The Lost Battalion

The film is based on a true

history from the First World War.

Americans went with the British

and the French against the Germans.

They felt they were fighting

to ensure democracy.

Button jackets.

Commandment People...

Patrol on the way in! Guy!

Running... Come on.

Here!

Get him covered.

- Good morning, Captain.

- General Alexander will speak to you.

- What's happening?

- The planning something big.

Attention!

Gentlemen... Colonel.

Three divisions,

two American and one French--

attacker Argonnesektoren.

Argonne Forest.

Whittlesey. Their division occupies

and defend Charlevaux mill.

May I speak freely, sir?

I lost a division in the morning.

- We have to live with acceptable losses.

- Artillery report, sir.

Acceptable losses?

It's suicide

attacking unprepared.

Why does no one else is?

- Studied the tactics of law?

- We need to be supplied.

We need food,

ammunition, medicines...

Whose fault is it? I know

Their political position, Major.

They belong Wilson

anti-war faction...

...who made sure

we were unprepared for war.

- Is there anything else?

- I'm looking batallionen into the Argonne.

But I doubt you see me

or my people again.

Now we get to see

what our New York lawyer can.

Captain, make sure substitutes,

we need all hands.

These birds do not seem to

fly around the neighborhood.

"To our brave young men,

from the Ladies bird association."

We will not send you, friend,

you look too small out.

Do not worry, Cher Ami.

You're gonna be okay.

- Lieutenant Leak?

- Yes, sir!

I'm Captain McMurtry.

Welcome to the 308th

There must have been a mistake, I should

to a Texas unit, these are from NY

- I do not understand their bysprog.

- It is not necessary.

They have to understand you.

Shout names up and get them in the car.

Athan... Athenasikos.

- Yodder?

- Yoder.

- Le... Lepasta? Lepasti!

- Lipasti.

- Krodo .. sha...

- Krotoshinsky.

Why do they call New Yorkers

all" friend"?

- You're not from the city.

- I'm from Big Fork, Montana.

- Think that the military takes rednecks.

- What do you mean?

Save it for the Germans!

- What's he saying?

- That you might want to buy a bridge.

Brooklyn Bridge! Are there others?

What kind of an army?

Do I have flown all the way to France

and surrounded by hicks.

Oh god...

Gas.

- Rosen, Cepaglia! Jump up, we are running now.

- Not us, we must be in jail.

Major will have all the.

Is it OK MP'ere?

We took them on their way into a brothel,

they are deloused,..

...so they smell better than the rest

in the trenches.

- What's up, Sergeant?

- We're in a parade in Paris.

Remember to take the medals on.

Find a hole to live in.

And do not do anything.

You, here answers turkeys fire.

Look, the Germans attacking

rarely at night.

They send a maximum of patrols out,

them I take care of.

Try to rest and get some hot food,

so I learn you something tomorrow.

It's not so bad,

we just doll heads.

Thank you.

- Are the boys in place?

- Yes.

It is an appropriate expression.

- What do you think of the general's plan?

- I am a professional soldier.

- I do not think.

- That I do not want to hear.

You need to consider how we take

mill, without killing all the boys.

I look to the new.

- Lieutenant.

- Good morning, sir.

- Here we do not salute.

- I'm sorry, sir.

- My officers shave every day.

- I'm sorry, sir.

- You say too often apology.

- We came quite late yesterday...

I'm not interested

in excuses or explanations.

Lndtag your positions and make sure

all supplies and ammunition.

Right uniforms and remove dry

socks on, if you guys have any.

Lieutenant Leak,

welcome to 308th

This is a French cho-cho,

it is pure crap.

Leave them

to Henchman and Hollingshead.

- Forget tanks and artillery.

- The kind we have not.

- We are mud tampere.

- Gravel Movers.

- It's just a traveling salesman.

- German artillery.

- This leads me to things.

- Our go out of their entering.

Mud Tampere must know the difference.

Whistles or banks de...

...is it Herr Wizbang. Sometimes

his girlfriend Minnie Warfer with.

- "Minenwerfer".

- Minnie Warfer sounds like a girl.

- Or like a train.

- They are hard to assess.

Throw you down when l hear them.

I must not be afraid if l get hit,

because they have many other things.

- Bombs lay, machine guns...

- And mashed potato shells.

But do not worry about it,

it comes to this.

When l meet a mud pulling in German

Satan with such a fitted,..

...then l would rather impale him,

before he impales you.

It should l be afraid.

Should you duck,

if it sounded like a train?

- Or was it like a tea kettle?

- Nobody said anything about a teakettle.

I do not drink tea.

How does one teakettle?

Stop it!

- See a lieutenant Leak.

- Must be.

- You should get a little sleep, Major.

- Not yet.

Captain, remember,

what we talked about earlier.

Good luck tomorrow.

- Lieutenant.

- Captain.

- Went Major hard for you today?

- As a branding iron.

- Is he from the military academy?

- Lawyer from New York.

- You never know.

- You're right i

But we have been lucky.

Imagine getting all the way to France and not

to have something to tell the grandkids.

L Tomorrow we out of the trenches.

Select an item in front of you and control just

against it. Do not worry about the others.

They are good soldiers.

They follow you.

Go ten meters and then ten meters.

- Ten meters?

- Yes, ten at a time.

Do this all the way.

- What about the Germans?

- The boy knows what to do.

- You figure it out quickly.

- My people have not fought before.

We planned it that way.

You have never been in combat, right?

- Not in this one.

- That's why you go forward.

You will first

and have the most experience.

So you can give them orders.

Yes, it fits.

Does not it?

You'll be fine.

- Bayonets on!

- Bayonets on!

Come on!

Oh god...

Come on! Full speed ahead!

Continue!

Why move your troops to

do not, Colonel?

We have enemy contact along the entire front,

flanks must be ensured.

- The face strong opposition.

- Write down.

"Land being ingested, may only leave

on orders from headquarters!"

We should not drag us

we must forward.

Captain, flanks machine guns

and eliminate them.

Follow me! Come on.

Up there, you two.

Come.

If I can see it,

I can hit it.

- Where's the cowboy?

- He knows something.

He grew up with trees.

Have you seen trees before?

- At Union Square.

- They do not count. Come on.

Sweet Jesus...

Hold the position.

Run and to Lieutenant Leak,

he must bring the rest of the division.

The German headquarters.

Two American divisions

and a cuirassierdivision-

Attacking the three points here.

As expected

is French methodical.

Americans on the other hand is wild

and takes no account of the own losses.

Our reserves come.

About two hours the situation stabilized.

- What is the situation?

- Lflge our experience...

We know that Americans

is totally unpredictable.

- The retirerer not when they should.

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