Battle Cry
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Come here, Huxley.
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Ever see one of these?
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The complete plan
for the Saipan Operation.

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Hundreds and thousands of pages.
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Intelligence. Naval gunfire.
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Communications. Artillery.
Landing plan. Engineer.

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The personal history
of the enemy commander.

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Name it, you'll find it there.
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Three divisions.
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Sixty-thousand men
are storming Saipan...

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...to give us a base to bomb
the Japanese mainland round the clock.

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But you're ready to question
the labor that went into that plan...

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...just because you don't like
your assignment.

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Who do you think you are?
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You can take that book
and throw it in the ocean.

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You know as well as I do the book
is dead when the first shot's fired.

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It wasn't a book that won us
Guadalcanal.

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It wasn't a book that kept those boys
coming through the lagoon in Tarawa.

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It's those men
with the rifles and the guts...

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...that's gonna win your war for you.
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We want that beachhead.
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Once upon a time, we used to think
you were a bright young man.

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There is such a thing
as insubordination.

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When I came to you, I knew
I'd leave here one of two ways:

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In command of my battalion
or by the brig.

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You might as well court-martial me, sir,
because I'm not going back to my boys...

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...and tell them that they're gonna carry
a broom and dustpan again.

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You stuck your neck out
a long way.

:42:49
Stand by until I can put through
a change in these orders.

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I'm sending your battalion in
on the exposed left flank of Red Beach.

:42:56
It's the hot spot
of the Saipan Campaign.


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