Burgess Meredith credited as playing...
Ernie Pyle - Scripps-Howard War Correspondent
- [Final Line]
- Ernie Pyle: (Voice-over): For those beneath the wooden crosses, there is nothing we can do, except perhaps to pause and murmur, "Thanks pal, thanks."
- Ernie Pyle: Yep. It's a world the other world will never know. Even the Air Force. Up there, they approach death differently. When they die, they're clean-shaven, well fed, if that's any comfort. But the G.I., well, he lives so miserably and he dies so miserably...