1941 1979 quotes

Capt. Loomis Birkhead

Is that the general's new secretary?

Pvt. DuBois

Yeah, she just came in from HQ. Not bad, huh?

Capt. Loomis Birkhead

Not bad? She's a goddess, DuBois, a goddamn goddess! That is Donna Stratton! I knew her back in Washington. She has got this thing for planes.

Pvt. DuBois

One of those real high flying types, huh?

Capt. Loomis Birkhead

I've never seen anything like it... she's got planes on the brain!
...

Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell

Where's Birkhead? He's supposed to have my lunch.

Donna Stratton

B-17. Mmm...

Capt. Loomis Birkhead

No man has ever gotten to first base with her on the ground. But get her up in a plane, she'll bat your balls right out of the park.

Capt. Loomis Birkhead

Sir, you don't have any bombers here, do you, sir?

Col. "Madman" Maddox

Bombers? Son, if I had bombers I'd be bombin' the hell out of them right now!

Donna Stratton

No planes?

Capt. Loomis Birkhead

Boy, am I in trouble now...

Col. "Madman" Maddox

Hell, son, the only plane I've got around here is that old shit on a shingle trainer sittin' right over there.

Donna Stratton

It's fine, it's fine. Let's go!

Col. Akiro Mitamura

Where Hollywood?

Hollis P. Wood

Right here.

Col. Akiro Mitamura

What?

Hollis P. Wood

You're looking at him.

Col. Akiro Mitamura

Who?

Hollis P. Wood

Hollis Wood.

Col. Akiro Mitamura

Where?

Hollis P. Wood

I'm right here! Shoot, can't ya understand plain English?

Col. Akiro Mitamura

Hollywood?

Hollis P. Wood

Huh?

Col. Akiro Mitamura

Where?

Hollis P. Wood

Here!

Col. Akiro Mitamura

Look. Where Hollywood? North? South?

Hollis P. Wood

Oh! You want me to tell you where Hollywood is! Well, shoot, that's easy. Hollywood is... [suddenly, he realizes] Oh, no, you don't. You thought you was gonna get me to show you where Hollywood was, didn't ya? Tried to sneak up on us, like ya did at Pearl Harbor! Bet you're gonna bomb John Wayne's house, ain't ya?

We've got to figure out how to make these things smaller!

PFC Foley

I'll tell you what we're gonna do: we're gonna go home, we're gonna paint the scratches on this tank, we're gonna put the sarge to bed and we're gonna forget this night ever happened!

Sgt. Frank Tree

You shouldn't touch the ordnance at all. But more specifically, you should never pull this hand-operating lever to the rear.

Ward Douglas

Never.

Sgt. Frank Tree

Do not push a clip of ammunition down into the feed rollers here.

Ward Douglas

No, sir, never.

Sgt. Frank Tree

You never restore this lever to firing position. Do not make sure that this cover is completely closed.

Ward Douglas

No, sir.

Sgt. Frank Tree

Never depress operator's foot triggers here, here and at the rear here.

Bill

Kid, you got to get that sub.

Wally

What sub?

Bill

The Jap sub.

Wally

Where?

Bill

The ocean, lame-o.

Maddox

That's it, let me hear your guns!

Bill

My guns?

Maddox

I wanna hear what they sound like, let me hear em! Yang yang yang yang yang yang!

Bill

AHHHH!

Sergeant Foley

Now, Sarge. What is the loading and firing procedure for the 75-millimeter cannon?

Frank

There are five basic components...

Sergeant Foley

This is it, pay attention.

Frank

...to the new General Electric refrigerator: 1. The freon compressor, 2. The freon tube...

Frank

You know, this year wasn't the big year of the war, '41. I think the really big year is going to be 1942.

Joseph

It's going to be a long war.

Hollis P. "Holly" Wood

Jesus Palomino, a Nazi! I knew it, you're all in cahoots! Well, let me tell you something, Mr. Heinie Kraut, I fought your kind in the Great War, and we kicked the living shit out of you!

Gen. Joseph Stilwell

Ah, Dumbo. Sure be good to get my mind off things for a while.

Gen. Joseph Stilwell

That is the craziest son of a bitch I've ever seen.

Motor Sgt. Frank Tree

If there's one thing I can't stand seeing, it's Americans fighting Americans.

Raoul Lipschitz

Ladies and gentlemen, every where I look... soldiers are fighting sailors, sailors are fighting Marines! Directly in front of me, I see a flying blond floozy! Everywhere I look... everywhere, pure pandemonium... pandemonium!