(13 Dec 2024)
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Bastogne, Belgium – 13 December 2024
1. Battle of the Bulge veterans (from left to right) Jack Einstein, Dave Marshall, Choc Charleston
2. Cutaway of camera operator
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dave Marshall, Battle of the Bulge veteran:
“It was a matter of subsisting the weather, rather than the Germans. Fighting them was not the problem. Fighting the weather was the problem. Snow this high, very difficult. To move your equipment around, slogging through the snow, was hard.”
4. Marshall showing an old picture of himself during the war, UPSOUND (English) Dave Marshall, Battle of the Bulge veteran: “The mortar was my piece of equipment. And this is in the snow. And you see what I’m wearing. Very very light. I don’t have an overcoat, I have a field jacket, which was very thin. And that’s it. And I was cold”
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dave Marshall, Battle of the Bulge veteran:
“And I really enjoy coming back. Enjoying the situation, the commemoration and the people. So grateful for what the Allies did. That’s nice. It’s a nice feeling.”
6. Marshall and Charleston with press
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dave Marshall, Battle of the Bulge veteran:
“You got to know the past before you can do the future. Important. If you forget the past, you are not going to have a future.”
8. Close of Charleston
9. Cutaway of reporter
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Choc Charleston, Battle of the Bulge veteran:
“Little after Christmas, we pretty much had stopped them from progressing any further. And we were just fighting in Belgium. And we started getting help from other people that were sent coming in, like Patton’s bunch came out of France. And that was a big help to us. And there were some Canadians and English tankers that had joined in and helped a great deal. So that was the biggest part of my memories of the Battle of the Bulge.”
11. Close of sign on Charleston’s jacket saying Choctaw Nation
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Choc Charleston, Battle of the Bulge veteran:
“We’re all God’s creation. And why? Because sometimes we are different people. Like I’m an American Indian, but you and I there is no reason we can’t get along. And if they (youth) would just take the time to be kind to each other, and not try to be so possessive – help when help is needed. I think the world would be a lot better place.”
13. Wide of media
14. Various exteriors of Bastogne War Museum
15. Close of flags outside museum
16. Wide of Battle of the Bulge ceremony with flag carriers marching in
17. Various of people listening to the American national anthem
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew E Jones, Brigadier General and Commissioner of the American Battle Monuments Commission:
“Most importantly, I would ask you all to welcome with a large round of applause at least seven veterans, all from WWII, many of which who fought in the Battle of the Bulge.”
19. Wide of people applauding
20. Close of soldiers carrying flags
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrew O. Saslav, Brigadier General and Deputy Chief of Staff US Army Europe and Africa:
“The numbers were simply in the Nazis’ favour. Any war game done then, and war game done today would have told you that they had all the advantages. But what we must remember here today, what this Battle should always remind us of, what my 27 years in uniform has taught me, is that machines and tools of war increase the brutality and the lethality of war. But the training matters, experience matters, heart and esprit de corps are essential, and they will upend the result of any war game ever done.”
22. Cutaway of camera operator
24. Cutaway of audience
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