:05:00
We carried out a saturation raid
on Nuremberg last night.
:05:03
A German fighter shouldn't have been
within 100 miles of the Austrian border.
:05:07
A wandering
Messerschmitt patrol got him.
:05:10
Anyway, that's not important.
:05:13
What is important is that we get him out
before he talks...
:05:18
or I should say, you get him out.
:05:21
What about paratroops, sir?
:05:23
The Schloss Adler
is inaccessible and impregnable.
:05:27
It would require a battalion
of paratroops to take it.
:05:30
We haven't got the time.
:05:32
Stealth and secrecy are our only hope...
:05:35
and you gentlemen are,
I trust, stealthy and secretive.
:05:38
We realize that you've never
worked together before as a team...
:05:42
but you're familiar with one another,
except for Lt. Schaffer here.
:05:47
You've probably noticed
that Lt. Schaffer...
:05:49
wears the shoulder flashes
of the American Ranger division.
:05:52
I think that speaks for itself.
:05:55
Maj. Smith will lead the group in.
:05:57
You're all expert
at survival behind enemy lines...
:06:00
Smith, Lt. Schaffer...
:06:02
Sgts. Harrod and MacPherson
in their military capacities...
:06:05
the rest of you in other duties.
:06:08
You all speak fluent German.
:06:10
You've been trained
in different types of combat.
:06:14
If anybody has a chance
of getting him out, you have.
:06:17
There is, of course, another way, sir.
:06:19
A way with a 100-percent guarantee
of success.
:06:23
Neither Adm. Rolland or I claim
to be omniscient or infallible.
:06:27
Is there an alternative that we've missed?
:06:30
Whistle up a Pathfinder squadron
of Lancasters with 10-ton bombs.
:06:35
I don't think anybody in that castle
would ever talk again.
:06:38
Nor do I think that you grasp
the realities of the situation.
:06:41
The captured man, Gen. Carnaby,
is an American.
:06:44
If we were to destroy him,
then I think Gen. Eisenhower...
:06:47
might launch his second front against us
rather than against the Germans.
:06:51
There are certain niceties to be observed
in our relationship with our allies.
:06:57
Very well, then, gentlemen.
10:00 p.m. tonight at the airfield.