:48:00
That's exactly 9 hours
and 5 minutes from now.
:48:02
Any comments?
:48:05
If we try to take
those hills, Colonel,
:48:07
the whole battalion
will be wiped out.
:48:09
Unless we find a way to
wipe out the rockets first.
:48:12
The general made this
our baby,
:48:14
and we're gonna see
that it's well-diapered,
:48:15
or you--
:48:16
He'll be right in,
sir.
:48:23
Johnson.
:48:25
Yes, sir.
:48:32
Well, any resemblance
of your present attire
:48:35
to a marine uniform is--
:48:38
You're impossible!
:48:40
Yes, sir.
:48:41
The colonel knows
it's a mistake
:48:42
to let war interfere
with one's personal comfort.
:48:44
Get rid of that
cigarette holder.
:48:46
The colonel knows it's
the only way I enjoy smoking.
:48:49
What about the Nip?
:48:51
The Nip was in a cave
:48:52
cut off by our artillery
from his own forces,
:48:54
bypassed by us.
Rather unpopular, I think.
:48:57
Last night he tried to make
contact with his blokes,
:49:00
but ran into
Charlie Company.
:49:02
He says the men he left
behind--1 0 of them--
:49:04
Have been commanded to hold on
and fight to the death,
:49:06
but they're
pretty well gone now,
:49:08
and he rather guesses they'll
be willing to surrender.
:49:11
Where's the cave?
:49:12
The approximate position--
may I, sir?--
:49:14
Is-- Is here.
:49:17
What about the rockets?
:49:18
He knows nothing
about them,
:49:20
but he thinks
maybe his friends do.
:49:21
I've persuaded him
to guide a patrol for us.
:49:24
What do you think, Mac?
:49:27
Why, I rather think we
ought to take him up on it.
:49:28
I didn't ask you.
:49:29
Well, why not? I'm
an expert on theJapanese.
:49:31
That's the only reason
you're not in the brig.
:49:33
Well?
:49:35
Sir, to me it don't
look kosher.
:49:37
He's persuaded the Nip
to guide us to the cave,
:49:40
but remember
what happened
:49:41
1 2 August
on Guadalcanal.
:49:43
Remember Colonel Goettge's
patrol?
:49:45
He was informed someJaps
wanted to surrender, too.
:49:48
So he went out
to bring them in.
:49:50
25 marines
went with him.
:49:52
Only 3 came back.
:49:54
Colonel,
it's an ambush.
:49:55
It's a dead certainty,
and I mean dead.