1. By the first few weeks of 1945,Copy !req
2. we were closing in on the Third Reich
from all sides.Copy !req
3. In the west,
the Allies were storming into Germany.Copy !req
4. In the east, the Russians
were approaching the Oder River.Copy !req
5. And in the sky,
the Eighth Air Force flew uncontested.Copy !req
6. We were the true masters of the air.Copy !req
7. Command pilot to tail,
we're about to reach the target.Copy !req
8. How are we looking back there?Copy !req
9. Looking good, Major. All lined up.Copy !req
10. Roger. Let's drop.Copy !req
11. She's all yours, Gene.Copy !req
12. Roger that, Major.Copy !req
13. Bomb bay doors opening.
One minute to drop.Copy !req
14. - Are we hit?
- Starboard engines are okay.Copy !req
15. But Doug,
come down here and take a look at this.Copy !req
16. A couple tanks got hit.Copy !req
17. Yes, sir. On my way.Copy !req
18. Major, we have damage here.Copy !req
19. More oxygen bottles are ruptured.
We only have six in reserve.Copy !req
20. Roger. Keep an eye on it, Doug.Copy !req
21. Rockets incoming.Copy !req
22. Engine one's on fire. Shutting her down.Copy !req
23. Cutting fuel and oil to number one.
How's she looking?Copy !req
24. - That's it. She's out. She's out.
- Good.Copy !req
25. Approaching target.
Five seconds to bomb release.Copy !req
26. Bombs away.Copy !req
27. Looked good, Luke. Looks like we m—Copy !req
28. Pilot to crew, what's our damage? Report.Copy !req
29. Gene, Luke, report.Copy !req
30. Oil pressure is dropping on two and four.
Engine three is on fire.Copy !req
31. We're gonna lose her.
We're gonna lose her.Copy !req
32. Shit.Copy !req
33. Lead command to deputy command,
you boys are taking over.Copy !req
34. Repeat, you boys are taking over.Copy !req
35. Roger that. We're taking the lead.Copy !req
36. - I'm gonna take the ship, okay?
- Roger.Copy !req
37. I'm gonna try to get us across
the Russian lines where we'll be safe.Copy !req
38. Yes, sir. Your ship, Rosie.Copy !req
39. Come on. Come on.
Hold together a little longer.Copy !req
40. We're losing speed. Should we bail?Copy !req
41. Not yet. We're not going down in Berlin.Copy !req
42. Come on, come on, come on.
A little longer.Copy !req
43. Major, left wing is shredded.Copy !req
44. We're almost there.Copy !req
45. That's it. She's gonna stall.Copy !req
46. Bail. Hit the alarm and then go.Copy !req
47. We can make it across the river from here.Copy !req
48. I'm gonna try to keep her level
as long as I can.Copy !req
49. - Go. We got smoke coming in.
- Yes, sir.Copy !req
50. Move.Copy !req
51. - Come on, come on. Go, go.
- You get it?Copy !req
52. Come on.Copy !req
53. Gene!Copy !req
54. No, no! No, no, I'm American.Copy !req
55. Amerikanski. Roosevelt. Stalin. Coca-Cola.Copy !req
56. Roosevelt.Copy !req
57. Goddamn it. 2300 hours.
That's, what, 30 minutes? Less.Copy !req
58. Go! Hustle!Copy !req
59. We got half an hour. We need to be
at the front gate. We're marching.Copy !req
60. - Go tell the guys. Go!
- Yes, sir. You got it.Copy !req
61. Everyone out. Let's go. Thirty minutes.Copy !req
62. Goons gave us 30 minutes
to be at the front gate.Copy !req
63. 2300 hours, then we march.
They won't say how far or for how long.Copy !req
64. Thirty minutes. Jesus.Copy !req
65. All right. Pack it up. Let's go.
Wear the warmest clothes you got.Copy !req
66. Where do you think we're going?Copy !req
67. I don't know. Allies must be close.Copy !req
68. Get your warmest gear.Copy !req
69. Only essentials.Copy !req
70. Just break it.Copy !req
71. Let's go.Copy !req
72. Bring matches.Copy !req
73. Only take food that will keep.Copy !req
74. The Krauts have already punched holes
in the cans.Copy !req
75. They won't keep.Copy !req
76. Burn everything! Everything!Copy !req
77. - Get your hands off it!
- That's mine!Copy !req
78. Get off me!Copy !req
79. How you doing?Copy !req
80. Would have preferred it
if the Russians made it here first.Copy !req
81. You're not thinking of running, are you?Copy !req
82. You're not thinking of running, are you?Copy !req
83. Not in this icebox.Copy !req
84. Ham.Copy !req
85. Hambone. I wouldn't do that if I were you.Copy !req
86. Yeah?Copy !req
87. Who knows when we're gonna get
this kind of food again, you know?Copy !req
88. Fuck off.Copy !req
89. Anyone who tries to escape will be shot.
Please do not try.Copy !req
90. That's the Russians. They're close.Copy !req
91. That's gotta be the Russians.Copy !req
92. Shut your mouth, Black scum!
March! Faster! Faster!Copy !req
93. Okay, we're going.
We're going. We're going.Copy !req
94. That's how you handle
terror flyers and murderers.Copy !req
95. With force!Copy !req
96. You okay, Solomon?Copy !req
97. As okay as a Jew taking a midnight stroll
in Germany can be.Copy !req
98. - Bucky warned you not to—
- Don't fucking say it.Copy !req
99. Okay.Copy !req
100. Yeah.Copy !req
101. Well, look, as soon as you have
anything at all, you let me know. Okay?Copy !req
102. Thanks, Bill.Copy !req
103. Nothing. Still no news on any of 'em,
Rosie or the crew.Copy !req
104. So what's the story?Copy !req
105. They went down over no-man's-land
east of Berlin.Copy !req
106. Jesus Christ.Copy !req
107. Major, sir.Copy !req
108. The hell are you doing here, son?Copy !req
109. We got wheels up in five,
and the equipment room's locked.Copy !req
110. Let's move, people. Look alive. Let's go.Copy !req
111. - You fucking—
- Hey, Clouter.Copy !req
112. What are you laughing at?
You had a big, fat wren last week.Copy !req
113. I guess you've never flown over Germany
without a parachute, huh?Copy !req
114. Well, I don't know, Crosby. Have you?Copy !req
115. Now, from here on out,Copy !req
116. you're gonna keep that equipment hut
opened and manned until wheels upCopy !req
117. plus 30 minutes. Yes, Major?Copy !req
118. - Yes. Major.
- Yes, Major?Copy !req
119. Yes, Major.Copy !req
120. All right. You heard the man.
Clean up. Let's go.Copy !req
121. Danke. Thank you.Copy !req
122. Get off the road!Copy !req
123. - To the side.
- Get off the road.Copy !req
124. - Move!
- You hear me?Copy !req
125. - Off the road. Now.
- Move it.Copy !req
126. For blood and soil!Copy !req
127. Stand up and show respect
for our heroic fighters!Copy !req
128. Heil Hitler.Copy !req
129. Children and old men.Copy !req
130. All is lost.Copy !req
131. Don't run, don't run, don't run.Copy !req
132. Hey, there's enough room for everyone.Copy !req
133. Come on. Get in close. Get in close.Copy !req
134. Scuttlebutt is we're heading
to a train station at first light.Copy !req
135. Scuttlebutt know where we're going?Copy !req
136. No. Just to be ready at dawn.Copy !req
137. This isn't good. They're gonna take us
somewhere and kill us, aren't they?Copy !req
138. Why move us?Copy !req
139. They've had plenty of chances
if they really wanted to kill us.Copy !req
140. - I don't know. They're Nazis.
- It'll be okay, Solly.Copy !req
141. Hasn't gone exactly how we thought,
has it?Copy !req
142. Not exactly.
You wish you'd done it differently?Copy !req
143. Can't say I would have. You?Copy !req
144. I wasn't planning on getting shot down.Copy !req
145. You know, I really did believe
that if there was only two B-17s left,Copy !req
146. be you and me flying 'em.Copy !req
147. Last few years would have been
a lot rougher without you, John.Copy !req
148. Same.Copy !req
149. We're slowing down, aren't we?Copy !req
150. Any idea where we are?Copy !req
151. Nuremberg. Shit! It's Nuremberg.
It's fucking Nuremberg. I me—Copy !req
152. - Settle down, Solly.
- Calm down.Copy !req
153. - I'm a dead man.
- It's all right, Solly.Copy !req
154. We're in the heart
of their fatherland now, boys.Copy !req
155. Gale? Gale!Copy !req
156. Gale Cleven.Copy !req
157. Jesus, I'll be.Copy !req
158. George. How the hell are you?Copy !req
159. Long way from home.Copy !req
160. Oh, my God.
Hey, this is George Neithammer.Copy !req
161. - John.
- Only guy I've ever metCopy !req
162. - knows more about baseball than you do.
- Is that right?Copy !req
163. - Who's your team?
- Yankees. You?Copy !req
164. - Cubs.
- There's always next year.Copy !req
165. So I'll see if we can find
you boys some tents with some fires going.Copy !req
166. I'm warning you, most of them don't.Copy !req
167. That's okay.
Happy enough to just get out of the snow.Copy !req
168. The general says
that he can take at airportCopy !req
169. at Baranavichy,Copy !req
170. for a flight to Moscow.Copy !req
171. From there to England.Copy !req
172. He warns you that the road
is going to be very dangerous.Copy !req
173. Possibly via Tehran.Copy !req
174. For the smell.Copy !req
175. There is a wagon ahead
that had lost its wheel.Copy !req
176. They have to fix it.Copy !req
177. Do you mind if I— if I stretch my legs?Copy !req
178. "THE JUDGE OF LIFE,
WILL JUDGE FOR LIFE."Copy !req
179. We found many of these camps.Copy !req
180. Everyone's already dead and burned
before we arrived.Copy !req
181. There's— There's more of them?Copy !req
182. Yes. Our comrades found even bigger camps
than this.Copy !req
183. They were built for killing people,
many people at a time.Copy !req
184. Poles, Russians. Mostly Jews.Copy !req
185. The wagon, it is clear. We can resume.Copy !req
186. Stay here, Major, and I will find out
when the next plane for Moscow leaves.Copy !req
187. Thank you, Lieutenant.Copy !req
188. Where are you headed?
Are you— you headed home?Copy !req
189. Home? Family?Copy !req
190. He says his family are all dead,
buried in his village.Copy !req
191. He said he buried them himselfCopy !req
192. with the other villagers
the Germans killed.Copy !req
193. The Germans, they ordered him
to fill in the ditch.Copy !req
194. Somewhere in there, his wife,
his daughter, his grandchildren.Copy !req
195. So, he takes the shovel.Copy !req
196. To live... one must make choices.Copy !req
197. Where will he go now?Copy !req
198. Major, the plane to Moscow is boarding.Copy !req
199. Go with God.Copy !req
200. He says if God exists,
He has forgotten him.Copy !req
201. Not even the earth that
covers our bones will remember us.Copy !req
202. Major! Major, we must go. Come, hurry.Copy !req
203. Let's go.Copy !req
204. What did he say?Copy !req
205. The Germans want to stay
ahead of the Allies.Copy !req
206. They're worried they're getting
too close again, so another march.Copy !req
207. We leave at 1900 hours.Copy !req
208. Another night march?Copy !req
209. Yeah, but I told them we won't go
more than 20 kilometers a night,Copy !req
210. and they agreed.Copy !req
211. Spread the word.Copy !req
212. Popeye's saying they're taking us
across the Danube tomorrow.Copy !req
213. We move tonight or we don't move at all.Copy !req
214. - Tonight?
- Tonight.Copy !req
215. We won't be able to make a run for it
after that, Gale.Copy !req
216. The river's too damn big
to get back to this side.Copy !req
217. Listen, guys are starting to
break out into groups.Copy !req
218. Buck, if we keep it tight—
me, you, George, Aring—Copy !req
219. you know, it's a better chance
to move unseen.Copy !req
220. - P-51!
- Cigarettes and torches, put 'em all out!Copy !req
221. Put those out!Copy !req
222. Glemnitz! We told you
we had to stop marching at night.Copy !req
223. We're being attacked
by our own goddamn planes.Copy !req
224. - It's not safe. We told you it's not safe.
- Bucky, calm down!Copy !req
225. - It's not goddamn safe. We told you.
- John, look at me. Look at me.Copy !req
226. Look at me. I'm in.Copy !req
227. We make a run for it tonight.Copy !req
228. Calm down
before they put a bullet in your head.Copy !req
229. Move it! March, march, march!Copy !req
230. Bob, go tell Simoleit
we've done our 20 kilometers.Copy !req
231. We're stopping here and now.Copy !req
232. Yes, sir.Copy !req
233. Korlesky, Tiller,
I want you to scout for billets.Copy !req
234. Abandoned buildings— Church, school.
Whatever you can find.Copy !req
235. According to Jefferson's map,
there's a forest a few miles northwest.Copy !req
236. If we make it that far,
we should be pretty well covered.Copy !req
237. We'll make it that far.Copy !req
238. I say we head down that way,Copy !req
239. take advantage of the confusion
while we still can.Copy !req
240. Over that wall.Copy !req
241. All right. Who wants to go first?Copy !req
242. I'll go.Copy !req
243. All right, Bill. Go.Copy !req
244. All right.Copy !req
245. - Get going. I'm right behind you.
- All right.Copy !req
246. Halt! Halt!Copy !req
247. Hey, don't shoot.Copy !req
248. - Go, Buck. Get out of here.
- Halt!Copy !req
249. Release that man. Now.Copy !req
250. Let him go.Copy !req
251. Goddamn it. You touch one hair
on his head, and you'll have a riot.Copy !req
252. Glemnitz.Copy !req
253. This is one of my senior officers,
and he is essential to—Copy !req
254. Sergeant, order your man
to release Major Egan.Copy !req
255. Now.Copy !req
256. The hell was that all about?Copy !req
257. George, Bill and Buck,
they went over that wall.Copy !req
258. You hear that?Copy !req
259. Sounds like GMCs.Copy !req
260. Looks like they're retreating.Copy !req
261. Pig!Copy !req
262. Please.Copy !req
263. Please.Copy !req
264. Go!Copy !req
265. Go.Copy !req
266. Fucking kids.Copy !req
267. We gotta go, Buck.Copy !req
268. Buck.Copy !req
269. They didn't even have any goddamn bullets.Copy !req
270. Let's go.Copy !req
271. There he is. He made it!Copy !req
272. Welcome back, Major!Copy !req
273. Hey.Copy !req
274. - How's it going, boys?
- You made it back, Rosie!Copy !req
275. He's back. Major Rosenthal made it.Copy !req
276. Come on!Copy !req
277. Hey, boys.Copy !req
278. - Aggie, how are you, my friend?
- You made it.Copy !req
279. - Hey, don't get run over.
- You want me to stop?Copy !req
280. No, no, no.Copy !req
281. Welcome back, Rosie!Copy !req
282. All right, Rosie!Copy !req
283. Rosie! Yeah!Copy !req
284. And then from Poltava,
we flew in a C-46 to Iran,Copy !req
285. and then,Copy !req
286. same C-46 to a place called El-Aden—
which is a Brit base—Copy !req
287. and then up through Athens
and then Rome and Naples.Copy !req
288. And then, get this,Copy !req
289. we got transferred to Winston Churchill's
personal converted B-24 Liberator—Copy !req
290. I kid you not—Copy !req
291. for the flight back to St. Mawgan's.Copy !req
292. How are you?Copy !req
293. How's Jean?Copy !req
294. She's pregnant.Copy !req
295. I'm gonna be a father.Copy !req
296. You kidding me?Copy !req
297. Croz.Copy !req
298. Croz, congratulations!Copy !req
299. God, I'm so happy for you two.Copy !req
300. Yeah. Yeah.Copy !req
301. That's— That's a good thing. Right?Copy !req
302. - Yes.
- All right.Copy !req
303. Are you sure?Copy !req
304. Yes. You know, it's...Copy !req
305. I don't know, it's—Copy !req
306. You know, all this killing we do,Copy !req
307. you know, day in, day out...Copy !req
308. does something to a guy.Copy !req
309. Makes him...Copy !req
310. different...Copy !req
311. not in a good way.Copy !req
312. You know, Rosie, sometimes I wake up...Copy !req
313. I don't even recognize myself
in the mirror.Copy !req
314. It reminds me of this quote I read
at college, from Nietzsche.Copy !req
315. He said...Copy !req
316. "Whoever fights monsters...Copy !req
317. should take care
not to become a monster himself.Copy !req
318. Because if you gaze into the abyss...Copy !req
319. the abyss gazes right back into you."Copy !req
320. We're here to fight the monsters, Croz.Copy !req
321. Yeah.Copy !req
322. And, yeah—Copy !req
323. Yeah, that's made us do some tough things...Copy !req
324. but we had to.Copy !req
325. There's no other way.Copy !req
326. The things these people are capable of...Copy !req
327. No, they got it coming.Copy !req
328. Trust me.Copy !req
329. They got it coming.Copy !req
330. Stop right there!Copy !req
331. - Hey! Americans!
- Whoa, we're Americans!Copy !req
332. Americans! We're American airmen!Copy !req
333. Keep your hands up!Copy !req
334. We got two here. They say they're ours.Copy !req
335. They look like POWs.Copy !req
336. All right. Bring 'em in.Copy !req
337. All right. At ease.Copy !req
338. Bob, find a place
to get 'em out of the weather.Copy !req
339. Yes, sir.Copy !req
340. Well, I guess
they're not gonna process us.Copy !req
341. Doesn't look like it.Copy !req
342. Let's go.Copy !req
343. Thanks for the lift, guys.Copy !req
344. Major. Welcome back.Copy !req
345. Crosby, they still got you at this dump?Copy !req
346. Sure do.Copy !req
347. - Major.
- Rosie.Copy !req
348. - Good to have you back, sir!
- Major, welcome back!Copy !req
349. Lemmons.Copy !req
350. - Gentlemen.
- Good to have you back.Copy !req
351. You got a musette bag, Major?Copy !req
352. No, I left that
in the suite at the stalag.Copy !req
353. What you see is what I've got.Copy !req
354. I gotta thank the CO
for letting Hank pick me up in Paris.Copy !req
355. We've been running a few shuttle missions
the past couple weeks.Copy !req
356. What's this for?Copy !req
357. The Dutch are starving to death,Copy !req
358. so the Allies are dropping tons of food
west and southwest of the Zuider Zee.Copy !req
359. Supposed to be a flak truce
with the Germans,Copy !req
360. so no flak or AA guns.Copy !req
361. So far, they have refused,
but, hell, we're flying anyway.Copy !req
362. Egan wouldn't let us ship it
to your folks.Copy !req
363. Kept saying, "I expect him back,"Copy !req
364. and "My buddy's just MIA."Copy !req
365. So, Major,Copy !req
366. operations was kind of hoping
you wouldn't mind flyingCopy !req
367. on this mercy mission
I was just telling you about.Copy !req
368. Should be a milk run,Copy !req
369. but you can't be sure
what the Germans are gonna do.Copy !req
370. Be nice to get behind the yoke again.Copy !req
371. So Bucky didn't make the breakout
with you, huh?Copy !req
372. No. No, Bucky had to—
He had to stay behind with the men.Copy !req
373. He's okay though, right?Copy !req
374. Yeah, when do you ever know him
not to be okay?Copy !req
375. I'm guessing when this is all over, Alex,Copy !req
376. they'll probably send us home
out of Marseille or Le Havre.Copy !req
377. I can't see 'em shipping us
out of Merry Old England.Copy !req
378. Hey, hey!Copy !req
379. Macon, that's a P-51.Copy !req
380. It's the Yanks!Copy !req
381. That's a P-51.Copy !req
382. Here they come!Copy !req
383. He's coming back.Copy !req
384. He's coming back!Copy !req
385. Down! Get down!Copy !req
386. Yeah! Come on!Copy !req
387. All right, we're going home!Copy !req
388. Come on!Copy !req
389. Everybody down!Copy !req
390. Move! Get out of the way!Copy !req
391. Fellas! Take out the tower!Copy !req
392. Buckle, Kraut!Copy !req
393. Hey, guys, you got a flag?
Who's got the flag?Copy !req
394. No flag, sir.Copy !req
395. - You got a flag in here?
- No flag, sir!Copy !req
396. - Flag! No flags at all, huh?
- No flag.Copy !req
397. - No flag at all?
- Get our flag!Copy !req
398. - Hey, hey, you got a flag?
- I've got it! Here.Copy !req
399. Major!Copy !req
400. Here it is.Copy !req
401. Help me up!Copy !req
402. - Don't shoot.
- Give me one reason.Copy !req
403. Stay reasonable.Copy !req
404. We're going home!Copy !req
405. Freedom!Copy !req
406. How does it feel?Copy !req
407. - Yeah!
- Yeah! Take that thing down!Copy !req
408. Go, Bucky!Copy !req
409. Bucky! Come on. Yeah!Copy !req
410. Yeah! Tear it up!Copy !req
411. Yeah! Do it! Tear it up!Copy !req
412. All right, Bucky!Copy !req
413. USA!Copy !req
414. Colonel, the camp and the village
are yours.Copy !req
415. I will hand over my men, disarmed,
in 30 minutes.Copy !req
416. Dismissed.Copy !req
417. Colonel Clark, let's get 'em back.Copy !req
418. Yes!Copy !req
419. Rosie.Copy !req
420. Major.Copy !req
421. Some gum, D-bars,Copy !req
422. and, hey, look at this.Copy !req
423. First fresh oranges we've seen in months.
Probably years for the Dutch.Copy !req
424. Nice.Copy !req
425. - Oh, Major.
- Major.Copy !req
426. Croz.Copy !req
427. Let's go feed some people.Copy !req
428. Yes, sir. Sounds good.Copy !req
429. I hope you don't mind,
but I usually take the left seat.Copy !req
430. Well, always actually.Copy !req
431. I'll get the general on the phone.Copy !req
432. No, I'm just kidding you.Copy !req
433. It's an honor.Copy !req
434. Ready preflight checks?Copy !req
435. Never readier.Copy !req
436. Form 1A?Copy !req
437. Checked.Copy !req
438. Controls and the seats?Copy !req
439. Check.Copy !req
440. Ken?Copy !req
441. The hell you doing here?Copy !req
442. A hundred bucks says you can't
think of a better flight engineer.Copy !req
443. Plus, well,Copy !req
444. I thought he'd get a kick out of
actually flying in one of these things.Copy !req
445. - You've never flown in a plane before?
- No, sir.Copy !req
446. - Wha— Ever?
- Never.Copy !req
447. I took a boat over here in '43 and then,
well, I never had a reason to fly.Copy !req
448. Start one.Copy !req
449. How's the view, Kenny?Copy !req
450. Beautiful.Copy !req
451. It's something, ain't it?Copy !req
452. Navigator to pilot,
coming around to 090, over.Copy !req
453. Pilot to navigator, roger.Copy !req
454. Here we go.Copy !req
455. Get ready, everybody.Copy !req
456. Approaching Valkenburg.Copy !req
457. Feel free to say a little prayer
that they don't open fire on us,Copy !req
458. if you're so inclined.Copy !req
459. Looks like we're good, boys.Copy !req
460. Germans decided to honor the truce.Copy !req
461. Smart Krauts.Copy !req
462. Hey, look at this.Copy !req
463. You can see 'em.Copy !req
464. Drop on your best guess, Doug.Copy !req
465. Roger that, Major.Copy !req
466. Bomb bay doors opening.Copy !req
467. Crates away.Copy !req
468. There you go. We did it.Copy !req
469. Hey, look, look.Copy !req
470. "Thanks, Yanks."Copy !req
471. Look at that.Copy !req
472. Clearup Tower, this is Chowhound One
requesting landing instructions. Over.Copy !req
473. Chowhound One,
you are clear for overhead approach.Copy !req
474. Runway 281 at 1,200 indicated.Copy !req
475. Winds are 300 at 12.Copy !req
476. Altimeter, 29.96. Over.Copy !req
477. Clearup Tower, please repeat. Over.Copy !req
478. You heard me the first goddamn time, Gale.Copy !req
479. Well, I'll be damned.Copy !req
480. Look who it is.Copy !req
481. Stone in my shoe.Copy !req
482. I'm back.Copy !req
483. How's it feel being back up there?Copy !req
484. Felt good.Copy !req
485. Look who's back.Copy !req
486. - Harry.
- John Egan.Copy !req
487. - How are ya?
- Very good, sir.Copy !req
488. - Pleasure to see you.
- You too.Copy !req
489. - Not still throwing up, are ya?
- No.Copy !req
490. - Good to have you back.
- Kenny, how are ya?Copy !req
491. Rosie, what a pleasure. Nice to see you.
How are ya?Copy !req
492. We made a few of those supply drops
in the last days of the war.Copy !req
493. And then, one day...Copy !req
494. Yesterday morning at 2:41 a.m.Copy !req
495. at General Eisenhower's headquarters...Copy !req
496. It was over.Copy !req
497. General Jodl,Copy !req
498. the representative
of the German High Command,Copy !req
499. and of Grand Admiral Dönitz,Copy !req
500. the designated head of the German State,Copy !req
501. signed the act of unconditional surrenderCopy !req
502. of all German land,
sea and air forces in EuropeCopy !req
503. to the Allied Expeditionary ForceCopy !req
504. and simultaneously
to the Soviet High Command.Copy !req
505. Hostilities will end officially
at one minute after midnight tonight,Copy !req
506. Tuesday, the 8th of May.Copy !req
507. But in the interest of saving lives,
the cease-fire began yesterdayCopy !req
508. to be sounded all along the front
and our dear Channel Islands.Copy !req
509. - Right. Hey, come here! Get her—
- One more, please!Copy !req
510. Drink up, fellas. We're heading home.Copy !req
511. Light it up!Copy !req
512. Yeah! We're going home, baby!Copy !req
513. We did it, fellas!Copy !req
514. Yeah!Copy !req
515. Close it up, boys.Copy !req
516. Let's go.Copy !req
517. At first, it felt unreal,Copy !req
518. impossible, unimaginable.Copy !req
519. And then, inevitable.Copy !req
520. We were going home.Copy !req
521. Your ride awaits, Major.Copy !req
522. All of us.Copy !req
523. I had a wife to see.Copy !req
524. Thanks, buddy.Copy !req
525. A son.Copy !req
526. A life to start.Copy !req
527. I better see you at Minton's
when I get back.Copy !req
528. I'll be there.Copy !req
529. You can bring the little guy.Copy !req
530. You want me to bring my infant son
to a jazz club?Copy !req
531. Hey, it's never too early.Copy !req
532. You're gonna be a hell of a father, Croz.Copy !req
533. You think?Copy !req
534. I know.Copy !req
535. They won!Copy !req
536. Hey.Copy !req
537. This is it.Copy !req
538. This is it.Copy !req
539. You ready to go home?Copy !req
540. You ready to see Marge?Copy !req
541. I bet.Copy !req
542. Form 1A?Copy !req
543. Checked.Copy !req
544. Controls and seats?Copy !req
545. - Check.
- Fuel transfer valves and switch?Copy !req
546. Off.Copy !req
547. Leaving a lot of good men behind.Copy !req
548. A lot of brave men.Copy !req
549. Yeah.Copy !req
550. Intercoolers cold.Copy !req
551. Gear up.Copy !req
552. On occasion,
the world must confront itself,Copy !req
553. answer what we are with who we are.Copy !req
554. I was going home.Copy !req
555. I just wished more of us were.Copy !req
556. We'll miss you. Bye-bye!Copy !req
557. Bye for now! Bye-bye!Copy !req
558. - All right.
- All right. This is it.Copy !req
559. Seventy.Copy !req
560. Eighty.Copy !req
561. Ninety.Copy !req
562. Here we come.Copy !req
563. Landing gear up.Copy !req
564. Climb power.Copy !req