:35:03
lt's a reflex.
:35:05
l think that 75 out of 100 young males
have that reflex.
:35:09
You take any one of them,
say even Frank Thurlowe Pulver here...
:35:14
...put him into a B-29 over in Japan
and do you know what you'd have?
:35:17
No, l don't, Doctor.
:35:18
Pulver, as a Congressional Medal
of Honor winner.
:35:22
Pulver, who single-handed shot down
23 attacking Zeros.
:35:26
Pulver, who with bare hands held together
the severed wing stretch of his plane...
:35:31
...and with bare feet successfully landed his
mortally wounded plane on his home field!
:35:38
lt's reflex.
:35:41
Like the knee jerk.
:35:43
Strike the patellar tendon in a human being
and you produce the knee jerk. Look.
:35:53
What's the matter, Doc?
:35:56
Nothing. But stay out of B-29s,
Frank, my boy.
:36:00
You've made your point very vividly, Doc...
:36:03
...but l still want to get in this thing.
:36:06
l'm gonna keep on sending in
these letters until l do.
:36:10
-Yes, l know you are, Doug.
-l haven't got much time.
:36:13
That task force l saw was on its way
to start our last big push in the Pacific.
:36:19
l'm gonna catch it.
:36:21
LCM's coming alongside.
:36:23
Will Mr. Roberts report
topside immediately?
:36:27
Mr. Roberts! Topside!
:36:32
Doc, what are you gonna give Doug
for his birthday?
:36:37
l hadn't thought of giving him anything.
:36:39
l'm gonna show him that he's got
old Pulver figured out all wrong!
:36:43
What does that look like to you?
:36:45
Just what it is. The cardboard center
of a roll of toilet paper.
:36:48
-l suppose it doesn't look like a firecracker?
-No, it doesn't.
:36:52
And l suppose that doesn't look like a fuse?
:36:54
lt looks like a piece of string.
:36:56
You just wait until old Pulver
gets through with it!
:36:58
l'm gonna get me some black powder
from that gunner's mate and--