You mush have an uncut version you saw. The version I have and saw starts out with a small armored unit of Americans coming down a farm road. Their Captain orders them to attack a farmhouse but they kinda refuse to do so as it is a trap. The Captain gets in his jeep and tries to force the G.Is into attacking and gets blown away--this is the version I have.

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Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.