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Woody Jason: [Woody has just inadvertently insulted Jim's girlfriend, who walks away] Did I do something wrong?
Jim Gordon: Do you ever do anything right?

Woody Jason: [as he charges outside during an air raid] C'mon, everybody! The bank's open!
Woody Jason: [minutes later, after he grabs an unarmed and radio-less fighter to join the battle... even after Jim has told him to wait until he gets combat training] Get your checkbook out, General.
[He's about to shoot down some Japanese, or so he thinks]
Woody Jason: [after getting winged by a Japanese bomber and making a forced landing, right into a tree] ... Well, I walked away from THAT one!
Another Pilot: Yeah... A few more landings like THAT, and you'll be a Japanese ace!

Jim Gordon: [after Woody joins a sortie against Jim's orders, in a fighter without ammo or a radio, and gets himself shot down] Where do you think you are, with some broken-down flying circus?
Woody Jason: Aw, it would've been a cinch; I was ridin' the murder-spot right above those Jap bombers! If I had ammo, I'd have blown them clear out of China!
Jim Gordon: Instead, you wasted a good ship!
Woody Jason: Hey, you talk like that crate's more important than me.
Jim Gordon: I can't afford to lose planes OR pilots...
Woody Jason: It's like I told you earlier, Pappy: All I get out of this is the dough, so you can't blame me for trying. In a skeet match, the guy who knocks down the most pigeons wins the cup.
Jim Gordon: ...I also can't have grand-standers trying to hog the whole show! Results around here are based on co-operation and understanding. Discipline in the air is strict, because that's the only way an outfit like this can operate!
Woody Jason: ...And here I thought it was every man for himself.
Jim Gordon: Not these days, it isn't. Just wait until the day you look over your shoulder and see a Jap sittin' on your tail, in a ship that you can't out-maneuver! THEN you'll know what I'm talking about.

Woody Jason: [after Blackie has been shot down and killed] ... C'mon, fellas, you can't pin this on me! If Blackie hadn't opened his chute so soon, it wouldn't have happened!
Hap Smith: Maybe if you'd followed Blackie down, it wouldn't have happened, either! You were nearest to him, and you were in the clear. What happened?
Woody Jason: ...A Mitsi got in my way.
Hap Smith: [bitter] I guess it's easier to see 500 bucks than a pal of yours in trouble.

Jim Gordon: [following Hap's medical examination] Come on in, Hap... I gotta hand you one on the chin, but I'd rather it came from me than from anybody else: You're through flying.
Hap Smith: The doctor said I'd out-live Confucius.
Jim Gordon: Sure, if you stay on the ground... I can't send a man out there who doesn't know whether he's flying upside down or not! Take a look at that eye chart; your depth perception's a mile off! I know you've been gunning 'em since they were box-kites with broomsticks for rudders. But you gotta believe me, I'm doin' this for you! You've been close-winging in formation, overshooting your landings...
Hap Smith: [sounding as if he might cry] You don't have to say any more!... What else COULD I do around here?
Jim Gordon: Well, taking care of these ships on the ground is just as important as gunning them upstairs. I need a man I can trust for that... I wish you'd take that job, Hap.

[Woody has "broken the camel's back", by getting Hap killed]
Jim Gordon: There's an army truck out of here for Rangoon the day after tomorrow. Be on it.
Woody Jason: Don't say that, Jim!
Jim Gordon: Until then, you're confined to your quarters.
Woody Jason: I'm still a good flier, Jim! I'll knock down five Japs for every one of our boys!
Jim Gordon: It's out of my hands now. None of THESE men will ever fly with you again. And they HAVE to fly.

Jim Gordon: [reading Woody's final letter] Do me a favor, will you, Pappy? Give my leather jacket to Reardon, he's a cool character. Divide my address book evenly among the boys in the barracks. And give my silk scarf to the next hedge-hopper who thinks this is an easy racket we're in. Woody.

Alabama Smith: How come you guys wear laundry tickets on your jackets?
'Mac' McIntosh: Oh, these aren't laundry tickets. This is in case you get shot down over Chinese territory, so they'll know you're an American volunteer.
Alabama Smith: What if you're shot down over JAPANESE territory?
'Mac' McIntosh: Then you've got nothing to worry about.

Woody Jason: [doing magic tricks for the kids] I have here a shiny new quarter. Brand new. Just made it this morning.
[sniffs it]
Woody Jason: Brand new - you can still smell the mint!

Brooke Elliott: Jim lets me use his room to wash up because it's the only one on the base with a bathtub.
Woody Jason: Hmm. Must get pretty chummy on Saturday night.

Woody Jason: [after a list of kills has been posted] 2000 bucks and it's only Thursday, I could take that scoreboard down to the bank and cash it in right now. I wonder if anybody's ever beat that record?
Another Pilot: I knew a guy who tied it once, only he didn't live to spend it.
Woody Jason: Too bad he waited. I have a feeling when I hit my stride the rest of you guys can take a vacation. At my expense, of course.

[after the first sortie]
Jim Gordon: A little rough in spots, Dale, but I think after you've learned a few things about... Dale?
[finds him dead]
Jim Gordon: ... Mike! Take care of Dale, would you? Thanks.

Repkin: Jason, what's your position?
Woody Jason: My instruments tell me I'm flying upside-down 500 feet below Lake Michigan, but they must be wrong, because I can see the lights of the field. Run for cover, I'm comin' in!

Woody Jason: [after hitting bridge and supply train] Give the gentleman a cee-gar!
Jim Gordon: If they wanna cross that river, they'll have to swim it!

Jim Gordon: [referring to the flight of replacement pilots] Any word on that flight yet?
Rangoon hotel clerk: Yes sir, it was attacked and fired on by Japanese aircraft. She's coming in on one wing and a prayer.

Alabama Smith: Doggone it, you ought to be tarred and feathered Woody, gettin' slung out of this outfit just when things are getting exciting.
Woody Jason: What's going on out there?
Alabama Smith: Huh?
Woody Jason: You heard me, what's happening?
Alabama Smith: Oh, that's the skipper's idea, he's going over to fix breakfast for the Jappies. Gonna serve 'em soup.
Woody Jason: Who's going with him?
Alabama Smith: Nobody, and if you ask me, it's a one way trip.

Jim Gordon: Get 'er closer!
Woody Jason: If we get any closer to that bridge, we'll have to pay a toll charge!

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