Bastogne, by the way, is the key to this entire area. If we can hold it, we can break up the entire German offensive.
11 seconds sound clip from the Patton (1970) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 02:23:59 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- From Arlon to, uh, Bastogne.
- From Neufchateau against the German left flank.
- We've identified four German armies. The Seventh, Fifth Panzer, Sixth SS Panzer and the Fifteenth.
- But our immediate concern is that von Rundstedt has the 101st Airborne trapped here at Bastogne.
- If they take it, we're in serious trouble.
- Ike wants to know if anybody can get up there and relieve the 101st before they're torn to pieces.
- I'm afraid there's nothing that Field Marshal Montgomery can do. At any rate, not for some weeks.
- I can attack with three divisions in 48 hours.
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