“What if we have to bail out over Japan?” – Pilot, Pearl Harbor ... Movie Quotes Database

Pilot

What if we have to bail out over Japan?

Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle

Well, in that situation, I can't tell you what to do.

Rafe

What would you do, colonel?

Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle

I wasn't built to be a prisoner... so I would have my crew bail out. I'd find the sweetest military target I could and drive my plane right smack into the middle of it and kill as many of those bastards as I possibly could.

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