The Tanks are Coming! 1951 Sam Fuller

minute, sergeant, I didn't make it official about quitting smoking, I was just criticizing that a boy has the right to fight, well, oh dear, sergeant, I wouldn't want to break the excellent combination like the one you have. There is no such good combination. It can't be replaced well anyway I have to stay and take care of checking the lamp who will take care of who now be careful lemchick mike is responsible for telling the general about you lieutenant what time we leave in an hour sergeant everyone okay let's go up our team aboard this thing, come on, move, load what you're waiting for, you hear me?

I said: Get your team up here, sure, Sully. On September 4, 1944, the spearhead advanced with groans. Four work groups ran to defeat the enemy to the fortress. Germany, still far in front, still on its own spearhead, the tankers crossed cities. where the liberated belgians harassed their liberators namur liage in 18 days the spearhead tankers had stabbed from the seine to the smiling dragon's teeth outside the iron gates of germany now dirty, hungry, exhausted, ammunition unable to reach They are running out of gas 100 tank crews still in action of the more than 400 who launched the advance in San Lo The tankers prepared for the first invasion of Germany since the time of Napoleon on the night of September 11 in the Ochenhein Forest The spearhead commanders poured out photographs and maps of the Siegfried Line, the most powerful defense fortress ever built by man.

Although the tankers were smarter, the job did not become easier. The closer they got to the Siegfried Line, the tougher it became. resistance when German artillery and roadblocks denied them roads spearheads

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He went into the fields and forests, probing the sensation, looking for a weak point, looking for that place to stick the spear between the ribs, that place where a small advance could become a large and wide one that would become the express highway that could only end in berlin and as always sullivan was in front sullivan looking for a fight meter engineers move here advance make us a hole in that airline advance and place those 5000 meter long charges the artillery focused on us oh here they are You're hitting all around us you think we'll retreat.

Someone better do something. Okay, Tucker, move, Sully, what are you doing? I'm going to put this new tank here on the other side. They're lying, Lieutenant, keep moving, Tucker, pour it on Tucker. let's go with me trapped machine gun traversing left enemy machine gun spot I saw him platoon a round of fire route 88 panther tank right front fire heinie atta guy heine a round of r-90 and look at his burned platoon put a couple of rounds in that crowd tank just in case shoot, come on tucker sully sully come on hey can I borrow your bulldozers?

You and your men jump. I have a job to do. Everyone dismounts. Tucker. Climb up to them. Your controls. Alright. Roll up the gunner. Come here. It's a crowd of artillery watching that tree halfway down the road. hg rounds in there, mister fire, good shot, your artillery should loosen up now, okay lieutenant, you can take him through the platoon, follow me, move, oh this is it, let's have the champagne, wait a minute, wait a minute , we are not in Germany. However, what do you mean we have to wait until all these

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pass? You mean all these tanks yeah oh come on let's move it double hey you're in charge of this t2 there ain't no society sergeant george eisenhower it's psychological he's got a promotion and boy it's tough first check the help from the battalion, my boss went to see him, can you change your spark plug?

I hope that's okay, then get to work, get in that tank there, Sergeant Sullivan, yeah, Lieutenant Russell said we're moving. in 15 minutes, thanks sergeant, okay, come on danny, let's share the joy, we have to wait for hiney, why do we have to wait for honey? I'm dying of thirst, I can't stand it, oh relax, would you danny, what let me hold it, where are you going, nowhere, I just want to hold it like it's back, you'll stay here, here, go ahead, let them hold it , Alright? don't open anything that's enough thank you pendant I'm not oh I'm telling them don't be afraid you're my friend this is sergeant sullivan my grandfather and my grandmother grandfather and my grandmother yes, they are why it's been so important for me to get to Germany I lived here when I was a kid I was afraid they would be dead before I could find them but God has been good it sure is nice to meet you guys you have a wonderful grandson believe me I know and she is an American oyster hunter.

It's not so good I tell them when an American shakes your hand everything is going to be okay help you go see that's it this will come you feel me yes and you can say that again heine hello puppy do you want to come with us come on guys I want to come puppy, come on, I guess he doesn't understand English, ask him in Germany uh uh oh komachi here, come on, come here, to your room, there it is, they are stained, they are soldiers, back, this is it, this is it. I'll get it, I'll get it, I'll get battles, look at that phone, okay, Sergeant Joe Davis planned for us to drink this when we got to Germany, well, now we're all here and thanks to you, Sully, here's your cup. thank you denny heine thank you someone stole it there's a thief in the suit danny i can't find anything hey hey wait tucker wait a minute wait a minute yeah good sergeant joe davis sergeant sullivan yeah lieutenant I hate losing a good platoon sergeant but Captain Horner and I have decided to recommend you for promotion to lieutenant.

Hey, congratulations, you've been waiting for the Lieutenant's celebration, just a minute, Lieutenant, yeah, Sully. I assume this means the usual. I will be transferred to another platoon and a new company. That's the army, besmirch, you guys are very happy, you don't think you're good enough now to manage without Sullivan, do you? You can't. I still have a job to do and I'm going to do it. I'm still ahead and you still have your arms and legs and you will move and I tell you to move and you won't move when I don't tell you anything, you say, we'll get ahead if you're lucky, what do you mean if we're lucky?

I'm Sullivan and I'm still doing the luck for this whole team. Now come on, let's get moving, come on, let's get on that tank. Okay, Tucker, roll them up. Up, get ready to roll, okay, roll