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Were you thinking that you could give me a hand?

All I have to do is sit tight and send my troops out to take a couple of

bunkers that... That can't be taken?

I don't know, Saunders.

Go and get back inside. Get off your feet. There's nothing you can do here.

You sure, Lieutenant?

I'm sure.

It's all mine.

And I'll take care of it.

Never doubted it.

Hey, Morgan.

Something happened.

If I get hit or something, I'm going to get hit.

Talk.

No.

Get off my dress!

Anton!

No more crying.

No more crying.

Bye!

We're gonna stand out next time, huh?

Starring Rick Jason.

And Vic Morrow.

I told you to stay off that leg.

Any other time we can walk away from it.

This time we can't.

We either succeed or we die.

We've been in rough spots before, Lieutenant.

There was always a way out before.

An answer.

Not this time.

Well, maybe there is.

We're not dead yet.

We're not done yet.

Kirby, you left the gun up there.

It ain't going no place, Lieutenant.

You should have brought it down.

We were lucky to get ourselves down.

All right, Kirby.

We'll get it later.

Kirby, if you're interested, I now owe you $379,448.20.

Huh?

The odds are still alive.

I lost.

Come on, pay me, Einstein.

Soon, soon.

You know, next time the odds go up.

Get off it. Don't talk to me about the next time. I ain't over this time yet.

I'm licking the odds.

Both of us.

It's amazing. It's not possible, but we're doing it.

Amazing. Maybe you ought to quit now.

I've had a belly full of that hill.

Well, go tell it to the man.

He doesn't make it any more than you do.

He's got his orders.

You're knocking off about them orders things. I know all about them orders.

He still has them.

Gage, will you get a load of that thing there? He's finally reached an

independent conclusion.

The lieutenant still has his orders.

Just get off my back, you big lug.

All right, Kirby.

It's hard enough on everybody.

They were close.

Lesson one.

Don't get close.

Is that all he gets?

Man goes up and dies?

That's all you can say?

What do you want me to say?

Something, I don't know.

Morgan's dead.

Lesson two, Clint Schmidt.

Yeah, there was a lot of friends in this war.

It's the name of the game?

Nobody even notices.

It doesn't mean anything.

It means something.

Look at Lieutenant Hanley.

Look, Captain, we tried three times. We went up cold.

We went up under mortar cover. We went up under sniper cover.

We got clobbered each time.

I can't just keep sending my men up there without effective help. I just

can't. Padley, you gotta move.

We need that road, Captain.

You're holding up half a battalion.

Then give me something to move with.

Give me something to do the job with.

You talked about a tank. Send it.

I know it's essential, but my losses are heavy.

I'm down to 50% effective as it is. Can't you send the tank?

Mortars don't even touch them.

I need big stuff.

No good.

Nothing? Get some mortar fire on our jet.

We ought to have the 81s back before long. Well, that'll help.

Maybe, but we can't wait, Hanley.

You move against those bunkers now.

I what?

You're asking me to send my men up there again without cover? No heavy mortars,

no tanks?

It's not a request, Hanley.

Sir, I've been up three times. We've been down three times.

How many casualties do you think I can take? You go up again.

Can't we wait for the tank?

I'll give you ten minutes.

That tank hasn't arrived. You move out again.

And don't tell me it's tough.

I know it is.

But it's got to be done.

Our battalion is catching them from regiment. They want results.

All right, Captain.

We wait ten minutes.

Then we try again.

Did we hear you right, sir?

We're going up again?

They got them both sides of us. They want it closed.

They want the road so we can advance all along the line.

Lieutenant, we're one lousy half-strength platoon here. What do they

expect from us?

The hills, the bunkers, the road.

Well, are they crazy?

If we can't do that, it wouldn't be one man come off that hill.

Those are the orders.

Well, orders.

It's easy to give orders. It's easy to send men out to die. That's been going

on here all day long. Hurry.

Let him go.

Look, we've tried. Now we've done the best that we can do.

You sit here and you tell us to go up on that hill. And we go up there and we get

clobbered. Don't you understand? You can get clobbered so much and then you've

just had it, Lieutenant.

And believe me, we've had it. We're not going up there anymore.

Are you through, Kirby?

Lieutenant, you can't do it anymore.

I said, are you through?

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir, I'm through.

You've had it rough.

And now that you've told me all about it, get ready to do your job.

He was just selling off, that's all.

What does he know?

I'd rather go up that hill a dozen times than stay down here and pick other men

to go.

What do they want from me?

All the brass has to do is send the word down and...

They expect us to go out there again.

They sit with their maps and their lines.

I forget they're talking about flesh and blood.

Men die when a bullet hits them.

You know any casualties we have?

How many dead?

and I brought them in here today.

Lying out there.

On that lousy, stinking hill.

Are you through as a tenant?

I asked you if you were through.

You had it rough.

And now that you've told me all about it, you better...

You better get ready to do your job.

You looking for a miracle?

I'll settle for one.

I can see myself lying up on that hill.

Like I'm backed off, just looking at my own body lying

there.

If it's one time too many, that's all.

What odds does Einstein give you?

Doesn't even matter.

The crowd up there right now is carving a notch on this gun butt.

If I go up there again, I'm going to get it.

I feel it.

We're going up the middle.

Zero it in on our flank movements.

Keep low and don't punch up.

Lay down all the fire you can.

Take the best cover you can get.

All right, stand by.

for me. Some guarantees you're gonna make it?

There aren't any!

There's still two bunkers of Germans up there.

They're gonna keep us off those hills if they can.

They've done a pretty good job of it, Lieutenant.

We're gonna leapfrog.

In twos and threes.

First you with two men, Kirby.

Kleinschmidt and Einstein.

Next, Page.

Alone.

Then Little John with Miller.

The rest are on me.

Get ready to move out.

One time too many.

Maybe he has a plan.

Some plan.

We'll write it on your tombstone.

Stand by.

A tank!

A TANK!

glad to see you.

Yeah, everybody's glad to see me.

What's your problem? The bunkers?

Two of them.

All they've shown us is a machine gun.

Well, we'll show them something else. Give me infantry cover.

You got it.

Okay, see you on top of the hill.

Right.

Einstein! Hinesmith!

How are you looking?

Einstein, what about those odds? Are they getting any better?

Looking better, Kirby.

Looking better.

What's going on?

TC, the driver. Forward up the road.

gunner. Load AP.

Bazooka!

Lieutenant, Captain's on.

Hanley, Captain, we lost the tank.

What do you mean you lost the tank?

They had a rocket launcher. We couldn't stop them.

They had time for one shot, but it's all they needed.

We got the left bucket, but we're right back where we started.

Well, nothing's changed, Hanley. You still got to take that hill.

The 81s are available.

You want them?

Han, are you there?

Yes, sir. I'm here.

I asked you if you wanted the 81s.

Yes, sir. I'll take the 81s.

Captain, in exactly 10 minutes, have those fools lay down all the smoke they

can on the right bunker.

Yes.

Out.

We're going again.

The reason they've been clobbering us is because they had a perfect field of

fire.

Well, they don't anymore.

The tank's in the way.

And we knocked out one of the bunkers.

If a rocket launcher can hit the tank from a bunker, a bazooka can hit the

bunker from the tank.

We've got the 81 millimeters now. They're going to lay down a smoke screen

for us.

Kirby.

You're the best bazooka man we've got.

Pick yourself a loader.

Get up to that tank. Knock out that bunker.

We'll have to move fast before the wind dissipates the smoker.

We, Lieutenant?

We, Kirby.

First you.

If you don't make it, somebody else.

And if he doesn't make it, somebody else.

We, Kirby.

Stein, you can load for me.

Check those rockets out, will you?

You've got talent, Kirby.

You know, I always knew that that keen eye of yours would get you somewhere.

Yeah, about six feet under.

Long, long after we won this war, those crowds will still be up there, holding

that hill like it was an independent sovereign state or something.

The lieutenant sure keeps trying.

He sure does.

If we don't make it this time, we've had it.

You know, that's the one note tune you're playing, Kirby.

I've only got one life, my friend.

We really going up there again?

Yeah, one more time.

Yes.

If I go back up there again, I'm going to get hit. You too?

I can tell. I can feel it.

What you're feeling is that lousy breakfast you had this morning. Now snap

out of it. This war's just gotten started.

Wait a minute.

Don't come around here with all the mods and books and everything.

I don't even want to know about it anymore.

Don't blame me.

I know them. I'm scared of death.

Hey, Kirby? Yeah?

I've been thinking you've been going up and down the hill like a yo-yo all day

long. You noticed that, huh?

Yeah.

What I was thinking was, I haven't really hardly done nothing.

So how about letting me take the bazooka out, okay?

Well, John, you couldn't hit a bunker with this bazooka if you was inside it,

and you know it.

Forget it. Lieutenant picked the right man for this job.

Got no more ideas.

That's all I've got.

Sounds good, Lieutenant.

It might work.

You know, if we get enough smoke, we may have a chance.

If a wind comes up anymore, let's just blow it all away.

That's a happy thought.

I got a million of them.

Oh, come on. Where's the smoke?

It'll come.

The American Army has the finest logistical support in the world.

I read that in a soldier's handbook.

I hope that book told you how you're going to get out of this alive.

Well, anyway, good luck, Kirby.

No, I can't lose.

Big Moose here wishes me good luck.

Now remember, way to let smoke lays in real good.

You're going to need all the cover you can get.

Don't worry, Lieutenant.

I'll put on an exhibition of taking cover like you never saw before.

The bunker.

Just get it.

We'll do what we can.

That's not good enough, Kirby.

Get it.

Where will we get it?

I've never taken up mathematics.

I just don't know.

Don't worry, you two. You're getting smoked.

Okay, Jim. If you see smoke, stop a bullet.

I'll get him.

Let's go.

Let's go.

Let's go get up there. Stay there.

I'll get you.

Feinschmidt is your loader.

Aye, Feinschmidt.

Let's get some exercise.

Next time, next time.

Yes, sir.

I understand.

Out.

Get Doc and the wounded out on the road.

No more lousy bunkers.

You guys okay?

Yeah. Hey, we did it!

You're joking.

Huh, Lieutenant?

No, Carby.

The Germans counterattacked on our right. They broke through.

We're pulling back to our original position.

What about that road?

They ruined that road!

We got it!

Yeah, it's all ours.

And the bunkers.

We knocked them out, Lieutenant.

Come on down.

All of you!

No!

We took the till!

This man here, I don't even know his name!

He can't come down!

Einstein can't come down!

And Morgan, he can't either!

We... Hey, come down, Lieutenant!

We took this hill!

Come down!

Lieutenant, we took this hill!

Come down!

All right.

Remember that hill.

Every ditch and every dip in the ground.

And make them in handy the next time.