Chapter 149: Sneer
"Attack with the Bangalore torpedoes! Clear the way!" On the beach, Tom Hanks's loud voice rang out. Lying among a group of soldiers, he shouted, "Attack with the Bangalore torpedoes!"
"Aim for the crater!"
The combat engineers' shouts echoed one after another, "Aim for the crater!"
The engineers continuously hurled Bangalore torpedoes into the craters behind the sandbank. Having rehearsed this several times, Tom Hanks and the others quickly flattened themselves against the ground, tightly covering their heads.
Not far behind them, Duke gave Joss William a nod. Joss pressed the wired detonator, setting off a relentless chain of explosions. The entire beach seemed to tremble as flying sand pelted the area around Duke. The sheer intensity of the blasts was staggering.
The take wasn't over yet. Covered in sand from head to toe, Laurent Coite—playing Sergeant Horvath—turned back and shouted, "We can push back! Go! Find cover on the other side of the crater!"
A group of American soldiers stood up with him, charging forward through the German artillery fire. Several cameramen followed right behind them with handheld cameras.
The shot finally wrapped up when Duke called cut.
Over the next few days, the crew focused on filming the scenes of the Allied Forces storming the beach. As the Christmas holiday approached, the massive landing battle sequences gradually neared completion. All that remained were a few large-scale, highly destructive explosion scenes.