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86, this is King Cobra. Come in 86. Over.

Hit it.

Lieutenant. Doc.

Kirby, Littlejohn. Give all you've got.

Hey. Lieutenant.

Jeeps.

-Who are they?

-Who cares.

I'm Lieutenant Hanley. 361st Infantry Regiment.

We want to thank you...

I am Colonel Aris Talese Kapsalis.

Attached British 2nd Army.

Where are your lines Lieut.

Here's my map sir.

-Our lines are...

-I like to read.

You and your men take seats in the jeeps.

I need gunners.

Yes sir. You got 'em.

Now we get Szigeti back.

Kirby. Help Doc load him on.

How's about hold this.

He stays.

He's wounded.

So. He cannot fight. The same as dead.

Well not to my way of thinking sir.

From the ridge, Lieut., I watch your way of thinking.

Now you save your pity for toothless tigers and dancing bears.

He has fought to his end, Lieut.

So we can fight to the end again.

Who does that CrackerJack prize think he is anyway.

I'd like my map please Colonel.

We'll make it our own way.

You have marked here, Rocket Fuel Depot.

Our objective.

And, do I understand you reach your objective.

We got a good look at it. That's all.

The map please, sir.

-Get in the jeep.

-I'm sorry sir.

Szigeti needs gunners worse than you do.

We'll stick with him.

Alright.

Alright. Him too.

Alright, load Szigeti. Get aboard.

You ride with me Lieut.

Ambroski, Statsis.

We're coming.

So you were sent to blow up the dump?

and you didn't, eh.

Our orders, Colonel, were to find the dump.

And we did.

Hey. You speak English?

Eat plenty hot dogs. Sauerkraut, Appley pie.

Ha ha ha. Hey. You Hot Dogs, me Kirby, him Littlejohn.

The most direct route to our line, sir, is over that hill.

Step by step.

Aired Sept.22, 1964

Hey, wrong turn. Our lines are that way.

I know.

Hey. Messerschmitt!

Looks like he's giving up.

Gonna call his buddies.

How is he?

Well, he's breathing.

He oughta be resting quiet behind our lines. We're not even heading that way.

Yeah Lieut. Where's that cowboy trying to take us anyway?

He's waking up.

Shoulda' heard him screaming out there when we were shooting the shoots.

Uh..Hey Lieut.

We hitched a ride, huh.

We sure did.

How we doing? Almost home?

Pretty close.

Stick with us. You'll make it.

If you say so.

I get carsick.

Can you tell Doc to give me another shot.

Sure.

Here you are, kid.

A needle full of feathers.

(gasp) Good service.

Can count on you, Lieut. Ah!

What is it, Lieut?

Yes sir. Just what is it Colonel?

You told us you were gonna take us back to our lines.

You turned around and went in the opposite direction.

I got a badly wounded man. He's gonna die if...

You've given us some vital information. I had to change my plans.

Just who are you people.

Ha ha well. We are Greeks.

Attached to the British army, and we uh, work behind the enemy lines.

We're American Army, sir.

We're not under your command.

Well the Court Marshal Board will tell you as follows.

When elements of allied armies meet on the battlefield,

eh, heading for the same objective

which ever element has the higher rank

that element will assume command.

My objective, Lieutenant,

is the enemy rocket fuel depot.

We have searched for it for 3 days.

And we will attack, when we are ready, huh?

Attack it! You can't even touch it.

Ha ha ha ha...Ha.

Well, I've yet to see the objective which I could not...penetrate.

Now look at this, Colonel.

This is a sketch I made from the hill where we spotted the depot.

Road blocks here. High barbed wire, there.

Tank traps, land mines everywhere.

We need planes, artillery. And they need this sketch.

We have no time.

The enemy is planning to evacuate the depot...tonight.

They're going to take all the rocket fuel far back from their front lines.

We caught a... a dispatcher.

You read German?

Lieutenant, I am telling the truth.

I'm sure you are sir.

So you see, I have no choice

but to attack, tonight.

Then you must remember I have a badly wounded man.

Szigeti needs a hospital.

One man, cannot be our concern.

Lieutenant?

Szigeti's dead sir.

Be with God. Be with God.

And now you no longer have...Szigeti.

We are leaving to attack the fuel depot.

Now listen, Lieutenant.

I am sorry about this man, but you now have no reason not to ride with us.

Hey Lieut. That plane must have reported in. We got visitors.

A whole truckload of them.

You want to break through them on foot, Lieut.

Or ride behind mounted machine guns.

He's a dirty old mad man.

I'll even wax his beaver for him if it helps us get out of this mess.

Alright Colonel.

We'll take a ride.

Is that uh, church, what's left of it...

That is the rocket fuel depot?

That's it.

It does not look too formidable.

To the right, there...

that's the guard detail, hidden under the trees.

Last night we saw men, trucks,

loading fuel, lots of it. Big canisters.

They got it hidden underground.

Stashed away in the crypts.

Hey, he's screwed. Lieut. Those krauts are just laying for us down there.

Haven't you heard, Kirby.

Krauts don't bother the Colonel.

Come on.

Ka-boom.

Hey.

You and your men get in the guns on the jeeps.

And you cover us while we converge on the crypt.

You understand, Lieut.

You'll never get within 100 yards of the church.

Wooden heads in the high places...

have been telling me that I would never reach my objective

ever since I started the jeep raiding.

You just, uh, manage the guns, huh.

And we shall see.

Hey. We got wounded men back there. Stop.

We'll stop when we find a place to hide.

We will stop here at this abandoned bunker.

That be all Lieut. Get them out of sight.

Colonel.

The man who was driving this jeep. He was killed.

Their's is for yesterday.

You'll be alright, Littlejohn.

Don't tell him that, Lieut.

This is war. He's supposed to suffer, ain't he.

Kirby. I've been suffering ever since you joined this outfit.

Your luck is...bad Lieut.

Every time you get a chance to walk back, something happens.

What happened wasn't luck, Colonel.

I told you this would happen.

What luck there is is that we're here at all.

You're a good soldier Lieut., you know.

Your men are good gunners and

Is that what you want me to say, Lieut.

Or do you want me to say that I'm sorry about the evening...

but I'm not sorry.

If sorrow could heal his leg and point his gun, then, I'm sorry.

When we starting back, sir?

Well, we're not.

Tonight we are going to destroy the fuel depot.

I just don't get through to you, do I?

Day or night, you can't get near that place...

not with what you got.

Well I'll, I'll find a way to get through, hmm.

Or kill yourself trying.

I repeat, you are a good soldier Lieut.

But you would be a better soldier if you would concern yourself more about living...

and less about dying.

Death is always..tomorrow.

What we get done before tomorrow comes..

That's what counts, Lieut.

Tonight..

Tonight we blow up the fuel depot, heh.

Bravo.

Aah.

Don't make any sense sometimes, huh Lieut.

He plans on blowing up that fuel depot, tonight.

He's crazy. Thing's tighter than Alcatraz.

You're not gonna listen to him, are you Lieut.

He's a Colonel, remember?

I wonder what that tastes like.

Better to have their leftovers than this stuff.

It won't do any good to think about it.

Cognac

German sausage and cheese.

Good and sweet.

Hey.

That's real friendly of them.

Take care Littlejohn.

Thank the Colonel, but no thanks.

...cognac

Brandy?

Brandy, Lieutenant.

Save your...

your anger Lieut.

Now you accept our hospitality, huh?

Thank you. You oughta let me test it first, Lieut.

You're too valuable. (Greek)

I think it's, okay.

Tell me, what'd be fun. Greeks, soon to be dance.

We dance? Where's the girls?

Colonel dance alone.

He dance fine.

Fight fine. Win many medals. Victoria cross, too.

He killed... 27 Germans at one time.

Quiet on cat's feet.

Sometimes before battle.

He think of village he cannot see no more.

It is thoughts for dancing.

Thought's dancing?

They taught him at Phistomo from where he was born.

Phistomo.

You mean the Greek village that got wiped out? He comes from there?

Look.

-Opa.

-Opa.

A fina vida via.

Opa.

Opa.

His thoughts tell him...

Dance.

Dance great soldier.

Dance in your great hell.

People called his village, Bloody Phistomo,

Because Nazis,

Stormtroopers in black uniforms

drive together all the men, the women and the children

into the houses and kill them all.

-Opa kapscelli,

-Opa,

-Opa.

1200 die

and the Nazis brought the houses

They moved the stones,

even tried to take the name off the map

-Opa kapscelli,

-Opa,

-Opa.

Leave only, flies and hills of dust

So dance great man

Dance, dance. You have no home when war is over

Dance

Opa, la laindey

Afait a billa bita

Opa.

Opa miinya

Opa.

Look at the way they're looking at him.

Like he was some kind of a god.

-Opa.

-Opa

Opa, la laindey

-Opa,

-Opa.

Atamma diia lenma

-Opa, la laindey.

-Opa.

Alte

-Atamma diia lenma

-Opa.

-Opa.

-Opa.

-Opa, ,etc, etc,

More..Opa.

And more Opa, etc.

Come Lieutenant. Dance. Dance.

Let your dreams gather before you.

Into the night, Come.

Together and alone, we dance

No thanks.

We disagree, as always,

So, we cannot dance.

Because, we do not understand each other.

But is that strange.

You are the New World

and we are the old.

-Opa!

-Opa.

So we need to dance

On the stage of war

In the presence of death

and what we learn from each other

That we are the same,

Neighbors, who

Death comes to bar the

cup of life

-Opa.

-Opa.

Zietooiat

Lieutenant.

It's time for a withdrawal

You rest and I will be back soon huh.

Can you put your weight on it?

No sweat.

I'll make it.

Lieutenant.

Kapsalis is coming back. Across the field.

Cover me.

Roll it. Let`s get outta here.

(jeep not starting)

Hey, come on. Come on. Get on this.

Doc.

Take a look at him.

He's hit pretty bad, Lieut.

We'll try to take him back to our lines.

Hot Dogs. Tell him we're starting back.

Mitau.

I'm still in command Lieut.

Colonel, these woods are gonna be crawling with krauts in a couple of minutes.

-We're going home.

-No.

I need one more man.

A gunner

Accurate as you.

Colonel, I don't have time to argue with you..

Listen!

We can do it after dark.

Forget it.

Then you forget my jeeps.

Go on, walk home.

These woods are crawling with Germans.

You can never take that man through on foot.

You need a gunner.

We need a jeep to get back.

I'll make you a trade, Colonel.

You let my men go off in one jeep...

I'll go with you in the other.

I accept.

You stay here, sir...

you're as good as dead.

Kirby, decoy them. Draw them off us.

Keep heading back to our lines.

Make sure you tell Captain Jampel the location of the depot.

Now move out.

-Lieut., you can't

-I said move out.

Remains quiet, huh.

A night for uh...

for greatness.

Or for dying.

We made a mistake today.

We needed the night.

We will ease down the hill

No mortars

and when we are close

everything.

Wait here.

It's uh, it's an old saying.

If we never meet again..

Adieu.

Androse

Push the jeep.

Start!

Run for cover.

Nazis first.

Hot Dogs,

Your buddies back down the hill holding off the Germans.

We gotta take care of him.

-Still got that brandy.

-Yes.

Give me a rag.

Argh.

Go now, on foot through the woods.

You can get away.

We're going together.

No, heh heh

I will stay,

They will come for me, and then you will circle around them.

We'll leave together.

No. I go nowhere.

I was born, I lived

but now I die.

Hot Dogs.

Help me get him in the back seat.

Don't touch me.

We disagree again, Lieutenant.

He he he he. Life....life

is a snowflake.

It rests on your hand.

And you watch it's beauty, huh.

And then you watch it, and from your own heat, it melts,

and it dies.

It happens, Lieut.

We are beginning to understand each other, eh.

But it's too late.

Together, ha ha, ha,ha.

We could have caught the wind in a net, hah.

-No.

-Aris

Androse, No.

He won't stop 'till he reaches the church.

Still going.

Right through center.

If we never meet again.

Adieu.

The break of dawn.

Come back with us to our lines.

Where you gonna go?

What'll you do?

We will find another jeep.

We will do as he commanded.

We get again to fight.

And again, 'till the end.