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Private Kelly - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Major Mayhem"
Master Sergeant "Big Joe", - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Pending
Staff Sergeant "Crapgame", always called "Hustler" - - - - -"SnackPackyumyum"
Sergeant "Oddball" - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Pending
Moriarty - Oddball's pessimistic bow machine-gunner and mechanic - - - - available
Turk " - the gunner of Oddball's tank crew - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - available
Private - "Little Joe", the platoon's radio operator - - - - - - - - - - - "Applejack"
Private First Class "Cowboy," driver of the platoon's half-tracks - - - - - - - "4Q"
Private Fisher, who can interpret German documents - - - -"General Nuisance"
Private Gutowski, the team's sniper - - - - - - - - - - - - -"XxTWIST3DBRaHXx"
Private "Barbara" Babra, Big Joe's sidekick - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - available
Private "Pachuco" Petuko, a BAR gunner - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Pending
Corporal Job, a close friend of Big Joe's - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - available
Private Willard - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - available
First Sergeant Mulligan - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - available
Tech Sergeant Bellamy - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - available
Private First Class Mitchell - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - available
Private Grace - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - available
Private Penn - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - available
Private Jonesy - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - available
During a thunderstorm in early September 1944, units of the 35th Infantry Division are nearing the town of Nancy, France. One of the division's mechanized reconnaissance platoons is ordered to hold their position when the Germans counterattack. The outnumbered platoon also receives friendly fire from their own mortars.
Private Kelly, a former lieutenant scapegoated for a failed infantry assault, captures Colonel Dankhopf of Wehrmacht Intelligence. Interrogating his prisoner, Kelly notices the officer's briefcase has several gold bars disguised under lead plating. Curious, he gets the colonel drunk and learns that there is a cache of 14,000 gold bars, worth $16,000,000 ($215,077,500 today), stored in a bank vault 30 miles behind enemy lines in the town of Clermont. When their position is overrun and the Americans pull back, a Tiger tank kills Dankhopf.
Kelly decides to go after the gold. He visits the opportunistic Supply Sergeant "Crapgame" to obtain the supplies and guns that will be needed for the operation. A spaced-out tank platoon commander known as "Oddball" and his three Sherman tanks from the 6th Armored Division invite themselves into the plan, Oddball pointing out that his tanks "would give you a nice edge." With their commanding officer Captain Maitland busy pursuing opportunities for to enrich himself, the men of Kelly's platoon are all eager to join Kelly. After much argument, Kelly finally persuades cynical Master Sergeant "Big Joe" to go along.
Kelly decides that his infantrymen and Oddball's tankers will proceed separately and meet near Clermont. Oddball's tanks fight their way through the German lines, but their route is blocked when the bridge they need to cross is blown up by Allied fighter-bombers. This forces Oddball to bring in a bridging unit on the caper. An American fighter plane mistakes Kelly's group for the enemy, destroying their vehicles and forcing them to continue on foot. They stray into a minefield, and Private Grace is killed when he steps on a mine. Kelly's troops engage an enemy patrol; Private Mitchell and Corporal Job, still stuck in the exposed minefield, are killed.
The two units rendezvous two nights later. They battle their way across the river to Clermont, losing two of the three tanks and leaving behind the bridging unit. When intercepted radio messages from the private raid are brought to the attention of the gung-ho Major General Colt, he misinterprets them as the efforts of aggressive patrols pushing forward on their own initiative and immediately rushes to the front to exploit the "breakthrough".
Kelly's men find that Clermont is defended by three SS Tiger tanks with infantry support. The Americans are able to eliminate the German infantry and two of the Tigers, but the final tank parks itself right in front of the bank and Oddball's Sherman breaks down, leaving them stalemated. At Crapgame’s suggestion, Kelly offers the German tank commander an equal share of the loot.
"or will they fight to the death"
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