Band of Brothers English Subtitles

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We were in a store, and a guy in that
store told us to put our uniforms on.

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"What the hell are you talking about?"

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He says, "The U.S.A"s
in a war with Japan.”

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We couldn't believe it.

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Well, our country was attacked.
It's a different--

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It wasn't like Korea or Vietnam.
We was attacked.

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And, you know, it was a feeling of...

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Maybe we're just dumb country
people where I come from...

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...but a lot of us volunteered.

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Yup. Standing in the door, I could see...

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...the lights on a drop zone.

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And I had to assume that was
our drop zone way in the-- Ahead of us.

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And...

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So that-- We had-- Had the red light.

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I had everybody standing up,
ready to jump.

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So when the plane started
to get hit, and suddenly...

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...the pilot gives me the green light,
I'm out the door immediately.

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Got such an opening blast from the--
Or opening shot from the prop blast...

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I never thought I'd get through D-Day,
let alone the next phase or the next phase.

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I thought I was gonna
get killed instantly.

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I thought one of two things:
a quick death...

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...or I'd come through
probably without a scratch.

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I think everybody had fear. I think
there's people that can handle fear.

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I think I was probably one of them.

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I think I was just as scared
as anybody else, except I could think.

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It's a feeling you would
not let yourself down...

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The Toccoa men, that's the ones
that was there at the very beginning.

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They are very close and...

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They accept people coming in,
like myself as a replacement...

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...but you also had to prove yourself.

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Most of them were-- We know were
qualified parachutists. They had to be.

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A lot of them were awfully green,
and we knew that. We just--

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We hoped we could keep them alive
or they could keep alive.

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A lot of them didn't. But...

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It was all right,

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If you're a leader, you lead the way.

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Not just on the easy ones.
You take the tough ones too.

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A good leader has to understand
the people that are under him...

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...understand their needs...

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...their desires or how they think
a little bit.

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Seemed like he always made the right
decisions along the way.

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He was a real soldier.

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Some of the officers...

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I don't think I'd follow
them into water.

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When we left for Bastogne,
we were short of equipment.

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We didn't have enough ammunition.
We didn't have enough warm clothes.

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But we had confidence...

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...that our higher military authorities
would get to us whatever we needed.

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And there was a ridge with a tree line.
We were dug in on that ridge.

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The Germans knew right where we were,
and they really gave us a shellacking.

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Well, like in Bastogne we were down to
one round per man there for a while.

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There was this-- The fog was in.
They couldn't drop us, couldn't resupply us.

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I've seen death. I've seen my friends,
my men, being killed.

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And this is-- It doesn't take
too many days of that...

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...and you change dramatically.

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We was hungry. We had no food,
didn't have much ammunition. It was cold.

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We didn't have any clothes.
You couldn't build a fire.

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If you built a fire,
some crazy thing would shoot at you.

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Everywhere you would look,
you would see dead people, you know.

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A dead soldier there, here.
Ours, theirs.

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We had lost some very good men there.

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Toye and Guarnere had lost
their legs there.

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Gordon was badly hit.
A number of other people were killed.

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It was a difficult situation there.

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I don't know the exact amount
of men that got killed in that.

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But six, seven of them were
real close friends of mine.

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Skip Muck died, and Eugene Roe
came to me...

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...about 10 minutes
after he was killed.

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It was a situation there where everyone
was happy to see the war coming to an end.

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And the Germans didn't really
have that much of a heart for it...

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...and they realized
that the end was there.

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We used to say,
"The only good Kraut is a dead one."

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Well, but there was something in there that,
you know-- "Hey, that was a kid."

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Most of them were kids.
We all were kids.

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They had a job to do,
the same way as me.

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So we went about and did the job
that we had to do.

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WINTERS: It was more
than 3 years since Lewis Nixon...

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...and I decided to join the paratroops.

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And more than a year
since we'd first gone to war.

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Not knowing what would happen to us.
How long we'd be fighting.

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Where we'd end up.

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I certainly didn't expect to find
myself in a place like this.

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NIXON:
I thought it might be you.

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Morning.

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I heard reports about