Saints and Soldiers: The Void Page #5

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It's you that's driven by some

kind of a heroic destiny okay?

This is your proving ground.

What are you trying to say?

You know exactly what I'm

trying to say.

This is your last chance to make

something of yourself, right?

The war is over but you want to

go to back to the cotton fields

to tell your papa how you-

led a group of

white boys into battle.

My father is dead,

and he was not a cotton picker,

he was a soldier.

He fought in France in 1917,

in one of the most

decorated battalions.

He was awarded the

Legion of Honor by the French

but the Americans wouldn't

award medals to Negros.

When he came back home and asked

for equal treatment,

he was lynched...

and that's the

last time I saw him,

hanging there from that tree.

If it's God's Will that

I go home alive,

I will not brag

about days like this...

when I had to fight to

beside someone like you.

It's always the same

story for the Negro.

First your country,

then your rights.

So we fight our

country's battles,

but we never seem to

get the rights

or the simple respect

of human dignity

for what we've done.

Guys there is a tank coming.

I got it. I got it.

Move, move, move.

That panzers just went

behind the building.

Look I can't hit him

if I can't see him.

If that tank comes around that

corner you take him out.

It's that simple.

I'm going up in that tower so I

can see exactly where they are.

Okay? Got it?

Simms, you got it?

Shut up. I got it.

Owens is saying that the

tank is stopped.

I heard tank fire.

Is everything okay?

There is an enemy tank on the

other side of this building.

Hey come get this.

That gentlemen, is radio wire.

Owens just built you an antenna.

Okay, try it now.

Arctic Forward this is Hellcat

#2, do you copy? Over.

This is Hellcat #2 to

Arctic Forward, do you copy?

Over.

This is Arctic Forward go

ahead Hellcat 2, over.

We've been ambushed by

three German tanks,

they are old panzers,

Atwood is dead,

Whitaker's gun team's been

taken out, Annie is destroyed.

Please repeat, how many

enemy tanks? Over.

One is immobilized,

there are still two more

trying to maneuver on us.

Sir, we are getting a radio

message from Atwood's gun team.

- Where are they?

- It's hard to hear them sir.

What is your current location?

Over.

We are located four kilometers

south of Sankt Andreasberg,

behind an abandoned

mill off the 520.

We are trapped in a box canyon.

They've been ambushed here right

off the 520, the bridge is

under repair, the MP is

re-directed among the

alternative road.

Okay, radio HQ quickly, tell

them not to let the

General leave, it's not safe.

- Roger that.

- And get somebody there now.

Yes sir.

Did it work?

We were able to radio company command

and they're scrambling to

get us some help, but for now

they are saying

we're on our own.

Now that tank is not going to

move, he's fixed on waiting for

us to come out first, if they

Germans get their third tank up

and running they are going to come

here and find a way to force us out.

What about that PAK-40 we found?

Yeah that's a good idea.

- You guys started on towed guns right?

- Yeah, what's it to you?

Well if we want a fighting chance it's

going to have to be you and I up there,

Simms are you going to do this or not?

Sir, the General left 20 minutes

ago; they are sending the

MPs to catch him.

This is not good, who do we have

on this side that we can

send out there?

Do we have any armor?

I can get a half-track and put

together a security team.

Do it and do it quickly.

So they surrounded us, began to

bombard the village with

artillery fire every 45 minutes,

we held them off for 22

hours straight.

That's 22 hours gentlemen.

We weren't going to give them

one inch of that village.

What is it?

Thought I heard something.

You think you brought

enough gear?

This is not a camping trip.

How the hell are we supposed

to move this thing?

I don't know, we are just

going to do it somehow.

Come on; come on keep going,

a little more.

Alright to the left.

Right there, right there.

I think this is as close as we

are going to get it.

Hey get some ammo.

Let's hope this works.

Hey why is he moving,

give me some ammo.

Alright get back, get back.

Hurry he's moving.

We've got to move it

to the right.

They missed.

The Germans are backing up

this might be your

chance to knock them out.

Right there.

Simms, get down.

Germans.

We can't stay here; we've got to

get back to the mill.

Let's fall back, ready?

Go! Go! Go!

On the way.

Direct hit, hit him again.

- Hurry!

- I'm trying.

On the way.

Arctic Forward to Hellcat 2,

I repeat, Arctic Forward to

Hellcat 2, do you read me?

Over.

Wolsey what's happening?

They are not responding anymore

sir, they are just gone.

Okay, keep trying to get them.

I need to know where they are

and where the General is.

Yes sir.

Arctic Forward to Avenging

Angel are you there?

I repeat Arctic Forward to

Avenging Angel, do you read me?

Over.

Tank, there's a tank on our

right, back up, back up.

I can't see, I'm driving blind,

how far back can I go?

Go 40 feet straight back and

then swing to the left.

The transverse isn't working,

electrical is out.

Use the hand crank...

It's jammed, something's wrong.

Alright, hold on.

It's clear.

Check that, look are

they all dead?

Yeah, they're dead.

See any more Germans?

No, sure hope Danny and Mitchell

took out that last German tank.

Thirsty?

I'm fine.

It was me.

What are you talking

about Owens?

I'm the one who assaulted that

white officer that you

asked about earlier.

His name was Captain Davis.

Listen I don't want to hear any

more about it Owens.

I think you do.

Back in early February we'd just

come up fighting in Colmar Pocket.

We just lost four Hellcats and

morale was really low.

We were ill prepared

for the winter.

Harris and Cooper put this fire

out, you all know better than that.

Come on give us a break Sarge.

We're just trying to survive

here; I'd rather take a licking

for having a fire,

than freezing to death.

Is it too much to ask for

some extra socks?

Uncle Sam just wants you to kill

some Nazis, he don't care about

your little old ugly black feet.

Sarge, when are we going to get

the proper gear,

gloves, something?

Look I'll ask just like

I've been doing.

You need to put this fire out

get back to the Hellcat you

boys need to sober up.

Five more minutes,

just five more minutes.

I can almost feel my feet.

Come on Owens.

What would your mama say if she

saw you carrying on like this?

I don't have a family Sarge,

you are the closest thing

to a mama I got.

Got nobody to go home to?

Go home; you think we

are going home?

He thinks we are going to

survive this war.

We aren't going to make it

out of here Sarge.

You aren't going to make it and

we certainly aren't

going to make it.

It will keep you warm.

Five more minutes.

To the 827th.

827th.

Lord!

Finally he drinks with his crew,

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