Richard Burton credited as playing...
Flight Officer David Campbell
- Flight Officer David Campbell: The thing that's always worried me about being one of the few is the way we keep on getting fewer.
- Flight Officer David Campbell: He's dead. I'm crippled. You're lost. Do you suppose it's always like that? I mean war.
- RAF pilot at flight base: [talking about the invasion] Tonight. I KNOW it's tonight.
- Flight Officer David Campbell: So it's tonight. Suits me fine. Tonight. This afternoon. NOW!
- [pause]
- Flight Officer David Campbell: Or, at least, as soon as I finish this beer.
- Pvt. Dutch Schultz: Getting on toward night. You know something? I haven't fired my gun all day. I keep hearing shootin', but every time I get there, everybody's gone!
- Flight Officer David Campbell: It's funny, isn't it? He's dead, I'm crippled, You're lost. I suppose it's always like that. I mean war.
- Pvt. Dutch Schultz: I wonder who won?
- Pvt. Dutch Schultz: Is it bad?
- Flight Officer David Campbell: Split wide open - from the crotch to the knee. A medic came along and gave me a shot of morphine. I hope he'll be back before it wears off. He said he would.
- Pvt. Dutch Schultz: Did he sew you up?
- Flight Officer David Campbell: Well, when he came ashore he lost most of his equipment. So he - so he pinned it together with - with safety pins.
- RAF pilot at flight base: Poor old Johnny. Bad luck, it happening just now.
- Flight Officer David Campbell: Now, then. What's the bloody difference?
- RAF pilot at flight base: Well, he went through the Battle of Britain and all that. Just like you! And now if the big show starts tonight - he won't be in it.