We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company

and wynn to crawl up there and hand-grenade that machine gun. 343 00:27:04,120 --> 00:27:09,513 Crawl through the grass, and as you throw your grenades... 344 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:12,558 "I'll charge up with the rest of the guys." 345 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,109 I had the two machine guns set up... 346 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:19,068 to give him covering fire while he crawled up there. 347 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:21,475 I get out to this hedgerow... 348 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:25,878 and I peek... I look out, and I peek through the bushes... 349 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:31,598 and I see a couple of Germans over there, about 30, 50 yards away... 350 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:34,673 stoking this gun and firing it. 351 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:38,960 I pull out a grenade and pull the pin... 352 00:27:39,120 --> 00:27:43,716 and I threw it as high and as far as I could throw it... 353 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:47,873 in their general direction. It had enough hang time on it... 354 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:52,158 that by the time it got to them, it went off in the air. 355 00:27:52,360 --> 00:27:55,432 I jumped up with other guys, and we charged... 356 00:27:55,640 --> 00:28:00,350 so that we all jumped into the first position together. 357 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:05,071 They had trenches cut in where they worked, the Germans did. 358 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:07,589 They jumped down in them trenches... 359 00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:11,355 and they worked them Germans like a ghost assault. 360 00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:16,270 Three Germans broke off from this position... 361 00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:21,476 to run across the field, which was the wrong thing to do... 362 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:23,153 from their viewpoint. 363 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:26,038 We cut them down. 364 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:30,991 I was in a trench, and I looked, and I saw an arm. 365 00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:34,789 I didn't even see... The man was in a camouflage tent... 366 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:39,352 and I didn't see him. Then I saw an arm stuck out of that tent... 367 00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:42,279 and one of those potato-masher grenades... 368 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:45,876 you know, with a stick come out of there. 369 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:47,917 I said, "He's gonna miss me." 370 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:51,197 It fell right down in that trench with me. 371 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:55,513 I was trying to scuttle my way out of the way, and it went off... 372 00:28:55,760 --> 00:29:00,550 and I felt like it blew my butt over my head, and it pretty near did. 373 00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:04,913 He's behind the enemy lines on D-Day. 374 00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:07,475 Does he holler, "Help"? 375 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:08,874 No. 376 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:14,757 He hollers, "I'm sorry, lieutenant. I'm sorry. I goofed." 377 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:20,872 I felt like I kind of let him down, but that's neither here nor there. 378 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:23,469 My God. 379 00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:32,476 It's beautiful when you think of a guy who's... 380 00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:38,074 so dedicated to his company, to his buddies... 381 00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:43,599 that he apologizes for getting hit, but that's the kind of guy he was. 382 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:47,992 That's the kind each one of them was. They were all the same. 383 00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:58,799 I look upon them, each man, with great respect. 384 00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:01,156 Respect I can't describe. 385 00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:02,320 Each one of them proved himself... 386 00:30:02,321 --> 00:30:05,073 Each one of them proved himself... 387 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:08,116 that he... 388 00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:10,510 could do the job. 389 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:21,718 We've been through Normandy, through battle. Maybe if I had been harder... 390 00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:27,034 if I had done a little bit better job, more men would've gone home. 391 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:44,191 I never thought I'd get through D-Day... 392 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:49,594 let alone the next phase. I thought I was gonna get killed instantly. 393 00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:52,954 The chances of survival is very slim. 394 00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:01,115 There's the parachute. 395 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:05,911 I got that done in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1944. 396 00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:08,469 Me and johnny Martin. 397 00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:10,238 Drunk as a skunk. 398 00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:16,795 Guarnere and I decided we'd go to Scotland and get a tattoo. 399 00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:20,874 We didn't figure we had a chance to come home. 400 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:25,472 But... 401 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:28,472 Yep. 402 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:30,278 We thought, "Well, hell..." 403 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:35,873 the war is just starting