Pour Le Mérite - Hail of Bullets

Transferred to the South East, Gebirgsbatallion

Promoted Oberleutnant, wearing high decorations

Threatened Austria requests, German reinforcements

Deployment of the 14th Army, Rommel’s Detachment

To capture Mount Matajur

This mission’s last objective

Savage close quarter fights

Prove past drills effective

Pressing on, climbing steep

Reaching the points marked

No other alternative, go forward and go hard!

Causing heavy casualties, clear opposing nests

Overpower outposts, seizing the crest

Rushing on to Longarone, speed means surprise

Whole brigades surrender, vanquished at sunrise

As the battlefields go silent

And troops leave their frontiers

Not to command in combat, for over 20 years

Loyalty, bravery, at last bring his reward

To gain this palm for gallantry, the highest award

Join those in remembrance, valorous elite

For fatherland and emperor, Pour Le Merite!