:25:05
-Can I use your board?
-Of course.
:25:12
Here's the town. Heavily fortified.
:25:15
Down here is the swamp area
that the Germans have flooded.
:25:19
And in between, four miles
from the town, is our drop zone.
:25:23
Now if anything goes wrong
and we undershoot...i
:25:26
...we land in this flooded area
and are bogged down.
:25:29
lf we overshoot, we come down
like clay pigeons...
:25:32
...smack dab in the center
of Sainte-Mére-Eglise.
:25:36
That's why I gave the men training
in low-level jumps near the villages.
:25:40
So I've heard.w
:25:44
Got a complaint from
the city council at Bexhall.
:25:48
Some of your men overshot
the drop zone and landed in the town.
:25:53
-Tied up traffic for an hour.
-That's true, sir. I was with them.
:25:57
Sudden crosswind hit us,
swept us over the treetops...
:26:00
...scattered us all over the place.
:26:04
-Where did you end up?
-In the courtyard of a convent.
:26:10
Relax, Van. Sit down.
:26:13
The last few months have been
a tough grind on all of us.
:26:18
I hear you've been working yourself
and your battalion hard.
:26:21
Almost without a stop.h
:26:25
Now that we're almost
at the end of the line...
:26:28
...why don't you try easing up
on yourself and on the men?
:26:31
Sometimes a battalion can be
sharpened to too fine a point.y
:26:35
Sometimes a commander can too.n
:26:41
Well...
:26:43
...if there's any further delay...
:26:47
...I request permission to submit
a new placement for our drop zones.
:26:51
All right. Put it in writing.
:26:53
Make it official.
That's your prerogative.r
:26:56
But lke has called a final meeting
for tonight at Southwick House.