:59:01
Ike wants to know if anybody can go. . .
:59:04
. . .and relieve the 1 01 st
before they're torn to pieces.
:59:09
There's nothing Montgomery can do.
:59:12
At any rate, not for some weeks.
:59:15
What about you, George?
:59:17
I can attack with three divisions
in 48 hours.
:59:24
I'd give myself some leeway.
:59:26
Ike wants a realistic estimate,
George.
:59:28
You're in the middle of a fight now.
It's over a hundred miles to Bastogne.
:59:32
My staff's already working
out the details.
:59:37
Frankly, I don't see how
it's possible.
:59:40
Not in this kind of weather.
:59:43
I should have thought you'd want
to fall back and regroup.
:59:45
Not me. I don't like to pay
for the same real estate twice.
:59:48
TEDDER:
But what about your men?
:59:50
You can't cart them off 1 00 miles,
expecting them to attack without rest.
:59:54
I trained these men.
:59:56
They'll do what I tell them to do.
:59:58
We hadn't realized you were
so popular with your troops, general.
1:00:03
I'm not. They'll do it
because they're good soldiers.
1:00:07
And because they realize, as I do,
that we can still lose this war.
1:00:14
Then I think I can speak
for Field Marshal Montgomery.
1:00:17
He'd say you're asking
the impossible of your men.
1:00:20
Of course he would.
1:00:21
Cause he's never realized that's
what we're in business for.