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Going to Normandy.
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Army Intel is only
two out of five of us
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are going to make it
off this beach.
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Freedom!
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Let us launch!
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They're gonna die without us!
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Fire!
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Move out!
Don't stop for anything!
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We're the first unit to go in.
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One hundred and ten men
of "C" company.
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First Canadian
Parachute battalion.
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In training we thought
we were the best!
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Way tougher than the infantry.
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But this is going to be
our first time in combat,
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our first chance to do our part.
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June, 1944.
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The world's been at war
for almost five years.
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Hitler's war machine
has killed millions
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and Europe is living
under Nazi rule.
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But that's about to change.
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After two years of planning
and training, this is it!
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"D-Day"!
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The plan is to launch
a massive surprise attack
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against Hitler's
fortress Europe.
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It's a do or die operation.
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We'd either set the stage
for the defeat of Hitler,
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or get slaughtered and
pushed back into the sea.
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The beaches are code-named;
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'Sword', 'Gold, '
'Utah', 'Omaha'.
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Us Canadians?
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We have one of the most heavily
defended beaches on the line.
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It's called Juno.
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This is my story.
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This is our story.
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What's wrong?
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I don't mind jumping.
I, just can't stand looking.
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Well switch with me then.
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We were going to be dropped
deep into Nazi occupied France.
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Nine hours before the rest
of the invasion forces
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even hit the beaches.
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Jeez-Louise Hartigan,
what you got in there?
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A few extra mortars.
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You're gonna drop like a rock.
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We were the tip of the spear.
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Whoo!
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Best seat in the house here!
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Almost seven thousand ships
stretched out
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across the English Channel.
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About a hundred and
sixty thousand men.
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'D Day', the largest
sea-born invasion in history.
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Holy Jesus!
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And me a kid from Sydney,
Nova Scotia, way out in front.
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♪
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We'd been stuck on this
ship for three days.
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Seasick, couldn't sleep,
couldn't eat.
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But the men were holding up.
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Seventh Platoon.
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My Platoon!
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Mostly prairie boys
from Saskatchewan.
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Hunters.
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Trappers.
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Indians.
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A lot of farm boys.
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We looked out for one another.
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Some joined for adventure,
some out of duty.
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Others were just plain hungry
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and the Army
paid a dollar a day.
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We'd been chosen to lead
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the first wave of the beach assault. Alright,
enough, enough. Alright, anyone else?
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It was going to be our
first time in combat.
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Cutler, you in you little woman?
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I got five bucks on Apple.
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Alright.
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We were young.
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Luis Brunning was only
fifteen when he joined.
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We called him 'Apple'.
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Snake eyes! Snakes eyes!
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Whoa, whoa, whoa. What's this?
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Ooohhh? From your girl? What?
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What, oh, you have a girlfriend!
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Oooh. Who is she?
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No one.
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What's her name? Ah, C'mon!
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What does she look like?
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Who is she? Who is she?
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Look, look.
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C'mon look, it's from my mother.
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Ma-ma!
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Did he just say from my mother?
Did he just say from my mother?
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Aw.
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Apple's mommy loves him.
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What's it say? What's it say?
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Nuthin.
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Aw c'mon, what's it say?
Let me see.
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Ah, Come on leave him alone.
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Well, what it's say?
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Ah, It says um,
"God Keep Him Safe."
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Well God, let him
roll sevens, huh?
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Amen.
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Make me some money!
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Oh! Nice!
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Now I get to roll.
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Hey, hey roll em up
again, again, let's go!
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♪
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What, something I said?
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I joined the Army,
not the god-damned Navy!
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Me?
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I was in the Army
long before this war.
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Signed up in Montreal, Quebec,
just seventeen years old.
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I didn't want to be no hero,
just stay out of the poorhouse.
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I'm what you call a
P.S.. Permanent Soldier.
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My wife said it stood
for "permanently stupid".
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My ex-wife tell the truth.
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Silverberg! What are you doing?
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Joining the United Church?
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Good Jewish boy like you?
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Look. It's my mother's orders.
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Turn the 'J' to a 'U'.
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Just in case
we get taken prisoner.
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No one's going to
take us prisoner.
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We're going all
the way to Paris!
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I'll find you all a
nice Mademoiselle.
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You'll see.
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Where you goin?
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Probably the only dry place
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on this whole Goddamned
military vessel!
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Don't puke in the tank McGinnis!
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Yeah, don't worry Silver,
I got nuthin left!
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Our tank is a top secret weapon.
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Designed just for 'D-Day'.
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It can launch directly
into the sea.
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They're called a duplex drive.
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You take a Sherman tank, and
an inflatable canvas screen,
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waterproof the hull, connect
propellers to the driveshaft.
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And viola, you've got a
thirty-two ton floating tank.
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And let's you drive
it out of the sea.
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A big surprise for the Germans.
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That's the way to travel.
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First class!
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Final checks!
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We were going in, disguised
as a routine bombing run.
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That's why we were packed
into these old bombers
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like sardines.
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Final checks.
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Be bloody careful,
no accidents, please!
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The drop was behind enemy lines.
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Fifteen miles from the coast
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where the main
invasion force would land.
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We'd be on our own for days.
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So we loaded ourselves
down with extra grenades.
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Mortar rounds, you name it.
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Hartigan!
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Open the bloody hatch.
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There was France.
From five hundred feet.
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At two hundred miles per hour.
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Red up, hook up!
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The red light was the warning.
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Two minutes till
the green light.
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Two minutes before all of us,
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one hundred and ten men
of 'C' Company
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would jump straight into...
God knows what?
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Remember we've got fifteen
seconds to clear this place,
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so move fast!
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Hartigan, spot me a
cigarette would ya?
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Hit the ground and move!
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What? Now?
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We have, five minutes to make
it to the rally point.
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I don't mean for now,
I mean for later.
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You do not make it?
You're on your own!
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Here, take the whole
god-damned pack!
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Good luck!
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I tried not to think about
being shot on the drop.
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Or landing on a tree.
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Or drowning in the
flooded fields below.
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We knew we were heading
towards the coast.
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But the exact location of
our landing was kept secret.
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Most bets were on Calle.
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Some thought Holland,
even Germany itself.
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We're goin to Normandy.
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Did anyone win the bet?
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No sir.
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Good, let's hope the Jerrie's
are even more surprised.
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The Americans have
'Utah', and 'Omaha'.
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Brits, 'Gold', and 'Sword'.
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The Canadian beach,
'Juno' Beach, it's here,
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and our sector,
'Nan Green', is here.
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Our target, is actually a
little fishing village called.
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'Courseulles-sur-Mer'.
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Everything else
just as we trained.
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MG-42's, 55's, 75's and the 88.
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The heaviest position on the
beach and it is all ours!
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The Germans had four years to
turn the coast of France
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into a concrete fortress.
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Hundreds of miles of bunkers,
heavy guns barbed wire, mines.
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According to Army
Intelligence, our beach,
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Juno Beach was manned by eight
thousand German soldiers
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from the seven hundred and
sixteenth division.
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It was one of the most heavily
fortified sectors
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of Hitler's Atlantic Wall.
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Get past the first
fifteen minutes boys,
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we're gonna be okay.
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Alright?
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Dsmissed.
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♪ Pack all your troubles in your
old kit bag, and smile... ♪
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Most of us weren't expected
to make it off the beach.
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♪ ...smile, smile. ♪
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We all knew.
But nobody talked about it.
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♪ ...your fag, ♪
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♪ Smile boys, that's the style, ♪
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♪ What's the use of worrying? ♪
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♪ It never was worth while, ♪
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♪ So pack up your troubles
in your old kit-bag, ♪
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♪ And smile, smile, smile. ♪
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We had fifteen seconds
to empty the plane.
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If you hesitated, the men
behind you would get scattered,
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and we'd all be screwed.
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Of course the plane had to be
in exactly the right place
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at the right time.
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♪
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Green lights on! Green on!
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Go Go Go Go Go!
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Move it!
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Move! Move it!
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Just after I jumped,
I'm thinkin,
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"What the hell am I doing here?"
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♪
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'D-DAY'.
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We launch at dawn.
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The plan is to drop into
the sea two miles offshore
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and arrive
just before the infantry.
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There's no turning back now.
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Listen gonna tell
you straight up,
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Army Intel says only
two out of five of us
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are going to
make it off this beach.
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If we wanna make it, we're
going to have to keep our heads,
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stay smart.
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Remember that we got one job,
punch through the enemy lines.
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Remember that and we'll be okay.
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Paratroopers would
have landed by now.
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Each airborne unit had
a specific objective,
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knock out a bridge,
or communication line,
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to prevent the Germans from
launching a counter-attack
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against the beach.
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Our job was to
secure the drop zone
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by launching a surprise attack
on a German garrison
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near a town called Varaville.
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We had to take out their main
gun before the next wave
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of twenty-five hundred
paratroopers came in.
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If we failed, those boys
would get slaughtered.
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I had five minutes to
get to the rally point.
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Problem was, I had no
idea where the hell I was,
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or how to get there.
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♪
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First time I get bombed,
it's by our own air-force.
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Maybe they missed their target,
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maybe we'd been dropped
in the wrong place.
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Maybe both.
259
00:16:21,832 --> 00:16:26,035
Maybe we were all screwing up.
260
00:16:55,199 --> 00:16:57,166
Punch!
261
00:16:57,168 --> 00:16:58,033
Judy! What?
262
00:16:58,035 --> 00:16:59,702
"Judy!" Jesus Christ, "Judy!"
263
00:16:59,704 --> 00:17:01,270
Um, "Who won the Stanley Cup?"
264
00:17:01,272 --> 00:17:02,971
Habs!
265
00:17:02,973 --> 00:17:04,306
Four-games-straight.
266
00:17:04,308 --> 00:17:07,042
You look like shit Hartigan.
267
00:17:07,044 --> 00:17:08,911
You're one to talk.
268
00:17:08,913 --> 00:17:11,747
Any idea where we are?
269
00:17:11,749 --> 00:17:14,450
France?
270
00:17:18,255 --> 00:17:22,825
How the hell do we get
to the rally point?
271
00:17:22,827 --> 00:17:24,326
I dunno.
272
00:17:24,328 --> 00:17:26,729
We'd missed the rendezvous.
273
00:17:26,731 --> 00:17:30,265
I wondered how many
others were lost.
274
00:17:30,267 --> 00:17:34,303
Wandering around the
French countryside.
275
00:17:34,305 --> 00:17:36,805
Or dead.
276
00:17:49,253 --> 00:17:54,089
Dawn. June sixth, 1944.
277
00:17:54,091 --> 00:17:56,391
At last we could see it.
278
00:17:56,393 --> 00:18:00,129
The long Grey
coastline of Normandy.
279
00:18:00,131 --> 00:18:02,531
Then our Navy guns opened up.
280
00:18:03,834 --> 00:18:06,769
So loud it was like getting
punched in the chest.
281
00:18:06,771 --> 00:18:11,440
We hoped it was doing a
lot worse to the Germans.
282
00:18:18,816 --> 00:18:22,184
Alright, alright! One last time.
283
00:18:22,186 --> 00:18:25,154
LCA drops us here at H-hour.
284
00:18:25,156 --> 00:18:25,554
Katesman!
285
00:18:25,556 --> 00:18:29,858
Chief snipes the machine-gun
position here while me, Apple,
286
00:18:29,860 --> 00:18:34,163
Bashnick and Culty take the
Bangalores and blow the wire.
287
00:18:34,165 --> 00:18:36,398
Here.
288
00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:39,401
Good! Blow the wire.
289
00:18:39,403 --> 00:18:39,935
Chief!
290
00:18:39,937 --> 00:18:45,274
Section One pushes through
to take the Machine Gun pillbox.
291
00:18:45,276 --> 00:18:46,975
STORK.
292
00:18:46,977 --> 00:18:48,477
We then rally here.
293
00:18:48,479 --> 00:18:53,048
And attack the main bunker,
here, destroying the 88.
294
00:18:53,050 --> 00:18:53,916
Good.
295
00:18:53,918 --> 00:18:55,083
Alright! There'll be
a lot of heavy smoke.
296
00:18:55,085 --> 00:18:56,952
What do you do if you get lost?
297
00:18:56,954 --> 00:18:58,921
Grab STORK and poke his
head through the clouds.
298
00:18:58,923 --> 00:19:02,224
Move up that beach and
keep moving no matter what.
299
00:19:02,226 --> 00:19:05,460
You do not stop to
help the wounded.
300
00:19:05,462 --> 00:19:08,864
No one stops.
301
00:19:09,567 --> 00:19:12,935
Medics take care of that.
Alright?
302
00:19:23,547 --> 00:19:27,282
Listen.
Given the Naval bombardment,
303
00:19:27,284 --> 00:19:31,553
chances are
nothing will be left.
304
00:19:39,063 --> 00:19:40,896
With seas like this,
305
00:19:40,898 --> 00:19:43,866
launching the tanks
was going to be tricky.
306
00:19:43,868 --> 00:19:49,171
But the time was here
to get em in the water.
307
00:19:51,242 --> 00:19:54,576
The bloody Brit
won't let us launch.
308
00:19:54,578 --> 00:19:55,244
What?
309
00:19:55,246 --> 00:19:57,412
Navy command is
saying it's too rough.
310
00:19:57,414 --> 00:19:58,280
But this is 'bullshit'.
311
00:19:58,282 --> 00:20:00,315
Well Sergeant,
I can see their point.
312
00:20:00,317 --> 00:20:03,986
We've never launched in
conditions like this before.
313
00:20:03,988 --> 00:20:04,453
But sir I...
314
00:20:04,455 --> 00:20:06,321
Four of your
men can't even swim.
315
00:20:06,323 --> 00:20:07,656
Yeah, but I...
316
00:20:07,658 --> 00:20:09,024
Including you.
317
00:20:09,026 --> 00:20:13,028
Major, I speak for my men.
318
00:20:13,030 --> 00:20:15,564
We'd rather take our
chances out there,
319
00:20:15,566 --> 00:20:19,101
than stay on this
rolling puke bucket.
320
00:20:19,103 --> 00:20:23,639
C'mon sir let us launch.
321
00:20:23,641 --> 00:20:28,644
Those infantry boys they're
going to die without us.
322
00:20:30,114 --> 00:20:32,247
Okay, okay. Leave it to me.
323
00:20:32,249 --> 00:20:35,584
What about the Brit?
324
00:20:35,586 --> 00:20:37,452
It's not his show.
325
00:20:37,454 --> 00:20:40,222
Sergeant Gariepy.
326
00:20:41,926 --> 00:20:43,091
Bonne chance.
327
00:20:43,093 --> 00:20:48,363
I was thinking,
was that very brave?
328
00:20:48,365 --> 00:20:51,967
Or very stupid?
329
00:20:59,977 --> 00:21:00,793
♪ Bagpipes ♪
330
00:21:07,484 --> 00:21:11,119
Bird, looks like we're
gonna be in the movies.
331
00:21:11,121 --> 00:21:13,488
Yeah, a regular Gary Cooper huh?
332
00:21:13,490 --> 00:21:15,724
Hi mom!
333
00:21:15,726 --> 00:21:18,627
♪ Bagpipes ♪
334
00:21:18,629 --> 00:21:21,997
Hey Apple, know why bagpipers
are always walkin around?
335
00:21:21,999 --> 00:21:24,666
To get away from that noise.
336
00:21:24,668 --> 00:21:25,484
♪ Bagpipes ♪
337
00:21:38,482 --> 00:21:40,415
Load em in.
338
00:21:40,417 --> 00:21:44,186
Section One! Loading!
339
00:21:44,188 --> 00:21:46,488
It's about bloody time.
Let's move.
340
00:21:46,490 --> 00:21:49,725
Pick it up. Pick it up!
341
00:21:49,727 --> 00:21:53,662
Careful with that kid!
342
00:21:53,664 --> 00:21:55,630
After three days at sea,
343
00:21:55,632 --> 00:21:57,399
we finally boarded
the landing craft
344
00:21:57,401 --> 00:21:59,634
that would take us
in to the beach.
345
00:21:59,636 --> 00:22:04,039
Each carried a Platoon
of thirty-six men.
346
00:22:04,041 --> 00:22:07,109
Just little boats made
of plywood and steel.
347
00:22:07,111 --> 00:22:09,211
Bouncing around like a cork.
348
00:22:09,213 --> 00:22:14,483
According to plan, we were to
land on the beach at 'H' hour
349
00:22:14,485 --> 00:22:19,721
just when the Naval bombardment
was scheduled to stop.
350
00:22:19,723 --> 00:22:21,590
We were scared.
351
00:22:21,592 --> 00:22:24,559
Anyone who said he wasn't,
was either a liar
352
00:22:24,561 --> 00:22:28,063
or just plain crazy.
353
00:22:28,065 --> 00:22:28,565
♪
354
00:22:34,671 --> 00:22:38,306
Okay Men, prepare to launch,
prepare to launch.
355
00:22:38,308 --> 00:22:40,675
McGinnis, start er up!
356
00:22:40,677 --> 00:22:44,346
Navy command said it was
too dangerous to launch.
357
00:22:44,348 --> 00:22:47,783
But our C.O.
Decided to push forward.
358
00:22:47,785 --> 00:22:51,553
Everyone in our squadron,
all nineteen tank crews...
359
00:22:51,555 --> 00:22:52,521
Electrics on.
360
00:22:52,523 --> 00:22:54,389
...felt we had to chance it.
361
00:22:54,391 --> 00:22:55,791
Radio check.
362
00:22:55,793 --> 00:22:58,593
Main gun in position!
363
00:23:01,799 --> 00:23:04,566
Ladies, our skirt is up.
364
00:23:04,568 --> 00:23:06,835
Take us in McGinnis!
365
00:23:06,837 --> 00:23:08,837
Aye, aye Captain!
366
00:23:10,541 --> 00:23:11,740
Here we go.
367
00:23:11,742 --> 00:23:14,376
...McGinnis. Hold steady.
368
00:23:14,378 --> 00:23:16,678
We launched more
than two miles off shore.
369
00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:19,414
The first tank in
our unit to go in.
370
00:23:19,416 --> 00:23:24,820
But I wondered, how many
of us would make the beach?
371
00:23:28,258 --> 00:23:31,159
Dawn. D-Day.
372
00:23:31,161 --> 00:23:33,128
The first infantry assault wave
373
00:23:33,130 --> 00:23:35,430
is already headed for the beach.
374
00:23:35,432 --> 00:23:38,834
Further inland air-borne units
are racing to secure their
375
00:23:38,836 --> 00:23:41,269
objectives to prevent a
German counter-attack
376
00:23:41,271 --> 00:23:45,140
against our beach forces.
377
00:23:45,142 --> 00:23:48,477
Mallon and I
had spent our whole night
378
00:23:48,479 --> 00:23:50,812
dodging enemy patrols.
379
00:23:50,814 --> 00:23:55,851
By sunrise, we finally made
our way to the objective.
380
00:23:55,853 --> 00:23:59,754
The German garrison
at Varaville.
381
00:23:59,756 --> 00:24:01,890
We were so late, we figured
the rest of our unit
382
00:24:01,892 --> 00:24:04,459
had already knocked out the gun
383
00:24:04,461 --> 00:24:08,263
that threatened
our main drop zone.
384
00:24:15,906 --> 00:24:16,838
Get down!
385
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:19,241
Get down. Get down.
386
00:24:22,579 --> 00:24:23,678
Over here!
387
00:24:34,358 --> 00:24:35,558
Hey, Stupid. Where've you been?
388
00:24:35,559 --> 00:24:36,858
MacPhee, what the
hell's going on?
389
00:24:36,860 --> 00:24:38,793
Makela, take the
Bren gun over there.
390
00:24:38,795 --> 00:24:39,561
Keep your head down.
391
00:24:39,563 --> 00:24:41,563
Why haven't you
taken the objective?
392
00:24:41,565 --> 00:24:42,764
Because of that Pillbox.
393
00:24:42,766 --> 00:24:45,567
The German artillery's back
there, hidden that wall.
394
00:24:45,569 --> 00:24:46,735
Right there?
395
00:24:46,737 --> 00:24:47,569
Yeah.
396
00:24:47,571 --> 00:24:50,672
Where's Macleod?
397
00:24:52,342 --> 00:24:53,775
Major MacLeod is dead.
398
00:24:53,777 --> 00:24:54,609
In the house there.
399
00:24:54,611 --> 00:24:58,613
We were scouting
when the gun opened up.
400
00:24:58,615 --> 00:25:00,582
Jesus --
401
00:25:00,584 --> 00:25:03,718
Where the hell is everyone else?
402
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:05,187
Only 17 of us made it.
403
00:25:05,189 --> 00:25:07,789
We can't get past that pillbox.
404
00:25:07,791 --> 00:25:08,690
So go around.
405
00:25:08,692 --> 00:25:10,592
We tried that. There's
minefields on either side.
406
00:25:10,594 --> 00:25:11,593
There's no way in.
407
00:25:11,595 --> 00:25:12,894
Well, I have to do something.
408
00:25:12,896 --> 00:25:14,496
We can't take it.
We're out numbered.
409
00:25:14,498 --> 00:25:16,865
And we got nothing -
410
00:25:16,867 --> 00:25:17,933
no PIATS. One Bren gun.
411
00:25:17,935 --> 00:25:19,868
Your mortar's the
biggest thing we've got.
412
00:25:19,870 --> 00:25:22,737
Best bet is
just to keep'em tied-up
413
00:25:22,739 --> 00:25:24,372
'till reinforcements come in.
414
00:25:24,374 --> 00:25:25,407
Bull-shit.
415
00:25:25,409 --> 00:25:26,474
We've got to do something.
416
00:25:26,476 --> 00:25:27,976
I'm gonna scout
out the position.
417
00:25:27,978 --> 00:25:30,745
Maybe I can find a way in.
418
00:25:32,983 --> 00:25:38,620
Okay. See if you can get
up to the rooftop.
419
00:25:38,622 --> 00:25:40,422
Sergeant McPhee and the others
420
00:25:40,424 --> 00:25:41,890
had kept the enemies
engaged all night.
421
00:25:41,892 --> 00:25:43,858
But sooner or later
German reinforcements
422
00:25:43,860 --> 00:25:45,527
were bound to show up.
423
00:25:45,529 --> 00:25:47,963
Careful in there Hartigan.
424
00:25:47,965 --> 00:25:48,465
♪
425
00:26:10,721 --> 00:26:14,522
The German's had converted
this house into a barracks.
426
00:26:14,524 --> 00:26:18,393
While I was lost in
the french countryside,
427
00:26:18,395 --> 00:26:25,333
our commander, Major McCloud,
led the assault.
428
00:26:25,335 --> 00:26:25,835
♪
429
00:26:29,339 --> 00:26:32,774
We stormed the place
with just a few men,
430
00:26:32,776 --> 00:26:35,710
the ground floor was deserted.
431
00:26:35,712 --> 00:26:40,482
McCloud took a handful of
men up to the second floor.
432
00:26:40,484 --> 00:26:40,984
♪
433
00:26:44,988 --> 00:26:46,421
It was empty too.
434
00:26:46,423 --> 00:26:50,792
The beds were still warm.
435
00:26:50,794 --> 00:26:53,028
♪
436
00:26:53,030 --> 00:26:57,365
The German's had fled just
a few minutes earlier.
437
00:26:57,367 --> 00:26:58,933
McCloud must've
had them convinced
438
00:26:58,935 --> 00:27:00,802
they were outnumbered.
439
00:27:00,804 --> 00:27:01,304
♪
440
00:27:27,531 --> 00:27:30,432
From up here McCloud and his men
441
00:27:30,434 --> 00:27:33,335
began to scout for
the German's main gun.
442
00:27:33,337 --> 00:27:37,405
But the gun found them first.
443
00:27:37,407 --> 00:27:37,907
♪
444
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:07,135
I'd never seen
anyone dead before.
445
00:28:07,137 --> 00:28:08,603
I didn't know thing's like that
446
00:28:08,605 --> 00:28:11,973
could happen to a person's body.
447
00:28:11,975 --> 00:28:12,475
♪
448
00:28:16,380 --> 00:28:22,083
Last night, they were alive.
449
00:28:22,085 --> 00:28:24,386
If I hadn't got lost
450
00:28:24,388 --> 00:28:28,523
it could've just as easily
been me lying on the floor.
451
00:28:28,525 --> 00:28:32,827
Instead of my friends.
452
00:28:35,732 --> 00:28:39,567
If I got higher up, maybe
I could see our objective.
453
00:28:39,569 --> 00:28:42,837
The gun that killed those men.
454
00:28:42,839 --> 00:28:43,339
♪
455
00:29:12,469 --> 00:29:14,135
I could see the pillbox
that had us pinned.
456
00:29:14,137 --> 00:29:18,072
And there, beyond
it, the main gun.
457
00:29:18,074 --> 00:29:20,608
A seventy-five millimeter
artillery piece
458
00:29:20,610 --> 00:29:23,945
surrounded by minefields.
459
00:29:23,947 --> 00:29:26,181
♪
460
00:29:26,183 --> 00:29:28,883
Past that wall,
the Germans were using a path
461
00:29:28,885 --> 00:29:32,754
that led from the pillbox
through to the minefield.
462
00:29:32,756 --> 00:29:33,588
Straight to the gun.
463
00:29:33,590 --> 00:29:37,091
If we could get to that path,
we could get to the gun.
464
00:29:37,093 --> 00:29:40,195
But how to get past the pillbox?
465
00:29:40,197 --> 00:29:40,697
♪
466
00:29:51,741 --> 00:29:52,907
Then I saw it.
467
00:29:52,909 --> 00:29:56,611
A way in.
468
00:29:56,613 --> 00:29:57,113
♪
469
00:30:01,051 --> 00:30:04,786
The launch, along with
the weather was a mess.
470
00:30:04,788 --> 00:30:08,189
Less than half the tanks that
were supposed to launch
471
00:30:08,191 --> 00:30:09,691
made it into the water.
472
00:30:09,693 --> 00:30:14,629
We were supposed to hit the
beach just before the infantry
473
00:30:14,631 --> 00:30:18,766
but the heavy seas delayed us.
474
00:30:18,768 --> 00:30:20,969
McGinnis turn right.
475
00:30:20,971 --> 00:30:21,703
Turn right!
476
00:30:21,705 --> 00:30:24,005
Sarge, I can't turn
against the waves.
477
00:30:24,007 --> 00:30:25,273
The waves are too big.
478
00:30:25,275 --> 00:30:27,742
Go, GO FULL THROTTLE!
479
00:30:27,744 --> 00:30:28,843
We're full out.
480
00:30:38,555 --> 00:30:42,891
Please God. Not now... not now.
481
00:30:42,893 --> 00:30:44,959
Water.
482
00:30:44,961 --> 00:30:46,995
We got water comin in.
483
00:30:46,997 --> 00:30:48,563
Sarge we got water coming in!
484
00:30:48,565 --> 00:30:51,132
Thank-you, Neal. That's fine.
485
00:30:54,104 --> 00:30:58,773
Let me know when it
reaches your knees.
486
00:30:58,775 --> 00:31:00,174
I was bluffing.
487
00:31:00,176 --> 00:31:02,677
And scared.
488
00:31:02,679 --> 00:31:06,247
In training a number
of our men drowned.
489
00:31:06,249 --> 00:31:09,918
One heavy wave over that canvas
skirt and down we would go.
490
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:13,988
Trapped inside a steel coffin.
491
00:31:13,990 --> 00:31:16,758
I was worried for my crew.
492
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:18,760
But we were late.
493
00:31:18,762 --> 00:31:19,694
Without our heavy guns,
494
00:31:19,696 --> 00:31:23,932
those infantry guys
wouldn't have a chance.
495
00:31:46,156 --> 00:31:49,691
200 yards to shore!
Prepare for landing!
496
00:31:49,693 --> 00:31:51,993
Stick with me Apple.
497
00:31:57,767 --> 00:32:01,936
When our Navy guns fell silent,
I knew we were in trouble.
498
00:32:01,938 --> 00:32:06,140
Every minute we were delayed,
allowed the German's
499
00:32:06,142 --> 00:32:08,643
time to regroup.
500
00:32:08,645 --> 00:32:11,279
Why have our guns stopped?
501
00:32:11,281 --> 00:32:11,946
We're late.
502
00:32:11,948 --> 00:32:14,115
We're supposed to
be on the beach now.
503
00:32:14,117 --> 00:32:17,919
A mile offshore, the sea was
crowded with landing crafts.
504
00:32:17,921 --> 00:32:22,090
But as we grew closer
to our landing sectors,
505
00:32:22,092 --> 00:32:24,392
we began to spread out.
506
00:32:24,394 --> 00:32:26,027
100 Yards.
507
00:32:26,029 --> 00:32:27,328
Get yourselves ready.
508
00:32:27,330 --> 00:32:28,963
You okay with that?
509
00:32:28,965 --> 00:32:31,332
Soon, we were alone.
510
00:32:31,334 --> 00:32:34,369
I'm right behind you buddy!
511
00:32:34,371 --> 00:32:37,171
Church tower. It's still there!
512
00:32:37,173 --> 00:32:38,773
Looks like everything's
still there!
513
00:32:38,775 --> 00:32:42,176
They missed our beach.
514
00:32:42,178 --> 00:32:43,911
♪
515
00:32:43,913 --> 00:32:47,115
50 yards!
516
00:32:47,117 --> 00:32:49,283
♪
517
00:32:49,285 --> 00:32:51,386
Open the gate.
518
00:32:51,388 --> 00:32:52,320
Steady.
519
00:32:52,322 --> 00:32:54,188
Keep it steady.
520
00:32:54,190 --> 00:32:55,156
Section One. Standby!
521
00:32:55,158 --> 00:32:58,860
I want those Bangalores
to the wire fast.
522
00:32:58,862 --> 00:33:01,229
Don't stop till you're there.
523
00:33:01,231 --> 00:33:03,798
You see a bangalore
drop, pick it up.
524
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:07,035
You see a ladder
drop you pick it up.
525
00:33:11,841 --> 00:33:14,709
Good luck sir!
526
00:33:14,711 --> 00:33:17,378
You'll be fine Apple.
527
00:33:17,380 --> 00:33:19,981
Stick with me kid.
528
00:33:19,983 --> 00:33:22,283
Go in full speed.
529
00:33:22,285 --> 00:33:22,785
♪
530
00:33:33,196 --> 00:33:36,264
Down ramp!
531
00:33:36,266 --> 00:33:36,766
♪
532
00:33:42,138 --> 00:33:43,404
The Navy bombardment had left
533
00:33:43,406 --> 00:33:44,739
the enemies positions unscathed.
534
00:33:44,741 --> 00:33:51,846
We couldn't see them, but we knew they were waiting for us.
Where the hell is everyone? Where the hell are the tanks?
535
00:33:57,454 --> 00:33:59,187
REGINA JOHNS!
536
00:33:59,189 --> 00:34:01,089
UP THE JOHNS!
537
00:34:01,091 --> 00:34:04,158
Section One! GO! GO! GO!
538
00:34:06,062 --> 00:34:09,197
Don't stop for anything!
Go! GO! GO!
539
00:34:13,837 --> 00:34:15,970
KEEP MOVING. MOVE OUT!
540
00:34:20,110 --> 00:34:21,409
Agh!
541
00:34:25,482 --> 00:34:28,349
GET TO THE BEACH!
GET TO THE BEACH!
542
00:34:33,189 --> 00:34:36,424
Section two! Move out!
543
00:34:37,961 --> 00:34:38,459
I've been hit!
544
00:34:38,461 --> 00:34:43,264
GO! GO! GO!
DON'T STOP FOR ANYTHING!
545
00:34:43,266 --> 00:34:43,766
♪
546
00:34:52,142 --> 00:34:54,542
Move out! Keep going!
547
00:34:54,544 --> 00:34:55,044
♪
548
00:35:02,986 --> 00:35:05,052
MOVE! MOVE! MOVE!
549
00:35:06,489 --> 00:35:08,122
COME ON GET TO THE BEACH!
550
00:35:09,959 --> 00:35:11,292
Get out of the water!
551
00:35:11,294 --> 00:35:12,894
Forward position!
552
00:35:16,900 --> 00:35:19,066
Get down! Get down!
553
00:35:19,068 --> 00:35:20,501
Mortar.
554
00:35:20,503 --> 00:35:21,536
MORTAR!
555
00:35:22,205 --> 00:35:24,505
Don't touch him!
Just let him go.
556
00:35:24,507 --> 00:35:25,106
MEDIC!
557
00:35:25,108 --> 00:35:26,974
Leave him,
just get to the beach.
558
00:35:26,976 --> 00:35:28,376
LET'S GO! LET'S GO!
559
00:35:28,378 --> 00:35:30,178
Fire.
560
00:35:32,982 --> 00:35:35,016
Move, move, move!
561
00:35:35,018 --> 00:35:38,319
Don't stop! Go, go, go.
562
00:35:40,123 --> 00:35:44,492
There's coverage ahead,
move, move.
563
00:35:44,494 --> 00:35:47,061
Run for cover!
564
00:35:48,431 --> 00:35:50,865
Grayson!
565
00:35:50,867 --> 00:35:51,367
♪
566
00:35:59,976 --> 00:36:01,242
They told us if we could survive
567
00:36:01,244 --> 00:36:05,213
the first fifteen minutes,
we'd take the beach.
568
00:36:05,215 --> 00:36:09,483
But we landed directly in front
of the machine gun pillbox.
569
00:36:09,485 --> 00:36:14,589
Five minutes in and I'd
lost most of my platoon.
570
00:36:14,591 --> 00:36:17,391
We stay here, we're dead.
571
00:36:17,393 --> 00:36:19,060
COVER ME!
572
00:36:19,062 --> 00:36:20,194
COVER FIRE!
573
00:36:27,270 --> 00:36:29,170
♪
574
00:36:29,172 --> 00:36:31,172
LET'S GO! MOVE OUT!
575
00:36:31,174 --> 00:36:34,408
Move out! Follow Grayson.
576
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:39,447
Keep firing!
577
00:36:41,451 --> 00:36:44,118
We've got to take out
that pillbox.
578
00:36:47,924 --> 00:36:50,191
Bashnick! Cutler!
579
00:36:50,193 --> 00:36:52,960
Bring up the Bangalore!
580
00:36:52,962 --> 00:36:54,295
♪
581
00:36:54,297 --> 00:36:56,297
Cover him! Cover him now!
582
00:36:59,535 --> 00:37:00,035
♪
583
00:37:04,674 --> 00:37:06,240
Get behind those sandbags.
584
00:37:06,242 --> 00:37:07,208
Grab the the Bangalore.
585
00:37:07,210 --> 00:37:10,011
Move!
We've got to blow this wire.
586
00:37:10,580 --> 00:37:14,015
Grab the the Bangalore.
Hurry up!
587
00:37:14,017 --> 00:37:16,083
Grab the the Bangalore.
588
00:37:16,085 --> 00:37:18,586
Are you okay?
589
00:37:18,588 --> 00:37:22,023
Hurry up!
590
00:37:22,025 --> 00:37:24,025
I'm sorry, Phil.
591
00:37:24,027 --> 00:37:27,094
Get that Bangalore over here.
592
00:37:27,096 --> 00:37:28,963
♪
593
00:37:28,965 --> 00:37:31,132
Medics! Man down.
594
00:37:33,002 --> 00:37:34,435
Blow the wire!
595
00:37:34,437 --> 00:37:35,670
Coming through.
596
00:37:35,672 --> 00:37:37,305
Keep fighting!
597
00:37:37,307 --> 00:37:40,107
HEADS DOWN!
598
00:37:45,148 --> 00:37:45,680
We're clear.
599
00:37:45,682 --> 00:37:48,950
We blew the wire but we were
still trapped. Move up.
600
00:37:48,952 --> 00:37:51,652
There were no tanks, no support.
601
00:37:51,654 --> 00:37:54,155
We were alone.
602
00:37:57,593 --> 00:37:59,293
8:20 Am. D-Day.
603
00:37:59,295 --> 00:38:03,664
Only fifteen minutes in
and half my men are down.
604
00:38:07,637 --> 00:38:11,105
The enemy resistance is fierce.
605
00:38:11,407 --> 00:38:14,342
I made it to the beach,
but so many of my men
606
00:38:14,344 --> 00:38:18,479
never made it out of the water.
607
00:38:18,481 --> 00:38:18,981
♪
608
00:38:24,754 --> 00:38:27,421
On the beach, there's nowhere
to hide from the mortars,
609
00:38:27,423 --> 00:38:31,692
mines and the machine gun fire.
610
00:38:31,694 --> 00:38:32,194
♪
611
00:38:35,999 --> 00:38:39,467
We were trapped behind the wire.
612
00:38:39,469 --> 00:38:44,405
Until a lone tank
surfaced from the sea.
613
00:38:47,777 --> 00:38:49,377
McGinnis, stop!
614
00:38:49,379 --> 00:38:51,012
Dropping the skirt.
615
00:38:51,014 --> 00:38:54,548
We were the first tank in
our unit to reach the beach.
616
00:38:54,550 --> 00:38:58,786
The rest had either
sunk or scattered.
617
00:38:58,788 --> 00:39:01,622
We were only minutes late.
618
00:39:01,624 --> 00:39:06,527
But the beach was already
littered with bodies.
619
00:39:06,696 --> 00:39:10,798
McGinnis, keep us moving.
620
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:12,767
Go full speed.
621
00:39:12,769 --> 00:39:14,468
Straight ahead.
622
00:39:20,777 --> 00:39:22,643
Hit the pillbox.
623
00:39:22,645 --> 00:39:24,211
Load one round!
624
00:39:24,213 --> 00:39:26,313
A team.
625
00:39:29,819 --> 00:39:32,820
Armstrong, cover me,
I'm goin, I'm goin.
626
00:39:32,822 --> 00:39:34,155
COVER FIRE!
627
00:39:34,157 --> 00:39:37,191
I'm going for the Pillbox.
Take out the machine gun.
628
00:39:48,771 --> 00:39:49,271
♪
629
00:39:53,443 --> 00:39:55,142
What the hell?
630
00:39:56,479 --> 00:39:57,711
Reverse right.
631
00:39:57,713 --> 00:39:59,513
Artillery! It's the bunker.
632
00:39:59,515 --> 00:40:01,715
Load one round.
633
00:40:01,717 --> 00:40:03,084
A Team.
634
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:05,719
♪
635
00:40:05,721 --> 00:40:07,455
To the right of the
machine gun pillbox,
636
00:40:07,457 --> 00:40:11,392
there was a large
fortified bunker.
637
00:40:11,394 --> 00:40:14,261
It was a tank killer.
638
00:40:25,341 --> 00:40:27,875
C'mon, c'mon!
639
00:40:27,877 --> 00:40:29,343
Loaded!
640
00:40:29,345 --> 00:40:30,744
Target!
641
00:40:30,746 --> 00:40:32,680
Fire!
642
00:40:34,717 --> 00:40:36,484
Find your craft.
643
00:40:36,486 --> 00:40:38,385
Correct.
644
00:40:39,489 --> 00:40:41,255
Loaded!
645
00:40:41,257 --> 00:40:42,690
Target!
646
00:40:42,692 --> 00:40:44,625
Fire!
647
00:40:46,762 --> 00:40:49,597
Our gun was no match
for the bunker.
648
00:40:49,599 --> 00:40:52,566
But we could hit the machine gun
649
00:40:52,568 --> 00:40:55,402
that was killing our infantry.
650
00:40:55,404 --> 00:40:57,338
I got to get close.
651
00:40:59,542 --> 00:41:00,042
♪
652
00:41:04,714 --> 00:41:06,614
On target.
653
00:41:06,616 --> 00:41:08,682
Fire!
654
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:20,427
We took out the pillbox.
655
00:41:20,429 --> 00:41:24,198
The main bunker was
still hunting us.
656
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:27,368
We had to get off that beach.
657
00:41:41,184 --> 00:41:45,186
With the Pillbox destroyed,
I made my way to the bunker.
658
00:41:45,188 --> 00:41:51,592
I made my way to the bunker to
take out that artillery piece.
659
00:42:21,457 --> 00:42:22,923
Where the hell's he going?
660
00:42:22,925 --> 00:42:25,793
He's going for the bunker.
661
00:42:25,795 --> 00:42:29,396
Cover fire! Cover fire!
662
00:42:39,609 --> 00:42:41,308
Fire!
663
00:42:42,878 --> 00:42:45,679
McGinnis, get us off
this bloody beach!
664
00:42:45,681 --> 00:42:47,915
I can't see! I can't see!
665
00:42:47,917 --> 00:42:50,484
Keep moving. In line.
666
00:42:50,486 --> 00:42:50,986
♪
667
00:42:59,562 --> 00:43:00,062
♪
668
00:43:12,908 --> 00:43:13,408
♪
669
00:43:21,651 --> 00:43:22,151
♪
670
00:43:27,857 --> 00:43:30,491
Grenade!
671
00:43:30,493 --> 00:43:33,794
♪
672
00:43:36,732 --> 00:43:37,232
♪
673
00:43:41,337 --> 00:43:43,771
Hurry! Hurry!
674
00:43:43,773 --> 00:43:44,273
♪
675
00:43:59,021 --> 00:44:00,020
♪
676
00:44:00,022 --> 00:44:02,356
We charged off the beach
to escape the German gun.
677
00:44:02,358 --> 00:44:08,662
And blasted our way through
anyone who tried to stop us.
678
00:44:08,664 --> 00:44:09,863
Ow!
679
00:44:09,865 --> 00:44:11,332
McGinnis, go!
680
00:44:11,334 --> 00:44:13,834
Run them down.
681
00:44:13,836 --> 00:44:14,336
AAGHH!
682
00:44:17,873 --> 00:44:20,674
♪
683
00:44:35,558 --> 00:44:36,058
♪
684
00:44:50,439 --> 00:44:57,010
I entered the bunker and
found myself underground.
685
00:44:58,614 --> 00:45:03,550
The Germans had built a
secret network of tunnels.
686
00:45:03,552 --> 00:45:06,787
To move men and supplies.
687
00:45:06,789 --> 00:45:07,289
♪
688
00:45:27,143 --> 00:45:30,778
♪
689
00:45:34,617 --> 00:45:35,983
♪
690
00:45:39,588 --> 00:45:40,088
♪
691
00:45:58,908 --> 00:46:00,474
They were close.
692
00:46:00,476 --> 00:46:04,878
But I didn't know where,
or how many.
693
00:46:06,148 --> 00:46:09,716
The beach invasion is underway,
and thousands of paratroopers
694
00:46:09,718 --> 00:46:13,587
have already dropped
into occupied France.
695
00:46:13,589 --> 00:46:16,457
Thousands more are
headed our way.
696
00:46:16,459 --> 00:46:21,862
To protect the drop zone, we
have to take out that main gun.
697
00:46:21,864 --> 00:46:23,964
I found a way in.
698
00:46:23,966 --> 00:46:24,498
Where?
699
00:46:24,500 --> 00:46:26,467
There's a small gap between
the wire and the north wall.
700
00:46:26,469 --> 00:46:28,702
You can only see
it from the roof.
701
00:46:28,704 --> 00:46:29,870
Okay. I'm listening.
702
00:46:29,872 --> 00:46:31,572
Why don't you send
Mallon to the roof.
703
00:46:31,574 --> 00:46:34,808
He can tell the boys to fire
while you and I crawl up.
704
00:46:34,810 --> 00:46:36,477
You bloody nuts?
705
00:46:36,479 --> 00:46:37,744
Even if we get
past that pillbox,
706
00:46:37,746 --> 00:46:39,012
how we gonna take out the 75?
707
00:46:39,014 --> 00:46:45,085
We have to get close,
fire flat like a bazooka.
708
00:46:46,489 --> 00:46:50,991
It's only a matter of time till
German reinforcements show up.
709
00:46:50,993 --> 00:46:55,629
I only have five rounds.
We have to get close.
710
00:46:55,631 --> 00:46:58,499
We hit'em point-blank.
711
00:46:58,501 --> 00:47:01,001
It'll work.
712
00:47:02,671 --> 00:47:04,171
Let's do it.
713
00:47:04,173 --> 00:47:06,673
Ross, you fire on
Mallon's signal.
714
00:47:06,675 --> 00:47:08,775
Let's go.
715
00:47:08,777 --> 00:47:10,777
Alright.
716
00:47:10,779 --> 00:47:11,279
♪
717
00:47:15,551 --> 00:47:18,619
As the battle raged overhead,
I could hear the enemy.
718
00:47:18,621 --> 00:47:22,823
Nein! Dis en ein d'cessant.
719
00:47:45,581 --> 00:47:53,581
SPEAKING IN GERMAN
720
00:47:56,191 --> 00:47:56,691
♪
721
00:48:13,075 --> 00:48:15,309
We had taken the command post,
722
00:48:15,311 --> 00:48:18,946
above ground,
everything had gone quiet.
723
00:48:18,948 --> 00:48:22,282
I figured either my men
had taken the beach,
724
00:48:22,284 --> 00:48:25,652
or they were dead.
725
00:48:27,856 --> 00:48:31,592
MacPhee and I made our
way to the stone wall.
726
00:48:31,594 --> 00:48:34,928
♪
727
00:48:34,930 --> 00:48:39,032
This would be our only chance
to take out the main gun.
728
00:48:39,034 --> 00:48:39,967
From the roof,
729
00:48:39,969 --> 00:48:44,304
Mallon would give the
signal for our guys to open up.
730
00:48:44,306 --> 00:48:44,806
♪
731
00:49:56,078 --> 00:49:58,378
We snaked along the path
through the minefield.
732
00:49:58,380 --> 00:49:59,913
Toward their gun.
733
00:49:59,915 --> 00:50:01,815
We needed to get the mortar
close enough
734
00:50:01,817 --> 00:50:03,383
to fire it point blank.
735
00:50:03,385 --> 00:50:04,351
We couldn't afford to miss.
736
00:50:04,353 --> 00:50:08,422
We gotta get out front.
Brace on the tree.
737
00:50:10,426 --> 00:50:12,793
Ready?
738
00:50:14,096 --> 00:50:16,029
Go!
739
00:50:16,031 --> 00:50:18,999
♪
740
00:50:28,744 --> 00:50:30,177
Ready!
741
00:50:41,190 --> 00:50:43,457
Don't shoot. We surrender.
742
00:50:43,459 --> 00:50:45,392
Drop your weapons.
743
00:50:45,394 --> 00:50:47,160
We surrender.
744
00:50:49,331 --> 00:50:52,065
The German garrison at
Varaville had us outnumbered.
745
00:50:52,067 --> 00:50:54,301
But we took out their gun,
Hands up, hands up, hands up.
746
00:50:54,303 --> 00:50:57,204
We captured more than
eighty prisoners.
747
00:50:57,206 --> 00:50:58,805
We radioed the
code word, 'Blood'.
748
00:50:58,807 --> 00:51:04,778
It meant 'C' Company, the first
Canadian parachute battalion
749
00:51:04,780 --> 00:51:07,481
had completed the mission.
750
00:51:07,483 --> 00:51:10,016
Bitte! Bitte! Bitte!
751
00:51:12,221 --> 00:51:14,488
We surrender.
752
00:51:20,763 --> 00:51:23,063
Our tank made it off the beach.
753
00:51:23,065 --> 00:51:24,464
And into town.
754
00:51:24,466 --> 00:51:29,136
The fighting was
street to street.
755
00:51:29,138 --> 00:51:31,071
House to house.
756
00:51:31,073 --> 00:51:32,372
Dirty fighting.
757
00:51:32,374 --> 00:51:35,976
The place was
crawling with snipers.
758
00:51:38,781 --> 00:51:42,282
We hated snipers.
759
00:51:42,284 --> 00:51:46,386
You caught one, you
didn't take prisoners.
760
00:51:46,388 --> 00:51:50,891
We made it through town
supporting the infantry.
761
00:51:50,893 --> 00:51:54,961
Then headed to our
next objective.
762
00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:14,548
We stopped in the
French countryside.
763
00:52:14,550 --> 00:52:19,553
You could hear the
war in the distance.
764
00:52:19,555 --> 00:52:24,958
But here, everything was calm.
765
00:52:29,364 --> 00:52:33,433
Three, this is three,
three alpha over.
766
00:52:33,435 --> 00:52:38,305
Three, this is three,
three alpha over.
767
00:52:38,307 --> 00:52:43,376
For a few minutes the war
seemed a long way a way.
768
00:52:43,378 --> 00:52:45,078
Nice eh?
769
00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:45,580
♪
770
00:53:01,396 --> 00:53:01,962
Sarge!
771
00:53:01,964 --> 00:53:04,331
The C.O. Wants us to rendezvous
at a crossroads,
772
00:53:04,333 --> 00:53:05,098
a mile up-road.
773
00:53:05,100 --> 00:53:12,072
One other thing, our
troop, number three troupe,
774
00:53:12,074 --> 00:53:16,209
we're the only ones left.
775
00:53:16,211 --> 00:53:16,711
♪
776
00:53:21,216 --> 00:53:22,482
Let's saddle up.
777
00:53:22,484 --> 00:53:26,419
Out of all the tanks
in our squadron,
778
00:53:26,421 --> 00:53:30,357
we were the only troupe left.
779
00:53:30,359 --> 00:53:30,859
♪
780
00:53:36,265 --> 00:53:37,931
McGinnis!
781
00:53:37,933 --> 00:53:41,434
Start us up.
782
00:54:00,222 --> 00:54:02,589
On our way to
the rendezvous we learned
783
00:54:02,591 --> 00:54:05,558
that snipers had killed
a number of our comrades.
784
00:54:05,560 --> 00:54:09,396
Friends of mine
from the same unit.
785
00:54:19,107 --> 00:54:20,106
Sniper.
786
00:54:20,108 --> 00:54:21,608
See anything?
787
00:54:21,610 --> 00:54:22,709
Farmhouse.
788
00:54:22,711 --> 00:54:25,712
Second floor!
789
00:54:25,714 --> 00:54:28,048
There's movement in the window.
790
00:54:28,050 --> 00:54:30,116
McGinnis. Take us in.
791
00:54:30,118 --> 00:54:31,151
It's just a sniper.
792
00:54:31,153 --> 00:54:33,219
That bastard just shot at me.
793
00:54:33,221 --> 00:54:34,354
Nells! One round HE.
794
00:54:34,356 --> 00:54:37,257
Nells could radio it in.
Let the infantry deal with it.
795
00:54:37,259 --> 00:54:40,260
I said take us in.
That is a Goddamned Order!
796
00:54:40,262 --> 00:54:46,166
Maybe I wasn't rational.
Maybe I was angry.
797
00:54:46,168 --> 00:54:46,668
♪
798
00:54:53,342 --> 00:54:55,709
So we went in.
799
00:54:55,711 --> 00:54:56,211
♪
800
00:55:06,722 --> 00:55:10,423
Hit the farmhouse.
Load one round HE.
801
00:55:10,425 --> 00:55:12,158
We're loaded.
802
00:55:12,160 --> 00:55:14,594
Fire!
803
00:55:14,596 --> 00:55:15,595
Sir!
804
00:55:15,597 --> 00:55:16,663
FIRE!
805
00:55:16,665 --> 00:55:17,230
SIR!
806
00:55:17,232 --> 00:55:18,631
What the hell are
you waiting for?
807
00:55:18,633 --> 00:55:21,234
There's people-Civilians
808
00:55:21,236 --> 00:55:25,071
I'll do it myself!
809
00:55:26,441 --> 00:55:28,375
Monsieur! Monsieur!
810
00:55:36,218 --> 00:55:36,718
♪
811
00:55:46,395 --> 00:55:46,895
♪
812
00:56:04,613 --> 00:56:05,113
♪
813
00:56:39,848 --> 00:56:43,750
Sarge, we gotta go.
814
00:56:43,752 --> 00:56:45,418
Leo!
815
00:56:45,420 --> 00:56:51,224
This sniper, she was
just nineteen years old.
816
00:56:51,226 --> 00:56:56,396
Her German fiancée had
been killed that morning.
817
00:56:56,398 --> 00:57:00,700
I had done my best
to protect my men.
818
00:57:00,702 --> 00:57:02,869
To make our objective.
819
00:57:02,871 --> 00:57:05,538
And to come through
in one piece.
820
00:57:05,540 --> 00:57:10,643
But the victory, well,
comes at a price.
821
00:57:10,645 --> 00:57:15,381
What happened, Sarge?
Did you get'im?
822
00:57:15,383 --> 00:57:19,586
Hey. What happened?
823
00:57:22,858 --> 00:57:26,392
Driver. Let's go.
824
00:57:26,394 --> 00:57:26,894
♪
825
00:57:43,178 --> 00:57:45,545
We had broken through
the first line
826
00:57:45,547 --> 00:57:48,181
of German defense on Juno beach.
827
00:57:48,183 --> 00:57:51,351
Hitler's Atlantic wall
was finally breached.
828
00:57:51,353 --> 00:57:55,221
For many of the German
prisoners, we captured,
829
00:57:55,223 --> 00:57:57,323
their war was over.
830
00:57:57,325 --> 00:58:03,696
But for many of my men,
they had lost so much more.
831
00:58:03,698 --> 00:58:04,198
♪
832
00:58:15,577 --> 00:58:17,744
In there, move.
833
00:58:17,746 --> 00:58:19,445
Sit!
834
00:58:24,586 --> 00:58:26,352
On your knees!
835
00:58:32,394 --> 00:58:35,762
You goddamned sonovabitches!
836
00:58:35,764 --> 00:58:37,230
Canesmen!
837
00:58:37,232 --> 00:58:39,465
These basterds!
838
00:58:39,467 --> 00:58:41,434
Canesmen!
839
00:58:41,436 --> 00:58:44,504
They killed Apple.
840
00:58:44,506 --> 00:58:45,006
♪
841
00:58:49,477 --> 00:58:51,744
ARGH!
842
00:58:51,746 --> 00:58:53,613
Easy.
843
00:58:53,615 --> 00:58:56,883
Easy brother.
844
00:59:02,557 --> 00:59:04,824
He was just a kid.
845
00:59:08,563 --> 00:59:11,464
He was just a kid.
846
00:59:11,466 --> 00:59:11,966
♪
847
00:59:20,308 --> 00:59:25,945
Lieutenant Grayson.
He took this bunker by himself.
848
00:59:25,947 --> 00:59:26,746
You shoulda seen'im I-
849
00:59:26,748 --> 00:59:30,250
Sarge and I were
just along for the ride.
850
00:59:30,252 --> 00:59:31,951
You shoulda seen it.
851
00:59:31,953 --> 00:59:36,456
All by himself.
852
00:59:41,630 --> 00:59:43,496
By mid-morning,
The Regina Rifles,
853
00:59:43,498 --> 00:59:45,665
with support from the tanks
of the first Tsares
854
00:59:45,667 --> 00:59:51,671
became the first allied unit to
secure a beach head on D-Day.
855
00:59:54,843 --> 00:59:57,944
Many of the men,
many of my friends,
856
00:59:57,946 --> 01:00:00,480
paid for the victory
with their lives.
857
01:00:00,482 --> 01:00:04,550
Of the one hundred and
ten men of 'A' Company,
858
01:00:04,552 --> 01:00:09,555
only seventeen of us
made it off Juno Beach.
859
01:00:09,557 --> 01:00:10,057
♪
860
01:00:59,741 --> 01:01:01,741
Sir.
861
01:01:01,743 --> 01:01:05,078
Lieutenant Grayson!
862
01:01:05,080 --> 01:01:09,415
What now?
863
01:01:11,019 --> 01:01:14,620
Get the men, let's go.
864
01:01:14,622 --> 01:01:16,823
Yes sir.
865
01:01:35,844 --> 01:01:36,344
♪
866
01:02:11,846 --> 01:02:14,614
This footage of Canadian
troops storming Juno,
867
01:02:14,616 --> 01:02:18,818
was amongst the first images
of D-Day seen around the world.
868
01:02:18,820 --> 01:02:23,089
On that day our troops pushed
further into France
869
01:02:23,091 --> 01:02:27,660
than any other allied Army.
870
01:02:27,662 --> 01:02:29,929
The battle of
Normandy had just begun,
871
01:02:29,931 --> 01:02:32,632
but within a year,
Hitler would be defeated.
872
01:02:32,634 --> 01:02:38,871
Of the sixteen thousand
Canadians who landed on D-Day,
873
01:02:38,873 --> 01:02:44,944
almost one thousand men
were killed or wounded.
874
01:02:44,946 --> 01:02:45,446
♪
875
01:03:57,619 --> 01:04:00,186
♪
876
01:04:00,188 --> 01:04:03,723
Sometimes I wake my
wife up with my talk.
877
01:04:05,293 --> 01:04:08,561
So she tells me in the morning,
878
01:04:08,563 --> 01:04:10,630
but yeah I dream a lot.
879
01:04:10,632 --> 01:04:13,833
I talked to a fella
this morning down there.
880
01:04:13,835 --> 01:04:16,702
Same thing, it never leaves us.
881
01:04:16,704 --> 01:04:19,038
I can close my eyes and,
882
01:04:19,040 --> 01:04:21,641
and just see pictures.
883
01:04:21,643 --> 01:04:22,143
♪
884
01:04:25,947 --> 01:04:27,113
I've tried to forget and
885
01:04:27,115 --> 01:04:31,083
it's been over sixty years so
886
01:04:31,085 --> 01:04:33,853
a few things fade away,
887
01:04:33,855 --> 01:04:35,821
but then something happens or
888
01:04:35,823 --> 01:04:37,557
questions are asked that ah,
889
01:04:37,559 --> 01:04:41,594
relive the situation.
890
01:04:41,596 --> 01:04:44,931
Some terrible things
way back in there.
891
01:04:44,933 --> 01:04:47,166
That we just don't talk about.
892
01:04:49,971 --> 01:04:53,739
I don't know, just
a feeling I have,
893
01:04:53,741 --> 01:04:58,244
that I was supposed to be there.
894
01:04:58,246 --> 01:04:59,745
And I was.
895
01:04:59,747 --> 01:05:02,181
Well I'm glad I was there, but
896
01:05:02,183 --> 01:05:04,917
I don't want to go back.
897
01:05:04,919 --> 01:05:07,687
Where do I start you know?
898
01:05:07,689 --> 01:05:10,222
I gotta start thinking back.
899
01:05:10,224 --> 01:05:12,058
Y-you come up with that saying,
900
01:05:12,060 --> 01:05:14,594
it's hard to remember which,
901
01:05:14,596 --> 01:05:16,796
what you, tried to forget.
902
01:05:17,999 --> 01:05:18,499
♪
903
01:05:36,317 --> 01:05:38,184
I took part of
the biggest Armada
904
01:05:38,186 --> 01:05:41,020
that ever sailed the sea.
905
01:05:41,022 --> 01:05:42,221
♪
906
01:05:42,223 --> 01:05:46,192
Ah, you could almost
walk to f-France.
907
01:05:46,194 --> 01:05:50,262
Jump from one piece of
equipment to another.
908
01:05:50,264 --> 01:05:50,764
♪
909
01:05:54,969 --> 01:05:57,336
I was ah, section leader,
910
01:05:57,338 --> 01:05:59,639
and I was in 'B' Company...
911
01:05:59,641 --> 01:06:03,643
...And it was with,
I had twelve platoon.
912
01:06:03,645 --> 01:06:06,646
And ah, that's twelve men,
913
01:06:06,648 --> 01:06:08,381
you were just like a,
914
01:06:08,383 --> 01:06:10,850
their Father or p-pretty well,
915
01:06:10,852 --> 01:06:13,953
it was quite a responsibility.
916
01:06:13,955 --> 01:06:17,790
You know the big
adventure for us?
917
01:06:17,792 --> 01:06:19,191
To leave home...
918
01:06:19,193 --> 01:06:20,426
a-and be out on our own
919
01:06:20,428 --> 01:06:23,896
really in a sense.
920
01:06:23,898 --> 01:06:26,399
So I-it was exciting for us.
921
01:06:26,401 --> 01:06:29,935
It was sort of, it felt
it was a duty to do.
922
01:06:29,937 --> 01:06:31,337
That was ah, and
923
01:06:31,339 --> 01:06:34,306
there's so many men,
out of work,
924
01:06:34,308 --> 01:06:36,942
they had nothing and
what else could they do
925
01:06:36,944 --> 01:06:41,213
if the government isn't going
to do anything for you?
926
01:06:41,215 --> 01:06:42,248
Join up.
927
01:06:42,250 --> 01:06:46,185
I Took my first
opportunity to go and join.
928
01:06:46,187 --> 01:06:49,255
I have a brother who
was killed, in Italy.
929
01:06:49,257 --> 01:06:54,226
I was mad, swore I'd get me a,
930
01:06:54,228 --> 01:06:56,328
kill me a German.
931
01:06:56,864 --> 01:06:58,898
We're all there for
the same reason.
932
01:06:58,900 --> 01:06:59,899
We had to be.
933
01:06:59,901 --> 01:07:02,702
In this thing together, and
the quicker we get out of it,
934
01:07:02,704 --> 01:07:05,871
the better you know?
935
01:07:05,873 --> 01:07:06,373
♪
936
01:07:12,880 --> 01:07:16,949
It was really quiet,
there was nothing said,
937
01:07:16,951 --> 01:07:19,452
just one of those
things, if you,
938
01:07:19,454 --> 01:07:21,721
you had this job to do and
939
01:07:21,723 --> 01:07:25,224
you just kept it to yourself.
940
01:07:25,226 --> 01:07:25,491
♪
941
01:07:25,493 --> 01:07:28,828
Well I think a lot of thinking
and a lot of praying.
942
01:07:29,230 --> 01:07:31,063
Oh, we had to
sleep some but we -
943
01:07:31,065 --> 01:07:35,234
you didn't sleep that much
with that on your mind
944
01:07:35,236 --> 01:07:36,202
knowing the -
945
01:07:36,204 --> 01:07:42,041
what might happen,
what could happen.
946
01:07:42,043 --> 01:07:42,775
The night before,
947
01:07:42,777 --> 01:07:45,411
we got instructions to
write our last letter home.
948
01:07:45,413 --> 01:07:48,347
I was married, young, just,
949
01:07:48,349 --> 01:07:50,049
just just married.
950
01:07:50,051 --> 01:07:51,283
Very young and very -
951
01:07:51,285 --> 01:07:53,953
and who do you
send the letter to,
952
01:07:53,955 --> 01:07:55,020
your mom and dad?
953
01:07:55,022 --> 01:07:56,021
Or your wife?
954
01:07:56,023 --> 01:07:58,257
I addressed it to all of them.
955
01:07:58,259 --> 01:08:01,460
That's a hell of a
letter to have to write.
956
01:08:01,462 --> 01:08:05,164
♪
957
01:08:05,166 --> 01:08:08,234
That channel, I don't
know if you know it,
958
01:08:08,236 --> 01:08:10,836
but it can be rough
at the best of times.
959
01:08:10,838 --> 01:08:14,006
But it was very rough.
960
01:08:14,008 --> 01:08:15,274
Horrible rough.
961
01:08:15,276 --> 01:08:20,079
Everybody including myself
was sea-sick right now.
962
01:08:20,081 --> 01:08:21,347
The big ah... ships
963
01:08:21,349 --> 01:08:24,316
the destroyers and
the ah, battleships,
964
01:08:24,318 --> 01:08:29,288
opened up a tremendous
crescendo that -
965
01:08:29,290 --> 01:08:32,358
that's why I'm wearing two
hearing aids now.
966
01:08:42,837 --> 01:08:45,905
We had to crawl down,
I don't know how many,
967
01:08:45,907 --> 01:08:47,573
maybe twenty or thirty feet,
968
01:08:47,575 --> 01:08:50,209
on these scramble nets,
969
01:08:50,211 --> 01:08:52,411
and you had to be
very careful because
970
01:08:52,413 --> 01:08:56,382
the water was so rough
that when the waves come
971
01:08:56,384 --> 01:08:59,218
it would lift the landing
craft a way up and,
972
01:08:59,220 --> 01:09:01,287
and then let it down and
you had to make sure that
973
01:09:01,289 --> 01:09:05,057
you didn't get
squashed between the
974
01:09:05,059 --> 01:09:07,359
landing craft and the ship.
975
01:09:11,165 --> 01:09:16,268
Right behind me,
the Battleship Rodney sat,
976
01:09:16,270 --> 01:09:20,339
and every time
the gun was fired,
977
01:09:20,341 --> 01:09:22,041
the recoil eh?
978
01:09:22,043 --> 01:09:23,542
And every time you came forward,
979
01:09:23,544 --> 01:09:26,846
he sent a twenty foot wave.
980
01:09:26,848 --> 01:09:29,048
That little barge
I was on just went
981
01:09:29,050 --> 01:09:31,383
twenty feet up and
twenty feet down.
982
01:09:31,385 --> 01:09:32,218
I'll never forget it.
983
01:09:32,220 --> 01:09:33,919
And I think maybe that's
why I was so damn sick,
984
01:09:33,921 --> 01:09:37,356
I didn't give a damn if I
made it to France or not.
985
01:09:37,358 --> 01:09:39,358
We had bottles of rum...
986
01:09:39,360 --> 01:09:43,095
and it was passed
along both sides,
987
01:09:43,097 --> 01:09:45,965
and ah, everybody
took a swig you know,
988
01:09:45,967 --> 01:09:47,967
and when that one went empty,
989
01:09:47,969 --> 01:09:50,569
another one came on.
990
01:09:50,571 --> 01:09:54,573
We're, I don't
wanna use this word,
991
01:09:54,575 --> 01:09:57,443
but we were more
than half pissed
992
01:09:57,445 --> 01:10:00,446
when we hit the beaches.
993
01:10:04,585 --> 01:10:06,652
There was lots of a fellas,
994
01:10:06,654 --> 01:10:08,087
that had trained for two years
995
01:10:08,089 --> 01:10:10,289
and never touched the beach.
996
01:10:10,291 --> 01:10:14,059
They were dead before they
ever touched the beach.
997
01:10:14,061 --> 01:10:16,962
I watched when they hit a mine,
998
01:10:16,964 --> 01:10:18,497
and I just happened to be
looking that way and
999
01:10:18,499 --> 01:10:21,200
all of a sudden
everything just big,
1000
01:10:21,202 --> 01:10:24,236
big explosion.
They just went blank.
1001
01:10:24,238 --> 01:10:25,237
Black.
1002
01:10:25,239 --> 01:10:28,307
And two, you could
see two bodies
1003
01:10:28,309 --> 01:10:30,676
goin up in the air.
1004
01:10:31,545 --> 01:10:34,647
There was the ah, tanks.
1005
01:10:34,649 --> 01:10:37,182
I don't know if you ever
saw them and they were,
1006
01:10:37,184 --> 01:10:40,119
they floated and they and
they had curtained on them,
1007
01:10:40,121 --> 01:10:43,289
and they floated in so far.
1008
01:10:43,291 --> 01:10:44,390
♪
1009
01:10:44,392 --> 01:10:44,990
Amazing.
1010
01:10:44,992 --> 01:10:47,126
Floating them with
a forty ton tank,
1011
01:10:47,128 --> 01:10:49,261
with a couple a,
three or four air bubble
1012
01:10:49,263 --> 01:10:52,464
and coupla struts and you know,
1013
01:10:52,466 --> 01:10:54,300
not a good move.
1014
01:10:54,302 --> 01:10:58,003
The whole thing got hit
with a big wave or something
1015
01:10:58,005 --> 01:10:59,071
and down it would go.
1016
01:10:59,073 --> 01:11:01,440
Next went down, the same thing.
1017
01:11:01,442 --> 01:11:03,108
Too much heavy water.
1018
01:11:03,110 --> 01:11:06,345
Way too rough.
1019
01:11:06,347 --> 01:11:07,613
Wiped out right there.
1020
01:11:07,615 --> 01:11:10,983
Twenty-five men, five tanks.
1021
01:11:14,655 --> 01:11:17,990
Off of that tank
carrier that we were on,
1022
01:11:17,992 --> 01:11:22,594
there was five didn't
make it and our tank did.
1023
01:11:22,596 --> 01:11:23,096
♪
1024
01:11:26,734 --> 01:11:29,001
You're scared stiff,
1025
01:11:29,003 --> 01:11:32,237
and you can't tell
it to anybody.
1026
01:11:32,239 --> 01:11:34,073
Everybody feels like you do.
1027
01:11:34,075 --> 01:11:38,243
You, that's a-it's a
helluva situation really.
1028
01:11:38,245 --> 01:11:40,479
You know?
1029
01:11:40,481 --> 01:11:42,314
You're scared stiff.
1030
01:11:42,316 --> 01:11:44,350
And you just wondered,
1031
01:11:44,352 --> 01:11:46,585
if, is, is this it?
1032
01:11:54,195 --> 01:11:56,562
That moment,
1033
01:11:56,564 --> 01:12:00,165
is, is when you realize then,
1034
01:12:00,167 --> 01:12:03,268
you realize then
it was for real.
1035
01:12:03,771 --> 01:12:05,337
I've always said, you either,
1036
01:12:05,339 --> 01:12:09,742
grew up that day,
or you didn't grow up at all.
1037
01:12:12,646 --> 01:12:13,146
♪
1038
01:12:31,565 --> 01:12:32,364
You were trained,
1039
01:12:32,366 --> 01:12:34,066
just as soon as
that door opened,
1040
01:12:34,068 --> 01:12:36,435
you jumped out into the water,
1041
01:12:36,437 --> 01:12:37,569
and you headed for the beach
1042
01:12:37,571 --> 01:12:40,739
just as quick as
you could get there.
1043
01:12:40,741 --> 01:12:44,510
In case they had their
guns aimed at you well,
1044
01:12:44,512 --> 01:12:48,080
they could just kill
all you before you,
1045
01:12:48,082 --> 01:12:49,815
as you were coming out.
1046
01:12:49,817 --> 01:12:53,452
The first fellow,
he got up and...
1047
01:12:53,454 --> 01:12:58,223
He got hit, and he fell
off into the water.
1048
01:12:59,593 --> 01:13:01,593
And the second guy he,
1049
01:13:01,595 --> 01:13:02,661
he got hit in the arm
1050
01:13:02,663 --> 01:13:06,465
and he laid on
the gangplank there,
1051
01:13:06,467 --> 01:13:09,601
and then it was my turn.
1052
01:13:09,603 --> 01:13:11,503
I was the third guy out.
1053
01:13:11,505 --> 01:13:14,606
Well they had to holler
at me a couple of times,
1054
01:13:14,608 --> 01:13:16,675
cause I was, I was petrified,
1055
01:13:16,677 --> 01:13:19,445
I couldn't move you know?
1056
01:13:20,514 --> 01:13:22,314
When you get up to
your chest pretty well,
1057
01:13:22,316 --> 01:13:25,384
and you get a big wave and
you it pushes you forward,
1058
01:13:25,386 --> 01:13:29,721
and then when it back,
it pulls you back again.
1059
01:13:29,723 --> 01:13:32,558
It was really
hard to get ahead to
1060
01:13:32,560 --> 01:13:35,461
get onto the beach.
1061
01:13:35,463 --> 01:13:37,563
♪
1062
01:13:37,565 --> 01:13:41,500
I waded past a couple of
bodies already floating.
1063
01:13:41,502 --> 01:13:43,836
I hit the ground running,
1064
01:13:43,838 --> 01:13:46,505
I could see the sand kicking up
1065
01:13:46,507 --> 01:13:47,739
where the bullets
were hitting them.
1066
01:13:47,741 --> 01:13:51,677
And I just kept
running like hell.
1067
01:13:53,214 --> 01:13:56,215
I was too stupid to be scared.
1068
01:13:56,217 --> 01:13:56,882
If you get hit well then,
1069
01:13:56,884 --> 01:14:01,120
that's the time
to start screaming.
1070
01:14:01,122 --> 01:14:01,622
♪
1071
01:14:05,159 --> 01:14:06,525
These guys were peppering us,
1072
01:14:06,527 --> 01:14:11,797
they had concrete
pillboxes all over.
1073
01:14:11,799 --> 01:14:13,599
They had their...
1074
01:14:13,601 --> 01:14:16,668
Smizer and T42,
1075
01:14:16,670 --> 01:14:22,741
fast, a fast fast belt fed gun.
1076
01:14:22,743 --> 01:14:26,311
Just a 'sbrrrmpf', like that.
1077
01:14:26,313 --> 01:14:29,648
'Sbrrrmpf' they were fast.
1078
01:14:33,921 --> 01:14:36,155
At the time where you get hit,
1079
01:14:36,157 --> 01:14:38,757
it's more of a shock,
it doesn't hurt,
1080
01:14:38,759 --> 01:14:40,792
but I couldn't stand up,
1081
01:14:40,794 --> 01:14:42,694
I couldn't run,
I couldn't walk, I,
1082
01:14:42,696 --> 01:14:46,165
the only way I could
maneuver is crawl.
1083
01:14:46,167 --> 01:14:48,634
Or wait till the tide
pushed me up a little.
1084
01:14:48,636 --> 01:14:55,307
Cause the tide was
coming in all the time.
1085
01:14:55,309 --> 01:14:57,743
I was scared.
1086
01:14:59,613 --> 01:15:01,380
I tell ya,
1087
01:15:01,382 --> 01:15:04,183
I was really really scared.
1088
01:15:04,185 --> 01:15:08,620
But you had to go forward.
1089
01:15:08,622 --> 01:15:09,122
♪
1090
01:15:21,402 --> 01:15:24,870
I bet, bet there's
eight or ten people
1091
01:15:24,872 --> 01:15:27,472
layin there face
down in the water.
1092
01:15:28,275 --> 01:15:29,875
Regina Rifle boys.
1093
01:15:29,877 --> 01:15:31,610
Shot right on the beach, ya?
1094
01:15:31,612 --> 01:15:34,780
You can't stop and
pick those guys up.
1095
01:15:37,418 --> 01:15:39,284
It wasn't pretty.
1096
01:15:39,286 --> 01:15:41,720
Never forget it. Yeah.
1097
01:15:41,722 --> 01:15:42,222
♪
1098
01:15:47,995 --> 01:15:51,330
I reached the ah, sea-wall,
1099
01:15:51,332 --> 01:15:53,498
I could see everything unfolding
1100
01:15:53,500 --> 01:15:56,668
like a giant landscape,
1101
01:15:56,670 --> 01:15:57,502
in front of me there.
1102
01:15:57,504 --> 01:15:59,938
I could see guys running around.
1103
01:15:59,940 --> 01:16:03,709
Guys screaming,
1104
01:16:03,711 --> 01:16:05,677
guys crying.
1105
01:16:05,679 --> 01:16:07,012
One man was waving a bible
1106
01:16:07,014 --> 01:16:11,250
and screaming for his mother.
1107
01:16:11,252 --> 01:16:11,752
♪
1108
01:16:19,326 --> 01:16:21,493
I seen like this tank,
1109
01:16:21,495 --> 01:16:23,028
what they call a flail tank,
1110
01:16:23,030 --> 01:16:24,763
big chains in front of it,
1111
01:16:24,765 --> 01:16:27,032
turning and they're
blowing up the mines
1112
01:16:27,034 --> 01:16:28,767
as they go up the beach.
1113
01:16:28,769 --> 01:16:32,838
So I followed him up
the beach, went on.
1114
01:16:34,942 --> 01:16:38,043
When we got tracks on France,
1115
01:16:38,045 --> 01:16:40,312
we just drove maybe a couple of
1116
01:16:40,314 --> 01:16:41,980
tank-lengths out of the water,
1117
01:16:41,982 --> 01:16:45,050
all of a sudden
I hear this, ping,
1118
01:16:45,052 --> 01:16:47,653
like a sniper's shot,
1119
01:16:47,655 --> 01:16:50,022
from... and we looked around,
1120
01:16:50,024 --> 01:16:54,293
we saw this church steeple,
1121
01:16:54,295 --> 01:16:54,993
that's where he's at.
1122
01:16:54,995 --> 01:16:58,764
The order was, I'm still here,
1123
01:16:58,766 --> 01:17:03,669
"Gunner, driver's
left, steady on.
1124
01:17:03,671 --> 01:17:04,870
Church Steeple.
1125
01:17:04,872 --> 01:17:06,772
You're on, got it.
1126
01:17:06,774 --> 01:17:08,940
Fire, when ready."
1127
01:17:08,942 --> 01:17:12,544
♪
1128
01:17:12,546 --> 01:17:15,881
We took care of him and um
from then it was go forward.
1129
01:17:17,918 --> 01:17:22,421
Our section would have to
clean out this one pillbox,
1130
01:17:22,423 --> 01:17:25,324
that was our, particular job.
1131
01:17:25,326 --> 01:17:26,858
We didn't want to be
1132
01:17:26,860 --> 01:17:29,494
together because of a shell hit,
1133
01:17:29,496 --> 01:17:31,330
we'd, we'd all get killed so we,
1134
01:17:31,332 --> 01:17:34,066
had to kind of
space ourselves out.
1135
01:17:34,335 --> 01:17:37,769
You just kept going till
you hit that first line.
1136
01:17:39,606 --> 01:17:41,973
We threw in a hand
grenade first,
1137
01:17:41,975 --> 01:17:44,042
and just as soon as that
explodes you rushed in
1138
01:17:44,044 --> 01:17:46,411
the back door and then
the thing you just
1139
01:17:46,413 --> 01:17:48,080
sprayed it, sprayed it,
1140
01:17:48,082 --> 01:17:50,449
anything that
moved with bullets.
1141
01:17:50,451 --> 01:17:51,917
And the a-h-h-and
ah, that was it.
1142
01:17:51,919 --> 01:17:55,053
Anyone that
ha-that was had a gun
1143
01:17:55,055 --> 01:17:59,524
and and wave it around
there was no hope for him.
1144
01:17:59,526 --> 01:18:02,728
It's either you or him.
1145
01:18:03,731 --> 01:18:07,432
Sergeant Snider said
the first guy he shot,
1146
01:18:07,434 --> 01:18:11,403
he had given up
and kept hollering,
1147
01:18:11,405 --> 01:18:13,372
"comrade, comrade!"
1148
01:18:13,374 --> 01:18:16,108
And he said,
"I shot him anyway."
1149
01:18:16,110 --> 01:18:21,680
He said, "There was still a
lot of fight left in him."
1150
01:18:21,682 --> 01:18:23,882
He said.
1151
01:18:25,018 --> 01:18:26,785
You know it's a
hard thing to say
1152
01:18:26,787 --> 01:18:30,889
but they said that there
was no way we could
1153
01:18:30,891 --> 01:18:32,424
take prisoners because there was
1154
01:18:32,426 --> 01:18:34,826
no place to put them.
1155
01:18:34,828 --> 01:18:37,028
If there a German come
out, it didn't matter,
1156
01:18:37,030 --> 01:18:38,764
you disposed of him,
that was just it, till,
1157
01:18:38,766 --> 01:18:41,666
cause you had to clean
everything out of the way
1158
01:18:41,668 --> 01:18:46,037
so the next wave of soldiers
could come through.
1159
01:18:46,039 --> 01:18:49,741
And ah, that's ah,
the way it was.
1160
01:18:49,743 --> 01:18:55,046
And ah, how we ever got off
there without losing a man,
1161
01:18:55,048 --> 01:18:57,482
I'll...
1162
01:18:58,786 --> 01:18:59,286
♪
1163
01:19:33,220 --> 01:19:34,686
Some Germans, they were medics.
1164
01:19:34,688 --> 01:19:41,827
And I said, "first you're
going to do my men.
1165
01:19:41,829 --> 01:19:44,696
And he says "Nein."
1166
01:19:44,698 --> 01:19:45,230
He wouldn't do it.
1167
01:19:45,232 --> 01:19:49,534
And I says,
"and you gonna do me first."
1168
01:19:49,536 --> 01:19:52,003
And I told him, in german,
1169
01:19:52,005 --> 01:19:55,507
"ich bin ein Jude',
you know, I'm Jude -
1170
01:19:55,509 --> 01:20:00,011
and you're gonna do
what I tell ya. Or else!"
1171
01:20:00,013 --> 01:20:02,848
And I, there was a native guy
standing beside me,
1172
01:20:02,850 --> 01:20:07,519
and said, "lift your rifle,
aim at his head,
1173
01:20:07,521 --> 01:20:09,988
when you hear the word
'nein' coming from him,
1174
01:20:09,990 --> 01:20:12,157
don't wait for me, just
shoot the sonofabitch.
1175
01:20:12,159 --> 01:20:16,061
Don't wait for any orders."
1176
01:20:16,063 --> 01:20:19,831
And boy he was just ready to go,
you know he was...
1177
01:20:19,833 --> 01:20:23,735
And this guy started
to shake he was,
1178
01:20:23,737 --> 01:20:26,104
he was really scared of Natives.
1179
01:20:26,106 --> 01:20:29,107
He, he said, "okay,
okay, you know,
1180
01:20:29,109 --> 01:20:33,211
all of a sudden
he spoke English.
1181
01:20:34,214 --> 01:20:37,115
You don't even think about it.
1182
01:20:37,117 --> 01:20:38,250
The thing is,
1183
01:20:38,252 --> 01:20:41,286
you've been
trained so long that,
1184
01:20:41,288 --> 01:20:42,287
"destroy your enemy!"
1185
01:20:42,289 --> 01:20:45,223
anyone you can, and it,
1186
01:20:45,225 --> 01:20:48,994
you have no emotions
at all really.
1187
01:20:48,996 --> 01:20:51,963
But it's after,
1188
01:20:51,965 --> 01:20:54,232
I find it harder now,
1189
01:20:58,539 --> 01:21:03,575
to think he was a human
being, just like I was.
1190
01:21:04,778 --> 01:21:07,145
The only thing, he was doin,
1191
01:21:07,147 --> 01:21:09,848
the same thing
I was trained to do.
1192
01:21:09,850 --> 01:21:11,149
Protect his country, or protect
1193
01:21:11,151 --> 01:21:14,619
what he was supposed to protect.
1194
01:21:36,610 --> 01:21:38,643
It was a while before,
1195
01:21:38,645 --> 01:21:40,211
finally the shooting stopped,
1196
01:21:40,213 --> 01:21:43,582
and that's when my work started.
1197
01:21:43,584 --> 01:21:46,685
My job as pay-clerk,
1198
01:21:46,687 --> 01:21:48,320
was to record the,
1199
01:21:48,322 --> 01:21:51,656
the dead, everyday,
1200
01:21:51,658 --> 01:21:54,192
the pay had to stop the
minute a man was dead.
1201
01:21:54,194 --> 01:21:57,128
Everyone wasn't
going to pay an extra
1202
01:21:57,130 --> 01:21:59,631
nickle if they had to.
1203
01:21:59,633 --> 01:22:02,200
There were sixty-three bodies,
1204
01:22:02,202 --> 01:22:04,202
lined up on one side.
1205
01:22:04,204 --> 01:22:06,871
And the burial
parties removed the
1206
01:22:06,873 --> 01:22:09,608
lower half of their dog-tags.
1207
01:22:09,610 --> 01:22:13,645
They put em in a box,
and brought them over to me.
1208
01:22:14,081 --> 01:22:18,917
My job was to enter
the name of the person.
1209
01:22:19,620 --> 01:22:21,653
I knew most of them.
1210
01:22:21,655 --> 01:22:24,689
Some of the men
I knew very well.
1211
01:22:24,691 --> 01:22:27,292
When I finished my job,
1212
01:22:27,294 --> 01:22:30,061
I went back to the seawall,
1213
01:22:30,063 --> 01:22:31,663
I sat down,
1214
01:22:31,665 --> 01:22:35,333
and I started to cry.
1215
01:22:35,335 --> 01:22:38,069
I never...
1216
01:22:38,071 --> 01:22:42,974
I never cried so
much in all my life.
1217
01:22:43,710 --> 01:22:47,345
Finally the paymaster
came over and says,
1218
01:22:47,347 --> 01:22:50,281
"it's time for us to move on."
1219
01:22:50,283 --> 01:22:53,785
And that was, that for D-Day.
1220
01:22:53,787 --> 01:22:54,287
♪
1221
01:23:00,327 --> 01:23:03,361
You know sometimes you wonder,
1222
01:23:03,363 --> 01:23:06,131
"what the heck am I doing here?"
1223
01:23:06,133 --> 01:23:07,032
Ya know?
1224
01:23:07,034 --> 01:23:09,100
I don't have to be here.
1225
01:23:09,102 --> 01:23:12,270
You know going through
this, and then you,
1226
01:23:12,272 --> 01:23:16,341
you liberate a
village, and then,
1227
01:23:16,343 --> 01:23:19,744
these people come out
from I don't know where.
1228
01:23:19,746 --> 01:23:23,815
They come out and then
you know why you're there.
1229
01:23:23,817 --> 01:23:24,317
♪
1230
01:24:11,465 --> 01:24:13,832
♪
1231
01:24:20,807 --> 01:24:22,040
Read the history books,
1232
01:24:22,042 --> 01:24:24,275
and the Americans won the war.
1233
01:24:24,277 --> 01:24:26,978
Oh sure, they,
they put a lot into it,
1234
01:24:26,980 --> 01:24:27,445
alright but,
1235
01:24:27,447 --> 01:24:30,982
the Canadians are
the ones that took the brunt
1236
01:24:30,984 --> 01:24:35,787
of a lot of the ah, ah, attacks.
1237
01:24:35,789 --> 01:24:36,421
And the Canadians were
1238
01:24:36,423 --> 01:24:39,324
always put inthat position, that -
1239
01:24:39,326 --> 01:24:42,193
because they were so good at it,
1240
01:24:42,195 --> 01:24:45,230
they were given that job.
1241
01:24:45,232 --> 01:24:48,366
Maybe it's just the
way the Canadians are,
1242
01:24:48,368 --> 01:24:51,369
when they get a job,
they go ahead and do it.
1243
01:24:51,371 --> 01:24:55,306
They say "well, w-we, we
gotta do it, let's do it!"
1244
01:24:57,310 --> 01:24:59,878
They thought we were
just a bunch of farmers.
1245
01:25:02,516 --> 01:25:04,215
But those farmers
1246
01:25:04,217 --> 01:25:07,986
turned out to be
good fighting men.
1247
01:25:07,988 --> 01:25:08,386
In fact,
1248
01:25:08,388 --> 01:25:12,824
we're the first regiment
to reach our objective.
1249
01:25:12,826 --> 01:25:14,993
You know it's all
over, you come home.
1250
01:25:14,995 --> 01:25:18,830
Uh, you sit up in bed some night
1251
01:25:18,832 --> 01:25:22,100
and y-y-you'll
1252
01:25:22,102 --> 01:25:24,402
l-live a little bit
more of it too.
1253
01:25:24,404 --> 01:25:25,537
Your wife kinda gets
tired of this
1254
01:25:25,539 --> 01:25:28,840
you jumping out of bed and
walking around the room
1255
01:25:28,842 --> 01:25:31,476
and come back in
in a bit, you know?
1256
01:25:31,478 --> 01:25:34,179
I-I don't know, ah,
1257
01:25:34,181 --> 01:25:35,380
I'm glad I was there.
1258
01:25:35,382 --> 01:25:36,481
I'm glad I witnessed it.
1259
01:25:36,483 --> 01:25:38,016
I'd a felt terrible if I -
1260
01:25:38,018 --> 01:25:42,453
if I hadn't taken part and
did something, you know?
1261
01:25:43,590 --> 01:25:45,490
Everybody pulled together,
1262
01:25:45,492 --> 01:25:47,926
it was only Joe, and Sam and.
1263
01:25:47,928 --> 01:25:50,829
Pete and Harvey.
1264
01:25:51,565 --> 01:25:54,265
I feel sorry for the little guy
1265
01:25:54,267 --> 01:25:56,568
and ah,
1266
01:25:56,570 --> 01:25:58,603
there was lots of
them in the Army.
1267
01:25:58,605 --> 01:26:01,206
That was all they had you know?
1268
01:26:01,208 --> 01:26:03,074
Yeah.
1269
01:26:08,882 --> 01:26:11,449
We stand for two minutes.
1270
01:26:11,451 --> 01:26:14,586
What did they stand for?
1271
01:26:14,588 --> 01:26:17,488
Sixty-five years.
1272
01:26:17,490 --> 01:26:20,558
Their whole life.
1273
01:26:21,561 --> 01:26:24,329
We, we came back,
1274
01:26:24,331 --> 01:26:25,496
we've enjoyed life,
1275
01:26:25,498 --> 01:26:27,432
we had a home,
1276
01:26:27,434 --> 01:26:29,868
had a wife and children,
1277
01:26:29,870 --> 01:26:33,171
they didn't.
1278
01:26:33,173 --> 01:26:37,108
They didn't have any of that.
1279
01:26:37,210 --> 01:26:43,014
But how often do
we think about it?
1280
01:26:43,016 --> 01:26:45,283
How often do we
1281
01:26:45,285 --> 01:26:48,586
think about our freedom really?
1282
01:26:48,588 --> 01:26:50,255
You know?
1283
01:26:50,257 --> 01:26:52,891
How often do you think
about your freedom?
1283
01:26:54,005 --> 01:27:00,076
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