The Lost Battalion (2001 TV Movie)
Michael Goldstrom: Pvt. Jacob Rosen
Quotes
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[after an incoming artillery round lands dangerously close to the trench]
Cepheglia : That's just some traveling salesman throwing iron cigars.
Rosen : Translation: German artillery.
Cepheglia : Which brings me to stuff. There're two kinds of stuff.
Rosen : Stuff going out, ours. Stuff comming in, theirs.
Cepheglia : Mud crunchers must learn to judge between different kinds of stuff. If you here something that whistles and knocks, that there is a whiz-bang. Get on the ground. Sometimes Herr whiz-bang brings along his lady friend, Minnie Waffer.
Rosen : Minenwerfer.
Cepheglia : Minnie Waffer sounds like one of those whining hot corn ladies on 10th Avenue.
Rosen : Nah, it's more like the B.R.T. coming out of the tubes.
Cepheglia : The thing is that they're real hard to judge. So just hit the ground anytime you hear something like that. And don't worry if it hits you, 'cause they got a lot of other stuff. Like Jack Johnsons, Whimpering Willies...
Rosen : G.I. Cans, airplane bombs, machine guns...
Cepheglia : And all sorts of potato masher grenades. Don't worry about any of that 'cause it all comes down to that...
[shows the troops his rifle with a fixed bayonet]
Rosen : When you go face-to-face with a mud crunching heinie bastard with one of these at the end of his rifle. You better stick it in him before he sticks it in you!
Cepheglia : That... you gotta worry about.
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Cepheglia : This is a French Cho-Cho.
Rosen : Chauchat.
Cepheglia : It's a piece of garbage, don't worry about it.
Rosen : Leave it to Henchman and Hollingshead.
Cepheglia : Don't worry about mortars, tanks and artillery.
Rosen : We don't have any of that either.
Cepheglia : Basically we're mud crunchers,
Rosen : Gravel agitators.
Cepheglia : Infantry.
