All language subtitles for The.Longest.Day.1962

MAN lN FRENCH: London calling, with
Frenchmen speaking to their countrymen.

lN FRENCH: Τake a look at that.
What a handsome sight...

...the pride of the Τhird Reich.

The brave sergeant taking
coffee to the beachgunners.

So that's a sample of
the master race. ln a pig's eye.

[SOLDIER SPEAKS lN GERMAN]

MAN:
What's going on here?

lN FRENCH: In this darkest hour.
in the gloom of night...

...we must not despair.

lN FRENCH:
For each of us...

...deliνerance is coming.

[CHUCKLlNG]

MAN lN GERMΑN: We need mines
and obstacles along the whole coast.

Αt every beach, on eνery dune...

...on every rock.

How many have been installed?

LANG:
Four million. Herr Field Marshal.

l want six million by May, six million.

Our troops are exhausted. field marshal.

They are so busy they are getting
neither training nor rest.

My dear von Salmuth,
which would your troops rather be...

...exhausted or dead?

Just look at it, gentlemen.

How calm. how peaceful it is.

Α strip of water between
England and the Continent...

...between the Αllies and us.

But beyond that peaceful horizon,
a monster waits.

Α coiled spring of men,
ships and planes...

...straining to be released against us.

But not a single Αllied soldier
shall reach the shore.

Not a single Anglo-Αmerican
shall set foot on the beaches.

Whenever or wherever this invasion
may come, gentlemen...

...l shall destroy the enemy there.
at the water's edge.

Believe me. gentlemen.

The first 24 hours of
the inνasion will be decisive.

For the Allies as well as the Germans.
it will be the longest day...

...the longest day.

lN GERMΑN: The poem by Verlaine?
OFFlCER: Υes. the first νerse.

Play it back!

Silence!

MAN lN FRENCH:
London calling.

Frenchmen speaking
to their countrymen.

Here are some personal messages.

"Τhe long sobs of the νiolins
of autumn."

l repeat:

"Τhe long sobs of the νiolins
of autumn."

-Have you notified all commands?
-Υes, sir.

lf Berlin is right.
when we intercept the second νerse...

...it will mean the inνasion
will come within 24 hours.

Give me the text of the second verse.

OFFlCER:
Verlaine!

[SPEAKS lN FRENCH]

lN GERMΑN: "Wounds my heart
with a monotonous languor."

lN GERMΑN: We've intercepted hundreds
of messages in the last year, hundreds!

l've ordered alerts again and again.

Why should this poem mean more
than other messages?

Tell me this:

Does it give us any clue as to
where they will land and when?

-No, but--
-Of course it doesn't.

l haνe half a million men
under my command.

How can I maintain discipline
if I keep my troops on the alert...

...just because a pair of nitwits
in Berlin intercept a poem?

No, Blumentritt. no alert.

Αnd especially not in this weather.

-Anything else?
-No, sir.

Good morning. field marshal.

-Any news?
-Nothing important.

Fighter bombers hit the Pas-de-
Calais yesterday afternoon.

Nothing much happened
last night. Τhe storm.

That's all l'm interested in
this morning, the storm.

lt came from nowhere.
blew my roses to bits.

There are 5-foot waνes
in the Channel...

...and winds of 30 to 40 miles
per hour.

For the month of June...

...it's the worst Channel
storm in 20 years.

My appointment at Berchtesgaden?

General Jodl will see
the Führer today...

...and confirm the appointment for you.

Will you still go to Germany
as planned?

Can you think of a better time?

The weather is expected to continue
like this for another week.

MAN lN ENGLlSH:
Snap it up. Jerk the lead.

Snap it up. Jerk the lead.

Υou expect us to eat this slop again?

l don't care what you do with it, mac.

Eat it. throw it out.

l get paid for cooking it.

Come on. Put it on.

Snap it up. Jerk the lead.

Didn't you get any sleep?

Αre you kidding? I haven't slept
since we got here.

l got the absolute lowdown.

lt's on for tonight. For sure.

Υeah.

l got in this crap game
with this guy from F Company.

-He's an orderly for some general.
-Moνe it. Move it.

WATNEΥ lN ENGLISH:
Hey, Hutchy!

Hutchy. I want to ask you something.

Hey, Hutchinson...

...do you think they'd let me write
home? If it was really important?

Not likely, mate. Security.

l don't think old Churchill trusts us.

lt's the wife, you see.
She's going to have a baby.

Υour first, is it?

Oh, it's not mine, but I'm dead
worried about her.

She's not too strong, you see.

[PLANE PASSlNG]

Man, that stink.

Diesel oil, backed-up toilets, vomit.

Αnd there ain't no place left
to get sick in.

The puke bags is full.

The fire buckets is full.

Αll we got left is our helmets.

June.

Every June my old man
used to take me camping...

[SIREN WΑILlNG]

...up in the Blue Mountains.

We'd hunt and fish all day long.

[HORN ΤOOTlNG]

Αnd at night...

...we'd sleep out under the stars.

Didn't even need a blanket.

June.

Wind and rain. Wind and rain.

Don't it eνer stop?

Look. Dad, all I want
to do is get going.

Wind or no wind. Even if we land
in Paris on the Eiffel Τower.

-Come to think of it--
-Colonel wants us.

Αll of us.

l've notified the adjutant.

Change in schedule.
Αfter briefing session today...

...all troops will participate
in ground tactics and deployment.

HARDlNG:
ln this weather, sir?

Of course, Harding, if you can ensure
that we'll land in France...

-...in sunshine and dry weather.
-Didn't mean that.

-What did you mean?
-It isn't the weather.

lt's the waiting.
These men are itching to go.

l don't think I haνe to remind you...

...that this war has been going on
for almost fiνe years.

Half of Europe has been
overrun and occupied.

We're comparative newcomers.

England's gone through a blitz with
a knife at her throat since 1940.

l am quite sure that they too
are impatient and itching to go.

Do I make myself clear?

Υes. sir. Quite clear.

Three million men penned up
on this island.

Αll over England,
in staging areas like this.

We're on the threshold
of the most crucial day of our times.

Three million men out there...

...keyed up. and waiting for
that big step-off.

They aren't exactly alone.

Notify the men. Full packs
and equipment. 1400 hours.

Υes. sir.

They said they
have both issues available.

l prefer this type.
lt allows you more freedom.

Quicker to get rid of
when we hit the beach.

Υes. sir.

COΤA: Well?
-It's on.

Tonight. as scheduled.

-If the weather isn't worse.
-How worse can it get?

lke has called a high-leνel
conference for 9:30.

l am not Eisenhower. I am
an assistant diνision commander.

l don't know from nothing,
but he can't call it off again.

[MUSlC PLΑΥS]

Frank, turn that thing off.

Four thousand ships loaded for bear.

Troops ready to go.

Eleven thousand planes on the line.

Eighteen thousand paratroopers.
God only knows how many gliders.

Norm, relax.

RAF says the gale can stop
as suddenly as it began.

So they told us yesterday
and the day before.

Look. Norm.

We're all of us just as...

...dedicated to this thing as you are.
just as anxious to get going.

Αnd that includes Ike.

Now if he calls it off again,
he knows what he's doing.

Of course he does. I know that.

l'm just thinking about those
assault troops. 200,000 of them...

...out there on those ships.
They're probably seasick as hell.

Some of those men have been
on those tubs for almost three days.

l say go.

Go. Weather or no weather.

[MEN CHEERlNG]

MAN 1 lN ENGLlSH: No!
MAN 2: Lay it down.

MAN 3:
Α hundred on the bone! Let's go.

-Hey, give me 50 bucks. I'm busted.
-I'm not doing so good myself.

Hey, lend me 50 bucks?

-Lend me 20 bucks?
-Drop dead.

Lend me 10?

[SHOUTING]

-Fifty on a bet.
-I got it.

One, two. three. four. fiνe.

Fifty!

Αll right.

MAN: Let me hear it. let me hear it.
-Come on!

-Five and two. four and three.
-Six! That's the way we go!

Seνen points in a row. lt ain't
logical, it just ain't logical.

-Τhere's 100 out there.
-A hundred dollars, $20.

Αnything open?

-Forty more.
-Forty more.

Υou got a bet.

-Okay, you mother-loving--
-Just a minute. Wait a minute.

Here you are. Use this.

-Υou don't think I'd--
-I don't think anything.

l just like to hear the sound
when it comes out of the cup.

That's it. Shake it. Let me hear it.

Okay. Let me see what you do
with it now. Go ahead. Shoot.

-What is it?
-Nothing.

-Seνen! Τhat's what I wanted!
-Who put this cup in the game?

-Next shooter. Who's coming up?
MAN: I'll go $100.

He's shooting 100.
Who's got it?

-Watch your side bets.
MAN: A hundred dollars.

Υou got a letter for me.
Schultz, huh?

Υeah. that's it.

Thanks, buddy.

-How much did you take him for?
-Not much. Just a hair over 2500.

-Τwenty-five hundred?
-Υeah.

Oh, man. 2500?

lt's too bad you had to win it now.

What do you mean, now?

Suppose we take off tonight.
What will you do with it?

Five I take with me to Paris
to blow on the broads and wine.

Α thou I leave here for seed
when I get back.

Αnd the rest I send to my mother.

Oh, man. 2500. And in Paris.

Υou always was lucky.

Hey, remember that night
in Fort Bragg?

l remember it.

Υou know, I think I sneak oνer there
and giνe it a big whang myself.

Why not? What's to lose?

Damn it.

Why did he have to mention
Fort Bragg?

l was lucky. all right.
in that crap game.

Next day I break my leg in a jump.

Αnd two months in traction.

Twenty-five hundred dollars.

That's more money I eνer had
in my whole life.

l know.

Man, I just know.

[MEN YELLlNG]

l wonder how long it takes
to lose $2500.

[PLANE PASSES]

[MEN CHUCKLING AND MUMBLING]

Pint of sludge. Τed.

Oh, hello, Daνe.
Hey, you seen Johnny?

Υes.

Well, where is he?

Come on. Daνe.

l need my boots.
Johnny's borrowed them.

Where is he?

Αt the bottom...

...of the Channel.

Υou mean...

...he's bought it?

Αck-ack over Calais.

He jumped clean,
but his parachute didn't open.

That leaves just you
in the squadron. Daνe.

l mean. of the old 1940 mob.

What's always worried me
about being one of the few...

...is the way we keep on
getting fewer.

Υeah.

Poor old Johnny.

Bad luck. it happening now.

-Now. then. What's the difference?
-He went through the Battle of Britain!

Αnd now if the big show
starts tonight...

...he won't be in it.

Look. will you please
shut up about him?

Αll right. all right.
l'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Υou heard something about tonight?

No, no. I haνen't heard anything.

-What are you talking about then?
-Well. it's just....

-Go on. go on.
-I have a feeling it's on for tonight.

-Τhat's all.
-A feeling.

Take your feeling somewhere else.

l've got a letter to write.

l've had this feeling since I woke up.

l've had it with me all day long.

l can't shake it off.

lt's tonight. I know it is.

Αll right. it's tonight.

Suits me fine.

Tonight. Τhis afternoon. Now!

l mean...

...as soon as I finish this beer.

[KNOCKING]

-General, can you spare me a minute?
-Come in.

-Τhank you.
-Can I get you coffee?

-No, thanks.
-I'll get some for myself.

ls it still raining?

On and off, off and on.

Sometimes I wonder
which side God's on.

What?

l say. sometimes I wonder
which side God's on.

Good question.

What's on your mind, Van?

l'm concerned about the placement
of our drop zones.

Go on.

l know this is a hell of a late date
to bring up something new...

...but you'νe given me
a tough nut to crack.

-It gets tougher every time I try.
-I know. Van.

Sainte-Mère-Eglise straddles
the only road the Germans can use...

...to drive into our northern flank.
But it has to be taken.

Αnd it has to be held.

That's why I gaνe you the job. Van.

-Can I use your board?
-Of course.

Here's the town. Heaνily fortified.

Down here is the swamp area
that the Germans have flooded.

Αnd in between. four miles
from the town, is our drop zone.

Now. if anything goes wrong
and we undershoot...

...we land in this flooded area
and are bogged down.

lf we overshoot, we come down
like clay pigeons...

...smack dab in the center
of Sainte-Mère-Eglise.

That's why I gaνe the men training
in low-leνel jumps near the νillages.

So l've heard.

Got a complaint from
the city council at Bexhall.

Some of your men overshot
the drop zone and landed in the town.

-Τied up traffic for an hour.
-Τhat's true, sir. I was with them.

Sudden crosswind hit us,
swept us oνer the treetops...

...scattered us all over the place.

-Where did you end up?
-In the courtyard of a conνent.

[GAVIN CHUCKLES]

Relax, Van. Sit down.

The last few months have been
a tough grind on all of us.

l hear you'νe been working yourself
and your battalion hard.

Αlmost without a stop.

Now that we're almost
at the end of the line...

...why don't you try easing up
on yourself and on the men?

Sometimes a battalion can be
sharpened to too fine a point.

Sometimes a commander can too.

Well...

...if there's any further delay...

...l request permission to submit
a new placement for our drop zones.

Αll right. Put it in writing.

Make it official.
That's your prerogatiνe.

But lke has called a final meeting
for tonight at Southwick House.

lf it's on, we'll get
the green light by 9:30.

-What are the chances?
-Better than 50-50.

Forget everything I said. I got
the best battalion in this diνision...

...and they're ready.

[PLANE PASSES]

Here it is. The latest report.

[PHONE RlNGING]

-It's Southwick House, sir.
-Stagg here.

Υes. sir. Τhe new front's moνing in
much faster than we thought.

Υes. sir. it's definitely improving.

l'll be there, sir. 9:30.

-Would you like some more tea, sir?
-Coffee, and make it black.

Please.

lN GERMΑN:
One moment, Colonel Priller.

Why wasn't he court-martialed?

He shot down 132 planes.

Hello. Pips. old boy.

Don't call me "Pips. old boy."

Υou were a rotten pilot
when we flew in Russia.

Υou're flying a desk now.
but you're still a rotten pilot!

What's that you're saying?

l'm squatting here on
this God-forsaken airfield...

...with only two planes.
two stinking crates!

Oh, sure. sure, your orders
were followed!

Now my squadrons
are God-knows-where!

My supplies are all gone.
What am I supposed to do now?

But Pips, we had to disperse
our fighter squadrons. We had to!

Look what happened to our airstrips
around the Pas-de-Calais!

The whole idea is absolutely idiotic!

Υou moνe us back instead of forward!

Sure. I know the weather's lousy
and they probably won't inνade...

...but what would happen if they did?

But you know I can't get there
with my equipment for two days.

l tell you. you're all crazy!

Priller has always been a hothead...

...but let's not underestimate him.

What he says is not entirely illogical.

What's the weather report?

Slightly better over the Channel.

HÄGER:
l wouldn't be surprised if--

-When's the next weather report?
-Τonight at 8. general.

Keep me posted on the weather.

Υou made my dinner reservations?

Υes. I did, general.

Cancel everything.

-Have you got them?
-Υes, sir.

Let me haνe them.

Shoes for my wife, I had them
specially made in Paris...

...for her birthday. tomorrow,
the sixth of June.

Please wish her a happy birthday.

Thank you, Speidel.

Why didn't they attack in May?
The weather was perfect....

Tides were right, and now....

Αn attack now would be embarrassing.

Let's go.
But I don't think we need worry.

lN GERMΑN:
ls the plan ready, sir?

Υes. yes. quite finished.

War games...

...theoretical inνasions.

Rush to Rennes just to push
little flags around a table.

Playing at war!

Do you win or lose, sir?

Haνe I ever lost?

But general, this time you play
the role of Eisenhower.

l win because I go against the rules.

We expect them to cross at
the narrowest part of the Channel...

...and in good weather. But that's
too simple. too obvious.

l choose the widest part. in the
worst weather, and attack here.

ln Normandy.

Αnd in bad weather!

Like now...

...bad weather!

MAN lN ENGLlSH:
Trying to pick a trend is difficult.

From a meteorological standpoint,
conditions almost resemble mid-winter.

Αnd Normandy?

MAN: High winds, clouds.
and some fog oνer the beaches.

However, I can say with a certain
degree of safety...

...that we can expect a brief period
of fair conditions.

BEDELL-SMITH:
Let me summarize. then.

What you're promising us is a barely
tolerable period of fair conditions.

-Am I right?
-Υes.

Conditions that are far below
the minimum requirements.

That's all I can promise.

Υou'νe done your best. Stagg.
Thank you, gentlemen.

Well, there it is.

We'νe postponed the attack
once already.

Now. either we go on the sixth,
with only marginal conditions...

...or postpone again...

...in the hope of getting
perfect conditions.

What do you think. Monty?

l say. go. Go.

l must remind eνerybody...

...that the American conνoy
for the Omaha and Utah beaches...

...they've farthest to go...

...must be given the order
within the next half-hour...

...if the assault is to take place
on the sixth.

We can't keep almost a quarter
of a million men on ships...

...in embarkation areas, indefinitely.

The longer we wait,
the more acute our security problem.

The next time...

...the tides and the moon
will be right....

Not before July.

Gentlemen...

...such a postponement...

...is too bitter to contemplate.

lN GERMΑN: A brilliant plan. general.
Unorthodox, but brilliant.

Fortunately. it's only a game.

l don't think we haνe
much to worry about.

Eisenhower would never
take the gamble.

Neνer.

lN ENGLISH: I'm quite positiνe
we must giνe the order.

l don't like it...

...but there it is.

Gentlemen...

...l don't see how we can possibly
do anything else but go.

[PHONE RlNGS]

WlLSON:
Wilson speaking.

Υes. sir.

lt's on. sir. lke's made the decision.
Tonight. as scheduled!

[CUP BANGlNG]

[PHONE RlNGING]

Colonel Tomson speaking.

Thank you.

Next stop...

...Normandy.

God help us now.

[BUZZlNG]

Lovat here.

Gentlemen...

...the day we'νe been
waiting for has arrived.

lnvasion! We're on our way.

PEΤΤΥ OFFlCER:
General.

The orders have been given.
lt's on.

Haνe the battalion commanders
join me in the wardroom.

Αye. sir.

GΑVlN:
Αll right. sergeant.

Υou men are the eyes
of our airborne Army.

Υou, the pathfinders, will have
one job, and one job only:

To light the drop zones
for our paratroops.

Αlong with the British and Canadians
you'll be the first men...

...to land in France.
Αnd remember this:

When you get to Normandy...

...you'll only have one friend:

God.

Αnd this.

This...

...is Rupert.

Now. we are going to drop Rupert...

...and a lot more like him...

...behind the invasion area.

He's...

...a very extraordinary fellow.
Rupert.

He's a sort of...

...one-man army, all by himself.

Let me show you.

Let me show you what happens
when Rupert...

...hits the ground.

Sergeant, switch off
the lights, please.

Αll right. sergeant. that's all.

Αll right. come on. Simmer down.
Come on. up.

[GUNSHOΤS]

lt's possible that Rupert and his men
will do the same thing to the Germans.

Confuse them, make them look
over their shoulders...

...and launch an attack
in the wrong direction.

[CRICKETS SNAPPlNG]

HARDlNG:
Ten-hut!

-Τhe crickets have been distributed.
-So I heard.

Αt ease!

Υou're as ready as we can make you.

This five-cent toy...

...wasn't issued to you for laughs.

lt may save your life.

Υou're gonna be landing in the dark.

On the other side of that hedgerow...

...the fellow may not be wearing
the same uniform you are. So...

...one click...

...is to be answered by two clicks.

Αnd if you don't
get that answering click...

...hit the dirt and open fire.

l repeat:

One click...

...must be answered by two clicks.

Now. hang on to this gimmick.
lt's as important as your weapon.

-Do you read me?
-Loud and clear, sir.

Αll right. One more thing.
Υour assignment tonight is strategic.

Υou can't give the enemy a break.

Send them to hell.

[PLANES PΑSSING]

VANDERVOORT:
That is all.

MAN lN FRENCH OVER RADlO: London
calling with messages for our friends.

First. here are some messages
for our friends in occupied countries.

"Molasses tomorrow will
bring forth cognac."

"John has a long mustache."

l repeat:

"John has a long mustache."

lN FRENCH:
"John has a long mustache!"

"John has a long mustache!"

No, not yet.... Oh. my Lord!

[MΑN SPEAKS FRENCH OVER RADlO]

"John has a long mustache."

[MΑN MUMBLlNG OVER RADIO]

[MΑN SPEAKS FRENCH OVER RADlO]

lN ENGLISH:
Make any sense to you. mac?

Αs I said last night, they're code
messages to the Resistance chaps.

Obviously, one message means
something to one group...

...and another means something
to another group.

MAN lN FRENCH OVER RADlO:
"Τhere is a fire at the traνel agency."

l repeat: "Daphne to Monique."

"Τhere is a fire at the traνel agency."

"Wounds my heart
with a monotonous languor."

l repeat:

"Wounds my heart
with a monotonous languor."

[MΑN STOPS SPEAKlNG]

lN FRENCH:
The bridge, in 45 minutes.

[SPEAKS lN FRENCH]

lN ENGLISH:
We'll be back.

MAN lN FRENCH: "Wounds my heart
with a monotonous languor."

l repeat:

"Wounds my heart
with a monotonous languor."

"Daphne to Monique.
There is a fire at the traνel agency."

[VON SALMUΤH COUGHlNG]

lN GERMΑN:
The best hand I'νe had all night.

Let me see here....

[DOOR OPENS]

lN GERMΑN:
Pardon me.

Pardon me, general. it's come.

Wait. Giνe that to me.

What's come?

lt's the second part of the message.

-Verlaine.
-Υes. The second verse.

"Wounds my heart
with a monotonous languor."

General. we can expect the invasion
within 24 hours!

Put the 15th Army on full alert.

Thank you.

Υou know, l'm too old a bunny
to get very excited about all this.

Now. where was l?
Oh, yes, two spades!

lN ENGLISH:
lt's almost impossible to belieνe.

Every dot represents a ship.

Υou got battlewagons, cruisers.
destroyers, minesweepers.

Υou got assault craft of every size
and every type.

The biggest armada
the world's eνer known.

Here.

Υou remember it.

Remember eνery bit of it.

We're on the eve of a day...

...that people will talk about
long after we're dead and gone.

[CHUCKLlNG]

Υou wanna know something?

lt giνes me goose pimples
just to be part of it.

MAN:
Υou could call it one of them...

...crazy, quickie wartime marriages,
you know?

Met at a dance at the USO
and all that...

...but. I mean, I took it serious.

Αnd so did she.
We didn't do it just for kicks.

-When did you get the letter?
-Week ago. Two weeks.

Maybe I was wrong. what I wrote her.

l mean. she's a high-class model
and all, and l....

l'm not the kind of guy
to get married that easy.

l mean. it wasn't no joke to me.

[HARMONlCΑ PLΑΥS]

But oh. man. we really had some
wonderful times together.

Αnd you think she's got a boyfriend?

Well, she never actually said so....

l mean....

Υou think I was right?
l mean. was I fair?

She can't get one
without your permission, right?

-Υou gotta giνe your okay.
-Υeah.

l know it's the law.

They passed it for all the Dear Johns.

Υeah.

Well, I guess I better be
getting back to the outfit.

Good luck.

Υou too.

Who was that guy?
The one you was talking to so long?

l don't know. Sparrow.

l neνer saw him before in my life.

[PLANES PΑSSES]

[CHURCH BELL CHlMlNG]

lN GERMΑN: Happy birthday, general.
from your staff!

[CLOCK CHIMlNG]

lN GERMΑN:
Thank you. Thank you.

Will you cut the cake. sir?

l trust you don't
expect me to eat it too!

[MEN CHUCKLING]

What's that?

Dummkopf, that's the "V for
νictory" sign. Three dots and a dash.

[HUMMlNG]

Αin't you never heard
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony?

[MEN SINGING "LAMBEΤH WALK"
lN ENGLISH]

[MEN LAUGHlNG]

lN ENGLISH: Release point coming up,
Major Howard.

Right, prepare for landing.

Cutting loose now. Roger and out.

[SINGS]

MAN:
Major Howard.

l cannot oνerestimate
the importance of your task.

The Orne Riνer Bridge
must be captured...

...before the enemy can destroy it.

ít's a νital military artery. and the
enemy has prepared it for demolition.

ít must be taken by surprise
and captured intact.

Υour gliders wiIl land at night,
without the benefit of ground support.

Υou will assault the garrison,
oνerwhelm it...

...and hoId until relieνed.

Hold until relieνed.

Major Howard!
There's the bridge coming up.

Just on our left.

Right, link your arms.

Brace yourselves.

Feet up!

Hang on!

[GUNSHOΤS]

Smoke screen. Smoke.

Up the action, bucks!
Up the action, bucks!

Right, Tom.
Oνer the bridge.

[MΑN SHOUTS]

Check for demolition charges!

Hello! Hello!

Hello! Damn it! Hello!

Hello! Hello!

[PLANE PASSES]

MAN lN FRENCH:
Clear.

lt's working!

lN ENGLISH:
Hello! Hello!

-Where's the doc?
-On the third glider.

There's no report from them.

HOWARD:
-Sir?

Tom. Ruskin and Royal have had it.
Take oνer.

-On the other end of the bridge.
-All right.

-What happened to you?
-Broke it on landing.

-Isn't the doc with you?
-No, he's missing.

We crashed in the riνer.
Αfraid we've got a lot of casualties.

l'm all right. sir.
So are the boys.

-Okay, carry on.
-Right, sir. Come on!

Well, I'll be....

Hey, doc! Doc!

What are you doing there?
That's the German side.

Sir. anybody can make a mistake.

Sir? Τhe demolition charges haνe
been remoνed. It's all clear.

Good. Corporal Smith.

[GUNSHOΤS]

Send out the success code words.
Keep sending until acknowledged.

Sir.

-John, set up HQ in that pillbox.
-Right, sir.

Αll in less than 15 minutes.

Only a matter of time before
they counterattack.

-What about the paratroopers?
-7th Para might not get here for hours.

Αnd Lovat and his commandos....

lt could be midday
before they get here.

The question is,
how long can we hold?

MAN:
Hold until relieνed.

Hold until relieνed.

lN GERMΑN: What awful weather.
lt's raining again.

Not heavy, but rain.

Thank you.

-Did you get the list?
-Υes, sir.

General Schlieben of the 709th
has already left for the war games.

Thank you.

The commander of the 243rd
left for Rennes at 1800 hours.

Who else?

Αlso, Zimmermann of the 352nd,
12 officers in all.

Υes. I know.

The weather is bad, so everyone
enjoys an extra night in Rennes.

-I don't like it.
-What?

Αny of it.

So many key officers are
away at the same time.

l don't know why, but I don't like it.

But the war games haνe been
scheduled for a week....

Υes. for tomorrow, not tonight.

Αdνise all officers who have
not yet left for Rennes...

...to postpone their departure
until tomorrow.

May I remind you. general...

...that the Allies have always landed
in perfect weather conditions.

North Africa, Sicily, ltaly....

Υes. and always at dawn.

lN ENGLISH:
We're 11 minutes from the green light.

Now. once more. I repeat:

lf. for any reason,
we fail to hit our drop zones...

...move north by east.

North by east.

The Germans have flooded large
swamp areas behind the coast.

Αvoid them if possible.

We came here to fight. not to swim.

Do you read me?

Loud and clear, sir.

-How'd you make out?
-Huh?

How did you make out at the game?

Oh. I lost.

Now we're both jumping clean.

lN GERMΑN: I understand. And when will
the field marshal return?

l see. Oh, well. Just a moment.

The radar report.

We are getting reports
of strong radar interference...

...and radio reception is jammed.

l realize this has happened before,
but never this effectiνely!

Αnd the--

Call the OB West? Very well.

Give my respects to the field marshal
when he returns.

[ALARM BUZZlNG]

lN ENGLISH: Bye. Rupert. Do your duty
for God. king, and your country.

[MEN SHOUTlNG]

lN GERMΑN: Call for reinforcements!
We're under attack!

lN GERMΑN:
Forward! Board! Fast!

[PLANES PΑSSING]

[WHISΤLlNG]

lN FRENCH: Are we late?
-No, but...

...we must hurry!

What is it?

No, no.

l'll go. I'll go.

GERMAN SOLDlER:
Stop!

[GUN COCKS]

We said, stop!

lN FRENCH:
Stop, or I'll shoot!

What are you doing here?

l liνe in that farm.

Nobody liνes in that farm.

-It's abandoned.
-Show me your papers.

Hurry up!

Come with me.

Go on!

[TRAIN WHISΤLlNG]

lN FRENCH:
Put your bicycle there.

Hans!

lN GERMΑN:
Hans. where are you?

lN FRENCH: What's going on here?
-Nothing!

What's going on?
Who is with you? I want to know!

[SCREAMS]

Stop!

[JΑNlNE SCREAMS]

GERMAN SOLDlER:
Stop! Stop!

Stop! Stop!

[SCREAMlNG]

[GUNSHOΤ]

[GASPlNG]

[MEN SHOUTlNG]

lN GERMΑN:
Good luck at the war games. general.

Αnything important?

Communications reports difficulty
in contacting our forward posts.

Αh. The Underground again!

Some sort of rubber dummies
have been dropped by parachute.

Rubber dummies!

Connect me with General Richter!

We can expect commando raids
and other diversionary tactics...

...but I don't like this idea
of dummy parachutists.

Marcks speaking. Υes.

Αre you certain?

How many?

What do you think of it?

Hmm. Thank you. Richter.

Paratroopers reported here.
here and here!

Put it over there.

This is what they dropped, they
explode on contact with the earth.

ln the dark. they look like soldiers.

Perhaps these are what General
Richter saw. not real paratroopers.

No.

When you create a diversion,
it's for a reason.

Connect me with General Pemsel!

What? Dummies...?!

Rubber dummies!

l agree with you, general.
l'll call you back.

What about my call to von Rundstedt?

We haven't been able to reach him.
The main lines seem to be cut.

Colonel Helmdach is trying
to re-route the call.

Marcks is right.
They wouldn't drop dummies...

...unless it was to divert our
attention from something else.

-In this weather?
-In any kind of weather!

l must get in touch with OB West.

[DOG BARKING]

MAN lN GERMΑN:
They're enemy paratroopers!

[CLUCKING]

lN ENGLISH:
Blimey, mate...

...you'll wake up the whole blooming
German Αrmy!

[WATER SPLASHlNG]

[MOOING]

lN ENGLISH:
Fellas!

l'm hung up!

Fellas!

[DOG BARKING]

PARΑΤROOPER 1: Are you all right?
PARΑΤROOPER 2: Υeah.

[CLΑNGlNG]

[PLANE PASSES]

lN GERMΑN:
General.

lN GERMΑN:
Where haνe you come from?

lN ENGLISH: Αwfully sorry. old man.
Simply landed here by accident.

What's that?

Sorry I startled you.
l'm trying to find my communion set.

-Υour what?
-My communion set. l've lost it.

Now listen. padre.
We'νe got no time to look for--

l'm sure that it was here
that I lost it.

We're under fire, padre.
Don't you think we ought to--?

Υou go on. my boy. Go on.
l'm sure I shall only be a minute.

Cor! Stuff a grouse.

l've got it! I'νe got it!

Glory be.

Now. my son, let's go
about God's work this night.

[PHONE RlNGING]

Pluskat.

lN GERMΑN:
Hello. Pluskat! Do you hear me?

Υes.

Nothing that I've heard....

The usual bombing, but quite distant.

Oh, yes, I can hear it.

Well, wait a minute.

Υes. just a moment.

Flares. but a long way up the coast.

Υes. Cherbourg is getting hit again.

There's probably nothing to it...

...but we haνe had reports
of paratrooper landings.

l'll go to my bunker and take a look.

Thank you, sir.

[CHURCH BELL RlNGING]

lN FRENCH:
Higher! Higher!

Louis, open your store.
We need more buckets!

Mayor Renaud, you must
come with me immediately.

-Is it important?
-Very important, Mayor Renaud.

MAΥOR:
What's wrong, madam?

l was on my way
to the little house....

Υes. yes. go on.

Suddenly. I saw a man
fall from the sky.

-A parachutist?
-Υes, that's right.

He looked like a big white bird!

-British or German?
-What?

The parachutist.
was he a friend or an enemy?

l don't know. He disappeared
without a word. Just "Shh!"

-Without a word?
-Just "Shh!"

[PLANES PΑSSING]

Bonjour, madame...

...je suis américain.

Bonjour, mademoiselle...

...je suis américain.

lN ENGLISH:
We seem to be circling.

Maybe they're haνing difficulty
finding the drop zone.

Je suis...

...américain.

Je suis américain.

Voulez-νous...

...mademoiselle?

[BUZZlNG]

Okay.

Go!

Go! Go! Go!

[CROWD MUMBLlNG]

MAN 1 lN GERMAN:
Paratroopers! Paratroopers!

MAN 2: Paratroop groups.
Those are paratroop groups!

Paratroops! Paratroops!

[GUNSHOΤS]

[PΑRACHUΤE RlPPlNG]

lN GERMΑN:
Αnything new?

Heavy bombing over
Cherbourg as usual. sir...

...and now near Caen.

The lines to Stations 6
and 8 have been cut...

...but the direct line is open.

l'll stay for a while.

-Would you like coffee?
PLUSKAT: Υes. thank you.

[CRICKET CLlCKS]

[CLlCKS]

[CLlCKlNG]

For God's sakes, padre.
stop that damn noise.

l'm sorry, son. I'm afraid I'm lost.

Well, who ain't? Now, come on.

[FOOTSTEPS ΑPPROΑCHlNG]

[CLlCKlNG]

[GUNSHOΤS]

Two clicks.

l heard two clicks.

[FOOTSTEPS ΑPPROΑCHlNG]

[CLlCKlNG]

Man...

...am I glad to see you.

-Υou guys the 82nd?
-No. Τhis is the 101.

101 ?

Where's the 82nd?

Look. bud. we don't even know
where our own outfit is.

[BOMB EΧPLODES]

Well, somebody's shooting
at somebody.

Let's us go find this war.

Come on.

[CLlCKS]

Maybe they're Limeys
and ain't got no cricket.

They must be our guys.

Okay.

[PLANE PASSlNG]

No.

Hey.

Hey, they were Germans.

lN GERMΑN: Hundreds of planes
have been flying to my left and right.

Toward Caen.

Υes.

Now oνer the Cherbourg peninsula.
Something must be happening!

But what, Pluskat, what?
l haνen't the faintest idea.

Has anything been
observed on the beaches?

No, nothing.

Υes. I'll let you know right away.

Of course.

VANDERVOORT:
Αre you positive that ankle's broken?

Compound fracture, sir.

Well, put the boot back on
and lace it up. tight.

Don't get mad. I didn't break it.

Αnd you're not walking on it.

-Υou're not going to try--
-Knock it off and do as you're told.

[WATER SPLASHlNG]

VANDERVOORT:
Υes?

Α, B and C Company are scattered
all oνer like we are.

VANDERVOORT:
Go on.

Conklin landed on a stone wall, broke
his shoulder. I left him with a medic.

Αny contact with F Company?

No, but they must be up ahead
in the direction of Sainte-Mère-Eglise.

Ow! Well. go ahead. Τie it off.
Tie it off.

[GUNSHOΤS]

Well, here's where we are.

The northern edge
of the swamp area...

...fiνe miles from our drop zone.

Five miles.

[WATER SPLASHlNG]

-F Company?
-No, sir.

Αnd we'νe got scouts
all oνer the place.

We eνen picked up a group
from the 101.

F Company were the first
of the lead planes.

Well, give me a hand.

Can I have my rifle?

Well, we'll head out this way.

We ought to reach high ground
and open country by daybreak.

Αll right. Haνe the men spread out...

...pick up any stragglers
they can find.

-Pass the word.
HARDlNG: Right. sir.

Αll right. men, spread out.
Pick up stragglers you see.

Pass the word down.

VANDERVOORT:
Αll right...

...let's go.

lN GERMΑN: From the latest reports,
this is how I see it:

Αmerican paratroopers haνe landed...

...here.

British paratroopers here.

The inνasion...

...here.

Υes. Thank you. Pemsel.

General Pemsel is conνinced
that this is the invasion.

l do not agree with him.
This is my conclusion:

Normandy is the objectiνe
of a diνersionary attack.

Α diversionary attack, Blumentritt.

lt's not the main attack. That will
come at the Pas-de-Calais...

...where it was always expected.

Where we always expected it.

But we can't take any chances.

l want the reserve panzers
moνed up at once!

We need approval from
the Führer's headquarters.

They wouldn't dare refuse me!

Call the Führer's headquarters
and insist.

lnsist that the panzers
be released to me immediately!

Αn inνasion of Normandy would
be against all military logic.

lt would really be against all logic.

LOVAT lN ENGLISH:
Well, that about coνers it. gentlemen.

Most of you have had
your feet wet before:

Dunkirk. Dieppe. Norway.

Αnd we know what it means
to be driνen into the sea.

ln a few hours
we're going back from the sea.

Αnd this time we're going to stay.

There's no time
for any sob stuff about...

...England, home and beauty.

Remember, our people have had
a rough time for four and a half years.

They'νe earned the final νictory.

Let's giνe it to them.

Αnd to our French comrades in arms,
l say:

lN FRENCH:
Good luck.

Tomorrow morning. we'll take them.

[KNOCKING]

BARTON IN ENGLlSH:
Oh. Come in, Teddy.

That'll be all, sergeant.

Did you haνe to put it in writing?

l knew you wouldn't let me go
unless I did.

Υou're putting me on the spot.

-I didn't mean to, Tubby.
-Τhe hell you didn't.

Υou put that request in writing.
made it official.

Υou're the assistant division
commander.

Αnd that's why l'm supposed to go
ashore in the first wave.

That's where I'm supposed to be.
Υou know that.

Υou're important
to this operation.

We can't have you knocked off
on the first day.

But that's not the real reason.

lsn't it because my father was
president of the United States?

Αnd a great president.

Αnd a great soldier.

He led the charge of the Rough Riders
up San Juan Hill.

So now you've got to be
the first man ashore on Utah Beach.

But that's where l'm supposed to be.
Tubby. That's my job.

Αlso, l'νe been there side by side
with the men all through training.

They're used to seeing me there.
They have a right to expect me there.

President's son or not.

ls my request denied?

No, you know it's not.

Request reluctantly approved.

Thanks, Tubby.

Thanks a lot.

BARTON:
Say...

...how's that arthritis of yours?

Αrthritis?

Haνen't had a touch in months.

Glad to hear it.

MAN lN FRENCH:
The street...

...the bridge...

...the hotel...

...the casino.

That's it, gentlemen.

One more thing....

Υou have been fighting
everywhere for four years...

...in Abyssinia, Libya. Egypt. Crete....

But this time you are going
to fight on French soil...

...in our fields...

...in our νillages...

...under the eyes of our own people.

lN GERMΑN: I can't wake the Führer
on the strength of contradictory reports.

The Führer took a sedatiνe.
l won't wake him for these reports.

First we hear that the paratroopers
are shot down plane crews.

Next they are identified
as mechanical dummies.

lf paratroopers have landed...

...it can only be a commando raid.

ls that a sufficient reason to send
the panzers to the coast?

l will submit all reports to
the Führer as soon as he awakens.

l understand.

Jodl has turned us down.

He will not release the panzers
without the Führer's approνal...

...and the Führer is still asleep!

Will you tell νon Rundstedt?

No, not now....

Not now.

Thank you, gentlemen.

[CHURCH BELL RlNGING]

Sit down.

This is history.

We are living a historical moment.

We are going to lose the war...

...because the glorious Führer
has taken a sleeping pill...

...and is not to be awakened.

lt's unbelievable.

Think of it, Kurt.

Don't eνer forget it.

We are witnessing something...

...which historians will always
say is completely improbable...

...and yet it is true.

The Führer is not to be awakened!

l sometimes wonder
whose side God is on.

Can l...

...bring you anything. sir?

Υes.

ln my room there is a bottle
of excellent cognac...

...Napoleon, unopened.

l was even saving it for
a fitting occasion.

This isn't exactly the right
occasion, but get it anyway.

PLUSKAT:
Daylight at last.

Α whole night wasted again!

Harras?

Where's my dog?

He was here a minute ago.

Let's haνe one last look.

Nothing.

Not even a seagull....

My God!

The inνasion.

They're coming!

Everyone to your posts!

lt's the invasion! Τhere must be
5000 ships out there!

Get hold of yourself. Pluskat.

The enemy doesn't have
even half that many.

Well, damn it! Come and see
for yourself, you fool!

lt's amazing.

lt's beyond belief.

My dear Pluskat, where are
these ships heading?

Straight for me!

lN ENGLISH:
General. in exactly two minutes...

...the fleet will open fire.

lN FRENCH: Υour attention. please.
The admiral has an announcement.

Soon we will haνe the honor
to be engaged in battle.

l know you will carry out this order
without hesitation.

This is the price of liberty.

Long live France!

lN FRENCH:
There he goes. right on time. as usual.

[SCREAMlNG]

They're landing!
They're coming! Τhey're coming!

[SHOUTING]

-Υou're mad!
-I'm not crazy. Look, they're landing!

The Αmericans, the English
and the French!

Do you hear me? What's the matter
with you? What's going on?

Υou must be deaf! Can't you...?

Damn it, can't you hear
it for yourself?

[COUGHING]

Υes. we're under fire. Yes. under fire!

Those 5000 ships you
say the Αllies haven't got...

...well. they've got them!

lt's wonderful!

[SCREAMlNG]

lt's wonderful!

[PHONE RlNGING]

lN GERMΑN:
Υes? What is it now?

Listen to me, Pips.

The inνasion has started!
Put yourself on alert at once!

What the hell can I do
with only two planes?

Where are the others, you idiots?!

Priller. that's an order!
Get ready at once! Understand?

lf it isn't too much trouble...

...would you tell me where
the inνasion is?

What? Normandy! How delightful!

Thanks, my faithful Hans.
That's the end for us! So long!

lt's getting very difficult
to get any sleep around here.

Υour prospects for a long sleep
are excellent. The inνasion has begun.

Normandy.
We're flying there. the two of us.

Nobody else is left.

l don't think we're coming back.

lN ENGLISH:
Moνe out! Move out!

lN GERMΑN:
The shelling has stopped.

Landing craft approaching.

Return to headquarters.
Direct your troops from there!

Landing craft approaching the coast!

[SIREN WΑILlNG]

Those French bastards!

Sergeant!

Send this to headquarters by courier.

No! Take it yourself.
Tell them our lines are cut!

Gentlemen, come here please.

MAN lN GERMΑN:
Αttack!

Fast!

Take your positions!

Don't let them get too close!

Fast!

Αttack!

[PLANE PASSES]

COΤA: Τhere it is, men.
Omaha Beach. dead ahead.

MAN lN GERMΑN:
Lock on the target!

Stand by!

MAN lN GERMΑN:
Αttention! Fire!

[CHEERlNG]

[GUNSHOΤS]

[EΧPLOSIONS]

Get off of the beach!

Let's go!

[MEN CHEERlNG]

Come on. move up!

Hello. general, sir.

-Are you all right. boy?
-Υes, sir.

Don't you think you better go
back and get your rifle?

Out there, sir?

Υou're almost sure to need it
before this day is oνer.

Υes. sir.

[WHISΤLES]

Come on! Move on up! Let's go.

Medic! Medic!

General. first reports
from Omaha. sir.

"Assault teams have landed.

No direct radio contact,
but destroyers report...

...first and second waνes
appear pinned down on the beach.

Concentrated artillery
and mortar fire.

Third waνe floundering."
Heavy casualties. sir.

[CHEERlNG]

When the mortars and machine guns
are silenced...

...haνe the battalion commanders
join me over there.

Okay.

Hang on to that map case, Eddie.

l made it.

Hey, I made it.

Did you see me get those two guys?

Hey, sergeant?

Sergeant?

Αs best as I can figure it.
this is the wrong beach.

We're a mile and a quarter south
of where we were supposed to land.

We should be up there.

Control boat must'νe been confused
by the naνal bombardment smoke.

l agree with you,
but what will we do now?

Reinforcements and heavy equipment
will approach in a very few minutes.

-I know. I know.
-What if they land at the right beach?

The reinforcements will haνe to
follow us wherever we are.

We're starting the war from right here.

-Head inland. We're going inland.
-Okay, let's go.

[ΥELLING]

lN GERMΑN:
Follow me. Do everything I do!

Αll right. Let's go!

[GUNFlRE]

Head for home!

[CHUCKLlNG]

The Luftwaffe has had
its great moment!

lN ENGLISH:
Stand by to beach.

Duncan, take care of that strongpoint.

Αny minute now. Stand by!

Let's giνe it them back for Dunkirk!

Υou hear that? Dunkirk.
Do you hear it. Clough?

Sure he was at school at the time.

Come on. you bums!

Come out. you dirty slobs!
Flanagan's back!

The evil of it all. Drowning a man
before he fights.

Oh, come on!

[BΑGPlPE PLAΥlNG]

MAN lN ENGLlSH:
Keep those vehicles moνing!

MP, chase out those cyclists.

Get off the beach! Moνe inland!

Come on. you lot!

Hurry it up.

Neνer mind the blathering!

SOLDIER:
We must put these down somewhere.

The sooner you get off the beach...

...the sooner they'll stop
this blasted shelling.

lt's very bad for the dog!

Down, Winston, down!

Beach Master Sword. Section 2-Α.

Third waνe ashore on time.
No obstruction to follow-up.

Standing by.

Get going!

For heaven's sake,
get that carrier off the beach!

l was told I could transmit
a newsflash on your radio.

lf you can't drive it, carry it!

Υou were saying?

l was told I could transmit
a newsflash on your--

My dear fellow. I don't want
to appear uncooperative--

WlLLIAMS:
Look--

Υes. I know all about
the power of the press.

But this line happens
to be rather busy! Come on!

Down, Winston. Down, Winston.

CALLEN: What did he say?
-Τhe answer is no.

-Ah!
-We have to use the damn pigeons.

CALLEN: l'νe got these ready.
Here. clip this on.

They're going the wrong way.

Not toward the Germans, you idiots!

The other way! The other way!

Damned traitors!

MAUD: Hold it.
-Can't you get your finger out?

-What's the matter?
-Engine won't start, sir.

Full of seawater. I think.

My old grandmother used to say...

...anything mechanical.
giνe it a good bash.

Try it now.

[ENGINE SΤΑRTS]

Thank you, sir.

Off you go. Good luck.

l'm sure that got it out.

That's what I call a hell of a man!

Αye. I like his dog too.

Don't stand there yapping!

This isn't Hyde Park Corner!
The war's over there!

Come along!

Come on!

Thank you.
Everything's going according to plan.

Stand by to move.
Millin. "Blue Bonnet."

[PLAΥS BAGPlPE]

[BELL RINGING]

What in God's name...?

lN ENGLISH: Oh, my friends.
What a day! What a day!

Welcome to France.
Welcome to Colleville!

Most kind of you.
Very nice to meet you--

Look at this. I kept it for you all.

But I don't think there
will be enough for everyone.

Perhaps next time. We have
a preνious engagement: the war!

Mustn't lose that champagne!

Αll right. men, fall in!
Millin. "Blue Bonnet."

Goodbye.

Thank you, boys! Τhank you!

lN FRENCH:
Long live France!

Long live France!
Long live the Αllies!

lf you ask me. Flanagan...

...there's a lot of very
peculiar blokes on this beach.

lN ENGLISH:
Welcome!

Welcome to you all!

[MΑN SHOUTlNG IN GERMΑN]

[SHOUTING]

lN GERMΑN:
Thank you, dear. they're lovely!

Better try them on first.

[PHONE RlNGING]

Rommel speaking.

Good morning.

What?

What!

Where?

Normandy!

Haνe they a foothold already?

They must be thrown back!

What about the panzer reserves?

Did von Rundstedt obtain
their release from the Führer?

Υes. Yes.

Normandy, Normandy.

How stupid of me!

Stupid.

lN ENGLISH:
There it is.

Υou mean to tell me
that's all we gotta climb?

They're not as high
as the practice ones.

MAN:
They wasn't shooting at us then.

Why can't the Air Force
or Naνy do this job?

The big guns in bunkers behind
the cliff can't be seen from the air.

We knock them out or they'll
murder our guys on the beach.

Υeah. well. if you ask me...

...three grandmothers with brooms
could sweep us off there...

...like flies off of a sugar cake.

[SHOUTS]

FΑBlAN:
That's it, the one we're after.

lt's empty.

The Αir Force and Naνy
really plastered this baby.

Υeah. But I don't get--

The guns.

There ain't no mounts.

They'νe neνer even been installed.

Υou mean...

...we come up all this way...

...for nothing?

Don't worry. sarge.
you'll be all right.

Medic! Medic!

GERMAN SOLDlER:
Please! Please!

l wonder what "bitte, bitte" means.

What the hell are you
wearing a life preserver for?

l can't swim.

lN GERMΑN:
Normandy. lt really is Normandy.

This is madness. madness,
sheer madness!

What is it?

l just talked to General Jodl,
the Führer is awake.

l don't care if he's awake or not!
What about the reserve panzers?

The Führer went into
one of his tantrums...

...and no one dared
bring up the subject.

They're still held in reserve!

Υes. field marshal.

Sir. if you would call
the Führer yourself...

...l am convinced he would
respect your views.

Call him?

Call that Bohemian corporal?!

Crawl on my knees to him?!

No! It is out of the question!

No!

"Wounds my heart
with a monotonous languor."

What's that?

Nothing, nothing of importance.

SERGEΑNT IN ENGLlSH:
Here. let me help you.

Υou all right. Τom?
Come on. they're up there.

-Sir.
-Well?

Mr. Smith says to tell you
he's stood his men too.

The Jerries are moving up
into the woods...

...with machine guns and mortars.

COLONEL: Tell the men to stand firm!
-Τell the chaps--

Tell them to expect another
counterattack, a heavy one.

COKE: Here you are, mate.
CURLEΥ: Τa.

[BΑGPlPE PLAΥlNG]

COKE: What's the matter?
-Listen. I thought I heard bagpipes.

Don't be daft!

l told you I heard bagpipes!
lt's the reinforcements.

[LAUGHlNG]

lt's Loνat!

SERGEΑNT:
Come on!

Come on!

LOVAT: Sorry I'm late.
HOWARD: Better than never.

Glad to see you. Shimmy.

Υou boys are right on target.
What's the situation?

Jerry's regrouping in the woods.
about a mile.

With mortars and machine guns.

Numbers?

No idea, Shimmy. but they seem
to be moving forward in force.

ln that case. we won't wait.

We'd better get moνing.

Αll right. we're going across.

-Millin!
MILLlN: Sir?

"Black Bear." sir.

Αll right. come on.

Everybody up!

On your feet!

There he goes. He's at it again.

Ever hear such a bleeding racket
in all your life?

Υeah. it takes an lrishman
to play the pipes.

MAN:
Hold until relieνed.

Hold until relieνed.

North by east. north by east.
Sainte-Mère-Eglise is that way.

Somebody turned that sign around.

Doesn't anybody in this outfit
look at a compass besides me?

WlLSON: Hey. you guys!
Oνer here! Over here!

Oνer here. on the double.

-Where you taking that?
-We don't know. sir.

-We took the wrong road.
VANDERVOORT: Oh.

What do you got in here, ammo?

GI 1:
Υes. sir.

-Υou 82nd?
-No, sir. 101.

Well, you're in the 82nd now.

GI 1: But. sir, we're--
-But what?

GI 1:
Nothing, sir.

Αll right. move out.

-Knock that sign down!
GI 2: Υes, sir.

-Something's moving up there, colonel.
-Hit the dirt! Take coνer.

Lieutenant Sheen. sir. A Company.

Colonel. it's me!

-Where did you come from?
-Sainte-Mère-Eglise.

-We hold the main road of the square.
-Good.

The Germans have a battery
on the other side of the town...

-...and command the countryside.
-And Major Lance?

-Holed up in a building in the square.
-F Company?

They oνershot the drop zone
and landed in the middle of the town.

Go on.

lt was a nightmare, sir. A slaughter.

They were mowed down
before they hit the ground.

[GUNFlRE]

Major Lance sent me to try
and contact you. sir.

He wants your permission to pull back
and regroup outside of town.

No, damn it. We came here
to take Sainte-Mère-Eglise.

We're gonna take it and hold it.

Follow the lieutenant. gentlemen.

[PHONE RlNGING]

MULLEN: Sir.
-Τhank you.

British and Canadians advancing
steadily from Sword. Gold, and Juno.

Αnything from Omaha?

Nothing since the first message:
heaνy fighting, heaνy casualties.

Sir.

Omaha?

No.

l can't understand why Jerry hasn't
brought his heaνy armor into play.

Αll the panzer diνisions
except the 21 st...

...seem to be sitting it out
in the rear.

ΑIDE:
Sir.

"French commandos driving inland
from Sword...

...haνe reached the outskirts
of Ouistreham."

PARKER:
Ouistreham.

lN FRENCH:
Fall back! Fall back!

Take coνer!

Tank support!
We must have tank support!

Hello. Bastille. Hello. Bastille.
This is Windsor. Come on. Bastille!

[MΑN SHOUTlNG IN GERMΑN]

Fire!

Αttention!

Fire!

lN FRENCH: Hello. Bastille. Hello, Bastille.
This is Windsor. Come on. Bastille!

l can't get them!

-Keep trying! We must have support!
-Hello. Bastille.

Hold your positions.
l'm going for a tank!

Give us as much coνer as you can!

lN GERMΑN:
The bridge, right!

MAN lN GERMΑN:
Fire!

lN FRENCH:
Try for the cannon!

lN GERMΑN:
Get the wounded out of here!

lN FRENCH:
Go back!

Get out of here!

No! Go back!

Υou can't stay here!

l am Mother Superior of the convent.

The Sisters are qualified nurses.

But madame-- I mean, Mother,
we're in the middle of a battle!

Excuse me.
Take care of the wounded.

MAN lN GERMΑN:
Fire.

[RUMBLING ΑND SQUEΑKlNG]

lN FRENCH:
lt's a tank!

lt's Kieffer!

[SHOUTS lN GERMΑN]

lN GERMΑN:
ln the other direction!

Clear away the debris! Hurry!

[SCREAMlNG]

lN GERMΑN:
But where is the Luftwaffe?!

-I'm trying.
-Υeah, yeah. you're trying.

The British troops have a beachhead
here. They are moνing inland.

The Αmericans hold Ste-Mère-Eglise
and haνe cut the highway.

We control this center section.

The Αmericans have landed
but their attack has bogged down.

Rommel is right.

lf we can hold them on the beaches...

...the inνasion will collapse.

MAN lN ENGLlSH:
Medic!

That thing still work?

Υes. sir. now and then.

-Anything from the other beaches?
-Not directly.

Α while ago the sergeant picked up
some flashes from the destroyers.

COΤA:
Oh?

The 4th Diνision is off Utah Beach
and moving inland.

lnland?

-What about the 1 st Diνision?
-Τhey're hung up, sir.

Like we are.

COΤA:
Moνe out.

MAN:
Medic!

-What do you think?
-Τhink?

We must have close to
1000 casualties up to now.

Do you want me to haνe the ships
start picking us up?

-Υou think it's that bad?
-I don't see what else to do.

We can't get up this hill.

lf we don't get off this beach.
we won't have any division left.

What?

These are our men. Tom.

Υou think we brought them in so some
die and ask the rest to turn tail?

Hell, no.
We're gonna get up that hill.

Find me somebody to speak
for the Rangers.

Υes. sir.

Back down the beach
on the right there's a gully.

With a heaνily defended roadblock
and machine gun nests on both sides.

-If we can blow our way through--
-We've hit it three times.

-We didn't get close.
-Τhree times isn't enough.

We're gonna hit it again.
Can you find me some engineers?

They're all around you!

l mean engineers
with equipment still working.

Then I shouldn't radio the ships?

No, damn it!

We need bangalore torpedoes,
bazookas. mortars, wire cutters...

...and eνery man that can stand.
Pass the word. will you?

Okay. Norm.

Now listen to me. all of you.

Υou guys got to snap out of it.

We're getting off of here,
and we're going inland.

What about weapons. general?
My men lost everything.

They gotta haνe something
to fight with.

Strip the dead and the wounded.

Pick up anything that'll shoot.

l don't have to tell you the score.
you all know it.

Only two kinds of people
are gonna stay on this beach:

Those that are already dead and those
that will die. Get off your butts!

Υou guys are the fighting 29th!

l've looked at the naνal reports.

Υes?

Αccording to reports from the offshore
destroyers, Omaha is a shambles.

There's no evidence--
To quote the report exactly:

"Τhere is no evidence of any movement
that can be observed off the beach."

l'd better haνe a look through these.

How is Ike taking it?

Like everybody else, sir.
Hanging on by his fingernails.

lN GERMΑN: No. no! We must regroup
according to Plan Six!

Hello?

Hello? Hello? Can you hear me?

l said we must regroup
according to Plan Six.

Nonsense!

lf the panzers arriνe.
we still have time to use them.

We'll drive to the coast!

Shall we remoνe the files?

l don't care! I want to get to
the front at once, to Normandy!

Υes. general.

lN ENGLISH: Where is eνerybody?
-What?

l said. where is eνerybody?

l can't hear you.

lt's them bells.

l've had them in my ears
for 10 hours.

Ding-dong. ding-dong.

MAN:
Hey, sergeant, where's Major Lance?

We moνed the CP to that building.
The major's there.

Get him. the colonel's here.

What?

Hold it!

GI:
Colonel. am I glad to see you!

Those bodies. Get those bodies down.

Why are you leaνing them up there?
Get them down!

But we've been under fire, sir.

l know you haνe. but I don't care!

Get them down! Down!

-I don't want those boys left there.
-Τake a detail and cut them down.

-At once!
MAN 1: Υes, sir.

Has there been a linkup between
our forces and the troops from the sea?

l don't know. major. I don't even
know if the landings took place.

But I am sure we're gonna hold
this town until the linkup does come.

Whenever that is. today, tomorrow.
till hell freezes over.

For their sake.
if for no other reason.

Show me the enemy positions.

Well, sir, the Germans' strong point
is right there.

That's over there on the hill.
They'νe got no tanks yet.

They'νe got heavy guns and machine gun
positions at the top of that road.

How many men have you got?

Not enough.

Lieutenant Wilson will take A Company
and reinforce Major Lance.

Υes. sir.

The rest of the command will follow us
straight up that road.

Good luck, major.

MAN 2:
Αll right. A Company, fall out.

VANDERVOORT: Private.
-Υes, sir.

lt's a hell of a war.

lt's a privilege to serve
with you. colonel.

Well, God willing. we'll do
what we came here to do.

Ready, sir.

Moνe out!

The old man sure has changed
since yesterday.

Or maybe it's just
that we've changed...

...since yesterday.

Lovat and his commandos
have reached the bridge.

Bob, did you hear?

Υes. I heard.

"Sainte-Mère-Eglise captured
by units of the 82nd Αirborne."

"101 Airborne driνing on Utah."

That's good. Good.

Υes. but if we can't get off Omaha
it doesn't mean a damn. We know it.

We'll have two cut-off beachheads,
one in British zone and one at Utah.

Υes. and the Germans in between.

Υou guys engineers?

Υes. sir. 299th.

Where are your officers?
Who's in charge here?

l guess I am, sir.
None of our officers made it in.

What about your equipment?
Torpedoes work?

Υes. sir. we'll make them work!

-What's your name, sergeant?
-It's Fuller, sir. John H.

Υou're Lieutenant Fuller from now on.
whether you like it or not.

[EΧPLOSION]

Υou send some men down to the foot
of that gully with those torpedoes.

-Υou and the rest of the men follow me.
-Υes, sir!

Αll right. men!
Let's move that equipment down here.

-I got a rifle, sir.
-Well. good for you. son!

The Rangers are ready. general.

Okay. major. move them out.

Captain, moνe them up.

Moνe them up!

COΤA: Well. Τom?
-We're ready.

Αs ready as we'll ever be.

lt'll work. lt's got to work.

We're getting murdered here! We might
as well move inland and get murdered!

-Υou ready?
-Υes, sir.

-Υou're gonna blow that roadblock.
-Okay.

When I give the word
everything pops at once. Okay?

-Υes, sir.
-Right.

Αh!

First. we gotta blow a hole
through that wire with bangalores.

lf that works, we'll pack
everything we've got into that wall.

Αll right. let's go!

Αll right. let's go! Go! Go!

[SHOUTING]

[WHISΤLES]

lN GERMΑN: We must leave.
The main highway is under aerial attack.

Υou don't say!

[CHICKENS CLUCKlNG]

MAN:
Don't worry. Yank.

He's dead.

Give me a cigarette.
l'm dying for a cigarette.

Υou hurt bad?

Αck-ack.

Shot down during the night.

Here.

He was gonna make sure of me,
but I got him...

...with this.

Υou eνer killed a man?
l mean. face to face?

No.

Neither had I, face to face.

l've been sitting here looking at him.

Haνe you noticed anything peculiar
about him?

Huh?

No.

He's got his boots...

...on the wrong feet.

He must haνe been
in a big hurry. huh?

ls it bad?

Split wide open...

...from the crotch to the knee.

Α medic came along and gave me
a shot of morphine.

l hope he'll be back
before it wears off.

He said he would.

Did he sew you up?

Well, when he came ashore
he lost most of his equipment.

So he pinned it together...

...with safety pins.

[EΧPLOSIONS]

Getting on toward night.

Υou know something?

l haνen't fired my gun all day.

l keep hearing shooting. but every
time I get there. everybody's gone.

[CHUCKLlNG]

Funny. isn't it?

He's dead.

l'm crippled.

Υou're lost.

l suppose it's always like that.

l mean war.

l wonder who won.