Gary Cooper credited as playing...
Jonathan L. Scott
- Sen. Bentley: The carrier construction should stop!
- Jonathan L. Scott: If the country had followed that advice, our West Coast newspapers right now would be printed in Japanese.
- Pete Richard: Is it your contention, Senator, that we should abandon planes because they've been shot down, tanks because they've been knocked out of action? We need to outproduce the enemy in tanks, planes, *and* aircraft carriers. The only trouble with carriers is: we don't have enough of them.
- Jonathan L. Scott: Turn that record over.
- McCluskey: You can't get a girl out of your mind by turning a record over.
- Jonathan L. Scott: Look Mary - I don't want to get rich. It's just there certain things I could never get you on Navy pay.
- Mary Morgan: And there's certain things you can never get me on civilian pay either. I've been proud of you, every single day since I met you, until tonight. And now I'm so ashamed I have to pack to keep from showing it.
- Jonathan L. Scott: I would like to be alone with you.
- Mary Morgan: Do you like horticulture? Come on.
- Sen. Bentley: We cannot defeat the Japanese by an island-hopping method of attack.
- Jonathan L. Scott: Two dozen carriers are worth more than 200 enemy held islands anchored in one spot. Our carriers won't be anchored. They'll be fast moving islands from which we can launch fighters and bombers against the enemy - wherever we choose.
- Jonathan L. Scott: For the first time, Mary had a rival. I - I was in love with a ship. Her code name was clipper. And all of the the sudden I hated airplanes, Jap airplanes, that might destroy her.
- Jonathan L. Scott: What are you laughing at?
- Pete Richard: When an admiral laughs, it's funny. Laugh!
- Jonathan L. Scott: Barbara, don't let your husband take any more vacation on those tropical islands surrounded by native gals.
- Pete Richard: I don't get it. What are the Japs waiting for?
- Jonathan L. Scott: Filling their sand bags, I guess.
- Jonathan L. Scott: We all did a part of the job. To each and every one of you, a sincere well done. To our dead shipmates, to all those who've died, who are even more a part of this victory than any of us, our eternal thanks - for keeping us a nation of free men, for giving us a country to come back to.