Go for Broke! Page #2

to the toilets and showers.

Barracks?

Everybody all thrown together?

Got partitions.

Separate room for each family.

My folks are lucky.

Only five of them since I left.

Treat you like that,

hard to figure why a guy

volunteer for the Army.

We have to do something,

so we never get

a deal like that again.

We show 'em.

We show 'em us buddhaheads

good soldiers, good Americans.

That's the idea.

I hope it works.

Sure it works.

Already a lot of stuff

in newspapers about the 442.

Yeah, all we need now

is casualty lists.

Gee, that's a pretty girl.

What her name?

Terry.

Terry.

Nice name.

Your wife?

Not yet.

Why you wait?

This is a great time to be

starting a family, isn't it?

You kotonks, funny guys.

Boy, if I had a girl like that,

they gotta draft me.

No volunteer.

No, sir, draft me

and drag me away.

- Once more, once more.

- Go for broke!

Once more, that's all I ask.

That's all!

Seven!

Let me see those dice.

Attention!

At ease.

Men, this is Lieutenant

Grayson, our platoon leader.

Pick up that money.

Pick it up.

Yes, sir.

Donation for the company fund,

sergeant.

Give it to Sergeant Ohhara.

Can he do that?

It's my money.

I want that man's name,

sergeant.

There's no talking

after the command at ease.

Yes, sir.

This man, no dog tags,

needs haircut, window unwashed,

uniforms hanging wrong way.

Haircut, shave,

bunk out of line, dog tags,

window, beer can on shelf,

dirty floor, dirty boots,

haircut, window,

bowl of milk on floor.

Bowl stolen from mess hall.

Brought cat into barracks.

Floor, boots, dog tag, haircut.

Dust on rafters, window,

haircut, dog tags, boots,

bunk out of line,

litter on floor, boots.

Forget the book, sergeant.

They're all on the list.

You men will fall out

for a speed hike

at 8:
00 tonight.

Before that

I want this hutment GI'd.

Get them started

on it right away, sergeant.

Floors scrubbed, rafters dusted,

windows washed,

boots shined, bunks made.

I want those blankets

stretched so tight

that when you drop a quarter

on them it'll bounce.

I'll be back twice a day

from now on

with a pair of white gloves

and a quarter.

You're a chicken expert.

What do you make of him?

I wanna go back

To my little grass shack

Back in Kealakekua Hawaii

I wanna be with all

The kanes and wahines

That I knew long ago

I can hear

The old guitars playing

Bakatare!

Bakatare!

What did he say?

I didn't hear anything, sir.

Bakatare.

What does that mean?

Sorry, sir.

I don't speak Japanese.

Boots, dog tag, window,

dust on rafters, floor, boots.

Boots, floor, boots.

Blankets not tight enough.

Shirt unbuttoned,

boots, window, floor.

All right.

Up and over.

Go back and try it again.

I'm gonna wait right here

till everybody makes it.

Hey, you guys, beat it, quick.

In combat, anything goes.

That's why we teach you

dirty tactics.

I will now demonstrate

a grip against which

there is absolutely no defense.

The sergeant will now

try to get free.

Well, sergeant?

You want me to try, sir?

Of course I want you to try.

Very well, sir.

Eyes right!

Eyes front!

Eyes right!

Eyes front!

Eyes right!

Eyes front!

Eyes right!

Eyes front!

Eyes right!

That was the kiss of death,

brother,

the kiss of death.

Yeah, the big brass figures

were ripe.

I can smell

that salt air already.

Take another sniff, will ya,

and see if it's the Pacific.

Yeah, that's what I'm

sweating out.

You and me both.

Nobody wanna go Pacific but me.

Well, I keep trying.

Every time they ask

for volunteers...

Tommy, you have to speak

perfect Japanese.

It's for combat intelligence,

interpreters.

They don't want buddhahead

riflemen in the Pacific.

Why?

Look, Tommy,

a million guys fighting an enemy

that looks like us.

What if a GI sniper

spots you or me?

He see uniform.

Yeah, and probably figure

we're spies.

Sam, I tell you something.

I don't like talk about it,

but I'm gonna tell you.

Pearl Harbor day

the planes they come.

You can only read it.

I can see it.

Pretty soon, I go volunteer

for the 100th Battalion.

Too young.

By the 442 come up,

I volunteer again.

Too small.

Next time, I stand on my toes

a little bit.

Okay, I'm in.

They send us Europe.

Sure, I go and fight.

More better do I fight

the ones who bomb the islands.

It's the same enemy, Tommy.

Maybe for you.

Pearl Harbor day, two people

visit friends near Honolulu.

They both been killed.

My mother, Sam. My father.

Mail call.

Guchizaki.

Here.

Hey, this is from my brother

in the 100th Battalion.

Nawaguchi.

Mail call, Tommy.

You go.

No mail for Tommy.

Come on, close it up,

close it up.

Here's the list, lieutenant.

Thanks, captain.

Nagashook... Shooki.

William J.

- Nishigoka.

- Leonard S.

Uchigakiuchi.

Harry.

Ikagani.

Joseph T.

- Kamakura.

- Sam W.

Toyotomi.

Tomatsu.

Guchizaki.

Satoshi.

Shimabukarotenshugi.

Shima...

Shimabukarotenshugi.

- Shima...

- George W.

Thanks.

- Fugimoto.

- Thomas H.

Any scuttlebutt on where

this scow is taking us?

I was just gonna ask you,

lieutenant.

Aloha

I'm sending my thoughts

Back home to you

Hey, Sam, how you know so sure

we're going to England?

Because that's where

the line forms

for the invasion of France.

And it's coming off any day now.

That's us. Shock troops.

Just in time.

They used up

the 100th Battalion at Cassino.

But anyway,

it won't be the Pacific.

How do you know?

You ever hear

of the Panama Canal?

Hey, Sam, what you think?

Maybe so, huh?

Well, if it's the Pacific,

we've been sailing three days

in the wrong direction.

The navigator don't know.

Nobody knows.

Drives you nuts.

Oh, I'll get it.

Thank you, lieutenant.

For 20 years the Italian

people have been fed on bunk.

Their propagandists declared

that all of our people

look upon Italians

with contempt,

regarding them as a race

of hand organ men

and banana peddlers.

We know that such statements

are lies.

Racial prejudice is abhorrent

to our American concept

of democracy.

Naples with its old world history,

majestic Vesuvius,

the Castle of St. Elmo,

the famous churches,

the magnificent harbor,

second to none in all the world.

These and many other

historic sights are of interest

to the soldier.

Take advantage

of this opportunity.

See as much as you can.

You've got a great chance

to do now,

major expenses paid,

what would cost you

a lot of your own money

after the war.

You'll want to poke around

in quaint,

out-of-the way places

and the only way to do that

is to walk.

Be sure to allow plenty

of time in Naples

so you can take it all in

at a nice leisurely pace.

Start your promenade

at the harbor.

The Italian practice

is to have a siesta hour

sometime between 1 and 4:00

in the afternoon.

If this custom remains in vogue

during occupational period,

you'll save time and patience

by confining your shopping

to other hours.

Mama, Mama.

Come on, come on.

Don't hog it all.

Let's go.

Off your seat and on your feet.

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