:40:01
Then I see no reason to carry
this conversation on any further.
:40:05
Will the general
listen to my request?
:40:10
You're getting quite a reputation
as a troublemaker.
:40:14
You went out of channels
on Guadalcanal...
:40:16
...to try to get your battalion
reassigned to a beachhead.
:40:21
Sir, no man in this Corps
loves it any more than I do.
:40:26
No one has a greater respect
for military custom.
:40:30
But those boys of mine
have worked hard.
:40:32
I have the greatest bunch
of boys in the world...
:40:34
...but they've got to have
a chance to prove themselves.
:40:37
You can't train a champion
to a fighting edge...
:40:40
...and then just throw him away
on exhibition matches.
:40:43
We've sat in reserve and mopped up
while the war went past us.
:40:48
This may be our last chance, sir.
:40:52
Give it to us.
:41:00
Come here, Huxley.
:41:04
Ever see one of these?
:41:06
The complete plan
for the Saipan Operation.
:41:09
Hundreds and thousands of pages.
:41:11
Intelligence. Naval gunfire.
:41:13
Communications. Artillery.
Landing plan. Engineer.
:41:18
The personal history
of the enemy commander.
:41:21
Name it, you'll find it there.
:41:30
Three divisions.
:41:32
Sixty-thousand men
are storming Saipan...
:41:36
...to give us a base to bomb
the Japanese mainland round the clock.
:41:42
But you're ready to question
the labor that went into that plan...
:41:45
...just because you don't like
your assignment.
:41:48
Who do you think you are?
:41:50
You can take that book
and throw it in the ocean.
:41:54
You know as well as I do the book
is dead when the first shot's fired.
:41:58
It wasn't a book that won us
Guadalcanal.