巴頓，第一季第三集勳章 P10 - 巴頓，第一季第三集勳章_10

Puffin on a cigar in his khaki perfectly ironed uniform He is wet from wading ashore He talks about hearing machine gun fire in the background As photographs are snapped of him He was up there trying to ramrod all the officers To get these guys out of here Get your men moving, get them out of here Patton knows he'll need more than riflemen and field artillery To stop the Tigers Patton yells at a Navy communications officer If you can get the goddamn Navy to start firing We can stop this offensive Minutes, cruiser Boise and her sisters of steel and iron Hammer out a barrage of naval gun fire Those ships were going back and forth up that hill Sounded like a freight train coming over I mean, they were accurate It didn't take too many of those things blowing wide open That they turned and found some place else to go A Tiger tank in Sicily was an awesome sight on the battlefield However, against a big naval gun A Tiger tank is a slow-moving target While the German tank columns are devastated By the withering fire of Navy six-inch guns Patton puts himself into the line of fire He personally directs mortar fire on German troops In a ravine outside of Jaila The mortar men drop incendiary rounds of white phosphorus On infantrymen and tanks White phosphorus, when it explodes If it touches you, it will burn right through you It is absolutely demoralizing To be in a situation where it is raining fire on you Patton later wrote in his journal The white phosphorus was remarkable in its effect And seemed to make them quite crazy As they rushed out of their ravine Shrilling like dervishes with their hands over their heads The enemy, both Italian and German Are terrified of white phosphorus And I personally do not blame them Patton's 7th Army has turned the tide of battle at Jaila The enemy counterattack has been destroyed The beachhead has held General Patton celebrates with hard-fighting generals Allen And Teddy Roosevelt Jr. Whose 1st Infantry Division Faced the worst of the German assault He recognized that this was a pretty serious fight That Allen had had And that Allen had done pretty well Given the circumstances And Patton goes back And he writes in his diary I think I've earned my pay today But even as Patton and his commanders Breathe a sigh of relief at Jaila Disaster has struck