How I Won the War Page #9

Less. It's too far south for us, anyway.

- I'd never get it past the accountants.

- Dooley! To me!

- My name is Dooley.

- I am not going. I'm just not going.

There's more to say.

I've got more to say.

- I'm not going without shouting.

- My name is Spool.

I was transferred from the Service Corps

for a better chance of promotion.

- I'd like to speak to you on personal, sir.

- Transom!

Here!

I never said a word to you

before I was dying... mate.

(Drogue) I died in North Africa.

I fought for three reasons.

I can't remember what they were.

The first reason gets you in, and the

reason when you're in is staying alive.

I won't know the reason they find

afterwards but it will be a very good one.

I'm sure we'll be glad,

and I'm not a thief, really.

I never found anything worth keeping.

Suddenly, my phone rang.

We were eager to secure

a Rhine river bridgehead

but we despaired of taking a bridge intact.

Suddenly, my phone rang.

22,000, take it or leave it.

In view of the personal danger

to yourself, 19.

Right, done.

Fine bleeding hospital this is.

Suddenly, my phone rang.

It was Hodges calling from Spa.

"Brad" he called.

"Brad, we've gotten a bridge, a bridge."

"You mean you've gotten one

intact over the Rhine?"

"Yep."

"Hot dog" I said,

"this'll bust them wide open."

They're coming.

Come on!

It's ours, sir, it's ours!

One minute! One minute!

- Get out of the way, you idiot!

- (yells)

Get out of it!

Bum on! Bum on!

To Moscow!

We've come a long way, chaps.

Now we've come to the end of the road.

Head up, Gripweed. Be proud.

Show them who's won the war.

Across the world, we've trod the stony

path from defeat to final victory.

And soon, the Great Umpire above

will call close of play

in this, the Second World War.

Or as I prefer to call it...

the final test.

And I want to take this opportunity of

letting you know how proud I have been

to have commanded

such a fine body of men.

Would have bounced anyway.

I haven't got 19d.

Transom, keep your feet up.

- What's he keep calling me that for?

- We're not out of the woods yet.

You haven't had a big part in this.

Ah, well. What you doing next?

- I hear there's this Vietnam thing coming.

- Yeah, I know that.

But I don't like working with that director

much. Still, the money's good.

I'm glad you could get here.

I've been trying to contact

all the members of Third Troop for years.

And, really, without success.

The strange thing is, I agree, there was

a good reason for fighting the war.

I knew it. I felt really despicable.

We had to fight the war.

I couldn't, that's all. I just couldn't do it.

I had to leave it to chaps like you

who hadn't really got a reason.

- I wanted to fight, honestly.

- I know you did.

But I won the war.

ENHOH:

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