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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!

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[trying to squeeze a large radio into the sub] We've got to figure out how to make these things smaller!

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Col. "Madman" Maddox: That's it, let me hear your guns! Capt. "Wild" Bill Kelso: My guns? Col. "Madman" Maddox: I wanna hear what they sound like, let me hear em! Yang yang yang yang yang yang! Capt. "Wild" Bill Kelso: [fires his airplane's guns] AHHHH!

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Capt. "Wild" Bill Kelso: Kid, you got to get that sub. Wally: What sub? Capt. "Wild" Bill Kelso: The Jap sub. Wally: Where? Capt. "Wild" Bill Kelso: The ocean, lame-o.

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PFC Foley: Now, Sarge. What is the loading and firing procedure for the 75-millimeter cannon? Sgt. Frank Tree: [delirious] There are five basic components... PFC Foley: This is it, pay attention. Sgt. Frank Tree: ...to the new General Electric refrigerator: 1. The freon compressor, 2. The freon tube...

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Capt. Loomis Birkhead: [kneeling down as he spots Donna from a distance] 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: [annoyed] Where's Birkhead? He's supposed to have my lunch. Donna Stratton: [whistling, dreamy] 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.

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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.

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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?

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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: [looking around; whispers to herself] No planes? Capt. Loomis Birkhead: [to himself] Boy, am I in trouble now... Col. "Madman" Maddox: [signals for the laughing to stop] Hell, son, the only plane I've got around here is that old shit on a shingle trainer sittin' right over there. Donna Stratton: [nodding] It's fine, it's fine. Let's go!

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Sgt. Frank Tree: You know, this year wasn't the big year of the war, '41. I think the really big year is going to be 1942. Gen. Joseph Stillwell: [sighs] It's going to be a long war.