WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.559 --> 00:00:15.279 Escape Escape Tonight Too Occupied France and the Underground. 2 00:00:17.559 --> 00:00:22.320 A Columbia Broadcasting System and its affiliated stations presents Escape, 3 00:00:22.640 --> 00:00:25.320 a new series of programs, of which this the second 4 00:00:25.559 --> 00:00:29.679 is Operation Flori de Lys, written and directed by William N. 5 00:00:29.760 --> 00:00:39.000 Robeson today, the fourteenth of July, the people of a 6 00:00:39.079 --> 00:00:42.280 free France celebrate the anniversary of their escape from the 7 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:46.119 tyranny of the Kings of Versailles. One hundred and fifty 8 00:00:46.159 --> 00:00:48.679 eight years ago. Today, the people of Paris stormed the 9 00:00:48.719 --> 00:00:53.200 Bastille and leftloose the French Revolution. The torch of liberty 10 00:00:53.240 --> 00:00:55.960 set a fire that day never burned more fiercely than 11 00:00:56.039 --> 00:00:59.079 during the years when France was occupied by the Nazis. 12 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:03.960 Tonight Too occupied France from which three years ago there 13 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:07.879 was no escape. 14 00:01:11.359 --> 00:01:13.640 You can call me Duke, but don't use my right name. 15 00:01:14.040 --> 00:01:16.599 I might want to go back to France someday, And 16 00:01:16.640 --> 00:01:17.959 there are a lot of people in the world that 17 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:22.280 wouldn't understand that what I did was justified in the war. No, 18 00:01:22.480 --> 00:01:25.879 I don't have any regrets, moral ones. That is, it 19 00:01:25.959 --> 00:01:27.920 isn't what I did to Renee that keeps me awake 20 00:01:27.959 --> 00:01:31.599 at nights. It's just a memory of her there isn't 21 00:01:31.640 --> 00:01:34.159 much a body in my official report on Operation Flirtily, 22 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:37.760 but then it isn't customary to include descriptions of slim, 23 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:41.439 sunburned legs and wide, deep brown eyes and a military document. 24 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:44.200 And anyway, she was only an incident in the operation, 25 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:50.120 even if she became somewhat more important to me. Operation 26 00:01:50.239 --> 00:01:52.640 Florida Lee began like all the others in the grubby, 27 00:01:52.760 --> 00:01:56.319 undistinguished house in London, which was the headquarters of the OSS, 28 00:01:56.719 --> 00:02:00.640 the Office of Strategic Services, otherwise nonliest parts of the 29 00:02:00.680 --> 00:02:04.480 world as screwballs, cutthroats, spies, cloak and dagger boys and 30 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:07.000 American underground agents gentlemen. 31 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:09.879 Operation flirt de Les has planned to assist the advance 32 00:02:09.919 --> 00:02:12.199 of our forces once they've secured a beachhead of Normandy. 33 00:02:12.360 --> 00:02:14.039 Is that where we're going in major That is one 34 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:17.199 of the possibilities, Lieutenant, Yes, sir, you will jump over 35 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:18.719 Grandma in northern France. 36 00:02:18.960 --> 00:02:19.639 Here on the map. 37 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:24.240 You are to set up roadblocks on these three state highways, here, here, 38 00:02:24.560 --> 00:02:25.039 and here. 39 00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:27.400 There is an underground contact near Grandma's. 40 00:02:27.439 --> 00:02:29.599 Yes, Al Sine Dutton, he's leader of the local my 41 00:02:29.719 --> 00:02:32.520 quys expecting you. In addition, you are to block these 42 00:02:32.599 --> 00:02:36.479 railroad lines entering and leaving Graandmont. These operations are to 43 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:38.199 coincide with the advance of our ground. 44 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:39.560 Forces if they land in Normandy. 45 00:02:39.599 --> 00:02:42.000 If they land in Normany, you will then plain tonight 46 00:02:42.039 --> 00:02:44.240 at twenty one hundred hours and will drop over your 47 00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:47.599 objectivet I should think approximately twenty two hundred and thirty 48 00:02:48.120 --> 00:02:49.240 Any questions. 49 00:02:49.479 --> 00:02:50.599 No, I don't think so, sir. 50 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:53.639 Well, yes, sir, I have a question, Yes, lieutenant, how 51 00:02:53.639 --> 00:02:55.599 many of us are going on this mission? Just the 52 00:02:55.599 --> 00:02:56.039 two of you? 53 00:02:59.199 --> 00:03:01.120 Just the two of us, And all we had to 54 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:04.400 do was organize an underground army, disrupt the supply lines 55 00:03:04.439 --> 00:03:06.840 of a half a dozen Nazi divisions, and give support 56 00:03:06.879 --> 00:03:08.240 to the entire light invasion. 57 00:03:09.240 --> 00:03:11.360 Just the two of us. But that's the way the 58 00:03:11.400 --> 00:03:14.319 USS works, and nobody ordered Hill and me into it. 59 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:16.680 We'd volunteered. I don't know why. 60 00:03:17.599 --> 00:03:19.879 Maybe for moments like this one, when you get a 61 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:22.360 BE twenty four assigned to you as a personal taxi 62 00:03:22.840 --> 00:03:25.800 and there's lots of room to sprawl around after the bombings. 63 00:03:26.719 --> 00:03:29.840 How do you feel fine? Scared? 64 00:03:30.439 --> 00:03:32.400 Of course I'm scared, aren't you me? 65 00:03:33.199 --> 00:03:36.439 Nah, there's a walk you forget how tough it was 66 00:03:36.479 --> 00:03:38.520 when we were at Paratroops school at Bennick. 67 00:03:38.759 --> 00:03:40.319 Yeah, I was real rugged. 68 00:03:40.479 --> 00:03:42.639 If the wind wasn't right, you might land in the 69 00:03:42.719 --> 00:03:44.439 chatdooochie and get all wet. 70 00:03:44.599 --> 00:03:46.680 And it was always the chances you'd sprain your ankle 71 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:47.599 coming down too. 72 00:03:47.439 --> 00:03:49.879 Hot and the sun was so bright on some of 73 00:03:49.879 --> 00:03:51.120 those daylight jumps. 74 00:03:51.159 --> 00:03:53.080 Whereas we got none of those things to worry about. 75 00:03:53.080 --> 00:03:56.280 Here, a nice pitch black night over France, no sun 76 00:03:56.319 --> 00:03:57.960 to blind us, no Chatahoochee river to. 77 00:03:57.879 --> 00:03:59.159 Fall into, yer Tenant. 78 00:03:59.240 --> 00:04:02.240 Yes, Sergeant Paper wants to talk to you on the intercom. Thanks, here, 79 00:04:02.360 --> 00:04:04.400 use my cans thik you do here. 80 00:04:04.360 --> 00:04:06.520 Lieutenant, And when we're objective. 81 00:04:06.199 --> 00:04:07.439 Any signal from the ground. 82 00:04:07.319 --> 00:04:08.439 Yes, the one arranged. 83 00:04:08.479 --> 00:04:12.199 Four duds, two dashes green, Very well, you're Lieutenant Hill. 84 00:04:12.240 --> 00:04:16.680 Move into the bombay cut open bombay doors in thirty seconds. 85 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:19.519 Roger, good luck. Thanks, Sergeant stand by to dump those 86 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:21.959 supplies as soon as we're clear. Yes, sir, come on it. 87 00:04:22.519 --> 00:04:24.240 This is someone has said, is it? 88 00:04:24.279 --> 00:04:27.079 So assume just as I was settling down a good book, 89 00:04:27.759 --> 00:04:29.120 Bombay dodge are opening, sir. 90 00:04:29.199 --> 00:04:31.439 Okay, sergeant all right, ed, Let's check your hardness. 91 00:04:31.439 --> 00:04:33.160 It's a frightful mess. I just can't seem to do 92 00:04:33.199 --> 00:04:33.839 a thing with it. 93 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:35.639 I know, but this is the last party you'll have 94 00:04:35.639 --> 00:04:38.959 to wear it on. Okay, am I well, don't look now, 95 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:41.199 but your shoot showing. Check it in. Let's get out 96 00:04:41.199 --> 00:04:41.839 on that catwalk. 97 00:04:44.199 --> 00:04:47.639 Wow, freshing breeze and all up France at our feet. 98 00:04:48.079 --> 00:04:48.920 You see the signal. 99 00:04:49.040 --> 00:04:50.079 That's what I'm looking. 100 00:04:49.839 --> 00:04:51.639 For there it is over to the left. 101 00:04:51.680 --> 00:04:56.399 You got it, got it? Let's go, your kid, Sure, 102 00:04:56.399 --> 00:04:59.199 your kid? It helps? What for those ten seconds while 103 00:04:59.199 --> 00:04:59.959 you fall free? 104 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:00.720 Nothing helps. 105 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:02.639 You hang onto the rip cord and you count off 106 00:05:02.639 --> 00:05:04.399 the seconds, so you're trying not to count too fast. 107 00:05:04.920 --> 00:05:06.759 Your hand on that rip cord is the only certain 108 00:05:06.759 --> 00:05:08.600 thing in the world is your tumble hit over teacups 109 00:05:08.639 --> 00:05:10.920 with a wind tearing sound from your ears. And there's 110 00:05:10.920 --> 00:05:13.360 only one thought, always the same thought, whether it's your 111 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:14.560 first or your fiftieth jump. 112 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:15.879 We'll the shoot open. 113 00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:19.920 It does yanking at your armpits, knocking the breath out 114 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:21.639 of you, slowing you down, and you swing there like 115 00:05:21.639 --> 00:05:24.360 a rag doll, trying to get your bearings. First, you 116 00:05:24.399 --> 00:05:27.399 make out the horizon. That's where the black becomes darker black, 117 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:30.399 where the stars stop, and you wonder about ed, but 118 00:05:30.439 --> 00:05:32.920 you can't risk calling out. And now that you're located 119 00:05:32.959 --> 00:05:34.720 with the stars a right, you look for the signal 120 00:05:34.759 --> 00:05:36.600 light and there it is slightly to the left, so 121 00:05:36.680 --> 00:05:38.879 you tug at your shroud lines, spelling a little air 122 00:05:38.920 --> 00:05:41.079 that guides you toward it, and it's coming towards you 123 00:05:41.079 --> 00:05:43.839 awfully fast, and you hope this particular French patriot has 124 00:05:43.879 --> 00:05:46.120 picked out a field free of trees and church steepens. 125 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:48.360 And then you try to remember all the things they 126 00:05:48.360 --> 00:05:50.279 taught you about hitting the ground and rolling with the 127 00:05:50.319 --> 00:05:52.959 wind and collapsing your shot, because it's always like this, 128 00:05:53.199 --> 00:05:54.360 You always feel like you've. 129 00:05:54.160 --> 00:05:57.800 Never hit the silk before. And then you're down and 130 00:05:57.920 --> 00:06:00.160 you roll just right and you collapse your shoot and 131 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:01.680 it's second nature to you after all. 132 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:04.839 And then you hear footsteps running towards you, and you 133 00:06:04.879 --> 00:06:07.240 remember another important instruction, your whip on. You're automatic, and 134 00:06:07.240 --> 00:06:08.639 you hope your frien's is good enough to get you. 135 00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:11.000 Buy kivah, Who is it Elseine? 136 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:11.240 Here? 137 00:06:11.560 --> 00:06:11.800 Where? 138 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:14.279 Okay? Elsceine? Come on less? 139 00:06:14.319 --> 00:06:16.519 You have arrived, Lieutenant, So it seems you have no 140 00:06:16.600 --> 00:06:18.600 idea how long we wish for this morning. 141 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:25.040 That's my partner. Come on he yeah, ed o the hair, Duke, Okay, 142 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:28.240 my hump and oh it's just slightly damage otherwise, Okay, 143 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:31.040 this is al scene, our content, el seine, Lieutenant hill 144 00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:31.399 h el. 145 00:06:31.399 --> 00:06:32.120 Scene, Lieutenant. 146 00:06:32.439 --> 00:06:34.600 It is a great pleasure to make your acquaintance and 147 00:06:34.680 --> 00:06:35.839 on behalf of my country. 148 00:06:35.839 --> 00:06:37.959 Now let's get these shoots buried and blow this place. 149 00:06:38.040 --> 00:06:40.000 Where's your transportation, el scene. 150 00:06:39.839 --> 00:06:43.319 We haven't any wh where's this safe house? You might 151 00:06:43.319 --> 00:06:45.120 be able to stay at my hands? I don't think 152 00:06:45.160 --> 00:06:45.639 she'd talk. 153 00:06:45.639 --> 00:06:46.759 I don't think. Aren't you sure? 154 00:06:47.279 --> 00:06:49.079 Oh yes, I'm supremely confident that. 155 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:50.040 There are the Germans. 156 00:06:50.399 --> 00:06:53.120 They're everywhere, and that is why I'm so glad you're here. 157 00:06:53.160 --> 00:06:55.439 Now we can fight again. With your help, we will 158 00:06:55.519 --> 00:06:56.600 kill many bush. 159 00:06:56.399 --> 00:06:58.720 Wait a minute, how many are there than you're a 160 00:06:58.759 --> 00:07:02.079 marquis myself, than two others? Just three of you? 161 00:07:02.279 --> 00:07:03.680 Oh, my aching bag. 162 00:07:03.839 --> 00:07:05.959 But now that the Americans are here, we can do anything. 163 00:07:06.040 --> 00:07:08.160 Oh why don't they get these things straight in London? 164 00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:10.560 How can we block roads with a three man my key? 165 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:13.120 Three men in an ant who perhaps will not talk. 166 00:07:13.680 --> 00:07:15.360 Well, let's get cracking, Duke. 167 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:17.199 You're not going through with this mad adventure are you 168 00:07:17.759 --> 00:07:19.879 what would you suggest? Well, as for me, I'm all 169 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:21.600 for taking the next plane back to London. 170 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:31.279 Another lieutenant, No, thank you man. 171 00:07:31.560 --> 00:07:33.120 This bone chicken is delicious. 172 00:07:33.639 --> 00:07:34.360 How do you call it? 173 00:07:35.319 --> 00:07:37.000 Ky rastion supreme? 174 00:07:37.759 --> 00:07:39.480 We've had nothing like it since the Bosh came. 175 00:07:39.639 --> 00:07:40.720 Yeah, well you get used to it. 176 00:07:40.879 --> 00:07:45.000 And cigarettes, Tom Mally cigarettes made of real tobacco. Ah, 177 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:48.439 you Americans have everything, madam. 178 00:07:47.959 --> 00:07:48.519 I'll scene. 179 00:07:49.399 --> 00:07:52.319 You're kind, You're hospitable, but the comforts of k ration 180 00:07:52.399 --> 00:07:53.439 will not block roads. 181 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:55.879 We need men. We must form a my key. 182 00:07:55.959 --> 00:07:58.519 But we have a makeys my al scene. There are 183 00:07:58.560 --> 00:07:59.600 three of you and two of us. 184 00:07:59.639 --> 00:08:01.920 Sure, we've got guns, and we've got ammunition and supply 185 00:08:01.959 --> 00:08:03.759 shoots somewhere out in that field where we landed. 186 00:08:03.959 --> 00:08:05.319 We've got arms for fifty men. 187 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:07.519 But if we had those men, we still couldn't go 188 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:08.839 to war against the German division. 189 00:08:08.879 --> 00:08:11.120 And you said to yourself, is at least a division garrison? 190 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:14.319 And Grandma, what must we do? First? We must organize 191 00:08:14.319 --> 00:08:16.759 a my key. We need men, can you get them? 192 00:08:17.040 --> 00:08:19.000 I can go into the village and talk to my friends. 193 00:08:19.000 --> 00:08:20.240 It's done that a long time ago. 194 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:20.839 Four scene. 195 00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:24.240 That would be most unwise. Why didn't you know Arcine 196 00:08:24.319 --> 00:08:26.839 is a patriot, he's a deserter from the VIC army, 197 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:28.079 so he's wanted by the Gestapo. 198 00:08:28.199 --> 00:08:31.759 Oh great, and there's a Gestapo headquarters in grandmar Of course, of. 199 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:34.399 Course Arcine is not run to run from danger. 200 00:08:34.200 --> 00:08:35.120 Quite the countrary. 201 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:36.399 I can get Renee to help. 202 00:08:36.639 --> 00:08:37.360 Who's Renee? 203 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:40.759 I's seen sweetheart, a lovely girl from Paris. Fo I 204 00:08:40.799 --> 00:08:42.559 think she had to come down to the country because 205 00:08:42.559 --> 00:08:43.399 her house was bummed out. 206 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:45.320 Leave her out of this, but Lieutenant, she would be 207 00:08:45.360 --> 00:08:46.240 most happy to help. 208 00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:46.799 Alcine. 209 00:08:47.279 --> 00:08:49.240 You've got a lot to learn about guerrilla warfare. You 210 00:08:49.320 --> 00:08:51.519 might as well study your first lesson right now. It's 211 00:08:51.519 --> 00:09:03.480 shortened to the point. No, dames. Well, the next day 212 00:09:03.559 --> 00:09:06.159 we collected the supplies which had been dropped with us, 213 00:09:06.759 --> 00:09:08.679 and we set up a camp deep in the woods. 214 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:11.919 Hill and I were loaded with French money, so we 215 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:15.840 were able to buy food from the friendly farmers. Maybe 216 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:17.639 it was the food as much as patriots, and that 217 00:09:17.720 --> 00:09:21.919 brought us recruits. Anyway, after a week we had nearly 218 00:09:21.960 --> 00:09:24.759 thirty men. Our marquis wasn't big enough for the job 219 00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:26.840 we had to do, but it was growing in the 220 00:09:26.879 --> 00:09:29.559 right direction. And then one night, as I was winding up. 221 00:09:29.480 --> 00:09:34.960 A report to London, Well what they saying? What do 222 00:09:35.039 --> 00:09:37.919 they ever say? Message acknowledged? Carry on? 223 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:41.559 What about new batteries for the radio? What about extra 224 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:43.799 ammunition for the buck Rogers guns? What are they going 225 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:44.919 to get another drop to us? 226 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:46.159 Why didn't you ask him? 227 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:47.799 Yeah? 228 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:49.720 They do the best they can. 229 00:09:49.799 --> 00:09:52.519 I guess, after all, we're not the only boy scouts 230 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:53.240 in this chambourine. 231 00:09:55.120 --> 00:09:55.519 Hey you do? 232 00:09:55.960 --> 00:10:01.039 Yeah? There goes out seen again, off toward the road. Yes, 233 00:10:01.399 --> 00:10:04.480 come on a minute, Yes, lieutenant, where are you going? 234 00:10:04.960 --> 00:10:06.200 I was just taking a stroll. 235 00:10:06.960 --> 00:10:09.960 You're on night guard, not tonight. You weren't on night 236 00:10:09.960 --> 00:10:12.759 guard last night, were you, no, Lieutenant? Or the night before? 237 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:13.559 No, sir. 238 00:10:13.600 --> 00:10:15.639 But you weren't in camp all night? Were you? 239 00:10:15.679 --> 00:10:15.759 No? 240 00:10:15.919 --> 00:10:16.080 Sir? 241 00:10:16.759 --> 00:10:19.240 What's the matter? Don't you like the camp rather sleep 242 00:10:19.240 --> 00:10:20.600 at your ants? It's a two rugged out here. 243 00:10:20.559 --> 00:10:23.240 For you, No, sir? Then where were you in the village? 244 00:10:23.279 --> 00:10:24.720 You know the orders no one is to go into 245 00:10:24.720 --> 00:10:25.399 the village. 246 00:10:25.480 --> 00:10:27.279 Yes, lieutenant, but I only go in at night. 247 00:10:27.320 --> 00:10:30.759 It makes no difference, but it does, you see, Lieutenant. 248 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:32.080 I'm so in love. 249 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:33.840 Oh great? 250 00:10:34.399 --> 00:10:35.840 The girl from Paris. 251 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:39.200 Yes, you should see her, Lieutenant. She's the most beautiful, 252 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:41.279 the most charming, the most. 253 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:43.279 You know you're endangering the whole my key by disobeying 254 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:43.799 my orders. 255 00:10:43.879 --> 00:10:47.679 Oh no, sir, there's no danger with Rhyney. She hates 256 00:10:47.720 --> 00:10:49.600 the bush. Why she wants to join us. 257 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:51.159 You've told her about us? 258 00:10:51.240 --> 00:10:51.840 Oh yes, sir? 259 00:10:52.519 --> 00:10:54.440 Are you out of your mind? How do you know? 260 00:10:54.519 --> 00:10:55.080 She's all right? 261 00:10:55.440 --> 00:10:56.519 I just know, that's all. 262 00:10:57.399 --> 00:10:59.279 She's the most wonderful person in the world. 263 00:10:59.320 --> 00:11:00.600 She's a real patriot. 264 00:11:00.639 --> 00:11:02.759 I told you. Rule number one is no dames. 265 00:11:02.960 --> 00:11:04.360 Yes, but Rene is different. 266 00:11:04.559 --> 00:11:07.000 Yeah, well you better marry her before you bring around here. 267 00:11:07.080 --> 00:11:10.039 You'll have to share with the rest of these wolves. Lieutenant, 268 00:11:10.039 --> 00:11:11.440 Do I understand you got. 269 00:11:11.240 --> 00:11:13.559 A el scene? It's just an American figures speech. 270 00:11:14.360 --> 00:11:16.039 May I tell Rene she can join us? 271 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:19.200 Well, not quite yet, later maybe. 272 00:11:18.960 --> 00:11:20.960 Yes, lieutenant? Is that all? 273 00:11:21.399 --> 00:11:23.759 Yeah? That's all. If you gotta take it al scene, 274 00:11:23.919 --> 00:11:24.519 take it easy. 275 00:11:25.279 --> 00:11:26.360 I do not understand. 276 00:11:26.519 --> 00:11:28.200 Just another American idiom el scene. 277 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:29.679 Good night, good night, sir. 278 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:33.559 Hey duke, you're gonna let him get away with that? 279 00:11:34.399 --> 00:11:35.080 What are we going to do? 280 00:11:35.159 --> 00:11:37.159 Slap them another guarden house for thirty days only? 281 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:39.840 This isn't the American Army and we haven't any guardhouse. 282 00:11:40.080 --> 00:11:40.759 Yeah. 283 00:11:41.159 --> 00:11:42.759 Stinks from a security standpoint. 284 00:11:42.879 --> 00:11:45.240 I know, we try to keep these boys from sneaking 285 00:11:45.240 --> 00:11:46.080 off home every now and then. 286 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:51.000 We're not going to have any monkey. He's French, an 287 00:11:51.039 --> 00:11:59.759 immoral race. I don't know about that. Remember Phoenix City, Alabama? Yeah, oh, yes, 288 00:12:00.039 --> 00:12:10.600 what you mean. There wasn't anything we could do. If 289 00:12:10.600 --> 00:12:12.559 we'd ordered out scene to stay in camp, he'd just 290 00:12:12.559 --> 00:12:16.399 sneaked off anyway. He had that dreamy, far away. 291 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:19.279 Look that's baffled parents, teachers, and first lieutenant since the 292 00:12:19.279 --> 00:12:22.720 beginning of time. I didn't worry too much about it 293 00:12:22.720 --> 00:12:25.120 because our my key was growing and d Hill and 294 00:12:25.120 --> 00:12:27.519 I were breaking our backs pushing those French kids through 295 00:12:27.519 --> 00:12:31.279 an airsot's basic in three weeks. Headquarters in London didn't 296 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:33.559 tell us much, but we did know from the BBC 297 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:35.879 that the boys had landed at Omaha Beach and it 298 00:12:35.879 --> 00:12:39.279 wouldn't be long before they'd be needing our roadblocks. And 299 00:12:39.320 --> 00:12:42.120 then one morning, about d plus four I think it was, 300 00:12:42.639 --> 00:12:45.519 I was out in the woods running a squad through concealment. 301 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:47.960 Brill Oh no, no, hit the dirt. Don't waiter your 302 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:50.200 tad when you see the signal hit the dirt right now? 303 00:12:51.600 --> 00:12:54.200 Huh oh, I'll see. Have you been all that as 304 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:57.519 though I didn't know, Lieutenant. I've got to talk to you, Okay, 305 00:12:57.559 --> 00:12:59.000 I'll be through here in a half hour, so on. 306 00:12:59.159 --> 00:13:03.600 Got to talk to you now, all right, Elsing, Okay, boys, 307 00:13:03.639 --> 00:13:07.440 take five, come along, Elsin. 308 00:13:10.399 --> 00:13:14.200 What's on your mind, Lieutenant? My family has been killed? 309 00:13:16.159 --> 00:13:21.159 Oh no, yes, by the Gestapo. He set fire to 310 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:24.720 the house. My mother and my father and my two sisters. 311 00:13:25.519 --> 00:13:27.960 They ran out, the Gestapo shot them. 312 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:28.879 He was sure of this. 313 00:13:30.080 --> 00:13:32.039 Yes, I heard it this morning from the neighborhood. Saw 314 00:13:32.080 --> 00:13:32.440 it happen. 315 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:34.799 Poor kid. 316 00:13:35.159 --> 00:13:38.120 When can we attack, lieutenant? When can we stop this? 317 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:40.440 Endalyst training and fight the Bush? 318 00:13:40.679 --> 00:13:40.720 No? 319 00:13:40.879 --> 00:13:43.679 I want only to kill and killed and killed until 320 00:13:43.679 --> 00:13:46.919 I paid them back for my father, my mother, my 321 00:13:47.080 --> 00:13:47.720 two sisters. 322 00:13:47.799 --> 00:13:49.840 Yeah, I know you'll get your chance on el Sing, 323 00:13:49.840 --> 00:13:52.759 but not yet. We gotta wait. We're not ready yet. 324 00:13:52.919 --> 00:13:55.799 I'm ready before I wanted to fight the Bush for 325 00:13:55.879 --> 00:13:59.240 my country. Now I want to kill him again and again. 326 00:13:59.600 --> 00:14:01.720 For the I know, but you gotta be patient. 327 00:14:02.120 --> 00:14:06.240 Sh happened to me now? Only last night Renne said 328 00:14:06.279 --> 00:14:08.559 she'd marry me. Come to live here with me in 329 00:14:08.600 --> 00:14:12.559 the camp. I was so happy, And this morning I 330 00:14:12.639 --> 00:14:13.399 learned this news. 331 00:14:13.519 --> 00:14:14.840 Why did you hear from your mother last? 332 00:14:15.039 --> 00:14:16.759 Not for a month since we began to work, But 333 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:18.080 I've written her every week. 334 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:19.639 Yeah? Who mailed the letters? 335 00:14:19.759 --> 00:14:22.399 And they mailed them for me. She's so kind and thoughtful. 336 00:14:22.440 --> 00:14:25.080 She offered to mail letters home for the other boys too. 337 00:14:25.320 --> 00:14:27.279 It was nice of it. Did they take advantage of 338 00:14:27.279 --> 00:14:29.759 her offer? A couple of them, who Paul of them? 339 00:14:29.759 --> 00:14:30.039 Sean? 340 00:14:30.320 --> 00:14:31.879 I told them about and they wrote. 341 00:14:31.639 --> 00:14:33.639 Their families and Renee mailed the letters. 342 00:14:34.200 --> 00:14:37.320 She's a wonderful person. Lieutenant. You're going to love her. 343 00:14:37.679 --> 00:14:38.519 Yeah, I think I am. 344 00:14:38.919 --> 00:14:40.559 She's all I've gotten the world now. 345 00:14:47.120 --> 00:14:49.600 Two and two make four and occupied France just the 346 00:14:49.639 --> 00:14:52.000 same as anywhere else, And sometimes it's just as hard 347 00:14:52.039 --> 00:14:54.960 to prove. But one thing was sure now. I wanted 348 00:14:54.960 --> 00:14:56.960 to meet Renee in the worst way. But I had 349 00:14:57.000 --> 00:14:59.519 to postpone the pleasure because early that afternoon one of 350 00:14:59.519 --> 00:15:01.279 the outposts broken the camp out of bread. 351 00:15:02.039 --> 00:15:04.919 Yes, Paul, they're coming down the road through the forest. 352 00:15:04.960 --> 00:15:07.200 How many I did not stop to count them, several 353 00:15:07.240 --> 00:15:07.759 truck clothes. 354 00:15:07.759 --> 00:15:09.799 To be sure, pass the words, Lieutenant Hill ask him 355 00:15:09.799 --> 00:15:11.600 to bring his detail in the camp on the double. Yes, 356 00:15:11.639 --> 00:15:14.480 lieutenant als, Yes, take two men and go down to 357 00:15:14.519 --> 00:15:16.000 the road and see what the ruck through. Yes, sir, 358 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:17.559 just reconnoiter. Don't fire at. 359 00:15:17.480 --> 00:15:18.840 Them, but this is my chance for event. 360 00:15:18.960 --> 00:15:21.360 Listen to me. Don't fire at them, that's a command. Yes, 361 00:15:21.720 --> 00:15:23.039 they may not be after us at all. 362 00:15:23.320 --> 00:15:26.200 I get coined immediately, Lieutenant. What's the order of the day, dude, 363 00:15:26.679 --> 00:15:29.000 plans Graham. It looks like all your men here, President 364 00:15:29.000 --> 00:15:30.039 of the counted for all. 365 00:15:30.039 --> 00:15:31.720 Right, boys, now gather around, will you and get this 366 00:15:33.320 --> 00:15:35.440 as a convoy of Germans coming down the forest road. 367 00:15:36.720 --> 00:15:38.879 I'll wait a minute. We're not going to fight him. 368 00:15:39.039 --> 00:15:41.759 You know what our job is roadblocks. We got tanks, 369 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:43.519 artillery and airplanes. It will be along soon to do 370 00:15:43.519 --> 00:15:46.720 the killing a lock. Our security has been pretty good 371 00:15:47.080 --> 00:15:48.960 and those crowds may be on a routine patrol. 372 00:15:49.159 --> 00:15:51.120 Chances are they don't even know we're here. They do 373 00:15:51.279 --> 00:15:56.679 now listen, Yeah, well that doesn't all right? Your men 374 00:15:56.720 --> 00:16:00.000 got your weapons good, and you know the procedure. 375 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:03.679 Get lost before you leave the forest, bury your weapons, ammunition, 376 00:16:03.720 --> 00:16:06.320 and equipment. Rendezvous at the home of Alcene's at at 377 00:16:06.360 --> 00:16:10.919 twenty two hundred hours tonight, good luck, Come on, ed, 378 00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:11.600 let's stram. 379 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:13.960 Well. He who doesn't fight and runs away lives to 380 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:14.679 fight another day. 381 00:16:14.919 --> 00:16:15.399 Something like that. 382 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:16.720 Who tipped them off? 383 00:16:16.759 --> 00:16:18.200 I'm not sure, but I got a pretty good idea. 384 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:20.480 Who's down there at the road al Scene. 385 00:16:20.519 --> 00:16:34.120 He's fighting a private war, the poor jerk. The basic 386 00:16:34.240 --> 00:16:38.480 rule of three in guerrilla warfare is surprise, kill vanish. 387 00:16:38.559 --> 00:16:41.240 However, one ye're surprised, the only rule is vanish than 388 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:41.639 we did. 389 00:16:42.440 --> 00:16:44.240 There were about fifty Germans and a half a dozen 390 00:16:44.320 --> 00:16:47.000 dogs to track our scent. They spent the day thrashing 391 00:16:47.000 --> 00:16:49.360 through the woods, firing into the underbrush and finding nothing. 392 00:16:50.320 --> 00:16:52.519 It was a classic withdrawal and Hell and I were 393 00:16:52.519 --> 00:16:55.120 proud of our little army, with the exception of al Scene, 394 00:16:55.120 --> 00:16:58.240 It's self appointed hero. When we arrived at his aunt's 395 00:16:58.240 --> 00:17:00.000 house that night for the rendezvous, a half a dozen 396 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:01.120 of the boys were already there. 397 00:17:03.559 --> 00:17:10.279 Who is it, Julie, our lieutenant. Come in, good evening, Madam, 398 00:17:10.480 --> 00:17:11.599 I've seen he's already here. 399 00:17:11.920 --> 00:17:14.000 I'm so proud of him, Oh, lieutenant. I was just 400 00:17:14.039 --> 00:17:16.279 telling tom Elly and the boys it was magnificent. I 401 00:17:16.359 --> 00:17:17.759