Flying Tigers Page #7

to have a bunch of laughs-

Woody, anyone who looks ahead

in this racket is crazy.

I don't blame you

for grabbing what you can today.

You don't mean that. If you did,

you'd have dropped me long ago.

Hit the silk.

Look, jim...

I had to talk to you.

I don't know where

I'm going from here or...

When I'll see you again.

It's like

brooke said:

I don't know anything

about anything:

Why we're here, why we're

fighting, all that sort of stuff.

She tried

to straighten me out too.

Although half the time she was

talking about you and roast beef...

And san francisco and

all those crazy things.

- See what I mean?

- 1,500.

Are we gonna say good-bye

like this? Bail out!

Okay.

I got it coming to me.

But there's one thing

you gotta get straight on.

A whole lot of us just

don't grow up. We stay kids.

The most important thing to a

kid is the street he lives on.

It's his life.

It's his whole world.

That was me when I first

joined up with you.

Hong kong, shanghai,

chungking-

They didn't mean

anything to me.

Just a lot of names

in a geography book,

Not towns where millions of people

were being maimed and killed by bombs.

If you called them texas,

maine or michigan...

That would have been different.

They were my street. That's

why I acted the way I did.

Not because I was a heel,

but because I was still a kid.

It cost another man's life

to make a man out of me.

If you don't think that will

stay on my mind as long as I live,

Then you don't know any more about me

than... I think you did in the first place.

Well... That's all,

and happy landing.

Sit down, woody.

Check the course.

Okay, pappy.

Well, here we go

into the tunnel of love.

Pull her up!

Did you know I used

to drive a roller coaster?

Delivering nitro?

Yes.

Were you killed?

Uh-huh.

Take over. I want to get

into this chute. Right.

Looks like

the supply trains are moving.

But the bridge ain't.

You may serve

the soup course now, pappy.

Get her closer.

If I get any closer to that bridge

we'll have to pay a toll charge.

- Let her go!

- Not yet!

Give the gentleman

a cigar!

If they want to cross that

river, they'll have to swim it.

you all right?

Yeah, I'm all right.

This crate's got enough lead in

its belly to sink a battleship.

Don't look now, but our

tail feathers are on fire.

Huh? This is it, pappy.

Let's take a powder.

Six cans of nitro aboard

and that train's still running.

Yeah, but this is one train we're

gonna have to miss. Come on, let's go.

Right.

Throw it on automatic.

Come on!

Hit the silk, woody!

Here we go!

Happy landing, jim.

"do me a favor,

will you, pappy?

"give my leather jacket to

reardon. He's a cold character.

"divide my address book evenly

between the boys in the barracks.

"and give my silk scarf to the next

head-chopper that thinks this is an easy racket.

Woody."

come in.

You sent for me, sir?

Yes, barratt.

This is your first time up. Don't

try to win this war all by yourself.

Stay close to formation. If you find yourself

in trouble, pour on the coal and head home.

Yes, sir.

Just a minute.

This is for you.

Gee, thanks.

Take good care of it.

It belonged to a pretty good flier. Sure.

flight "a." flight "a."

Reconnaissance patrol,

two minutes.

How about having dinner with me? I

hear chin has a new record. Swell.

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