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Let me put this another way.
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If I am not given complete and
unfettered command of this situation...
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...you can,
if I may put it politely, sir...
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...take this job and put it where you
choose because I'll damn well quit.
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My other generals say it's unwise.
Too much responsibility for one man.
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Then find other generals.
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Even your own other generals
say the same thing.
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Then I'll also find new ones.
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I know who we're talking about here,
prime minister.
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Your Air Marshal Harris
and my General Jimmy Spaatz.
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The RAF and the U.S. 8th Air Force
want to fight their own war.
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Win it with strategic bombing.
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- They think...
- I know what they think, general.
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And it is very seductive.
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Continue the saturation bombing
of the Continent...
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...until the enemy's lost
his will to fight.
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Leave him defeated and dispirited...
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...before your invasion force
even sets foot ashore.
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If there's a shore to set foot on.
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That kind of bombing would turn
Paris into a soccer field...
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...Holland into a swimming pool.
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You were an infantry officer,
prime minister.
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We both know wars
can only be won on the ground.
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America did not send a million
of its finest men to stand by...
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...while faceless aircraft destroy the
Europe they're willing to die to save.
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And I don't believe you rallied
the British people to fight on, alone...
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...all these long years
to bear so much...
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...only to see the great cities
of Europe become heaps of rubble.
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We have to do more than liberate
Europe. We have to save it.
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We're soldiers, you and I.
There can only be one commander.
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One conductor of this orchestra.
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One supreme commander...
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...in the air, on the ground, at sea.
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Or face interservice bickering,
clashing egos...
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...conflicting operational deployments.
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One invasion, one commander.
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A sampling of this morning's
editorial contribution:
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"As the Allies prepare for
our greatest challenge of the war...
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...our leaders must not lose sight...
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...of the true measure
of military leadership.
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The victories
of General Montgomery...
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...at El Alamein, Sicily and
every campaign he has undertaken...
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...deserve prime consideration.
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His hand is never far from such
forward momentum...
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...as we have enjoyed in this war.
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No other general
can make that claim."
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I could go on, but they're all
much of a muchness.
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I don't deny Monty's achievements
as a field commander.
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Whilst you can make no such claim.
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Come, come, general. Don't take
offense. We're too close for that.
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Monty's not the man for this. We both
know it. Far too in love with his image.
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There's no shortage of men who would
like the title "supreme commander."
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Or even a part of it. And I...
We must identify each man...
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...and decide whether or not he is fit.
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Harris?
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- Far too oblivious to destruction.
- Certainly not Spaatz.
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Too flamboyant. Marshall?
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You know F.D.R.
Won't let him leave Washington.
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And Mountbatten
is commanding in the Pacific.
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Then who?
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Your own Mr. Roosevelt has his
doubts about a supreme commander.
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I leave him to you, sir.
You'll be able to set him straight.
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No human in history has ever held
the power for which you now ask.
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Not Caesar, not Alexander, no man.
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Ever.
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But this is Eisenhower
you're considering.
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Is this relatively untried American
the right man for the job?
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- Very popular with the men.
- Irrelevant.
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Disciplined soldiers
fight at their leader's command...
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...whoever that might be.
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My victories that brought
us back North Africa...
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...weren't won because I was popular
with the ordinary ranks.
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No, I dare say. Brandy?
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- No, thank you.
- Oh, I forgot your strict scruples.
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General, let it not come
as a surprise to you.
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The decision is as good as made.
There will be no turning back.
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Eisenhower is to be
supreme commander.
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That is the consensus of the Allies.
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I see. Politics first, is it?
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Yes?
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Yes, chief whip?
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Time to prepare for the afternoon
question period, prime minister.
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One last thought, prime minister.
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There's more than one way
to skin this cat.
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If things remain as they are...
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...let Eisenhower be
the de facto figurehead.
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Just don't formalize it.
Leave some room for the rest of us.
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Oh, I'm sure you'll find some way
to maneuver, general.
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You know my admiration
for your soldiering skills.
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There are two kinds
of problem drinkers, chief whip.
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Those who drink too much
and those who drink too little.
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I believe it's a religious thing with
the general. Strict Methodist, I think.
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Oh, might be an asset.
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Way the odds
are on this thing...
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...we could use somebody
on close terms with God.
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Giving Monty a private audience?
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You could call it that.
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Man's a pain in the ass.
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Kind of megalomaniac who's got his
own ideas how to win this war.
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He'll never accept you.
I admire Churchill much as any man...
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...but not even he could sell that
without some sticking in the craw.
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Churchill's not there to sell.
His job is making decisions.
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Mine is to make them work.
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Yeah, well, you're tough enough
to make it happen.
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Even with the generals
and admirals he offended.
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I'm glad you feel that way
because if we foul up...
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...we'll end up sharing
a supply desk in Washington.
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You'd lose your operational rank.
They'd take away three stars.
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- Remember '38 in the summer?
- Yeah.
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Careers had stalled.
We figured we'd be passed over...
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...and mustered out within a year.
- As colonels.
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- Yes, as colonels.
- So we'd still be ahead of the game.
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Now, tell me about the tanks
in the sand.
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Those beaches aren't really sand.
They're pebble and rock.
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Your 3:00 meeting is here.
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Your unfriendly friendly.
I'll slip out the back.
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Tut-tut.
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Needlessly timid, if you ask me.
And I trust you are asking me.
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Of course. That's why we're here. For
a frank discussion, just you and me.
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Good. Then I will be frank.
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Like all battles,
this one will be won on the ground.
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But not necessarily by infantry men,
one foot at a time.
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Armor can slash through first,
leaving infantry to consolidate gains...
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...but that requires
a flexible master plan.
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We might find a sudden lunge across
the low countries, a dagger aimed...
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...at the heart of Berlin
could end the war by Christmas.
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The concept for a broad landing
at Normandy has been approved.
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Given the political sensibilities
involved...
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...there's no going back on that.
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You're the supreme commander.
The politics are your concern.
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My interest is
the most effective strategy...
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...and tactical moves
to support it.
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A massive invasion will be tipped to
Jerry's intelligence, we know that.
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He'll be ready to defend across
a broad front.
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A slashing blow will be harder for him
to concentrate his troops against...
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...with any depth.
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Unless the German knows where
the slashing blow is coming.
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Then, as you put it,
with his intelligence alerted...
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You're being inflexible.
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I'm adhering to a master plan.
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Once we have established beachhead,
we can reexamine our options.
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I see.
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And as commander of all land forces,
I'll have my say in that reexamination?
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Absolutely.
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Now, let me outline
my expectations...
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...for your ground forces
once ashore.
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Here, the ground slopes easily.
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Sir, it wouldn't take
more than 15 minutes.
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Fifteen minutes better spent
on real work, captain.
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With respect, sir,
public relations is real work.
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I know you don't
have time for the press...
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...but folks back home need
to know you.
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Human face of the leader, sir.
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Mr. Roosevelt is their leader,
and mine.
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- Yeah, but...
- Interview division commanders.
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Try some platoon sergeants.
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What about my chief of staff,
General Smith?
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What do you say, Beetle? Want
to show the world your human face?
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Sorry, sir. I wasn't issued one.
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This isn't MacArthur's HQ, where he
has to be at the center of everything.
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We're a team here.
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So go get some publicity
for the running backs. That is all.
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Yes, sir.
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- He's arrived.
- I saw. I could hardly miss it.
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Beetle, he's brilliant,
but sometimes he acts like a child.
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Are you thinking
of sending him home?
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Let's have him.
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He'll see you now.
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- You gonna keep the helmet on?
- Damn right.
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I think you know why you're here.
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More or less.
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Some prep-head politician stateside
got pissed at the truth.
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That's neither more nor less, George.
It's damned ignorant.
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"Anglo-Saxons to rule the postwar
world." What the hell is that?
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The straight skinny.
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When this is over,
it will be us and the Brits...
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...have to put
the world back together.
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That's gonna come
as a surprise to Stalin...
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...who's losing millions
on the eastern front.
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Yeah, communism's for the next war.
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Goddamn it, George. Shut up.
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The Czechs are also in this war.
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And the Dutch and the Danes
and God knows who else.
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And above all...
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...it's racialism.
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It's the very thing we're fighting.
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I can't have my generals
spouting idiocy Hitler would applaud.
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Anglo-Saxon superiority? That's
exactly the kind of pigheaded crap...
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...that will make Stalin think
we are the next enemy.
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Sometimes I think you don't have
the vaguest idea why we're fighting.
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- That's not fair, Ike.
- It is if it's true.
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I'm not sending a bunch of fresh
young kids from Iowa and California...
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...and New York and Nebraska to die
on French beaches for the freedom...
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...of people they know nothing about
so we can establish a new racial order.
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I'm asking them to die
to prevent precisely that.
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And they're ready to do it.
And that's why they're heroes.
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And why slapping a shell-shocked
soldier as a malingerer is never...
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...never permissible!
Do you understand me, sir?
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You should know
that despite the fact...
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...that he doubts
your worthiness to command...
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...that General Marshall has left it
to me to decide how to handle this.
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So I ask you again.
Do you understand?
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Sir, yes, sir.
I understand completely.
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I do, Ike. I swear I do.
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What I don't get, I'll study.
I promise.
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I swear, I promise. Just please...
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...don't send me home.
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Please, Ike.
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I couldn't bear to be in Washington
when the show starts.
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Don't do that to me. I beg you.
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Soldier to soldier, that I'll keep
my mouth shut. I promise you.
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Soldier to soldier.
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Soldier to soldier.
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I wish it were that simple.
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You were my mentor.
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My senior officer,
who told me once a long time ago...
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...that one day
I'd be giving him orders.
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Well, that day's come, George.
And that's the truth.
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Soldier to soldier.
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Last time, Georgie.
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Last time.
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Thank you.
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Sir, may I return
to my headquarters now?
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Gentlemen.
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Played him like a violin.
Ate out of my hand, he did. Drive on.
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- How'd it go?
- I'm keeping him on.
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Probably thinks
he put one over on me.
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Hell, maybe he did.
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Let's keep him in Maidenhead,
commanding his fictitious army.
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Now Rommel thinks he's my ace.
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Besides, once we get ashore,
I'll need him...
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...to command real tanks.
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Traff, what you got?
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Early estimates of airborne losses.
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Assume perfect weather,
and we go with a full or half-moon.
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No crosswind at the drop zone,
losses could be low as 8 percent.
237
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But should any of the elements turn
against us, casualties will spiral.
238
00:18:18,967 --> 00:18:22,334
They might hit a quarter or more.
239
00:18:22,838 --> 00:18:24,305
One in four.
240
00:18:25,273 --> 00:18:27,366
What's the split between
wounded and dead?
241
00:18:28,310 --> 00:18:32,076
Oh, with paratroopers, one might
as well assume they're all dead.
242
00:18:32,514 --> 00:18:34,345
A wounded jumper is a cripple.
243
00:18:35,717 --> 00:18:37,981
And we all know this enemy.
244
00:19:53,462 --> 00:19:55,396
I'm ahead of you.
245
00:19:57,699 --> 00:19:59,428
What the hell time is it?
246
00:19:59,901 --> 00:20:01,596
It's 0520.
247
00:20:04,106 --> 00:20:06,006
But you want to be woken for this.
248
00:20:06,808 --> 00:20:09,072
In from Southwest Command,
just decoded.
249
00:20:17,085 --> 00:20:19,849
All chiefs of staff
in the map room, 20 minutes.
250
00:20:21,189 --> 00:20:22,850
No doubt in your mind about this?
251
00:20:23,024 --> 00:20:24,286
Afraid not.
252
00:20:24,459 --> 00:20:29,226
The craft's scars could only be made
by Krupp Essen U-210 torpedoes.
253
00:20:29,397 --> 00:20:31,763
Then the German
is right off the coast.
254
00:20:32,534 --> 00:20:34,559
What about damage?
Too much for a loner.
255
00:20:34,736 --> 00:20:37,500
Absolutely. This was a full pack.
256
00:20:37,672 --> 00:20:40,573
In daylight, C-search patrols
can spot E-boats...
257
00:20:40,742 --> 00:20:43,836
...as soon as they come
close enough to fire torpedoes.
258
00:20:44,012 --> 00:20:45,946
But at night, under radar...
259
00:20:46,114 --> 00:20:50,380
Then what in damnation were men
doing out there after nightfall?
260
00:20:50,552 --> 00:20:53,214
Landing-craft drivers
were having a difficult time...
261
00:20:53,388 --> 00:20:55,413
...managing these new
duplex-drive craft.
262
00:20:55,590 --> 00:20:57,922
They're fragile in anything
but good weather.
263
00:20:58,093 --> 00:21:01,028
Division commander felt
they needed more experience.
264
00:21:01,196 --> 00:21:05,895
Then the man is a damned fool and
should be relieved of his command.
265
00:21:06,067 --> 00:21:08,501
You won't find any
of my divisional commanders...
266
00:21:08,670 --> 00:21:11,036
...playing silly buggers
with Jerry concealed.
267
00:21:11,206 --> 00:21:13,071
How many landing craft lost?
268
00:21:13,241 --> 00:21:18,110
First estimates are at 11, possibly 12.
But we've only seen two or three hulls.
269
00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:19,975
Any intercepted Jerry signals?
270
00:21:20,148 --> 00:21:23,675
E-boat captains radioed Berlin,
claiming two dozen.
271
00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:26,383
We went on the air
with a decodable signal...
272
00:21:26,555 --> 00:21:28,682
...to Patton's fictitious army...
273
00:21:28,857 --> 00:21:31,018
...saying it lost five landing craft.
274
00:21:31,193 --> 00:21:33,127
First reports back
from Signal Corps...
275
00:21:33,295 --> 00:21:35,422
...indicate Jerry bought
the whole program.
276
00:21:35,597 --> 00:21:38,395
I'd be surprised if Jerry's
really buying the idea...
277
00:21:38,567 --> 00:21:41,229
...that the bulk of our forces
are in the east.
278
00:21:41,403 --> 00:21:43,735
I wouldn't. Not with activity
in the southwest.
279
00:21:44,306 --> 00:21:45,534
I take your point.
280
00:21:46,474 --> 00:21:51,104
But we have fake tanks,
trucks and landing craft...
281
00:21:51,279 --> 00:21:53,372
...deployed throughout
that entire region.
282
00:21:53,548 --> 00:21:57,177
And our psychological
warfare squads in Norwich...
283
00:21:57,352 --> 00:22:00,753
...generate more radio traffic
than our entire force doubled.
284
00:22:01,022 --> 00:22:03,991
They use a new magnetic wire
that records Morse messages...
285
00:22:04,159 --> 00:22:06,957
...and repeats it night and day.
From what we monitor...
286
00:22:07,128 --> 00:22:10,620
...the Germans have moved
a full signal battalion to Dieppe...
287
00:22:10,799 --> 00:22:12,426
...in order to sort it out.
288
00:22:13,001 --> 00:22:15,196
We have Patton's HQ
in Maidenhead.
289
00:22:15,370 --> 00:22:19,773
The enemy is certain he will be field
commander of any Allied invasion.
290
00:22:20,308 --> 00:22:23,334
- They can't imagine anyone else.
- Well, hell.
291
00:22:23,511 --> 00:22:27,971
If Hitler had half his wits about him,
he'd be on Monty's tail night and day.
292
00:22:31,152 --> 00:22:35,646
And there is no sign that the
3rd Air Fleet, the 16th Army...
293
00:22:35,824 --> 00:22:39,282
...or any of 16 panzer divisions
southward.
294
00:22:39,895 --> 00:22:41,123
I think we fooled them.
295
00:22:41,596 --> 00:22:44,929
He believes Patton's
fictitious army is real.
296
00:22:45,433 --> 00:22:47,628
He's not really watching Normandy.
297
00:22:49,137 --> 00:22:52,106
- For now, at least.
- Precisely, for now.
298
00:22:52,274 --> 00:22:55,801
Rommel's no fool. Sooner or later,
he'll figure out there's a limit...
299
00:22:55,977 --> 00:22:58,502
...to the size of our force,
send flights...
300
00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:00,841
...to inspect Patton's army
and discover...
301
00:23:01,016 --> 00:23:04,315
...that all his tanks and trucks
are nothing but papier-mâché.
302
00:23:04,486 --> 00:23:06,420
Tell me about these men we lost.
303
00:23:06,588 --> 00:23:11,082
And what is this duplex-drive problem
on the damn landing craft?
304
00:23:11,660 --> 00:23:14,356
The DDs? Well, the men
call them Donald Ducks...
305
00:23:14,529 --> 00:23:17,089
...because they're not
that easy to understand.
306
00:23:17,265 --> 00:23:20,029
It takes practice to reach
the skill level necessary...
307
00:23:20,201 --> 00:23:22,294
...to master the two output levels.
308
00:23:22,470 --> 00:23:26,201
One for the high seas and the other
for soft landings on a beach.
309
00:23:26,374 --> 00:23:28,638
We were short
of the bloody things before.
310
00:23:29,077 --> 00:23:32,535
That's an entire battalion's
passage gone.
311
00:23:32,714 --> 00:23:35,205
Could be a month before we
get replacement craft.
312
00:23:35,383 --> 00:23:38,910
It's only 19 days to the half-moon
and the right high tide.
313
00:23:39,087 --> 00:23:42,488
Look, if we can trick Rommel
for 19 days through to mid-May...
314
00:23:42,657 --> 00:23:45,649
...surely we can push him
to the next useful moon and tide.
315
00:23:46,328 --> 00:23:48,455
That would be June 5th, sir.
316
00:23:49,631 --> 00:23:54,364
All this dithering around is bloody
annoying, General Eisenhower.
317
00:23:54,536 --> 00:23:58,472
My men are ready to go.
I say the sooner the better.
318
00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:03,339
Leaving it to June is a tremendous
risk. What if there's a storm?
319
00:24:03,511 --> 00:24:08,448
Then we've lost June. We have to put
it off to July. Six weeks to September.
320
00:24:08,616 --> 00:24:11,107
It's not enough to land the army.
321
00:24:11,286 --> 00:24:13,379
We have to get tanks ashore,
get inland...
322
00:24:13,555 --> 00:24:16,183
...before the worst of
autumn weather slows us down.
323
00:24:16,358 --> 00:24:18,553
What can you give me in June,
Stagg?
324
00:24:19,828 --> 00:24:22,388
Expecting a fine
English summer, sir.
325
00:24:22,564 --> 00:24:25,226
I mean, meteorology's a fair bit
of witchcraft...
326
00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:28,164
...but all indications
are for one of our better Junes.
327
00:24:28,336 --> 00:24:30,668
Three extra weeks means
at least 100 more LSTs.
328
00:24:31,206 --> 00:24:34,266
Give us more time to pulverize
the rail lines out of Germany.
329
00:24:34,442 --> 00:24:37,070
- And railheads in France.
- The men are impatient.
330
00:24:37,512 --> 00:24:39,605
- Dulls their itch.
- And sooner or later...
331
00:24:39,781 --> 00:24:43,444
...we won't be able to hide the size
of our force in the southwest.
332
00:24:44,019 --> 00:24:47,614
May 19th or June 5th?
333
00:24:49,190 --> 00:24:51,556
Or the fail-safe last chance in July?
334
00:24:51,726 --> 00:24:53,990
Mid-July.
335
00:24:54,596 --> 00:24:57,360
Leaving maybe eight weeks,
if there's an early frost...
336
00:24:57,532 --> 00:25:00,126
...to establish a beachhead
for half a million men.
337
00:25:00,301 --> 00:25:01,893
How doable is that?
338
00:25:07,075 --> 00:25:08,303
That's what I thought.
339
00:25:08,476 --> 00:25:13,345
Please have it factored in for the
next meeting, gentlemen. Thank you.
340
00:25:22,957 --> 00:25:25,687
I know the reason you're here.
341
00:25:25,860 --> 00:25:28,556
Of course, the loss of these men is...
342
00:25:29,130 --> 00:25:34,090
Yes, of course. But I was referring
to your other reason.
343
00:25:34,269 --> 00:25:36,499
Other reason?
344
00:25:36,671 --> 00:25:38,468
You have the advantage
over me, sir.
345
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:41,837
I certainly hope so. It's my job.
346
00:25:53,121 --> 00:25:57,023
I am told you've committed to June.
347
00:25:57,358 --> 00:25:59,155
Given up on a May landing.
348
00:26:00,228 --> 00:26:03,129
I assume Monty kept you informed.
349
00:26:03,298 --> 00:26:06,096
No names, no pack drill.
350
00:26:06,267 --> 00:26:09,134
But of course, general,
you are in Britain.
351
00:26:09,304 --> 00:26:13,536
You must assume I have resources
to keep myself in the picture.
352
00:26:15,543 --> 00:26:19,536
And I understand
from Mr. Roosevelt...
353
00:26:19,714 --> 00:26:22,478
...that the additional time
will increase the number...
354
00:26:22,650 --> 00:26:25,881
...of these newfangled landing craft.
355
00:26:26,454 --> 00:26:28,615
The president is my security leak?
356
00:26:28,790 --> 00:26:30,451
Hardly.
357
00:26:31,092 --> 00:26:34,653
But even if he were,
he is your superior.
358
00:26:34,829 --> 00:26:37,297
And my good friend and ally.
359
00:26:37,465 --> 00:26:41,367
Never forget, general,
you serve at our pleasure.
360
00:26:42,637 --> 00:26:47,336
Then if it please you, sir,
we need to delay till June 4 or 5.
361
00:26:47,509 --> 00:26:49,136
I'm promised excellent weather.
362
00:26:49,811 --> 00:26:52,143
By then, we will have
100 more landing craft.
363
00:26:52,313 --> 00:26:53,712
So...
364
00:26:54,349 --> 00:26:56,874
...the fate of our two great nations
comes down...
365
00:26:57,051 --> 00:27:01,010
...to things called LSTs
and Donald Ducks.
366
00:27:02,157 --> 00:27:08,187
Well, if it be so, so be it. And yes,
general, I accede to you once more.
367
00:27:08,363 --> 00:27:10,354
June it is.
368
00:27:11,065 --> 00:27:14,501
Good. Thank you.
369
00:27:24,913 --> 00:27:27,711
But that raises another problem, sir.
370
00:27:28,950 --> 00:27:32,977
Further delay creates almost
unbearable pressure on our security.
371
00:27:33,154 --> 00:27:36,590
We can't let the Germans sense
we're only making a feint at Calais.
372
00:27:36,758 --> 00:27:42,424
If Rommel moves his main force to
Normandy, we'd be stacking bodies.
373
00:27:43,798 --> 00:27:46,824
There's only one way to be
certain that German spies...
374
00:27:47,001 --> 00:27:49,765
...or loose lips don't stumble
across our activities...
375
00:27:49,938 --> 00:27:51,565
...and anticipate our moves.
376
00:27:51,739 --> 00:27:55,175
That is to seal the coast across
the south of England and Wales...
377
00:27:55,343 --> 00:27:57,208
...to all unauthorized traffic.
378
00:27:57,378 --> 00:27:59,243
Most of it is sealed already.
379
00:27:59,414 --> 00:28:02,406
I mean all of it.
380
00:28:02,584 --> 00:28:04,677
No civilian traffic whatsoever.
381
00:28:04,852 --> 00:28:09,050
Are you mad, sir? Do you not
realize that no one in Britain...
382
00:28:09,224 --> 00:28:11,556
...lives more than
150 miles from the sea?
383
00:28:12,060 --> 00:28:16,156
It is no accident that Britannia rules
the waves and all that business.
384
00:28:16,331 --> 00:28:19,630
We are a people whose entire destiny
is linked to the sea.
385
00:28:19,801 --> 00:28:22,895
Which is why you must now
turn your people away from it.
386
00:28:23,838 --> 00:28:25,328
Impossible.
387
00:28:25,506 --> 00:28:27,064
It might mean thousands...
388
00:28:28,176 --> 00:28:30,940
...tens of thousands
of young men's lives.
389
00:28:35,583 --> 00:28:37,744
I will give you this, general.
390
00:28:38,286 --> 00:28:40,413
You know how to take charge.
391
00:28:41,723 --> 00:28:43,315
It's not about power, sir.
392
00:28:44,259 --> 00:28:48,696
It is simply the judicious use of the
responsibility you entrusted me with.
393
00:28:48,863 --> 00:28:54,324
Only under duress and your threats to
walk out. I'd have you remember that.
394
00:28:55,503 --> 00:28:57,095
Yes, sir.
395
00:29:10,718 --> 00:29:13,050
The Ministry of Information
unedited footage...
396
00:29:13,221 --> 00:29:15,849
...spied by the 3rd Red army
Film Corps.
397
00:29:16,024 --> 00:29:18,288
The surrender of
the German 7th army.
398
00:29:19,460 --> 00:29:21,690
Hitler refuses to allow
further withdrawal.
399
00:29:21,863 --> 00:29:25,128
Throws three panzer divisions
from the western front to the east.
400
00:29:25,300 --> 00:29:27,029
They're on the APC. Look at that.
401
00:29:27,201 --> 00:29:33,538
Three less we have to face. One
more reason to rethink a broad front.
402
00:29:33,708 --> 00:29:37,405
Ride a dagger-thrust road
straight to Berlin.
403
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:42,347
And we'll have the French
to help us along.
404
00:29:42,884 --> 00:29:45,148
Smuggled, unedited film
from Warsaw Ghetto...
405
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:49,518
...where Jews resist an entire
German army for six weeks.
406
00:29:49,691 --> 00:29:53,889
Twice as long as the well-fed
French army in 1940.
407
00:29:54,062 --> 00:29:56,553
Don't count on them
to help us along.
408
00:29:59,033 --> 00:30:02,491
Supreme commander meets
with soldiers of the line.
409
00:30:15,550 --> 00:30:18,348
Give me five minutes.
I'll have tonight's feature ready.
410
00:30:18,519 --> 00:30:21,181
- What have you got?
- Sahara.
411
00:30:21,356 --> 00:30:25,087
- Bogart wins the war in North Africa.
- Not bloody likely.
412
00:30:28,463 --> 00:30:29,691
I'll be off, then.
413
00:30:31,099 --> 00:30:32,964
I'll walk you out.
414
00:30:34,135 --> 00:30:38,003
- It's supposed to be a good movie.
- Not much taste for cinema, myself.
415
00:30:38,172 --> 00:30:41,141
Besides, never enough time
for preparation, is there?
416
00:30:43,478 --> 00:30:45,708
Well, we all need some recreation.
417
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:49,213
Movie once a week, let the hair down,
it seems to do the trick.
418
00:30:49,384 --> 00:30:53,286
If you say so. Although,
if you don't mind me saying so...
419
00:30:53,454 --> 00:30:57,720
...that jeering when you came on the
screen, a bit much, you know.
420
00:30:58,092 --> 00:30:59,582
Good-natured, as I see it.
421
00:31:00,061 --> 00:31:01,358
Undisciplined.
422
00:31:02,663 --> 00:31:04,688
So is using
German troop movements...
423
00:31:04,866 --> 00:31:07,426
...to push your plan
for a dagger thrust again.
424
00:31:08,436 --> 00:31:10,563
The broad assault
is a closed matter.
425
00:31:12,173 --> 00:31:14,869
I allow all my sub-commanders
latitude, general...
426
00:31:15,042 --> 00:31:16,805
...but restraint is also a virtue.
427
00:31:18,346 --> 00:31:20,371
Yes, sir.
428
00:31:21,149 --> 00:31:23,117
Point taken.
429
00:31:45,373 --> 00:31:46,704
He looks cold.
430
00:31:47,241 --> 00:31:48,640
Yeah.
431
00:31:49,076 --> 00:31:52,910
But if we get our asses kicked, we
won't be walking across snowy tundra.
432
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:54,775
We'll have to swim back.
433
00:31:57,452 --> 00:32:02,082
Truth is, I wasn't looking at Napoleon.
I was thinking about the soldiers.
434
00:32:05,059 --> 00:32:09,018
Johnny's graduating from the
academy this session. June 6th.
435
00:32:09,664 --> 00:32:11,063
Proud moment.
436
00:32:11,566 --> 00:32:13,557
Have your son succeed you
at West Point.
437
00:32:13,734 --> 00:32:16,202
Yeah, I can't believe
I won't be there.
438
00:32:16,370 --> 00:32:18,702
Cheer him and shake his hand.
439
00:32:18,873 --> 00:32:21,899
You'll see him soon enough.
And when you do...
440
00:32:24,212 --> 00:32:25,736
Yeah.
441
00:32:26,914 --> 00:32:28,438
It stinks.
442
00:32:30,818 --> 00:32:32,479
It does.
443
00:32:32,653 --> 00:32:37,113
But any way you look at it,
we're getting off easy from this war.
444
00:32:37,558 --> 00:32:40,152
I'll most likely live to see it over.
445
00:32:40,728 --> 00:32:44,164
And my son won't be in it
for as long as most.
446
00:32:44,332 --> 00:32:46,095
But on the other hand...
447
00:32:47,502 --> 00:32:49,561
...this war is still your burden.
448
00:32:51,639 --> 00:32:54,403
And the rest of us,
we're just supporting cast.
449
00:32:54,575 --> 00:32:56,475
If it's any comfort...
450
00:32:57,311 --> 00:33:01,805
...so far, general, you are giving
one hell of a great performance.
451
00:33:04,185 --> 00:33:06,676
I don't think I needed
to hear my job described...
452
00:33:06,854 --> 00:33:08,719
...quite like that, General Smith.
453
00:33:10,992 --> 00:33:14,086
I loved your crack at Monty
about the French.
454
00:33:15,530 --> 00:33:17,794
Oh, thank you.
We bought them from Harrods.
455
00:33:17,965 --> 00:33:20,695
- Harrods?
- Oh, he splashed out.
456
00:33:22,036 --> 00:33:24,061
Wow, that is beautiful.
457
00:33:25,339 --> 00:33:27,500
A lousy wine, Edgar.
458
00:33:27,675 --> 00:33:33,045
But not for long, huh? Soon be
downing the best French stuff.
459
00:33:33,214 --> 00:33:36,741
What do you say, Edgar? I reckon
four days from the beaches to Paris.
460
00:33:36,918 --> 00:33:39,148
- Get there on the 8th.
- I have no idea...
461
00:33:39,554 --> 00:33:42,580
...what you're talking about, Henry.
Nor do you, get it?
462
00:33:42,757 --> 00:33:46,158
Watch it, colonel.
Remember who you're talking to.
463
00:33:46,327 --> 00:33:49,387
Major general. Don't you
damn well forget it either, Henry.
464
00:33:49,564 --> 00:33:52,727
Come, Edith, it's time
we powdered our noses.
465
00:33:57,438 --> 00:33:59,998
Henry, you're a goddamned idiot.
Just button it up.
466
00:34:00,174 --> 00:34:03,769
What's the big deal? The whole
world will know soon enough.
467
00:34:06,614 --> 00:34:09,845
It is a 100-to-1 shot because
it's more than the line of duty.
468
00:34:10,418 --> 00:34:13,012
There's so little chance
of any us coming out of it.
469
00:34:13,187 --> 00:34:14,882
I ought to put it up to you.
470
00:34:15,056 --> 00:34:18,389
You all got families at home.
Wives, mothers and sweethearts.
471
00:34:18,559 --> 00:34:21,585
I ain't got no one,
so it doesn't matter about me.
472
00:34:21,762 --> 00:34:24,356
I know how you feel about it.
473
00:34:30,438 --> 00:34:34,670
He actually said, "June 4th,"
in the hotel grill?
474
00:34:34,842 --> 00:34:36,867
That place is packed
that time of night.
475
00:34:37,044 --> 00:34:38,568
What the hell was he thinking?
476
00:34:38,746 --> 00:34:43,376
- He had too much to drink.
- Henry Miller is a major general.
477
00:34:43,551 --> 00:34:45,815
Entertaining guests
with inside knowledge...
478
00:34:45,987 --> 00:34:48,114
...is a betrayal of the men
he commands.
479
00:34:48,289 --> 00:34:49,779
Of course.
480
00:34:49,957 --> 00:34:51,481
How'd Chapman get onto this?
481
00:34:51,659 --> 00:34:56,392
A junior officer from the 101st was at
the next table. He contacted his CO.
482
00:34:56,564 --> 00:34:59,727
- Well, did you speak to the officer?
- Yeah. Yeah.
483
00:34:59,900 --> 00:35:02,528
A first lieutenant.
Young man from Philadelphia.
484
00:35:02,703 --> 00:35:05,900
Feels awful about the thing.
Didn't want to be thought a snitch.
485
00:35:07,208 --> 00:35:09,039
But?
486
00:35:10,678 --> 00:35:13,806
But he said he commanded
a platoon of airborne infantry.
487
00:35:13,981 --> 00:35:17,473
His chances were bad enough without
making it easier for the Krauts.
488
00:35:17,652 --> 00:35:23,056
Then he's a damn sight better
officer than Miller. And smarter.
489
00:35:25,893 --> 00:35:29,385
Henry was a roommate at West Point.
490
00:35:30,297 --> 00:35:33,095
One of my closest friends.
491
00:35:36,070 --> 00:35:39,699
You know, the word stayed closed.
No one really knows about it.
492
00:35:41,475 --> 00:35:43,636
I do.
493
00:36:07,835 --> 00:36:09,598
At ease.
494
00:36:22,750 --> 00:36:26,811
Ike, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I...
495
00:36:26,987 --> 00:36:30,218
- I don't know what got into me.
- I do.
496
00:36:33,461 --> 00:36:36,794
I swear, I'll never touch another drop.
497
00:36:38,299 --> 00:36:39,789
You're lying.
498
00:36:43,304 --> 00:36:46,603
- So, what will you do with me?
- What do you think?
499
00:36:47,808 --> 00:36:53,440
Oh, please. Ike, don't do this to me.
500
00:36:54,048 --> 00:36:57,950
We go back too far. We're old friends.
You can't cut me loose.
501
00:36:58,352 --> 00:37:01,651
It might be easier if we didn't
have so much history, Hank.
502
00:37:01,822 --> 00:37:06,191
But the stakes are way too big.
You'll have to go home immediately...
503
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:09,193
...and you won't be coming back.
504
00:37:09,363 --> 00:37:12,855
We both owe that to the men
who will be dead in a few weeks.
505
00:37:13,033 --> 00:37:18,369
I'll lose my operational rank.
I'll go home in disgrace, a major.
506
00:37:18,639 --> 00:37:20,607
You can't send me home.
507
00:37:22,209 --> 00:37:25,542
You owe me something.
I'm part of the inner circle.
508
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:28,710
That's the worst thing
you could have said.
509
00:37:30,651 --> 00:37:35,953
There is no inner circle. Only those
who will live and those who will die.
510
00:37:36,757 --> 00:37:39,055
And you don't seem to get that.
511
00:37:58,579 --> 00:38:03,346
Send him home immediately.
Loss of theater rank.
512
00:38:04,385 --> 00:38:06,945
Try to keep him a colonel if you can.
513
00:38:07,121 --> 00:38:09,112
And on his record?
514
00:38:09,290 --> 00:38:14,819
"Deemed more useful in HQ. Skills
not needed in theater of operation."
515
00:38:23,904 --> 00:38:27,067
The thing about all the power,
Beetle...
516
00:38:27,241 --> 00:38:29,573
...it isn't the big decisions
that weigh heavy.
517
00:38:29,743 --> 00:38:33,304
Hell, you can decide
to invade Russia at dinner.
518
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:36,813
Pick Waterloo for battle on a whim.
519
00:38:36,984 --> 00:38:41,318
It's the details. The small stuff.
520
00:38:41,488 --> 00:38:46,050
It's easy to gamble
a million lives. What's hard...
521
00:38:47,027 --> 00:38:51,487
...is to see how that can hurt
one single person.
522
00:38:52,066 --> 00:38:55,194
And if you can't keep that straight...
523
00:38:56,770 --> 00:38:59,204
...hell...
524
00:38:59,974 --> 00:39:02,807
...you'll lose your humanity.
525
00:39:05,312 --> 00:39:06,745
Won't you?
526
00:39:08,816 --> 00:39:10,750
I couldn't say, sir.
527
00:39:24,632 --> 00:39:26,827
As you were.
528
00:39:28,903 --> 00:39:31,030
- Good morning, Beetle.
- Same to you.
529
00:39:31,205 --> 00:39:33,298
I thought you quit smoking.
530
00:39:33,474 --> 00:39:38,207
I'm trying. Ready for the big day?
It's the big moment.
531
00:39:38,379 --> 00:39:40,643
Anything good in the paper?
532
00:39:40,814 --> 00:39:42,304
No, not really.
533
00:39:44,251 --> 00:39:47,152
It's stateside,
but, hey, it's three days old.
534
00:39:48,856 --> 00:39:52,485
Walter, you're my chief of staff,
not my HQ censor.
535
00:39:59,099 --> 00:40:01,966
"While Ike's a good administrator
and a good organizer...
536
00:40:02,136 --> 00:40:04,866
...he lacks the military flare
of a Montgomery...
537
00:40:05,039 --> 00:40:07,530
...or the audacity of a Patton.
538
00:40:07,708 --> 00:40:12,805
Yet, for better or worse, he's the man
they call supreme commander."
539
00:40:18,452 --> 00:40:19,942
You know, Ike...
540
00:40:20,621 --> 00:40:23,112
...a little public relations
wouldn't do any harm.
541
00:40:23,290 --> 00:40:25,155
Oh, it would, and you know it.
542
00:40:25,326 --> 00:40:29,194
We're surrounded by some of
the biggest swelled heads in history.
543
00:40:29,363 --> 00:40:32,457
My job is keeping them pulling
together in the same direction.
544
00:40:32,633 --> 00:40:37,764
I can't do that if I'm competing
with them for newspaper ink.
545
00:40:38,539 --> 00:40:41,736
This is your plan. You developed it.
546
00:40:41,909 --> 00:40:46,676
You fought Churchill for it,
all the politicians, even F.D.R.
547
00:40:46,847 --> 00:40:50,214
No, this is your show.
The world ought to know it.
548
00:40:50,384 --> 00:40:54,480
Maybe. One day, but not this day.
549
00:40:54,655 --> 00:40:57,556
This day, we have
other fish to fry, general.
550
00:40:58,225 --> 00:41:01,626
- Now may I have some coffee?
- Yes, sir.
551
00:41:15,409 --> 00:41:17,673
Oh, a point of principle, old man.
552
00:41:17,845 --> 00:41:21,337
A bad habit in my opinion.
Never been permitted in my HQ.
553
00:41:22,383 --> 00:41:25,443
Oh, all right, Monty,
if it's so damned important to you.
554
00:41:25,619 --> 00:41:28,850
I did agree to use your ground
for this.
555
00:41:46,373 --> 00:41:51,401
Churchill makes the final decision
on what they buy. Only him.
556
00:41:51,578 --> 00:41:54,547
But don't oversell. He can smell
bull pucky a mile away.
557
00:41:54,715 --> 00:41:57,775
You are acquainted with Eisenhower,
an American cousin.
558
00:41:57,951 --> 00:42:00,920
Yes. Good to see you again.
559
00:42:01,088 --> 00:42:05,081
Prime minister tells us we may have
great confidence in this undertaking.
560
00:42:05,259 --> 00:42:08,592
Oh, I never disagree
with Mr. Churchill, Your Majesty.
561
00:42:08,762 --> 00:42:10,923
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth.
562
00:42:11,098 --> 00:42:13,623
How delighted we are
to see you again, general.
563
00:42:13,801 --> 00:42:16,292
We look forward
to our private luncheon next week.
564
00:42:16,470 --> 00:42:19,132
As do I, ma'am. I thank you.
565
00:42:19,306 --> 00:42:22,537
General, if you please.
566
00:42:42,129 --> 00:42:44,097
Excuse me.
567
00:43:09,790 --> 00:43:12,691
Your Majesties, Mr. Prime Minister...
568
00:43:12,860 --> 00:43:16,523
...honored guests, dignitaries,
I'm Dwight Eisenhower...
569
00:43:16,697 --> 00:43:18,995
...commander in chief,
Supreme Headquarters...
570
00:43:19,166 --> 00:43:23,034
...Allied Expeditionary Force,
European Theater of Operation.
571
00:43:23,203 --> 00:43:26,502
Just getting the title straight
is tiring enough.
572
00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:29,804
So I will leave much
of today's business...
573
00:43:29,977 --> 00:43:34,539
...to my trusted and gifted
colleagues, brothers-in-arms.
574
00:43:34,715 --> 00:43:39,175
We are from different traditions,
different services...
575
00:43:39,353 --> 00:43:41,878
...but we are united in this crusade.
576
00:43:42,723 --> 00:43:47,217
We shall liberate Europe.
We shall restore freedom.
577
00:43:47,394 --> 00:43:49,760
We shall make the world
safe for democracy.
578
00:43:50,797 --> 00:43:56,895
There is no other cause so urgent
as to bring us so far from our homes.
579
00:43:57,371 --> 00:43:59,430
This is our purpose.
580
00:43:59,606 --> 00:44:01,699
This is Operation Overlord.
581
00:44:02,442 --> 00:44:07,505
Explaining how we will succeed
is best done by my chiefs of staff...
582
00:44:07,681 --> 00:44:09,911
...starting with General Montgomery...
583
00:44:10,083 --> 00:44:14,213
...commander, 21st Army Group
and responsible for all our land forces.
584
00:44:14,388 --> 00:44:16,447
General, if you will.
585
00:44:21,228 --> 00:44:23,958
Your Majesties.
586
00:44:24,131 --> 00:44:28,500
Of the enemy's 60 divisions in France,
10 are armored.
587
00:44:28,669 --> 00:44:30,899
Commanded by Erwin Rommel.
588
00:44:31,071 --> 00:44:34,802
As you know, I faced him
in the desert and bested him.
589
00:44:34,975 --> 00:44:37,466
But make no mistake,
Rommel is an energetic...
590
00:44:37,644 --> 00:44:41,580
Clever, putting Monty
front and center.
591
00:44:41,748 --> 00:44:44,717
So he can bring
his tanks southward.
592
00:44:44,885 --> 00:44:48,252
But we shall make
a strike forward here.
593
00:44:48,422 --> 00:44:52,324
I hope to make Falaise 32 miles
inland within 40 hours.
594
00:44:52,492 --> 00:44:56,019
Paratroopers will total
over 30,000 men.
595
00:44:56,196 --> 00:45:00,724
The largest drop in history.
Casualties will be high...
596
00:45:00,901 --> 00:45:04,132
...but the size of the force should
draw two enemy divisions...
597
00:45:04,304 --> 00:45:07,603
...from the beaches, just as our men
are ready to disembark.
598
00:45:07,774 --> 00:45:09,366
To take the left flank...
599
00:45:09,543 --> 00:45:13,536
...we need to land enough men
to swamp Hitler's Atlantic wall.
600
00:45:13,714 --> 00:45:16,444
Losses amongst the British
and Canadian troops...
601
00:45:16,617 --> 00:45:18,881
...will be heavy
during the assault wave...
602
00:45:19,052 --> 00:45:21,816
...but easing off as they move
past the pillboxes.
603
00:45:21,989 --> 00:45:25,254
While fighter command provides cover
for the beach assault...
604
00:45:25,425 --> 00:45:27,985
...and strafes the Atlantic wall...
605
00:45:28,161 --> 00:45:33,428
...General Spaatz will smash the rail
links leading south from La Manche...
606
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:39,004
...delaying any attempt by Rommel
to reinforce his southern defenses.
607
00:45:47,614 --> 00:45:50,515
Well, Your Majesties,
gentlemen, there it is.
608
00:45:51,618 --> 00:45:56,385
We're anxious to hear your thoughts,
additions, criticisms. The floor is open.
609
00:45:56,823 --> 00:45:59,656
I am impressed by the detail...
610
00:45:59,826 --> 00:46:03,785
...the comprehensiveness
of your planning.
611
00:46:04,064 --> 00:46:08,967
But the expected losses,
the sheer carnage...
612
00:46:11,805 --> 00:46:14,137
I also ache at that thought,
Your Majesty.
613
00:46:17,277 --> 00:46:20,769
I remember my first trip
to Europe as a young man.
614
00:46:20,947 --> 00:46:25,316
I felt blessed to be here, to see it...
615
00:46:25,485 --> 00:46:29,353
...to touch the origins of my own
country that I love so dearly.
616
00:46:30,490 --> 00:46:35,325
I hoped one day that all Americans
would have the same opportunity.
617
00:46:37,230 --> 00:46:42,930
Now hundreds of thousands will,
along with Britons and Canadians...
618
00:46:43,103 --> 00:46:47,403
...and European Allies
fighting to return home.
619
00:46:49,976 --> 00:46:55,505
This kind of visit
isn't what I had in mind...
620
00:46:56,550 --> 00:47:00,714
...but if they do not offer
the sacrifice of blood now...
621
00:47:00,887 --> 00:47:04,846
...we will all pay dearly
with added gallons later.
622
00:47:05,859 --> 00:47:08,327
So if some must die...
623
00:47:08,495 --> 00:47:11,089
...it is in a worthy cause.
624
00:47:36,723 --> 00:47:39,283
I am in this thing
with you till the very end...
625
00:47:39,459 --> 00:47:42,656
...and if it fails,
we both go down together.
626
00:47:50,804 --> 00:47:54,467
It's dicey to get out on a limb
with disturbances over Baffin Island.
627
00:47:54,641 --> 00:47:59,510
If they form a front and move across
the North Atlantic, this time of year...
628
00:47:59,679 --> 00:48:02,147
...I'd say six days
for a top-speed journey...
629
00:48:02,315 --> 00:48:05,409
...and with the proposed
landing a week away...
630
00:48:05,585 --> 00:48:07,644
You realize that this may be...
631
00:48:07,821 --> 00:48:10,346
...the most important
weather forecast in history.
632
00:48:13,093 --> 00:48:14,321
I do indeed, sir.
633
00:48:15,462 --> 00:48:17,259
I'd feel a lot more comfortable...
634
00:48:17,431 --> 00:48:20,195
...if I could have another
two days before committing.
635
00:48:20,367 --> 00:48:22,528
The admiral can correct me
if I'm wrong...
636
00:48:22,702 --> 00:48:25,466
...but if we don't move
the men toward the ships...
637
00:48:25,639 --> 00:48:29,507
- ...we're gonna miss the tide, sir.
- I'll be damned if I wait till July.
638
00:48:29,676 --> 00:48:32,144
The men will go stark raving mad.
639
00:48:53,300 --> 00:48:57,066
June 5 is a go.
Issue the movement orders.
640
00:48:57,237 --> 00:49:00,070
Well done. We'll do it proud, Ike.
641
00:49:00,240 --> 00:49:03,676
I'll be in Falaise in 72 hours,
Paris by the autumn.
642
00:49:04,244 --> 00:49:06,678
Paris in the fall. Bless you, Monty.
643
00:49:06,847 --> 00:49:10,681
No one can say you don't tackle things
with two fists. I admire confidence.
644
00:49:10,851 --> 00:49:13,115
Let's all get some of that.
645
00:49:13,286 --> 00:49:15,220
All of you...
646
00:49:17,824 --> 00:49:19,655
...Godspeed.
647
00:49:22,062 --> 00:49:24,030
Thank you.
648
00:49:27,701 --> 00:49:29,168
Good luck.
649
00:49:53,226 --> 00:49:55,751
You're sure this is how
you want it, general?
650
00:49:55,929 --> 00:49:58,227
Yes, prime minister.
651
00:49:59,099 --> 00:50:01,966
You see no value to me
or President Roosevelt...
652
00:50:02,135 --> 00:50:04,399
...speaking directly
to the people of Europe?
653
00:50:04,838 --> 00:50:08,137
Not until the landings
are an assured success.
654
00:50:08,575 --> 00:50:11,635
This way, if it fails,
I will be the first one to address...
655
00:50:11,811 --> 00:50:13,506
...the question of the invasion.
656
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:16,274
You and the president
will be blameless.
657
00:50:16,449 --> 00:50:19,714
I'm expendable. You two are not.
658
00:50:20,420 --> 00:50:23,787
Shoulder the whole burden alone
to the very end, is it?
659
00:50:24,291 --> 00:50:27,590
One conductor is what I asked for
and what you've given me.
660
00:50:29,563 --> 00:50:32,726
You've made the manly choice.
I admire it.
661
00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:37,236
All the same, between we two...
662
00:50:37,404 --> 00:50:42,171
...surely God himself must tremble
at the task that lies before you.
663
00:50:42,742 --> 00:50:45,074
And it is God's work you do, Ike...
664
00:50:45,245 --> 00:50:47,907
...for you hold all our lives
in your hands.
665
00:50:48,381 --> 00:50:54,217
If I do God's work, then he will be
at my side, and I cannot fail.
666
00:50:54,921 --> 00:50:59,984
Although, candidly, God hasn't been
much help with DeGaulle.
667
00:51:01,795 --> 00:51:05,629
Not even God could move him.
And it's no use looking to me.
668
00:51:05,799 --> 00:51:07,733
DeGaulle hates me.
669
00:51:07,901 --> 00:51:10,768
He ignores that France is
collaborating with the enemy.
670
00:51:10,937 --> 00:51:14,964
Pretends Vichy doesn't exist
and Jews aren't being rounded up.
671
00:51:15,141 --> 00:51:16,631
A horrid man...
672
00:51:16,810 --> 00:51:22,442
...but he guards French
prerogatives jealously.
673
00:51:22,616 --> 00:51:27,644
Take another run at him, Ike.
I'll back any bargain you strike.
674
00:51:28,121 --> 00:51:30,214
Would you just assure me
of one thing?
675
00:51:30,390 --> 00:51:32,950
The sands
on these Norman beaches...
676
00:51:33,293 --> 00:51:35,227
...dense enough for tanks?
677
00:51:35,395 --> 00:51:37,056
You can drink to it, sir.
678
00:51:41,635 --> 00:51:43,227
Once more...
679
00:51:43,403 --> 00:51:45,963
...unto the breach, dear friends.
Once more...
680
00:51:46,139 --> 00:51:49,165
...or close the wall up
with our English dead.
681
00:51:49,342 --> 00:51:52,368
In peace, there's nothing
so becomes a man...
682
00:51:52,545 --> 00:51:54,570
...as modest stillness and humility.
683
00:51:54,748 --> 00:51:58,582
But when the blast of war blows
in our ears, then imitate the tiger.
684
00:51:58,752 --> 00:52:00,583
Do you get the feeling Europeans...
685
00:52:00,754 --> 00:52:03,314
...have been at this war
thing for a long time?
686
00:52:03,490 --> 00:52:07,392
Too long.
It's almost as if they like war.
687
00:52:08,328 --> 00:52:12,287
I am afeard there are few die well
that die in a battle.
688
00:52:12,465 --> 00:52:14,194
How can they charitably
dispose...?
689
00:52:14,367 --> 00:52:17,029
Sounds like Shakespeare
had it all figured out.
690
00:52:17,203 --> 00:52:19,433
Yeah.
691
00:52:19,606 --> 00:52:23,337
But he was writing after
the war was over and won.
692
00:52:32,185 --> 00:52:34,312
It's spooky...
693
00:52:34,487 --> 00:52:39,891
...listening to words written 400
years ago about our battlefields.
694
00:52:40,060 --> 00:52:43,359
Words about blood and grief.
695
00:52:43,530 --> 00:52:45,521
Very spooky.
696
00:52:45,699 --> 00:52:48,224
But if I may, ours is not
to reason why.
697
00:52:48,401 --> 00:52:51,199
Of course it is. We're the generals.
698
00:52:53,707 --> 00:52:58,770
I think Monty's got Churchill worried
that the beaches won't hold the tanks.
699
00:52:58,945 --> 00:53:02,403
I've told you a hundred times,
we've done our homework.
700
00:53:02,582 --> 00:53:05,380
The sand will support
the tank track rails with ease.
701
00:53:07,921 --> 00:53:10,754
I don't think that's what's
bothering you.
702
00:53:12,859 --> 00:53:16,727
- You read Marshall's letter.
- About the paratroopers? Yes, I did.
703
00:53:16,896 --> 00:53:18,659
- What'd you make of it?
- He's wrong.
704
00:53:19,199 --> 00:53:21,394
He says drop the jumpers
behind the beaches.
705
00:53:21,568 --> 00:53:23,695
Try to draw the Germans
in two directions.
706
00:53:23,870 --> 00:53:28,273
If I were Rommel, I'd ignore them.
Concentrate everything on the beach.
707
00:53:28,575 --> 00:53:32,204
I'd do the same. Every hour I delay
the invasion force from moving in...
708
00:53:32,378 --> 00:53:35,074
...would be another hour
airborne units would be isolated.
709
00:53:35,248 --> 00:53:38,479
Exactly. Besides, I need those men...
710
00:53:38,651 --> 00:53:42,348
...all 30,000 of them, to keep
nipping at the Krauts' heels.
711
00:53:42,522 --> 00:53:45,514
They have to be close to force
Rommel to deal with them.
712
00:53:45,692 --> 00:53:48,923
Yeah, but the drop zones, Brad.
713
00:53:49,362 --> 00:53:54,994
You heard Leigh-Mallory's estimate
of losses with a close drop. Carnage.
714
00:53:55,168 --> 00:53:57,432
How would a distant drop be better?
715
00:53:57,937 --> 00:54:00,565
If inland progress was slow,
we'd have those men...
716
00:54:00,740 --> 00:54:04,039
...wandering around France
looking for something to eat.
717
00:54:07,247 --> 00:54:11,115
We'd be repeating the mistake
we made in Anzio.
718
00:54:15,221 --> 00:54:20,158
Marshall's a godfather to us, Brad.
I hate to cross the old man.
719
00:54:20,860 --> 00:54:22,919
It's like a friend of mine said:
720
00:54:23,096 --> 00:54:26,623
"One supreme commander,
one voice."
721
00:54:27,500 --> 00:54:33,097
We few, we happy few,
we band of brothers.
722
00:54:33,273 --> 00:54:36,470
For he today that sheds his blood
with me shall be my brother...
723
00:54:36,643 --> 00:54:38,235
...be he ne'er so base.
724
00:54:38,411 --> 00:54:40,743
And gentlemen
in England, now abed...
725
00:54:40,914 --> 00:54:43,883
...shall think themselves accursed
they were not here...
726
00:54:44,050 --> 00:54:47,417
...and hold their manhoods cheap
while any speaks...
727
00:54:47,587 --> 00:54:52,889
...that fought with us upon
St. Crispin's Day!
728
00:54:53,660 --> 00:54:56,288
My sovereign lord...
729
00:54:56,462 --> 00:54:59,192
I hope the main attraction's
a bit more cheerful.
730
00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:05,467
It's Rita Hayworth. A hell of a lot
easier on the eye than that bunch.
731
00:55:12,111 --> 00:55:14,443
I've been in the theater years
and never seen...
732
00:55:14,614 --> 00:55:16,844
Excuse me, please.
733
00:55:17,417 --> 00:55:19,442
Why don't you be
a good boy and scram.
734
00:55:19,619 --> 00:55:21,951
- Of course, we'll go...
- No, that's all right.
735
00:55:22,121 --> 00:55:24,487
You're welcome to stay here,
but this guy...
736
00:55:24,657 --> 00:55:26,682
This guy.
737
00:55:28,328 --> 00:55:30,296
I'm sorry. That's my one virtue.
738
00:55:31,764 --> 00:55:33,163
- McGuire.
- Hello.
739
00:55:33,333 --> 00:55:35,267
I'm sorry.
740
00:55:35,435 --> 00:55:38,302
It's a little crowded here.
Would you mind moving over?
741
00:55:38,471 --> 00:55:41,872
Oh, that's quite all right.
Make yourself at home.
742
00:55:51,551 --> 00:55:54,042
Dearest Mamie...
743
00:55:54,220 --> 00:55:58,657
...at last, the days grow longer,
and we will soon be in it.
744
00:55:58,825 --> 00:56:03,558
I face that with neither dread
nor joy.
745
00:56:03,730 --> 00:56:08,394
How I wish this cruel business of war
could be completed quickly.
746
00:56:09,502 --> 00:56:12,403
It leaves me heartsick to think
of sending so many men...
747
00:56:12,572 --> 00:56:15,905
...against Hitler's Atlantic wall.
748
00:56:16,075 --> 00:56:20,409
I admit to having developed
a veneer of callousness...
749
00:56:20,580 --> 00:56:24,914
...but counting the human cost
is a terribly sad business...
750
00:56:25,084 --> 00:56:28,281
...and no veneer of callousness
allows me to escape the truth...
751
00:56:28,454 --> 00:56:32,322
...that back home, the news
brings anguish and suffering.
752
00:56:33,293 --> 00:56:36,490
So many youngsters
already gone forever.
753
00:56:36,663 --> 00:56:40,599
Mothers, fathers, brothers...
754
00:56:40,767 --> 00:56:43,065
...sisters back home
have a difficult time...
755
00:56:43,236 --> 00:56:47,536
...retaining any belief
in the eternal rightness of things.
756
00:56:48,508 --> 00:56:51,773
There is no true glory in war.
757
00:57:14,867 --> 00:57:17,335
Yes, sir. At 0900.
758
00:57:25,578 --> 00:57:27,239
Yes.
759
00:57:29,515 --> 00:57:34,077
Intelligence signals confirm Rommel
moved the 116th Panzer Division...
760
00:57:34,253 --> 00:57:37,984
...basing at Verville. That is shouting
distance from the main drops.
761
00:57:38,157 --> 00:57:40,921
Is it a single redeployment
or part of larger movement?
762
00:57:41,094 --> 00:57:45,554
So far, just a one-shot affair, but he
bypassed Juno, Sword and Gold...
763
00:57:45,732 --> 00:57:48,223
...and sent them directly
to Utah and Omaha.
764
00:57:48,668 --> 00:57:50,761
That doesn't change my view.
765
00:57:50,937 --> 00:57:53,735
We have to have the airborne
as close as possible.
766
00:57:53,906 --> 00:57:56,431
I need jumpers breathing
down the Germans' necks...
767
00:57:56,609 --> 00:57:59,043
...pulling them around.
768
00:58:00,079 --> 00:58:02,547
The plan always called
for the diversion to be...
769
00:58:02,715 --> 00:58:05,149
I know!
770
00:58:07,653 --> 00:58:09,382
I know.
771
00:59:04,811 --> 00:59:09,510
- You're new here. What's your name?
- Corporal William Younger, ma'am.
772
00:59:09,916 --> 00:59:12,612
All right, now remember,
we hear nothing in this room.
773
00:59:12,785 --> 00:59:14,252
And we never speak.
774
00:59:14,420 --> 00:59:16,149
No matter what,
we never stop work.
775
00:59:16,322 --> 00:59:19,849
The king himself may enter, but what
we're doing must take priority.
776
00:59:20,026 --> 00:59:22,153
Now carry on.
777
00:59:22,328 --> 00:59:25,661
- They deserve a force at the Krauts'...
- Stop.
778
00:59:25,832 --> 00:59:28,426
I know the risks for both sides...
779
00:59:28,601 --> 00:59:31,195
...but neither of you
makes a decisive case.
780
00:59:31,771 --> 00:59:33,602
How many ways can I say it?
781
00:59:34,040 --> 00:59:36,975
I'm counting on those jumpers
to split German attention...
782
00:59:37,143 --> 00:59:39,168
...ease pressure on the assault wave.
783
00:59:39,345 --> 00:59:42,542
And they should have, but that
was before Rommel redeployed.
784
00:59:42,715 --> 00:59:44,876
One division isn't a redeployment.
785
00:59:45,051 --> 00:59:47,383
For men in my drop,
it's a potential disaster.
786
00:59:47,887 --> 00:59:50,583
Jumpers and glider-borne troops
are sitting ducks...
787
00:59:50,756 --> 00:59:54,214
...for the first 10 minutes
until they regroup.
788
00:59:55,228 --> 00:59:57,662
Damn. There goes another.
789
01:00:01,901 --> 01:00:04,165
It's the 81st Infantry.
790
01:00:04,337 --> 01:00:07,238
Wehrmacht, conscripts,
the crack units are to the north.
791
01:00:07,406 --> 01:00:11,240
Perhaps. But if Jerry's reinforcing
the whole damn region...
792
01:00:11,410 --> 01:00:14,868
...we lose 70 percent of glider troops
before they're out of planes.
793
01:00:15,047 --> 01:00:16,378
And the jumpers?
794
01:00:17,950 --> 01:00:21,886
Some of them will make it, but they'll
be short of the numbers you need...
795
01:00:22,155 --> 01:00:25,090
...if seaborne landings are depending
on airborne to distract Jerry.
796
01:00:25,258 --> 01:00:28,421
You're saying there's no middle
ground. We should cancel it.
797
01:00:28,961 --> 01:00:30,929
We don't want the slaughter
of two fine divisions.
798
01:00:31,097 --> 01:00:35,124
The 101st and the 82nd are elite, Ike.
We'll need them down the line.
799
01:00:35,301 --> 01:00:38,498
We'll need them on June 5th.
Otherwise the entire German army...
800
01:00:38,671 --> 01:00:42,038
...will let loose on my assault waves.
My loss will be 70 percent.
801
01:00:42,208 --> 01:00:43,675
All right.
802
01:00:43,843 --> 01:00:45,572
Thank you. I've heard both sides.
803
01:00:47,113 --> 01:00:49,081
I need a night to sleep on it.
804
01:00:49,248 --> 01:00:53,116
Sorry to disturb, sir. May I?
805
01:00:53,286 --> 01:00:55,379
If it's good news.
806
01:00:55,555 --> 01:00:58,456
Well, sir, I wish I could say it was...
807
01:00:58,624 --> 01:01:02,958
...but it's getting a little bit uncertain.
808
01:01:03,129 --> 01:01:05,256
You said it would take days
for systems...
809
01:01:05,431 --> 01:01:07,296
...to get from Baffin Island to here.
810
01:01:07,466 --> 01:01:09,525
And so it should, sir.
811
01:01:09,702 --> 01:01:11,829
Unless they dislodge
from the jet stream...
812
01:01:12,004 --> 01:01:14,302
...a meteorological possibility,
they're not...
813
01:01:14,473 --> 01:01:17,567
I can't work with possibilities,
group captain.
814
01:01:17,743 --> 01:01:20,337
At minimum, I need probabilities.
815
01:01:20,513 --> 01:01:24,142
Are there such things
as meteorological probabilities?
816
01:01:26,252 --> 01:01:29,153
There will be, sir, within hours.
817
01:01:29,322 --> 01:01:32,257
Not fast enough, group captain.
I need hourly reports.
818
01:01:32,959 --> 01:01:34,551
Yes, sir.
819
01:01:39,332 --> 01:01:41,459
He doesn't make weather.
He talks about it.
820
01:01:41,634 --> 01:01:43,898
Then get him to say nicer things.
821
01:01:44,337 --> 01:01:47,272
Look, give me some time
to work on this airborne thing.
822
01:01:47,440 --> 01:01:50,341
I'll send for you
when I've figured it out.
823
01:01:54,013 --> 01:01:56,447
Yes. What is it?
824
01:01:58,784 --> 01:02:02,720
Our friends at HQ say the airborne
decision is at a head.
825
01:02:02,888 --> 01:02:06,949
If you're to be heard,
now would be the hour, sir.
826
01:02:07,126 --> 01:02:09,253
And what do you think, Wiatt?
827
01:02:10,963 --> 01:02:13,557
Inland, they're no help
to the landing force.
828
01:02:13,733 --> 01:02:16,668
Keep them close,
they could be shredded.
829
01:02:18,704 --> 01:02:23,266
Let's see how he works it out.
Thank you, Wiatt.
830
01:02:51,304 --> 01:02:53,499
If I may...
831
01:02:54,340 --> 01:02:55,705
...it's the right decision.
832
01:02:56,742 --> 01:02:59,870
Divisional commanders can't
factor in weather and the seas...
833
01:03:00,046 --> 01:03:04,540
...supplies, naval support,
DeGaulle, the politics.
834
01:03:05,551 --> 01:03:07,314
Besides, it's not their job.
835
01:03:13,159 --> 01:03:15,286
I'll inform Leigh-Mallory and Brad.
836
01:03:15,461 --> 01:03:17,429
Don't publish that order until I do.
837
01:03:20,700 --> 01:03:22,634
You better get some sleep.
838
01:03:24,303 --> 01:03:26,897
You have another dragon
to slay tomorrow.
839
01:03:34,513 --> 01:03:36,344
I've considered it.
840
01:03:36,515 --> 01:03:41,316
Either way, some units will
sustain devastating losses.
841
01:03:41,487 --> 01:03:45,787
But this invasion is largely
dependent on sea and air power.
842
01:03:45,958 --> 01:03:48,392
Our land troops are inferior...
843
01:03:48,561 --> 01:03:51,325
...if for no other reason
than they're not on land.
844
01:03:51,497 --> 01:03:55,934
So our most important job
is securing beachheads.
845
01:03:56,102 --> 01:03:59,560
Deference must be given to protecting
troops trying to come ashore...
846
01:03:59,739 --> 01:04:04,142
...to clear the way for the armor and
artillery that will push Rommel back.
847
01:04:04,510 --> 01:04:08,810
That being the case, despite
the projected losses, Traff...
848
01:04:08,981 --> 01:04:13,577
...even 70 percent,
the airborne operation has to go.
849
01:04:20,693 --> 01:04:24,151
It's the toughest choice
I've ever had to make.
850
01:04:25,164 --> 01:04:27,325
Do everything to diminish the hazards.
851
01:04:27,500 --> 01:04:30,196
Go over every detail a thousand times.
852
01:04:31,237 --> 01:04:36,174
But as painful as it is, those soldiers
will have to bear the rough portion.
853
01:04:37,009 --> 01:04:42,606
General Bradley's assault troops
must be given every edge we can find.
854
01:04:43,482 --> 01:04:45,848
A perfectly sound decision.
855
01:04:46,018 --> 01:04:49,146
We'll keep Jerry watching out
for his backside.
856
01:04:49,321 --> 01:04:52,222
You get yours to those jumpers
as soon as you can.
857
01:04:52,391 --> 01:04:54,621
Count on it.
858
01:04:57,997 --> 01:05:00,124
Thank you, gentlemen.
859
01:05:03,235 --> 01:05:05,066
Brad?
860
01:05:07,273 --> 01:05:09,366
When he wakes up,
I'm seeing Churchill.
861
01:05:09,542 --> 01:05:11,772
- He's gonna bring it up...
- Will you lay off?
862
01:05:11,944 --> 01:05:14,105
I've told you, the sand will hold.
863
01:05:14,280 --> 01:05:17,340
We tested with light bombing.
Resistance gave measurements.
864
01:05:17,516 --> 01:05:22,215
I know. If the first of those storms hits
the beaches the same time we do...
865
01:05:22,388 --> 01:05:24,413
...you're looking at 2 inches of rain.
866
01:05:24,590 --> 01:05:28,959
Maybe 20-foot swells, eating
at the beaches. Huge erosion.
867
01:05:30,496 --> 01:05:33,659
Would you still go
in that kind of weather?
868
01:05:33,833 --> 01:05:38,099
If we don't go now...
A lot can happen in three weeks.
869
01:05:38,270 --> 01:05:41,967
They'd get onto us.
Rommel can move more men.
870
01:05:42,141 --> 01:05:47,044
So I ask you again, my good friend,
what if the conditions are marginal?
871
01:05:47,213 --> 01:05:51,081
The beaches will be firm.
I know they will.
872
01:05:51,250 --> 01:05:55,084
You can trust me on this
and not worry yourself about it further.
873
01:05:56,822 --> 01:06:00,485
- Thank you, general.
- General.
874
01:06:24,817 --> 01:06:28,116
Salute! Attention!
875
01:06:38,731 --> 01:06:41,894
Thank you for taking the time
to join us, general.
876
01:06:47,439 --> 01:06:51,739
Not even your headman's Kansas
charm can melt the French iceberg.
877
01:06:51,911 --> 01:06:53,208
Don't bet on it.
878
01:07:14,600 --> 01:07:17,933
Attention, all ranks!
General officer!
879
01:07:20,072 --> 01:07:21,972
As you were.
880
01:07:22,775 --> 01:07:26,711
Come, general.
Let me provide you with some details.
881
01:07:28,180 --> 01:07:30,045
Prime minister.
882
01:07:35,187 --> 01:07:38,054
If the Frenchman can back up
his manner...
883
01:07:38,223 --> 01:07:42,489
...he should be able to control
the weather for us. And the tides.
884
01:07:42,661 --> 01:07:45,892
All we want is he tells
the French to welcome us.
885
01:07:46,065 --> 01:07:48,465
Neutrality might mean
they'll work against us...
886
01:07:48,634 --> 01:07:50,158
...like some did at Dunkirk.
887
01:07:52,137 --> 01:07:53,468
My, my.
888
01:07:53,639 --> 01:07:57,336
Seems that our work isn't up
to the general's level.
889
01:08:12,658 --> 01:08:16,458
General DeGaulle,
I trust your confidence is buoyed.
890
01:08:18,631 --> 01:08:22,499
I think your Operation Overlord
is poorly conceived.
891
01:08:22,668 --> 01:08:26,126
I have explained its failures
to General Eisenhower.
892
01:08:26,705 --> 01:08:29,868
He has all the information to make
the necessary corrections.
893
01:08:30,042 --> 01:08:32,806
I'm grateful for the general's
contributions.
894
01:08:32,978 --> 01:08:34,878
I'll explain them to you all later.
895
01:08:35,047 --> 01:08:38,107
Although, as I've told the general,
with regret...
896
01:08:38,283 --> 01:08:42,447
...we simply don't have the time
to make the changes suggested.
897
01:08:45,991 --> 01:08:47,822
Perhaps...
898
01:08:48,027 --> 01:08:49,858
...you could use a moment alone...
899
01:08:50,963 --> 01:08:53,363
...to discuss other matters?
900
01:08:55,601 --> 01:08:57,262
Yes, sir.
901
01:08:57,436 --> 01:08:58,767
General?
902
01:09:10,182 --> 01:09:13,083
What do you expect from me,
general?
903
01:09:13,252 --> 01:09:16,312
- This is, after all, your speech.
- Yes.
904
01:09:16,488 --> 01:09:20,584
But it is to be broadcast to the French
people on the eve of their liberation.
905
01:09:20,759 --> 01:09:23,557
I was hoping for your support
since we recognize you...
906
01:09:23,729 --> 01:09:25,196
...as their legitimate voice.
907
01:09:25,364 --> 01:09:27,764
Of course you do.
There is no one else.
908
01:09:27,933 --> 01:09:31,562
So I shall give my own address
when the time comes.
909
01:09:31,737 --> 01:09:35,366
As, of course, you must.
But it is our hope, our urgent hope...
910
01:09:35,541 --> 01:09:37,304
...that you'll endorse
my remarks...
911
01:09:37,476 --> 01:09:40,001
...and that is why my speech
should concern you.
912
01:09:40,179 --> 01:09:44,206
Your remarks concern me greatly,
General Eisenhower.
913
01:09:44,383 --> 01:09:47,181
But not for the reasons
you might like.
914
01:09:47,352 --> 01:09:49,843
Okay, what's wrong with it?
915
01:09:52,257 --> 01:09:56,751
Firstly, you urge Frenchmen
to follow your orders?
916
01:09:56,929 --> 01:09:59,124
Only I will command
the people of France.
917
01:10:00,032 --> 01:10:02,694
I understand that.
We all do.
918
01:10:02,868 --> 01:10:05,928
But this operation can only work
if it speaks with one voice.
919
01:10:06,105 --> 01:10:07,436
So they say.
920
01:10:07,606 --> 01:10:10,336
You even ask my people
to accept Allied money.
921
01:10:10,509 --> 01:10:16,573
Yet, as president of the provisional
government, only I can issue currency.
922
01:10:16,749 --> 01:10:20,310
You say local administrations
will stay in place.
923
01:10:20,486 --> 01:10:21,976
For stability, general.
924
01:10:22,154 --> 01:10:24,748
Only I shall decide
what to do with Vichy officials.
925
01:10:24,923 --> 01:10:27,448
No, no. It's quite impossible.
I'll never accept...
926
01:10:27,626 --> 01:10:30,254
...that you can speak
for all the Allies.
927
01:10:30,429 --> 01:10:31,987
The British have.
928
01:10:32,164 --> 01:10:37,761
The Canadians, the Australians,
the exiled Dutch and Poles.
929
01:10:37,936 --> 01:10:39,927
Roosevelt and Churchill have agreed.
930
01:10:40,372 --> 01:10:42,704
Come to think of it,
you're the only exception.
931
01:10:42,975 --> 01:10:47,878
You will not treat us like Italy.
We are not German allies.
932
01:10:48,046 --> 01:10:52,380
In fact, the Vichy government
is precisely that, general.
933
01:10:53,585 --> 01:10:58,955
But we will liberate France and
treat her as an ally nonetheless.
934
01:10:59,124 --> 01:11:03,322
All I ask is that you speak on the radio
after my address...
935
01:11:03,495 --> 01:11:06,362
...and call on your people
to aid us in their liberation.
936
01:11:06,532 --> 01:11:08,762
Speak after you?
Impossible.
937
01:11:08,934 --> 01:11:12,301
That would imply I approve
of your program.
938
01:11:16,875 --> 01:11:18,342
I understand.
939
01:11:20,179 --> 01:11:21,976
Allow me to see you to your car.
940
01:11:46,338 --> 01:11:48,738
- You're wet, Stagg.
- Aye, sir.
941
01:11:48,907 --> 01:11:51,375
It started raining.
942
01:11:55,848 --> 01:11:59,477
- I find that very depressing.
- Depressing. Yes.
943
01:11:59,651 --> 01:12:03,212
Well, three depressions, actually.
One after the other.
944
01:12:03,388 --> 01:12:06,516
They rolled in from Baffin Island
in unbelievably quick time.
945
01:12:06,692 --> 01:12:10,253
- I've never seen it like...
- How long before they pass through?
946
01:12:10,429 --> 01:12:12,226
- All three?
- Yes.
947
01:12:12,397 --> 01:12:16,629
Three to five days.
Might be some calm in between them.
948
01:12:16,802 --> 01:12:20,067
Meantime, we're looking at swells
of up to 40 feet mid-Channel...
949
01:12:20,239 --> 01:12:22,366
...30-feet breakers
on the landing zones...
950
01:12:22,541 --> 01:12:24,873
...and winds of up to 50 miles
an hour.
951
01:12:25,043 --> 01:12:27,534
We can't get the gliders
and C-47's off the ground.
952
01:12:27,713 --> 01:12:30,978
Even if we did, they'd be blown all
over Europe when they jumped.
953
01:12:31,149 --> 01:12:33,014
Embarkation status, Birdie?
954
01:12:33,185 --> 01:12:35,881
Crew's aboard ship,
vessel's fully loaded.
955
01:12:36,054 --> 01:12:40,047
Mulberries and LST is fueled.
More crafts still at mooring.
956
01:12:40,225 --> 01:12:42,159
C-47's in place.
Gliders leashed.
957
01:12:42,327 --> 01:12:45,160
Men ready for boarding
on 30 minutes' notice.
958
01:12:45,330 --> 01:12:48,026
We can't send them.
They'll drown before they arrive.
959
01:12:48,200 --> 01:12:50,930
True enough.
Some will.
960
01:12:51,103 --> 01:12:53,936
But we have to calculate the margins.
961
01:12:54,106 --> 01:12:56,097
This might work to our advantage.
962
01:12:56,275 --> 01:12:59,938
It's certain Jerry won't expect
an invasion force in this weather.
963
01:13:00,112 --> 01:13:03,843
Of course, it is up to you.
But with all the goodwill in the world...
964
01:13:04,016 --> 01:13:07,884
- ...we can't wait forever.
- No.
965
01:13:08,754 --> 01:13:13,453
But we can wait one more day.
We owe the men that.
966
01:13:13,625 --> 01:13:18,085
Disembarkation is delayed
24 hours to Tuesday.
967
01:13:18,263 --> 01:13:23,098
We meet at 0130 hours
tomorrow morning to finalize.
968
01:14:15,854 --> 01:14:19,381
Sir, there's a definite break
almost immediately at hand.
969
01:14:19,558 --> 01:14:20,786
What kind of break?
970
01:14:22,894 --> 01:14:25,419
This dreadful torrent that seems...
971
01:14:26,031 --> 01:14:28,898
...ready to wash us away
will lift in three hours or so.
972
01:14:29,067 --> 01:14:31,228
For how long?
What's off the Irish coast?
973
01:14:31,403 --> 01:14:33,371
A nasty low.
But even at top speed...
974
01:14:33,538 --> 01:14:36,837
...it would need 36 hours
to reach the Normandy coast.
975
01:14:37,009 --> 01:14:39,034
Meanwhile, winds will moderate.
976
01:14:39,211 --> 01:14:42,203
The bombers should be able
to operate starting tomorrow...
977
01:14:42,381 --> 01:14:43,871
...and right into June 6th.
978
01:14:44,049 --> 01:14:46,609
At best, a moderately
good night for drop zones.
979
01:14:46,785 --> 01:14:48,218
For air power, generally.
980
01:14:48,387 --> 01:14:52,585
Heavy and medium bombers will find
the going, well, chancy at best.
981
01:14:52,758 --> 01:14:56,091
True, but we could press our entire
force of bombers into service.
982
01:14:56,261 --> 01:14:58,320
They'd operate well
in these conditions.
983
01:14:58,497 --> 01:15:00,294
Yes. I expect they would.
984
01:15:00,465 --> 01:15:03,457
But if Stagg could give us
a larger window on the 7th...
985
01:15:03,635 --> 01:15:05,102
I'd take comfort in that.
986
01:15:05,270 --> 01:15:07,738
I'm not ready to give up
on the 6th, Stagg.
987
01:15:07,906 --> 01:15:09,134
Sir.
988
01:15:10,675 --> 01:15:13,701
Would you know more
by 0200 hours, son?
989
01:15:14,679 --> 01:15:17,170
I expect we'd have a better sense
of the speed...
990
01:15:17,349 --> 01:15:19,214
...of the next storm's approach. Yes.
991
01:15:19,384 --> 01:15:22,114
I'm afraid that's not good enough,
old man.
992
01:15:22,287 --> 01:15:24,778
The American force
has the longest sea journey.
993
01:15:24,956 --> 01:15:27,789
Now, they must put to sea
in the next half-hour...
994
01:15:27,959 --> 01:15:30,189
...if Overlord's to happen
on the 6th.
995
01:15:30,362 --> 01:15:34,594
And further, if you have Admiral
Kirk set sail then recall his fleet...
996
01:15:34,766 --> 01:15:36,859
...for worsening weather,
he can't refuel.
997
01:15:37,035 --> 01:15:41,267
- Won't be ready in time for the 7th.
- Too late after that.
998
01:15:41,440 --> 01:15:44,603
Tides and moon won't be
in the right alignment on the 8th.
999
01:15:45,577 --> 01:15:47,841
Any reason we shouldn't go
on the 6th, Monty?
1000
01:15:48,313 --> 01:15:50,178
I would say go.
1001
01:15:50,515 --> 01:15:53,109
One hell of a gamble to go now.
1002
01:15:53,285 --> 01:15:55,719
- Very chancy.
- I know.
1003
01:15:55,887 --> 01:15:58,651
The question is, how long
can we hang this operation...
1004
01:15:58,824 --> 01:16:01,952
...on the end of a limb
and just let it dangle there?
1005
01:16:07,499 --> 01:16:09,990
I'm quite positive the order
must be given.
1006
01:16:11,970 --> 01:16:14,530
Signal will go to the fleet
immediately, sir.
1007
01:16:14,706 --> 01:16:18,733
We meet again at 0400 hours
for a report on their progress.
1008
01:16:18,910 --> 01:16:22,812
That'll be our last chance
to hold off till July.
1009
01:17:45,230 --> 01:17:49,633
Finally going as I predicted, sir.
The break is almost upon us.
1010
01:17:49,901 --> 01:17:52,233
Long-range forecast
still unpleasant...
1011
01:17:52,404 --> 01:17:56,534
...but I can promise the weather
will clear in a matter of hours.
1012
01:17:58,710 --> 01:18:00,701
Gentlemen.
1013
01:18:00,879 --> 01:18:03,006
I command you...
1014
01:18:03,548 --> 01:18:07,416
...but you command the men
I'm about to throw into battle.
1015
01:18:07,752 --> 01:18:10,516
One last go-round, please.
1016
01:18:12,023 --> 01:18:14,890
Well, they're almost in the Channel.
1017
01:18:15,060 --> 01:18:17,961
The weather front is moving
faster than the ships.
1018
01:18:18,129 --> 01:18:22,190
By the time the LSTs reach landfall,
sea shall be calm.
1019
01:18:22,367 --> 01:18:25,200
I say, no turning back.
1020
01:18:25,537 --> 01:18:29,564
- Agreed.
- A dark day for airborne, I'm afraid.
1021
01:18:29,741 --> 01:18:33,177
Well, if there is to be a recall,
it must be now.
1022
01:18:42,020 --> 01:18:43,282
Let's go.
1023
01:18:49,995 --> 01:18:52,293
Sixth Airborne K-12!
1024
01:19:09,180 --> 01:19:11,114
Stand by, signal...
1025
01:19:11,950 --> 01:19:13,850
8977 in the wing.
1026
01:19:24,229 --> 01:19:26,595
Last one at the dance?
1027
01:19:26,765 --> 01:19:28,630
Or the first?
1028
01:19:28,800 --> 01:19:31,769
Hell, that's just the way it is, Beetle.
1029
01:19:32,904 --> 01:19:35,395
One minute I'm exactly
what Churchill described...
1030
01:19:35,573 --> 01:19:37,973
...the most powerful man in history.
1031
01:19:38,143 --> 01:19:43,342
Now the order's given.
Hell, I'm just audience.
1032
01:19:43,515 --> 01:19:46,177
Front row, center, to be sure.
1033
01:19:48,186 --> 01:19:51,417
But a corporal on Juno,
a private on Utah...
1034
01:19:52,791 --> 01:19:55,589
...they're the ones who will affect
the outcome, not me.
1035
01:19:56,094 --> 01:19:58,289
It's up to them now.
1036
01:19:58,730 --> 01:20:00,595
Yes, sir.
1037
01:20:14,412 --> 01:20:17,074
All right. Gather around.
1038
01:20:17,248 --> 01:20:21,014
Ten minutes to onload.
Just enough time for a visitor.
1039
01:20:21,186 --> 01:20:24,883
The supreme commander himself
is coming to see us off.
1040
01:20:25,056 --> 01:20:27,820
No kidding.
Hell, I'll bet he ain't coming with, boys.
1041
01:20:27,992 --> 01:20:29,220
It's not his job.
1042
01:20:29,394 --> 01:20:31,828
Besides, he hasn't earned
his Jump Wings.
1043
01:20:31,996 --> 01:20:36,228
All right. Here's the protocol.
Do not speak unless spoken to.
1044
01:20:36,401 --> 01:20:37,834
If he asks you a question...
1045
01:20:38,002 --> 01:20:41,199
...you'll find that generals
are not interested in the personal.
1046
01:20:41,373 --> 01:20:43,364
Be prepared to answer
questions such as:
1047
01:20:43,541 --> 01:20:46,066
Where you trained,
where you did jump school.
1048
01:20:46,378 --> 01:20:49,973
What kind of medals and ribbons
you've earned. Stuff like that.
1049
01:20:50,148 --> 01:20:51,547
All right?
1050
01:21:23,415 --> 01:21:27,784
Seven out of 10, Beetle.
Maybe more.
1051
01:21:29,020 --> 01:21:32,353
In God's hands, sir.
1052
01:21:56,848 --> 01:21:59,840
At ease.
Gather around.
1053
01:22:00,285 --> 01:22:01,946
That's an order, jumpers.
1054
01:22:03,021 --> 01:22:05,421
Smoke them if you got them.
1055
01:22:05,757 --> 01:22:09,318
- Where you from, son?
- Basic at Dix, jumped at Bragg, sir.
1056
01:22:09,494 --> 01:22:11,394
Corporal, I asked where you're from.
1057
01:22:11,563 --> 01:22:14,054
You had a life before the Army,
didn't you?
1058
01:22:14,732 --> 01:22:17,565
You bet I did, sir.
I'm a Chicago boy.
1059
01:22:17,735 --> 01:22:20,397
- Southside.
- Good for you.
1060
01:22:20,572 --> 01:22:24,008
- How about you? Where you from?
- New Orleans, sir.
1061
01:22:24,843 --> 01:22:27,243
Nebraska, sir.
Go Corn Huskers.
1062
01:22:27,412 --> 01:22:29,903
That's the wrong team, jumper.
1063
01:22:30,081 --> 01:22:32,914
- Anybody here from Kansas?
- I'm from Kansas, sir.
1064
01:22:33,084 --> 01:22:35,644
- Go get them, Jayhawks.
- You bet. Look out, Hitler.
1065
01:22:35,820 --> 01:22:39,347
- Here we come.
- Yeah!
1066
01:22:39,524 --> 01:22:41,856
- All ready, then?
- Yes, sir.
1067
01:22:42,026 --> 01:22:43,584
No, we ain't worried, general.
1068
01:22:43,761 --> 01:22:46,525
It's the Krauts that
ought to be worrying now.
1069
01:22:48,066 --> 01:22:50,728
Excuse me, sir.
Do you have a light?
1070
01:22:52,537 --> 01:22:55,734
- Yes, I do, lieutenant.
- Thank you, sir.
1071
01:23:12,857 --> 01:23:15,189
Our landings on the French coast
have failed...
1072
01:23:15,360 --> 01:23:20,889
...to gain a satisfactory foothold,
and I have withdrawn the troops.
1073
01:23:21,566 --> 01:23:24,660
My decision to attack at this time
and place was based upon...
1074
01:23:24,836 --> 01:23:27,464
...the best information available.
1075
01:23:27,639 --> 01:23:32,975
If any blame or fault attaches
to the attempt, it is mine alone.
1076
01:23:38,716 --> 01:23:43,517
If it all goes wrong,
if Overlord fails...
1077
01:23:45,023 --> 01:23:47,423
...give that to the press.
1078
01:23:53,097 --> 01:23:55,964
Of course, Overlord did not fail.
1079
01:23:56,868 --> 01:23:59,029
How could it?
1080
01:23:59,470 --> 01:24:02,997
With so many fine young men and
women from all corners of the earth...
1081
01:24:04,576 --> 01:24:08,410
...all determined to do their best
to free a world gone half-mad.
1082
01:24:08,580 --> 01:24:10,707
There would be setbacks.
1083
01:24:10,882 --> 01:24:15,785
There would be small triumphs,
even in the first few hours.
1084
01:24:17,889 --> 01:24:20,449
A message from Leigh-Mallory.
1085
01:24:21,159 --> 01:24:22,922
Read it.
1086
01:24:24,562 --> 01:24:25,859
"Urgent.
1087
01:24:26,030 --> 01:24:30,364
Sir, it is at times difficult
to admit one is wrong.
1088
01:24:30,535 --> 01:24:34,596
But I have the great pleasure
in doing so on this occasion.
1089
01:24:34,772 --> 01:24:38,105
Casualties are dramatically below
my estimates.
1090
01:24:38,276 --> 01:24:41,268
I congratulate you
on your command decision...
1091
01:24:41,446 --> 01:24:45,746
...and apologize for adding
to the supreme commander's worries.
1092
01:24:45,917 --> 01:24:47,976
Leigh-Mallory."
1093
01:24:50,488 --> 01:24:53,889
- Any numbers?
- Early estimates...
1094
01:24:54,058 --> 01:24:56,549
...about 20 percent.
1095
01:25:01,399 --> 01:25:05,165
- Carry on, general.
- Sir.
1096
01:25:13,144 --> 01:25:15,669
Twenty percent
is so much better than 70.
1097
01:25:16,981 --> 01:25:19,916
But the loss of even one
of this gallant band is a loss...
1098
01:25:20,084 --> 01:25:23,485
...to all decent humanity everywhere.
1099
01:25:23,655 --> 01:25:29,594
And besides, if the person killed
in action is you or the one you love...
1100
01:25:29,961 --> 01:25:33,419
...then the odds
are 100 percent in that case.
1101
01:25:33,598 --> 01:25:37,864
They knew that,
these great crusaders.
1102
01:25:38,036 --> 01:25:40,527
But they went anyway.
1103
01:25:44,008 --> 01:25:47,205
Too many of them are now with God.
1104
01:25:48,279 --> 01:25:51,248
We may never see their like again.
1105
01:25:52,750 --> 01:25:56,413
We may never see their like again.