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Normandy, 1944,breakthrough.

For tank commanders there was no real front line. They met the enemy where he could be found.

A few weeks after D-day, US intelligence discovered that a panzer tank column had been redirected during the night to take positions near Phalay.

Our forces were ordered to engage them. The trap was set.

Once the enemy was engaged, individual initiative took over. The front was fluid.

Small infantry tank teams drove ahead, often to find the enemy had closed ranks behind them.

Tank detachments found themselves cut off from command. Spearhead tanks pushed on, even though cut off.

Infantry units met up with them and together they pushed on, attacking as they went.

Supplies ran short or disappeared entirely. Tanks were low on fuel. They fought on.

Alright. Take ten, off the road.

Take ten!

Wiggins. Gonna give that pup an American name, or a French name.

Gonna call him Harry.

Why not?

Those tanks got out behind us about here. Lost a battalion here.

We angled north, at least, more or less.

This road isn't even on the..map.

At the rate we have been traveling, I'd say, this is our position.

What's your guess.

I'll buy yours, Lieutenant.

Thanks for the vote of confidence.

Now this town, Gabray, right off the main road, just beyond the edge of the woods.

We'll be sitting ducks, if we move out in the open while it's still daylight.

I'm open for opinions Sergeant. What's yours.

I figure we have about an hour and a half.

Before what?

We know what's back there, coming our way.

Tanks.

When they catch up to us, we'll be sitting ducks.

Agree.

(singing) Baa, baa, baa.

We're little black sheep, who have gone astray, baa, baa, baa.

Greene. Yes Sarge.

Knock it off.

Oh you mean this morning. You lose.

Yeah,We only..can't tell who's around. Just keep your eyes open.

We'll get plenty of sack time when we reach our objective.

Objective? What objective? Name one.

Oh, Paris?

Paris is that way.

You alright.

Yeah, forget it. Can I get me a purple heart, alright. You see them, huh doc.

Easy.

Quiet pup. Its gonna be alright.

Lieutenant, I'll take half the men and try to flank them.

Right.

(a noisy vehicle is heard approaching)

A tank.

Hey, they ain't stopping.

Hey!

Hey!

Get off.

Ah now, wait a minute.

Now look Sergeant. You heard what I said. Get off.

Wait a minute. You just got us out of this mess and we, we appreciate it.

But the way I see it, and you just stop me if I'm wrong. It's all the same war.

Now we could use a ride.

I'm not running a bus line here, I'm low on fuel, and I got all the load I can carry.

If you wanna stick with me, you can walk.

Sergeant.

You in communication with your unit commander?

No Sir. Not any more Sir.

The captain was killed about 30 miles back. There was 7 Panzers and 3 of us.

She's all that's left.

Now what's your objective.

Stay alive.

Let the war catch up with me.

Sergeant, I know you're low on fuel. So are we.

Now we've come just as far as you have since last night only we did it on foot.

Now I know you'd like a bunch of padded feet along with you just as much as we'd like a ride on this tank.

Is that an order?

If you want to make it one, Sergeant.

Yes, Sir.

What's eating him.

I don't know.

What about, uh,

What about Wiggins, Lieutenant.

After division breaks out, we'll come back and get him.

Right, Lieutenant.

All right men, lets go. Hop on.

Looks like we got a ride.

Christy, Morello.

Get the tank covered.

Lieutenant.

I'd certainly appreciate it if you could spare a couple of guys to help us cover up this tank.

Sure.

Doc and Kelly.

Thank you Sir. Sergeant. Yes sir.

That's the second time today you saved our necks.

Don't mention it Sir.

Thanks.

What now?

Fuel.

This tank uses 4 gallons to the mile, and we've still got a long way to go.

Alright.

House to house. Watch out for booby traps.

Yeah. I better go tell the Lieutenant about this.

Tell him what?

That there were people here just a little while ago.

They probably high tailed it to the woods when the hardware started pulling in. Wouldn't you Doc.

Wouldn't they come back when they saw Americans. Beats me.

I'm gonna go tell the lieutenant.

Lieutenant!

Lieutenant.

Lieutenant there's a fire burning in the fireplace back there and food cooking and the table's all set.

But there's nobody around. No-one.

Lieutenant.

Look. The tanker found something.

Hey Christy, Morello.

Get up here.

I'm going to fuel my vehicle and move out.

Unless the Lieutenant has some objection.

You're on your own Sergeant.

Thank you sir.

You may have some problems.

Whats that.

Empty! Empty! Empty!

Empty! Empty! Empty! Empty!

Lieutenant.

Doc.

The Lieutenant will handle this.

Father, we are friends.

Americans.

No parlez francais.

You parlez Anglais.

Ameri...cans.

You,...Americans.

Yes, Americans.

The Enemy.

gone.

Everybody

gone.

Nothing here.

Go.

Please.

Go.

When did the enemy leave Father.

How many were there.

Which way did they go.

Father? Where are the rest of your people?

Deparche.

Gone.

Everybody.

gone.

Go... Please... Go

Go... Please... Go

Go... Please... Go

He's just saying words someone told him to say.

He knows where they are.

Sergeant!

Come on, Doc Help me get him out of here.

(radio) King two this is Black Rook, over.

Come on, eat kid.

It's good. Come on now, eat something.

Have some soup, thats good soup.

Now how you gonna be strong, huh.

Strong like me. Look. Look at me. Strong like Tarzan. You know who Tarzan is, huh.

Funny, huh.

That's a funny.

Don't eat.

Anything?

It's quiet. Just quiet.

Doesn't make much sense

Hey, how you doing shorty.

What you been feeding that kid?

I don't understand it.

Why did they pull out so soon.

Ideal location. Complete command of the road.

For all I know a big push could go right through here.

How's the Padre.

Doc's with him.

See anything of our friend.

Oh. He's out there walking around. All alone.

In more ways than one.

Sounds philosophical.

But Sergeant Dane is not your problem. He's not mine. He's nobody's but his own.

How is he?

I wish I knew enough to be sure sir.

He just keeps mumbling and tossing.

Any English.

Somebody must have told him what to say..

Must have.

Father.

Can you hear me?

I'm a friend, an American officer.

We want to help you Father. But we need your help.

Pas anglais.

Pas anglais.

No English.

Chopped eggs, and bacon.

Chopped bacon with eggs.

Here we are.

Coffee.

Two shakes we'll have us a hot cup.

And you are clever, Morello.

My own invention.

I may patent it for the next war.

There ain't gonna be another war.

There is if they keep making us eat k-rations.

You boys having a picnic or something.

Or do you just want everybody within 10 miles to know that we're here.

Ah sarge.

Now put that out. Put that out right now.

Why don't you go into one of those empty houses.

Cause we can't.

We got orders to stay with the wagon.

Oh, whatever Sergeant Dane says, you do. Right.

Something wrong with that sarge.

No, there's nothing wrong with following orders.

What's his problem?

What's whose problem.

We got no problems.

Whats with Sergeant Dane?

So whats to tell.

So with the lousy war, so some guys blow their corks.

Is that why the both of you want him to drop dead.

We didn't say anything like that.

No, you didn't say it.

When the Panzers hit us, he kept pushing, right.

After the captain got it he was on his own. He could have sold out..

Yeah, but he didn't.

He went right at em and through them.

Whatever else you say about him, he's a soldier. You gotta give him that much.

Alright. he's a one man war.

Now come on, what's his problem?

Well.

Off the record.

He's kind of a mixed up character.

Ah, go on, tell him.

He's a, a spoiled priest.

A what?

He studied for 6 whole years worked like a dog.

Then they threw him out.

Why'd they throw him out? What happened?

I don't know.

He even had his, his robe, and a collar on, you know, and all the rest of the uniform.

Everybody in our outfit knows.

Ragged him all the time, every minute.

So now he raggs you.

and everybody else.

You blame him?

How could a guy forget something like that.

Yeah, but him pushing us all the time ain't gonna last forever.

Someday we're all gonna be civilians again.

Ah, I see. Then you're gonna walk up to him in the middle of some street somewhere, huh.

Yeah, and I'll say Pop!

Here's for that little old Padre in France, I'll say.

Well Morello, when that happens you be sure to let me know. I want a ringside seat.

You really hate him, don't you.

Yeah.

(Germans eavesdropping on allied radio messages)

(radio message)

I wouldn't go in there if I were you. You're off limits.

That's official, Sergeant.

Dane.

I was talking to Morello and Christy..

And they told me something.

Something that's keeping me from putting my hands on you and just throwing you right out in that street.

They told me that you were a

a spoiled priest.

Is that what they call me?

That's right.

That can explain a lot of things. Like you blowing that cross off that church.

Going after the padre the way you did.

And I can understand why a man is trying to get something out of his system.

But one war is enough to fight at one time.

Why don't you just forget about the one inside you until this one is over.

I don't need any advice from you Sergeant.

A lot of things that Christy and Morello didn't tell you.

You wanna talk about it.

No, I don't.

Well, you better, because we're gonna tangle if you keep doing what you're doing.

The week before I was to be ordained, I got into a fight.

It wasn't the first time I had trouble.

They were right.

I deserved everything that happened to me.

Sergeant.

Did you ever have anything you can't get away from. Something that you really wanted.

That you loved That you thought you couldn't be without.

But you didn't know it until it was too late.

Well, that's what happened to me. I wanted to be a priest more than anything in this life.

Anything.

I even thought of going back and asking them to forgive me.

And I think they would have.

Why didn't you?

Because of the war.

The war won't last forever.

Oh, won't it?

Do you think I could go back now and start all over?

A lot of us will.

Well it's not the same for me.

You know how many men I've killed?.

Do you know how many I've killed because I had to?

You think it's

easier for me because you're closer to God.

Whatever we do.

Whatever happens to us. We're gonna have to live with it.

And if we get out of here alive and get back home,

We're just gonna have to learn to live with it.

That's the way I figured.

That's not the way I figure.

Yeah, and you wanna know why? Because you've got no guts.

That's why you got yourself thrown out like you did.

Because way down deep inside you didn't think you were man enough.

And you wanna know something, Sergeant. You were right.

Can I go in now?

Why? What do you want to do in there.

You want to grab that Padre. Is that gonna make you feel better. Is it?

I want to go to confession.

What do you want, Sergeant?

He says he wants to confess.

You speak French?

No.

Not much.

Oh, Father.

Forgive me for what I have done to you, and your church.

Please, forgive me.

For what I have done to you.

(Latin)

(Latin)

(Latin)

(Latin)

(Latin)

(Latin)

Thought you said he couldn't speak French.

That's Latin.

They're talking like they were friends.

They are friends.

Come on. Let's leave them alone.

(Latin)

Oh lost sheep.

(French)

Oh lost shepherd.

Oh my God.

I am not worthy. That thou should enter under my roof.

Say but the word

and my soul shall be healed.

Herr Hoffman.

Ja.

(German)

(French)

(more French, cannon fire in distance.)

(sounds of cannon fire approaching.)

Sounds like the division's getting ready to break out.

Be too soon to suit me. I get lonely.

Sergeant, what do you make of Dane?

Seems he and the Padre learned their Latin from the same book.

Only the Sergeant didn't get to graduate.

Who told you that?

Morello and Christy.

I guess a man can carry a live bomb inside him just so long.

Who put it there?

Well, he did. But that doesn't make it any easier.

Being a tank Sergeant isn't the best way to

becoming a priest.

Meaning he doesn't think he can get there from here.

Lieutenant, he killed ten men today Maybe more.

And there was yesterday. And the day before.

As the guy keeps saying.

It's a stinking war.

Lieutenant. Lieutenant.

Yeah. It's the Padre. Lieutenant. Lieutenant.

Yeah. It's the Padre.

What's he saying?

Dans l'église. (in the church)

(French)

Ils sont dans l'église. (They are in the church)

Sortir de l'église. (Get out of the church)

The church.

Let's go.

Oh, mon dieux.

Atchung, Atchung.

(German)

(shouting in French.)

Subs by Jack T