32,110 Looked forward to it all year long. 498 00:32:33,050 --> 00:32:34,920 What I saw that day was the most awesome... 499 00:32:34,990 --> 00:32:38,150 and terrifying display of firepower I'd ever seen in my life. 500 00:32:39,460 --> 00:32:43,390 Of course, I wouldn't have been laughing if I'd known what happened to Joe Toye. 501 00:33:43,990 --> 00:33:47,550 Maybe we should see if anybody's hit. Malark, that's what they want. 502 00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:50,230 The Krauts are trying to draw us out in the open. 503 00:34:01,010 --> 00:34:05,410 Stay in your foxholes. Stay in your foxholes! 504 00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:09,270 Are you okay, can you walk? Come on, find a foxhole, come on. 505 00:34:09,350 --> 00:34:11,040 I gotta get up. 506 00:34:14,550 --> 00:34:16,880 I gotta get up. 507 00:34:18,990 --> 00:34:20,720 I gotta get up. 508 00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:25,420 I need my helmet. 509 00:34:27,330 --> 00:34:28,960 I need help! 510 00:34:29,030 --> 00:34:31,900 You hear that? Is that Joe? 511 00:34:34,910 --> 00:34:36,930 Help! Yeah, I think that's Joe. 512 00:34:37,780 --> 00:34:38,870 Stay. 513 00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:43,680 Stay down! 514 00:34:43,750 --> 00:34:47,150 Stay in your foxholes! 515 00:34:47,220 --> 00:34:48,350 Help! 516 00:34:49,790 --> 00:34:51,810 Help, anyone there? 517 00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:56,160 Jesus. I gotta get up. 518 00:34:57,030 --> 00:35:00,020 I gotta get up. 519 00:35:01,930 --> 00:35:03,060 Shit. 520 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:05,700 Come on, Joe. Come on, buddy. 521 00:35:07,610 --> 00:35:08,600 Come on, pal. 522 00:35:08,670 --> 00:35:10,970 You said you'd get back to the States before me. 523 00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:13,480 You ain't going anywhere, you're all right. 524 00:35:14,310 --> 00:35:15,750 I gotta get my helmet. 525 00:35:15,810 --> 00:35:18,580 Forget it. I gotta get my helmet. 526 00:35:18,650 --> 00:35:19,980 Anyone there? 527 00:35:20,050 --> 00:35:21,920 Hang on. Help! 528 00:35:24,420 --> 00:35:26,760 Who's that? It's Heff. 529 00:35:26,930 --> 00:35:28,860 Come on, get me out of here, Lip. 530 00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:33,460 Come on. 531 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:35,130 I got you. 532 00:35:35,330 --> 00:35:37,360 Come on, Joe, I got you. 533 00:35:40,740 --> 00:35:42,100 Come on, Joe. 534 00:35:44,010 --> 00:35:45,270 Hang on. 535 00:35:46,210 --> 00:35:48,440 Are you okay? Come on. 536 00:35:50,820 --> 00:35:53,180 Think I overdid it on the cover for my foxhole? 537 00:35:53,250 --> 00:35:55,050 Incoming! 538 00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:00,420 Take cover! 539 00:36:08,300 --> 00:36:10,000 Come on! 540 00:36:10,270 --> 00:36:13,400 Hurry up, Guarno, you're gonna get bombed! 541 00:36:13,470 --> 00:36:16,770 Come on! Move it, Bill! 542 00:36:18,780 --> 00:36:20,210 Come on, Joe. 543 00:36:20,980 --> 00:36:23,570 Hold on, I'll be there, I'm gonna help you. 544 00:36:24,850 --> 00:36:26,720 No! 545 00:36:29,220 --> 00:36:30,590 Medic! 546 00:36:37,060 --> 00:36:40,000 During the second barrage, I wasn't laughing anymore. 547 00:37:18,170 --> 00:37:19,870 Lip! 548 00:37:22,140 --> 00:37:23,670 Are you okay? 549 00:37:27,150 --> 00:37:28,700 Stay down! 550 00:37:29,820 --> 00:37:31,440 You stay down! 551 00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:32,980 First Sergeant Lipton? 552 00:37:33,750 --> 00:37:35,450 You get things organized here. 553 00:37:35,790 --> 00:37:37,090 I'm gonna go for help. 554 00:37:41,130 --> 00:37:43,460 What the fuck? 555 00:37:47,900 --> 00:37:50,630 Lip, where the fuck's he going? I don't know. 556 00:37:50,700 --> 00:37:53,430 Get Battalion on the line. Tell them to notify BAS. 557 00:37:53,510 --> 00:37:54,940 Battalion's up, Lip. 558 00:38:08,620 --> 00:38:10,680 Medic! 559 00:38:19,870 --> 00:38:21,420 Stay ready. 560 00:38:21,500 --> 00:38:23,940 Sons of bitches might be trying to come through. 561 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,060 You okay, One Lung? Sergeant! 562 00:38:26,140 --> 00:38:29,600 How you doing, Popeye? 100 percent ready to kill Germans, Lip. 563 00:38:35,250 --> 00:38:36,610 Okay, Joe. 564 00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:43,450 Doc, what can I do? Hold this. 565 00:38:45,930 --> 00:38:47,690 You got a smoke? 566 00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:53,130 Jesus, what's a guy gotta do to get killed around here? 567 00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:56,360 Bill, you're going first. 568 00:38:56,440 --> 00:39:00,430 Whatever you say, Doc, whatever you say. Over here, take this man. 569 00:39:00,510 --> 00:39:05,140 Lip, they got old Guarnere this time. We got you, soldier. 570 00:39:08,780 --> 00:39:10,270 Just lie back. 571 00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:17,780 Take it easy. I told you I'd beat you back to the States. 572 00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:20,450 Lip. 573 00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:25,560 How's Buck? 574 00:39:27,070 --> 00:39:29,090 Luz, how's Buck? 575 00:39:29,270 --> 00:39:30,260 He's fine. 576 00:39:30,340 --> 00:39:32,400 You sure? Yes, he's fine. 577 00:39:33,070 --> 00:39:35,870 I think you should probably go talk to him now. 578 00:39:38,780 --> 00:39:40,040 All right. 579 00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:53,550 Some say Buck changed after he was shot in Holland. 580 00:39:53,630 --> 00:39:54,750 Maybe. 581 00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:59,000 I know something happened to him when he saw Toye and Guarnere on the ground. 582 00:40:09,380 --> 00:40:13,710 On the report it said Compton was being taken off the line because of trench foot. 583 00:40:14,380 --> 00:40:16,980 Didn't say anything about him losing his friends. 584 00:40:24,260 --> 00:40:26,690 Buck was a great combat leader. 585 00:40:27,390 --> 00:40:30,830 He was wounded in Normandy, and again in Holland. 586 00:40:30,900 --> 00:40:34,990 He received the Silver Star for his part in taking out those German guns on D-day. 587 00:40:35,070 --> 00:40:38,200 He took everything the Krauts could throw at him time and again. 588 00:40:39,410 --> 00:40:41,170 Lieutenant Compton? 589 00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:45,200 "UCLA did not make the Rose Bowl this winter. 590 00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:47,250 "Probably because you weren't there. 591 00:40:48,220 --> 00:40:50,620 "I'm sure you're teaching all of your young soldiers... 592 00:40:50,690 --> 00:40:52,450 "... the joy you have of the sport. 593 00:40:53,220 --> 00:40:56,490 "Gosh, how we all know what an exciting young man you are... 594 00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:58,720 "... and how your heart and love..." 595 00:41:02,430 --> 00:41:06,730 I guess he just couldn't take seeing his friends Toye and Guarnere torn up like that. 596 00:41:07,940 --> 00:41:10,530 No one ever thought any less of him for it. 597 00:41:21,220 --> 00:41:22,480 Hey Bull. 598 00:41:23,690 --> 00:41:27,780 With Buck off the line, there was no longer any possible alternative to Dike. 599 00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:29,850 At least none we could see. 600 00:41:30,330 --> 00:41:31,760 Thanks. 601 00:41:33,730 --> 00:41:35,250 Muck. 602 00:41:36,530 --> 00:41:38,090 Muck. Yes, Sergeant? 603 00:41:38,170 --> 00:41:39,600 I'm looking for Lieutenant Dike. 604 00:41:39,670 --> 00:41:41,260 We were stuck with Dike. 605 00:41:41,340 --> 00:41:42,960 And he was off taking a walk. 606 00:41:43,340 --> 00:41:44,810 Sure thing. 607 00:41:49,240 --> 00:41:50,900 Lightning Six, kidnap. 608 00:41:52,210 --> 00:41:55,310 Yes, sir. We've cleared all the green area between... 609 00:41:55,380 --> 00:41:57,510 We'd cleared the woods east of Foy. 610 00:41:57,590 --> 00:42:00,520 So, a few days later, E Company and the rest of the 506... 611 00:42:00,590 --> 00:42:02,350 cleared the woods west of Foy. 612 00:42:02,490 --> 00:42:04,420 There was little resistance. 613 00:42:09,460 --> 00:42:11,990 You fellas know I got no reason to bullshit you, right? 614 00:42:12,100 --> 00:42:15,230 Look, I'm not gonna bullshit you. This is what I saw. 615 00:42:15,300 --> 00:42:17,930 It was so unbelievable, you might not believe me. 616 00:42:18,340 --> 00:42:20,330 So, you-know-who comes running up to Lipton. 617 00:42:20,410 --> 00:42:22,340 He's got no helmet, no gear, no nothing. 618 00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:25,280 First Sergeant Lipton, you organize things here... 619 00:42:25,350 --> 00:42:27,840 and I'm gonna go for help. 620 00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:31,380 I need to go polish my oak leaf clusters. 621 00:42:31,720 --> 00:42:34,650 Luz. That's really good. 622 00:42:34,720 --> 00:42:36,820 It's okay. Fellas. 623 00:42:37,490 --> 00:42:40,590 Goodnight all. Yeah, see you, Luz. See you, Malark. 624 00:42:40,660 --> 00:42:44,860 What can I do for you, Sarge? Two things, first, great impression of Dike. 625 00:42:44,930 --> 00:42:46,800 You think? I thought it was a little off. 626 00:42:46,870 --> 00:42:51,130 No, you got it pretty good. Second, don't do it any more. 627 00:42:51,210 --> 00:42:53,500 Especially the part about what he said to me. 628 00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:55,580 It doesn't do anybody any good, okay? 629 00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:58,540 Yeah, I got you. All right. 630 00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:03,080 Wise ass. 631 00:43:09,220 --> 00:43:11,890 Incoming! 632 00:43:28,610 --> 00:43:30,810 Luz! 633 00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:33,010 Come on! Hurry! 634 00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:34,670 Luz! 635 00:43:35,780 --> 00:43:38,910 Stay down! Come on! 636 00:43:38,990 --> 00:43:42,150 Get in here! Come on! 637 00:43:43,590 --> 00:43:47,360 Come on! Come on, Luz! 638 00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:20,820 Muck and Penkala! What? 639 00:44:21,300 --> 00:44:24,420 Muck and Penkala got hit! 640 00:44:31,910 --> 00:44:33,310 Medic! 641 00:44:35,610 --> 00:44:38,880 Medic! 642 00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:43,650 It's my shoulder. Come on, get up! 643 00:44:48,890 --> 00:44:51,490 Stay down till you get the all clear. 644 00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:16,380 Thought you didn't smoke. I don't. 645 00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:31,570 The shell that hit the foxhole Luz and I were in was a dud. 646 00:45:32,470 --> 00:45:35,100 The one that hit Muck and Penkala's foxhole wasn't. 647 00:45:35,170 --> 00:45:37,070 That's just the way it was. 648 00:45:37,710 --> 00:45:39,900 Muck and Penkala were good men. 649 00:45:43,450 --> 00:45:45,350 Their death hit Malarkey the hardest. 650 00:45:45,420 --> 00:45:49,010 Malarkey's best friends in the Company had been Compton, Muck, and Penkala. 651 00:45:49,090 --> 00:45:51,380 In less than a week, he'd seen two of them die. 652 00:45:54,260 --> 00:45:57,230 What's the word? The men on the line are okay. 653 00:45:57,290 --> 00:45:59,820 Food has just been resupplied. We're in good shape. 654 00:45:59,900 --> 00:46:02,660 Okay, we'll just hunker down. We might get some relief soon. 655 00:46:02,730 --> 00:46:04,560 Okay? All right. 656 00:46:18,550 --> 00:46:19,780 All right. 657 00:46:25,720 --> 00:46:29,350 Later that day, we were back in our old position overlooking Foy. 658 00:46:29,730 --> 00:46:31,920 We were all worried about Malarkey. 659 00:46:33,060 --> 00:46:34,530 Malark. 660 00:46:41,500 --> 00:46:45,960 Didn't I hear you say you wanted to bring a Luger home for your kid brother? 661 00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:50,970 Yeah. 662 00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:56,940 Why don't you... 663 00:46:57,020 --> 00:46:59,150 Why don't you give him that? 664 00:47:02,630 --> 00:47:05,650 It's Hoob's, right? Yeah. 665 00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:09,160 Yeah, I was gonna get rid of it but I... 666 00:47:09,730 --> 00:47:11,320 I don't know. 667 00:47:13,370 --> 00:47:14,560 Listen... 668 00:47:15,340 --> 00:47:18,970 Captain Winters was wondering if you wanted to go back to battalion and... 669 00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:21,310 work as his runner for a few days. 670 00:47:25,020 --> 00:47:28,450 Tell him thanks, I'm gonna stay here. 671 00:47:30,490 --> 00:47:33,980 Look, why don't you at least come back for an hour or so. 672 00:47:34,060 --> 00:47:37,190 Say goodbye to Buck. I'm sure it'll mean a lot to him. 673 00:47:42,930 --> 00:47:44,230 All right. 674 00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:49,410 You be careful with that. 675 00:47:50,740 --> 00:47:52,710 Getting even 50 yards back from the line... 676 00:47:52,780 --> 00:47:56,910 just for an hour or two could make a big difference in a soldier's state of mind. 677 00:48:00,750 --> 00:48:03,810 The morning after the shelling that killed Muck and Penkala... 678 00:48:04,090 --> 00:48:06,920 I saw a soldier try to dig a foxhole with his bare hands. 679 00:48:06,990 --> 00:48:07,980 Private. 680 00:48:08,060 --> 00:48:09,960 Didn't notice he'd torn off his fingernails. 681 00:48:10,030 --> 00:48:11,120 Private. 682 00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:13,590 I got him out of there quickly. 683 00:48:13,860 --> 00:48:15,730 Not for his sake, but for ours. 684 00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:18,700 Fear is poison in combat. 685 00:48:18,900 --> 00:48:21,500 It's something we all felt, but you just didn't show it. 686 00:48:21,570 --> 00:48:22,630 You can't. 687 00:48:22,810 --> 00:48:25,640 It's destructive and it's contagious. 688 00:48:28,350 --> 00:48:31,180 Told you I'd get you started. We got a bleeder here. 689 00:48:36,820 --> 00:48:40,880 Buck was never the same after seeing Toye and Guarnere get hit that day. 690 00:48:40,990 --> 00:48:43,790 I guess he just needed some time away from it all. 691 00:48:56,970 --> 00:49:00,140 The barrages on January 3, and the shelling on January 9... 692 00:49:00,210 --> 00:49:03,580 marked the low point in the war for many of the men in E Company. 693 00:49:03,810 --> 00:49:06,250 Even then, very few actually broke. 694 00:49:06,620 --> 00:49:10,080 I knew the terror of those shellings and the pressure we'd been under... 695 00:49:10,150 --> 00:49:13,210 since we got to Bastogne could take their toll in other ways. 696 00:49:13,290 --> 00:49:17,350 I was afraid the men would lose focus, suffer a drop in morale. 697 00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:20,530 And that was dangerous, especially in combat. 698 00:49:21,070 --> 00:49:22,970 More of which lay in store for us. 699 00:49:23,670 --> 00:49:24,970 Perconte. 700 00:49:25,570 --> 00:49:28,000 We'd cleared the woods east and west of Foy. 701 00:49:28,070 --> 00:49:31,300 Now it was time for the inevitable assault on Foy, itself. 702 00:49:32,010 --> 00:49:33,670 Frankly, I was dreading it. 703 00:49:33,750 --> 00:49:36,240 I always knew the E Company men who trained at Toccoa... 704 00:49:36,310 --> 00:49:37,910 wouldn't survive the war unscathed... 705 00:49:37,980 --> 00:49:42,110 but now I was beginning to wonder if any of us were gonna make it through at all. 706 00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:44,910 E Company would lead the attack. 707 00:49:45,020 --> 00:49:47,220 The problem was, at least in my estimation... 708 00:49:47,290 --> 00:49:49,590 E Company still did not have a leader. 709 00:50:01,470 --> 00:50:04,530 The night before the attack, I did something as First Sergeant... 710 00:50:04,610 --> 00:50:07,010 I would never have imagined myself doing. 711 00:50:14,650 --> 00:50:15,980 Lip. 712 00:50:18,090 --> 00:50:21,530 Didn't figure you for a smoking man. Neither did I. 713 00:50:26,060 --> 00:50:29,000 D Company, Lieutenant Speirs, patrol order. 714 00:50:31,240 --> 00:50:32,430 So? 715 00:50:32,500 --> 00:50:35,170 We've been watching Foy all day, sir, not much activity. 716 00:50:35,670 --> 00:50:38,160 Want a coffee? No, thank you, sir. 717 00:50:40,610 --> 00:50:44,610 How's Easy's status? The men are good, sir, they're prepared. 718 00:50:44,780 --> 00:50:46,910 I'm gonna be leading 2nd Platoon, tomorrow. 719 00:50:46,990 --> 00:50:49,280 They're probably the weakest after losing Toye... 720 00:50:49,350 --> 00:50:51,790 and Guarnere, and Muck, and Penkala. 721 00:50:52,790 --> 00:50:55,420 But all in all, I have every confidence in the men, sir. 722 00:50:55,490 --> 00:50:56,620 Good. 723 00:51:01,730 --> 00:51:05,070 But, on the other hand, I have no confidence in our CO, sir. 724 00:51:06,670 --> 00:51:09,570 Lieutenant Dike is an empty uniform, Captain. 725 00:51:10,010 --> 00:51:11,500 He's just... 726 00:51:12,310 --> 00:51:14,180 He's not there, sir. 727 00:51:15,850 --> 00:51:17,470 He's gonna be there tomorrow. 728 00:51:17,550 --> 00:51:20,040 Yes, sir, I understand he will be there physically. 729 00:51:20,750 --> 00:51:22,850 But tomorrow's gonna be the real deal... 730 00:51:23,020 --> 00:51:25,250 and he's gonna have to lead those men. 731 00:51:25,690 --> 00:51:28,180 He's gonna have to make decisions, sir, and I... 732 00:51:29,590 --> 00:51:33,620 I gotta tell you, sir, I think he's gonna get a lot of Easy Company men killed. 733 00:51:37,940 --> 00:51:41,070 Thank you, Sergeant, that'll be all. Yes, sir. 734 00:51:44,980 --> 00:51:48,780 I said what I had to say. There was nothing Winters could do. 735 00:51:53,150 --> 00:51:55,550 He couldn't very well remove a company CO. 736 00:51:55,620 --> 00:51:57,090 Especially a well-connected one... 737 00:51:57,160 --> 00:51:59,990 because of the misgivings of a company first sergeant. 738 00:52:00,690 --> 00:52:05,090 There's an eighth of a mile of open field to cross before we get down here into Foy. 739 00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:06,930 There's little cover, so move quickly. 740 00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:09,490 There's two sections of light machine guns, either end. 741 00:52:09,570 --> 00:52:10,900 They'll give you covering fire. 742 00:52:10,970 --> 00:52:13,730 3rd Battalion will come from the east led by I Company. 743 00:52:13,810 --> 00:52:15,070 That should cause distraction. 744 00:52:15,140 --> 00:52:17,970 D Company will be in reserve but we shouldn't need them. 745 00:52:18,040 --> 00:52:19,870 You gotta move in there fast. 746 00:52:20,350 --> 00:52:24,080 Get in there before they can bring their mortars and artillery down on you. 747 00:52:24,450 --> 00:52:26,510 Clear? Clear. 748 00:52:26,590 --> 00:52:29,680 I'm relying on you. Get it done. 749 00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:48,400 Covering fire! Let's go! Keep it moving! 750 00:52:50,410 --> 00:52:52,270 Suppressing fire! 751 00:52:55,550 --> 00:52:58,380 Keep moving! Move! 752 00:53:03,890 --> 00:53:06,080 Let's go! 753 00:53:08,030 --> 00:53:10,930 Suppressing fire! Fire! 754 00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:14,590 Keep them tight, Shames. 755 00:53:16,170 --> 00:53:19,300 Keep moving. Come on. 756 00:53:19,440 --> 00:53:22,570 Krauts in the open! 757 00:53:24,580 --> 00:53:28,570 Keep moving! Three inside! 758 00:53:31,950 --> 00:53:34,150 Wait a minute, where's Foley? 759 00:53:34,890 --> 00:53:36,220 Randleman! 760 00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:38,650 Liebgott. 761 00:53:39,560 --> 00:53:41,390 Where the hell is 1st Platoon? 762 00:53:45,300 --> 00:53:48,170 Hold up! Keep moving! 763 00:53:48,340 --> 00:53:50,860 Easy Company, hold up! 764 00:53:50,940 --> 00:53:52,600 2nd Platoon, hold up! 765 00:53:53,770 --> 00:53:56,240 Will you move! Get me Foley on the radio. 766 00:53:56,310 --> 00:53:59,440 Get out of there! Move! Sir, I think we should take cover. 767 00:53:59,510 --> 00:54:01,950 Find some cover! 768 00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:04,810 Find some cover! What? 769 00:54:05,350 --> 00:54:07,410 Stay down! 770 00:54:07,490 --> 00:54:11,360 Easy Red, Easy Red. Easy Six. Over. Six, Easy Red, go ahead. 771 00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:15,150 Easy Red, Easy Red, stand by for the Six. 772 00:54:15,230 --> 00:54:20,830 Foley, you get back here where I can see you, goddamn it! 773 00:54:21,370 --> 00:54:25,630 1st Platoon, hold up. Take cover! Martin. 774 00:54:25,910 --> 00:54:28,670 Come on, soldier, with me. With you, sir. 775 00:54:29,610 --> 00:54:30,700 Fire! 776 00:54:32,150 --> 00:54:34,410 Fall back! 777 00:54:35,620 --> 00:54:39,020 Take cover! Goddamn it. 778 00:54:39,090 --> 00:54:41,380 Go forward! 779 00:54:42,290 --> 00:54:45,090 Herron, on me. Move back. 780 00:54:46,230 --> 00:54:49,560 Stay on my ass. Hold fast, 2nd Platoon. 781 00:54:49,630 --> 00:54:53,360 Follow Lipton! Take cover! What are we doing, Lieutenant? 782 00:54:53,430 --> 00:54:57,130 Why are we stopped? Fall back! 783 00:54:57,470 --> 00:54:58,940 Roger, kidnap. 784 00:54:59,010 --> 00:55:01,530 Standby to Six, Lieutenant, what's the plan? 785 00:55:01,610 --> 00:55:02,840 I don't know! 786 00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:06,600 You'd better get Dike on that radio to me now. 787 00:55:06,680 --> 00:55:08,340 Lieutenant, what's the plan? 788 00:55:08,420 --> 00:55:10,380 Captain Winters, sir. What's the plan? 789 00:55:10,620 --> 00:55:14,180 Okay, Foley. Foley, you take your men... 790 00:55:14,250 --> 00:55:16,810 on a flanking mission around the village... 791 00:55:16,890 --> 00:55:18,950 and attack it from the rear. 792 00:55:19,690 --> 00:55:22,160 Dike, we cannot stay here! 793 00:55:22,230 --> 00:55:25,200 You want 1st Platoon to attack the village, by itself? 794 00:55:25,270 --> 00:55:27,200 We will provide suppressing fire. 795 00:55:27,270 --> 00:55:29,430 We're gonna be alone out there, Lieutenant. 796 00:55:29,500 --> 00:55:32,560 We will provide suppressing fire! 797 00:55:39,350 --> 00:55:41,840 Get going forward! 798 00:55:42,220 --> 00:55:45,480 You need to talk to Captain Winters, sir. 799 00:55:48,820 --> 00:55:51,260 Sir, okay, here it is. 800 00:55:51,330 --> 00:55:55,230 We go on a flanking run in the back of the village and we attack from the rear. 801 00:55:55,300 --> 00:55:58,560 Ramirez, two guys, take them, go. Find some cover behind the stable. 802 00:55:58,630 --> 00:56:00,100 Go! 803 00:56:00,940 --> 00:56:03,270 Shit! Jesus Christ. 804 00:56:04,140 --> 00:56:06,570 Webb, move up, find cover! 805 00:56:16,550 --> 00:56:18,610 Suppressing fire, now! 806 00:56:20,720 --> 00:56:23,160 Perconte! I got you. 807 00:56:23,720 --> 00:56:25,250 Give me some cover! 808 00:56:27,090 --> 00:56:28,960 How you doing, Perconte? 809 00:56:29,100 --> 00:56:31,660 They shot me in my ass, Martin. 810 00:56:32,670 --> 00:56:35,260 You're all right, stay down! I think we lost five men. 811 00:56:35,340 --> 00:56:38,270 Can you locate? The building with the caved-in roof. 812 00:56:38,340 --> 00:56:40,170 The building with the caved-in roof. 813 00:56:47,650 --> 00:56:50,410 Sir, we are sitting ducks here. 814 00:56:50,480 --> 00:56:52,920 We have to keep moving! 815 00:56:52,990 --> 00:56:55,460 You've got to keep moving! 816 00:56:55,860 --> 00:57:00,490 Dick! Captain Winters. Goddamn it, you do not go out there. 817 00:57:00,560 --> 00:57:03,050 You're the Battalion Commander, now get back here! 818 00:57:04,870 --> 00:57:07,330 Dick, I understand your attachment to Easy Company... 819 00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:09,730 Speirs, get yourself over here! 820 00:57:10,200 --> 00:57:13,230 Get out there and relieve Dike and take that attack on in. 821 00:57:17,340 --> 00:57:19,570 Webb, fall back, you're too exposed. 822 00:57:23,250 --> 00:57:25,680 Come on, Webb, let's go, kid. 823 00:57:27,820 --> 00:57:31,020 Hang on, Perco. Fire! 824 00:57:33,030 --> 00:57:35,620 Lieutenant, what are we doing? 825 00:57:38,670 --> 00:57:41,190 I'm taking over. First Sergeant Lipton. 826 00:57:41,640 --> 00:57:42,760 What have we got? 827 00:57:42,840 --> 00:57:44,900 Sir, most of the Company is spread out here. 828 00:57:44,970 --> 00:57:48,910 1st platoon tried an end around but they're stretched out, pinned by a sniper. 829 00:57:48,980 --> 00:57:50,940 I believe he's there at the caved-in roof. 830 00:57:51,010 --> 00:57:53,540 Destroy that building with mortars and grenade launchers. 831 00:57:53,610 --> 00:57:55,710 Then, I want 1st to go in, forget going around. 832 00:57:55,780 --> 00:57:57,310 Everybody else, follow me. Yes, sir. 833 00:57:57,380 --> 00:57:58,680 Thank God. 834 00:58:00,360 --> 00:58:03,520 All right, 3rd Platoon, let's go! 835 00:58:04,030 --> 00:58:07,390 All right, you heard the word, 2nd Platoon, on the CO! 836 00:58:07,460 --> 00:58:09,230 Sergeant Alley! Got it, Sarge. 837 00:58:12,870 --> 00:58:15,530 Okay, 1st Platoon, move out! 838 00:58:16,810 --> 00:58:19,770 On your feet, 2nd Platoon. Move out! 839 00:58:21,280 --> 00:58:23,240 Get on your goddamn feet. 840 00:58:24,410 --> 00:58:26,140 Come on! 841 00:58:28,150 --> 00:58:30,710 Come on, Luz, let's get the bastards. 842 00:58:32,790 --> 00:58:33,950 Fire! 843 00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:38,220 Come on, move out! 844 00:58:39,590 --> 00:58:42,500 Fire! Take cover! 845 00:58:42,560 --> 00:58:44,030 Fire! 846 00:58:45,530 --> 00:58:48,760 Go! Go on, come on. 847 00:58:52,770 --> 00:58:54,500 Take the cart out! 848 00:58:55,540 --> 00:58:56,980 Fire! 849 00:58:57,910 --> 00:58:59,170 Lipton. 850 00:58:59,250 --> 00:59:02,650 Street fight, Item. Easy Six, over. 851 00:59:03,080 --> 00:59:07,080 What do you see, Lipton? Armor and infantry, a lot of infantry. 852 00:59:07,160 --> 00:59:09,320 I Company's should be on the other side of town. 853 00:59:09,390 --> 00:59:10,620 Do you see any sign of them? 854 00:59:10,690 --> 00:59:12,460 Radio, anything? No, sir. 855 00:59:12,530 --> 00:59:14,290 Sir, I think they're gonna pull back. 856 00:59:14,360 --> 00:59:16,060 We don't connect with I, they'll escape. 857 00:59:16,130 --> 00:59:18,530 That's right, wait here. Item, Item. Easy Six. 858 00:59:19,070 --> 00:59:20,590 What the hell? 859 00:59:32,550 --> 00:59:35,140 At first, the Germans didn't shoot at him. 860 00:59:36,580 --> 00:59:39,280 I think they couldn't quite believe what they were seeing. 861 00:59:39,590 --> 00:59:41,680 But that wasn't the really astounding thing. 862 00:59:42,460 --> 00:59:45,820 The astounding thing was that after he hooked up with I Company... 863 00:59:46,260 --> 00:59:47,690 he came back. 864 01:00:20,100 --> 01:00:22,090 We took over 100 German prisoners. 865 01:00:22,160 --> 01:00:25,030 After that it was mostly clean up. 866 01:00:25,270 --> 01:00:28,530 Let's go, move it, move it! Take them down to the barn. 867 01:00:33,540 --> 01:00:35,010 Sit down. 868 01:00:38,680 --> 01:00:40,050 Sniper! 869 01:00:40,120 --> 01:00:41,810 Take cover! 870 01:00:46,290 --> 01:00:47,810 Come on. 871 01:00:48,860 --> 01:00:50,090 Where is he? 872 01:00:51,860 --> 01:00:54,190 Shit, I can't see him. 873 01:00:57,870 --> 01:00:59,860 Second floor, building on the right. 874 01:01:00,170 --> 01:01:03,000 Don't miss, Shifty. Now! 875 01:01:25,130 --> 01:01:29,000 Over here. I need help over here. Hey, can you guys get over here and help? 876 01:01:29,400 --> 01:01:33,360 Mellet, Herron, Sowosko, and Ken Webb were killed by a sniper. 877 01:01:33,440 --> 01:01:36,630 There would've been more if it hadn't been for Shifty Powers. 878 01:02:00,230 --> 01:02:03,460 You hit bad, Perconte? Beautiful wound, Lip. 879 01:02:04,030 --> 01:02:05,590 They shot me right through my ass. 880 01:02:05,670 --> 01:02:07,140 You hang tough. Sarge. 881 01:02:07,200 --> 01:02:09,260 Yeah? Is it true about Dike? 882 01:02:09,340 --> 01:02:10,500 Yeah. 883 01:02:11,110 --> 01:02:12,870 Thank God for small mercies? 884 01:02:13,740 --> 01:02:14,900 Yeah. 885 01:02:27,790 --> 01:02:29,450 We'd been looking down at Foy... 886 01:02:29,530 --> 01:02:33,160 for the better part of a month, knowing that's where we had to go. 887 01:02:33,960 --> 01:02:36,160 It was a great relief to have done it. 888 01:02:38,670 --> 01:02:42,100 A lot of the men thought once we'd taken Foy they'd get off the line... 889 01:02:42,170 --> 01:02:44,730 ship us back to Mourmelon for a breather. 890 01:02:45,240 --> 01:02:46,830 But that wasn't to be. 891 01:02:47,180 --> 01:02:50,610 Two days later, we took Noville, and after that, Rachamps. 892 01:03:12,770 --> 01:03:15,360 We spent our night in Rachamps, in a convent. 893 01:03:15,770 --> 01:03:19,210 It was the first time we'd spent a night indoors in a month. 894 01:03:31,660 --> 01:03:34,650 The sisters there brought in their choir to sing for us. 895 01:03:34,930 --> 01:03:36,590 It was heaven. 896 01:03:43,800 --> 01:03:45,770 The mood of the men was relaxed. 897 01:03:45,840 --> 01:03:49,070 We were finally being relieved and would soon be in Mourmelon. 898 01:03:50,710 --> 01:03:53,940 Of course, in the morning we found out Mourmelon would have to wait. 899 01:03:54,010 --> 01:03:56,340 Hitler had launched a counteroffensive in Alsace... 900 01:03:56,410 --> 01:03:59,640 and we were bound for the town of Hagenau to help hold the line. 901 01:03:59,720 --> 01:04:02,180 But at least for that night we didn't know it yet. 902 01:04:02,450 --> 01:04:04,420 That night we were okay. 903 01:04:23,510 --> 01:04:25,940 I spent that night trying to come up with a roster... 904 01:04:26,010 --> 01:04:28,040 for the Company, to see who we had left. 905 01:04:28,450 --> 01:04:31,470 We'd come into Belgium with 121 men and officers... 906 01:04:31,550 --> 01:04:33,280 plus 24 replacements. 907 01:04:33,480 --> 01:04:37,580 That's 145 total. We were going out with 63. 908 01:04:39,820 --> 01:04:43,590 Guarnere was badly wounded and Hoobler died accidentally. 909 01:04:47,330 --> 01:04:49,360 Joe Toye had lost his leg. 910 01:04:55,870 --> 01:04:58,070 Among the dead were Herron, Mellet... 911 01:04:58,140 --> 01:05:01,270 Sowosko, Kenneth Webb, Harold Webb... 912 01:05:01,350 --> 01:05:04,080 Alex Penkala, and Skip Muck. 913 01:05:07,650 --> 01:05:11,350 Our month in Belgium cost us one good officer, Buck Compton. 914 01:05:11,420 --> 01:05:14,120 And one bad one, Norman Dike. 915 01:05:18,960 --> 01:05:23,700 But we gained a good one in the end, so I guess we came out ahead. 916 01:05:34,450 --> 01:05:35,740 What is it? 917 01:05:36,380 --> 01:05:37,510 Nothing. 918 01:05:40,120 --> 01:05:43,180 I'd better get back to Battalion before they disappear. 919 01:05:51,130 --> 01:05:54,150 You wanna ask me, don't you? Ask you what, sir? 920 01:05:54,230 --> 01:05:57,100 You wanna know if they're true or not, the stories about me. 921 01:05:58,400 --> 01:06:00,460 Did you ever notice with stories like that... 922 01:06:00,540 --> 01:06:03,010 everyone says they heard it from someone who was there... 923 01:06:03,070 --> 01:06:04,910 but then when you ask that person... 924 01:06:05,110 --> 01:06:07,630 they say they heard it from someone who was there. 925 01:06:08,550 --> 01:06:09,980 It's nothing new, really. 926 01:06:10,110 --> 01:06:14,240 I bet if you went back 2,000 years, you'd hear a couple of centurions... 927 01:06:14,320 --> 01:06:18,450 yakking about how Tercius lopped off the heads of some Carthaginian prisoners. 928 01:06:20,890 --> 01:06:24,920 Maybe they kept talking about it because they never heard Tercius deny it. 929 01:06:27,470 --> 01:06:30,400 Maybe because Tercius knew there was some value to the men... 930 01:06:30,470 --> 01:06:34,030 thinking he was the meanest, toughest, son of a bitch in the Roman legion. 931 01:06:35,640 --> 01:06:36,730 Sir? 932 01:06:39,140 --> 01:06:42,310 These men aren't really concerned about the stories. 933 01:06:42,380 --> 01:06:44,970 They're just glad to have you as our CO. 934 01:06:45,650 --> 01:06:47,880 They're happy to have a good leader again. 935 01:06:48,150 --> 01:06:50,350 From what I've heard, they've always had one. 936 01:06:51,460 --> 01:06:54,480 I've been told there's always been one man they could count on. 937 01:06:55,160 --> 01:06:57,220 Led them in Bois Jacques, held them together... 938 01:06:57,300 --> 01:06:59,630 when they were shelled in the woods. 939 01:07:00,470 --> 01:07:04,660 Every day he kept his spirits up, kept the men focused, gave them direction. 940 01:07:05,170 --> 01:07:07,970 All the things a good combat leader does. 941 01:07:13,680 --> 01:07:16,550 You don't have any idea who I'm talking about, do you? 942 01:07:16,780 --> 01:07:17,870 No, sir. 943 01:07:18,050 --> 01:07:19,980 Hell, it was you, First Sergeant. 944 01:07:21,020 --> 01:07:24,680 Ever since Winters made Battalion, you've been the leader of Easy Company. 945 01:07:32,830 --> 01:07:36,700 And you're not gonna be first sergeant much longer. 946 01:07:36,770 --> 01:07:37,890 Sir? 947 01:07:39,300 --> 01:07:43,430 Winters put in for a Battlefield Commission and Sink approved on your behalf. 948 01:07:43,580 --> 01:07:45,940 You should get the official nod in a few days. 949 01:07:49,210 --> 01:07:51,810 Congratulations, Lieutenant. 950 01:08:14,610 --> 01:08:16,970 Look, it's 1st Battalion. 951 01:08:18,840 --> 01:08:20,140 What do you want? 952 01:08:20,350 --> 01:08:23,110 Yeah, thanks for crapping in our foxholes, you shitheads. 953 01:08:23,180 --> 01:08:27,210 It's our pleasure. Enjoy the walk, boys. 954 01:08:40,070 --> 01:08:43,730 There they go, Easy Company.