–How much can you decipher?
–15 percent.
–Really decipher?
–10 percent.
–That’s one word in ten. You’re guessing!
–We like to call it ‘analysis’.
Halsey: When you’re in command, command.
He gets his dope straight from Tokyo Rose. Right, chili bean?
I have travelled widely in America, my friends. Their industrial might is awesome.
I know, I know. I’m a son of a bitch of a patient. But a skin disease – of all the stupid, useless things to get laid up with. It’s driving me nuts. I can’t even think right.
Look, don’t give me any of that racial bigot crap. I don’t care what color your girl is.
Nimitz: I’m giving Ray Spruance Halsey’s command. He’ll take the Enterprise and Hornet to sea tomorrow and you’ll follow him 48 hours later.
Fletcher: Ray Spruance is a cruiser commander.
Nimitz: He knows carrier tactics.
Fletcher: But he can’t fly.
Nimitz: Neither can you, and he sure as hell can’t learn by tomorrow can he?
The boys gotta learn, Matt. You do not win a war by kissin’ the enemy.
They sacrifice themselves like Samurai, these Americans.
This time the God of Operations has conceived a monster.
Were we better than the Japanese or just luckier?
You know, it really stinks down here. How often do some of your people take a bath?
You’re getting paid to fly fighter planes, not sit in your cabin and cry over your girls picture. You better shape up tiger or some hot shot jap pilot is going to flame your ass.
Your getting paid to fly fighter planes, not sit in you cabin and cry over your girls picture. You better shape up tiger or some hot shot jap pilot is going to flame your ass.
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