:23:01
I'm sure we'll see
some soon, dear.
:23:07
What I'd like to have is a public address system
by the back there.
:23:33
Hello, Dick.
Do you have a report for me?
:23:36
Ah, yes, I do, but... but
there's a crowd waiting.
:23:41
Why don't you go out, and
I'll brief you in the hotel.
:23:45
Well, good news can wait,
bad news can't.
:23:49
Let's have it.
:23:54
Well, sir,
:23:57
I, uh...
:24:00
Nobody knows anything about
a Philippine relief expedition.
:24:04
I'm sorry.
:24:06
In the whole of Australia, there is a
grand total of some 30,000 U.S. Personnel,
:24:10
mostly artillery
and engineers,
:24:12
scattered all over
the continent.
:24:16
At present,
there's no American infantry.
:24:19
Air units?
:24:21
There are about 250 planes
of all types...
:24:24
more or less
in commission.
:24:26
Sixty-five of them
are undergoing repairs,
:24:29
a hundred and twenty-two
of them are being assembled.
:24:32
There's almost
no navy at all.
:24:34
And no infantry.
God help us.
:24:36
Well, there are approximately
300,000 Australian troops,
:24:39
but they've been described as
undertrained and underequipped.
:24:43
You know what that means.
:24:45
Not only is the Bataan rescue mission
so much blue sky over the horizon,
:24:49
it is even open to question
if we can defend Australia.
:24:53
MacArthur! MacArthur!
:24:55
Ready to go, Daddy?
Shh.
:24:57
However, there is
one more thing, sir.