The Purple Heart Page #2

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above this weather to give us a better break.

That's an order.

Roger.

- Pilot to navigator.

- Go ahead.

All men come forward with your chutes.

We'll ditch it from the forward escape hatch.

Roger.

- Go ahead. I'll set the automatic.

- Right.

- Any idea where we are, Greenie?

- Over China.

Splendid.

That narrows things down considerably.

Well, men, if anything happens to me,

Lieutenant Vincent is in command.

I've set the ship on a circular course

so she won't be far when she hits.

If she burns when she crashes,

we'll see the flames and we'll meet there.

If she doesn't burn, every man look for her

and whoever finds her, burn her.

She mustn't fall into Japanese hands, and

the rest of us can use the fire as a beacon.

OK, boys, this is the end of the line.

Open her up, Greenie.

Time to get up, skipper.

We've arrived. Are you hurt?

I don't know yet.

OK?

I think so.

- Nothing broken as far as I can tell.

- You scared the pants off me.

I was beginning to think

you meant that speech you made.

- Have you seen the others?

- I've seen nothing but mud.

(plane engine splutters)

Mrs Murphy sounds like she's getting ready.

Hey, skipper!

Captain Ross, sir!

It's me - Greenie!

Hey! Hey, Greenie! It's me - Clint!

Clinton! Hey, it's me!

It's me - Greenie!

Greenie! Hey!

Over this way! Hey! Hey, Greenie!

- Hey, Greenie.

- Hiya, Clint!

Gee, Clint, I'm sure glad

to see you're all in one piece.

Oh, gee, Greenie, I'm glad you're here.

- Hey, what'd you fall into?

- What did you?

Must be some kind of mud.

Call it mud if you like, but you

needn't be polite. We're in a rice field.

I'll never touch the stuff again

as long as I live, even with raisins.

(explosion)

It's Mrs Murphy.

- Who goes there?

- (Greenie) Hey, Clint, it's the skipper!

(all talk at once)

Hey, no reflection on you, Vincent, but I'm

sure glad we've still got the same skipper.

- So am I.

- So am I, sir.

Thanks, fellas. So am I.

That's too bad.

Mrs Murphy kept a good house.

How about moving away from this fire?

This place may be crawling with Japs.

If you're coming out,

come out with your hands up.

Who are you?

- It's Georgia Tech!

- (Vincent) Bayforth!

(Greenie) Bayforth!

- What happened to your ship?

- I crashed her in the goo.

- Did you burn her?

- I didn't have to. She sunk out of sight.

Burke was killed.

Please, forgive the intrusion, gentlemen.

It is not safe to stay here.

- You haven't introduced us to your friends.

- Oh, I'm sorry.

I'm Yuen Chiu Ling,

governor of Kunwong province.

This is my son Moy.

- How do you do?

- How do you do, gentlemen?

I'm glad to know you.

Where'd you pick him up?

Oh, he picked us up down the road.

He said he was out looking for us.

All China is grateful to you

for the blow at Tokyo, Captain.

How do you know that?

Tokyo radio has talked

of nothing else all day.

How did we do? Was there much damage?

One moment they announce, "No damage",

the next they say,

"Fires are raging out of control."

First they say there were no casualties,

then they estimate

casualties may exceed 4,000.

We put the fear of God into them.

The Japanese do not fear God.

They fear only bombs.

No doubt, Captain, you have

a secret base you are trying to reach,

and perhaps I can guide you.

That's very kind,

but we can't say where we're going

any more than we can say

where we came from. Those are our orders.

A million pardons.

I should not have asked.

It was stupid of me.

- May I make a suggestion, Captain?

- What?

Perhaps His Honour

will lend us the station wagon.

My humble car is at your disposal.

You have done much for China,

but the Japanese patrols are all around us.

You must not travel in these clothes.

You expose yourselves to much danger.

And you must eat and rest.

My house is not far.

(speaks Chinese language)

My son joins me

in urging you to accept our invitation.

OK. We'll take a chance. If you're on the level,

we'll never know how to thank you enough.

But if you cross us,

we'll certainly know how to kill you.

(laughs)

As Your Excellencies can see,

my guests found no method

of carrying out their promise.

I am still in excellent health.

The court is particularly interested

in any conversations

in which the defendants

mentioned the targets.

Yes, Excellency.

Mistaking me for a possible accomplice,

these men were in a boisterous

and a boastful mood.

They laughed as they told me

how they machine-gunned children

at play in a schoolyard,

and how they destroyed

hospital after hospital

and temple after temple.

The court can well imagine

how contemptible I felt

having these monsters share my table,

even if it was only for the purpose of

detaining them until Japanese troops arrived.

Brutality! Brutality! Brutality!

He is a liar. We said we hit our targets, but

they weren't hospitals, temples or schools.

They were oil-storage centres,

airports and shipyards.

That's what we hit. That's what we told him.

Excellencies, my son was present at all times.

He will gladly corroborate my statements

if Your Excellencies think it is necessary.

The court has no cause

to suspect the witness of perjury.

You may step down.

Hey, just a minute here.

We got a right to cross-examine...

Get that liar back.

Work on that guy. Break him down.

Our law does not permit cross-examination,

unless the court suspects

the witness did not tell the truth.

- But the witness...

- Look, look. What's the use?

This is a lynching.

General Ito Mitsubi.

I affirm that I will speak the truth,

adding nothing and concealing nothing.

Your name and rank?

Ito Mitsubi,

general in command of military intelligence.

Following the bombings,

did your department photograph

the result of the attacks

on Tokyo, Nagoya, Kobe and Osaka?

It did.

Specifically, did you prepare

motion pictures showing civilian casualties?

- Yes, Excellency.

- Are you ready to display them to the court?

Yes, Excellency.

(speaks Japanese)

This is where the American bombs fell

in Mizu Street in Yokohama.

The court will notice the wreckage of the

Daijingu shrine and many civilian casualties.

Here, you see the result of bombing

and machine-gunning in Nagoya.

- That's not a real air raid.

- Be still.

800 civilian casualties,

and the Buddhist temple of Eihoji destroyed.

Those pictures were made

in an air-raid drill before Japan was at war.

- You know. We were there.

- I wasn't there.

This is what happened when the Americans

brutally bombed Shimbashi station in Tokyo,

which, although it was a railroad terminal,

was not a military objective,

but was crowded with civilians

attempting to flee to a place of safety.

- (man screams)

- (Toyama speaks Japanese)

This, at least, Excellency, is the truth.

I'm a soldier of China. My father has

answered to his ancestors for your betrayal.

(speaks Japanese)

Stand up, fellas, for a man.

(speaks Japanese)

The court regrets this interruption,

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