Destination Tokyo Page #9

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...drops on the starboard side.

- I'll take it.

Hey, fellas, the next war,

I'm going to the Ozarks and hide.

Oh, Duke.

- I'm sorry.

- Skip it, Cookie.

I'd rather get wet that way than

have Jap seawater on me.

All stop. We'll try

and coast out from under them.

- Congratulations, Wolf.

- On what?

It's an hour since you were

reminded of a dame.

Sorry, honey.

The exec told me to rope you in.

What makes the clicks

before the depth charges?

Well, we figure it's the detonator

going off before the main charge.

Here's a pencil. Skipper won't mind

if you keep score on his bulkhead.

- All ahead full.

- Shoot me a toolbox!

All secured, sir.

Hello, Ray. Want something to lean on?

There's plenty more coming.

Well, anyway, Tokyo got its face lifted.

And we got ourselves a flattop.

Captain.

- I'm no good.

- Why not?

- I'm scared stiff.

- How do you think the rest of us feel?

You're not scared.

- I've looked at your faces.

- I looked at yours too.

- It's the same as the others.

- You're scared?

I'll say I am.

So is everyone else.

What's the matter? You scared?

No. I was just checking

my grocery stores.

Would any of you fellas be interested

in a 1938 motor scooter?

It's no good, chief.

We're taking a lot of water, sir.

We get one leak wedged,

and another one starts.

- Captain to the phone.

- Phone, captain.

- Yeah?

- Bad leaks in the after-room, skipper.

- Haven't been able to stop them.

- Well, maybe we've lost the Nips.

I'll take a chance on the pumps.

Start drain pumps

on the after-bilges and stand by.

Salt tablets to make up

for what you sweated out.

Thanks.

Do you guys want cotton

for your ears?

If it gets that close,

you won't need cotton.

Pills, do you think prayers do any good?

Yes, they do.

I know they do.

Secure the pump!

Give me another wedge!

Captain on the phone, sir.

You'll have to plug the leaks

as best you can, Andy.

- Those Japs are too smart for us.

- We'll do our best.

Back home, we'd call this fun.

If they don't stop those leaks aft,

we'll be headed for the bottom, stern first.

That's a pretty pattern, that one.

I wonder how the invasion

of Europe is getting along.

Water getting higher

in the after-room, sir.

Come on! Fill them up!

Those are not finger bowls!

We can't take any more

of this. We're finished!

Shut up, Dakota. Don't yell.

Skipper's got to get us out of this.

I've got to see the skipper!

Let go!

I'm sorry I had to sock you.

It was either your chin or the boat.

There's nothing else we could do.

We gotta take it.

We can't win if we can't take it.

Don't you know that?

This ship's taken more

than she should have to.

Anybody hurt back there?

Several.

Pills is fixing them up.

The batteries are low.

If we don't surface soon...

Well, I think we're all tired

of getting pushed around.

How many destroyers

do you count, soundman?

Only one for the moment, sir.

Let's take a crack at that Jap.

All ahead full.

- Ready on the bow tubes.

- Ready on the bow tubes.

- Bring her up smartly.

- Switch to power operation.

Full rise on the bow planes.

Close vents.

- Destroyer bearing.

- Zero-one-five.

Vents closed, sir.

- Stand by the bow tubes.

- Standing by forward, sir.

He's spotted us. Here he comes.

We'll only get one chance at him.

Make it good.

Stand by to fire.

Stand by.

Stand by.

Stand by.

Fire one!

Fire two!

We got him!

- We got him!

- Sweetheart, I love you!

- Yeah, we got him!

- Oh, brother.

There he goes...

...down for the deep six.

Let's get out of here.

Look, chief.

I wonder if they're going

where we've been.

Could be.

Hey, Eddie, do you think that sub

down there saw any action?

No, probably just out

for a couple of practice dives.

I'm hopping the first train

back to the farm...

...and I'm busting open

a big barrel of cider just for me.

I'm going to a platter shop, and I'm gonna

get drunk on Dinah Shore records.

Every night for weeks,

I've been dreaming of green vegetables.

Four heads of lettuce, all in a row.

Boy, I'm dreaming of something else.

Well, there'll be somebody hanging

over a hot stove for me for a change.

Me, I'm gonna take my girl out

in a canoe and propose.

Gonna get married and have seven kids.

You wait till I'm a doctor,

I'll deliver them for free.

That reminds me, I want

a picture of that scar...

...to put on the wall of my office

when the war's over.

It's like Mike said. When you're here,

you wish you were back out there.

Won't be such a long time

between beers now, captain.

For a moment, I thought I saw

my wife and kids on that dock.

I couldn't be that lucky.

Maybe wives have a way of knowing

when their men are coming home.

Take another look.

You're right.

I couldn't be that lucky.

But I am.

To the United States Navy,

our thanks for making this picture possible.

To the gallant officers and men

of the silent service...

... to our submarines,

now on war patrol in hostile waters...

... good luck and good hunting.

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