Adrian Caparzo ( Vin Diesel) finds a Hitler Youth knife which he gives to his friend, Pvt. Miller also watches as a few men mercilessly execute a few surrendering German and Czech soldiers. Miller's men engage other German soldiers in the trenches behind the bunker, quickly creating an exit route from Omaha for the rest of the battalion. On the beach, one soldier yells to the others to let the German soldiers burn to death as they jump out of the bunker. Jackson's efforts are successful and Miller moves his men behind the bunker where a soldier with a flamethrower sets the bunker ablaze. Daniel Jackson ( Barry Pepper), run into the fire zone and take out the men in the machine gun nest with two precise shots. After sending a few of his men into the fire zone where they're cut down immediately, Miller has his sniper, Pvt. The men make it to the nearest concrete bunker where a machine gun nest on a nearby cliff keeps them from moving further. Miller orders his men to use 'bangalore' explosives to clear out the barbed wire and mines behind the sandbar for their advance. Whomever is left in Miller's platoon assembles at a sandbar that provides very little cover from the German bombardment. The German barrage kills most of the US Army troops and leaves twice as many wounded many of the wounded are eviscerated or missing limbs and slowly bleed to death on the beach, despite the efforts of medics to treat them. The man is hit by a mortar blast and is killed Miller suddenly discovers that he's been dragging less than half the man's dismembered remains. As Miller staggers up the beach, he drags a wounded man. Miller's hearing slowly returns and he orders his sergeant, Mike Horvath ( Tom Sizemore) to move his men up the beach and out of the line of enemy fire.

One private looks Miller in the eye and asks him what to do. He watches as men around him are hit by bullets or the blast of mortar rounds, or are simply too scared to move. Miller's is stunned and his hearing is reduced to a dull, muddled noise. As Miller crawls up the sand, a mortar shell hits nearby and the blast temporarily stuns him, knocking his helmet off. Upon gaining the beach, many take refuge behind the wooden landing craft obstacles and the thin flanks of the steel tank obstacles blocking approaches to the beach, which offer almost no protection from incoming fire and mortar rounds. Some drown under the weight of their heavy gear, others are hit by enemy fire underwater. To avoid the machine gun fire, other men jump over the gunwales of the landing boats and into the surf.

The moment the landing ramp at the front of the boat opens, a number of men are immediately struck down by machine gun fire from concrete German bunkers and machine-gun nests built into the cliffs overlooking the beach. Miller ( Tom Hanks), tells his men to, upon landing, 'clear the murder holes' and check their rifles for sand and water when they exit the boats. June 6, 1944, Omaha Beach, Dog Green Sector: On the choppy waters of the English Channel, American Ranger soldiers are headed to Omaha Beach in landing vehicles. The camera slowly zooms in on his face, stopping at an extreme close up of his eyes. His family walks up behind him and tries to comforts him.

He searches the crosses and stops at a specific one, where he falls to his knees, crying. He is accompanied by his wife, his daughter and her husband, and three teenage granddaughters. An elderly man ( Harrison Young) approaches the cemetery and walks among the rows of gravestones, which are mostly marble crosses, with an occasional Star of David marking the grave of a Jewish soldier. The camera pulls back to reveal the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial on the English Channel in the north of France. I feel heartfelt sorrow for the mother of Private James Ryan and am willing to lay down my life and the lives of my men - especially you, Reiben - to ease her suffering.An American flag back-lighted by the afternoon sun gently flaps in the breeze. I'd say, 'This is an excellent mission, sir, with an extremely valuable objective, sir, worthy of my best efforts, sir. let's say you weren't a captain, or maybe I was a major. You gripe to me, I gripe to my superior officer, so on, so on, and so on. Hey, so, Captain, what about you? I mean, you don't gripe at all? if you was to put me and this here sniper rifle anywhere up to and including one mile of Adolf Hitler with a clear line of sight, sir. Well, it seems to me, sir, that God gave me a special gift, made me a fine instrument of warfare. Well, from my way of thinking, sir, this entire mission is a serious misallocation of valuable military resources. Well, by all means, share it with the squad.

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