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The Longest Day
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Lt-Col Benjamin Vandervoort: [addressing soldiers before embarkation] You can't give the enemy a break. Send him to hell.
Father Louis Rolland: [addressing congregation] In the heart of the darkness, in the deepest of…
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We need mines and obstacles along the whole coast. On every beach, in every dune, on every cliff. How many have been installed so far?<br>Adjutant Lang: Approximately four million, Herr Feldmarschall.<br>Rommel: Until…
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Adjutant: Have you finished the plan, Herr General?
Gen. Erich Marcks: Yes, quite. Quite finished. [puts compass on map] War games! Theoretical invasions! To go all the way to Rennes, just to push little flags around a…
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Adjutant: A brilliant plan, Herr General. Unorthodox, but brilliant.
Gen. Erich Marcks: Well, fortunately it's just a game. I don't think we need to worry too much. Eisenhower would never risk such a gambit. Never!
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MG Raymond Barton: You're putting me on the spot.
BG Teddy Roosevelt Jr: I didn't mean to, Tubby.
Barton: The hell you didn't. You put that request in writing, made it official. You're the assistant division commander.…
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[to the phone] Just a moment, Herr Oberst. [to his superior] I wonder why he hasn't been court-martialled yet.<br>General Wolfgang Häger: First of all, he has shot down 132 planes. [into the phone, jovially] Hello, Pips…
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Major Pluskat: My God! [focuses binoculars and looks back at his men] The invasion! They're coming!
Wehrmacht Officer: [to soldiers] Alarm!!!
Pluskat: [calls higher command in a panic] Herr Oberstleutnant! The invasion…
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Bridge Officer: Attention, attention. Admiral Jaujard.
RADM Robert Jaujard: [addressing Free French forces] Soon we shall engage in combat. In order to defeat the enemy, we must fire on our homeland. This is the price of…
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Pluskat? Pluskat, can you hear me?! What's the matter with you?? Pluskat, what's going on there??<br>Major Pluskat: Are you deaf?! Can't you - [a blast holes the bunker roof] - Dammit, can't you hear for yourself?!? Yes!…
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BG Norm Cota: [walks alongside troopers] Now listen to me, all of you. You guys got to snap out of it. We're getting off of here, we're going inland.
Soldier: What about weapons, General? Most of my men lost everything…
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Major Waltz: Colonel am I glad to see you!
LTC Benjamin Vandervoort: [points to the dead paratroopers] Those bodies. Get those bodies down. What are you doing leaving them up there like that? Get them down!
Waltz: Of…
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