Action in the North Atlantic (1943)

Peter Whitney: Whitey Lara

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• Johnnie Pulaski : If a torpedo ever connected with this ship, we'd go up like a match connected to cellophane. You ain't got a chance!

  Boats O'Hara : [Repeating]  You ain't got a chance.

  Johnnie Pulaski : And "Boom!" You're in the hero department!

  Boats O'Hara : Yeah.

  Johnnie Pulaski : Just like that and the next thing you know, you're pickin' a milky way outta your ears.

  Whitey Lara : Okay, okay, so what?

  Johnnie Pulaski : Whatta ya mean, "Okay?"

  Chips Abrams : Wait a minute! Wait a minute! I think you got the wromg angle. The way I see it if your ship's number is up, you're gonna get it.

  Whitey Lara : Yeah, and suppose my number ain't up?

  Chips Abrams : Then, brother, the torpedoes can connect right where yer sittin' and still nuthin' will happen.

  Boats O'Hara : Well, I want no torpedoes where I'm sittin'. I'm a sensitive man, I am.

  Johnnie Pulaski : [to Chips]  Whatta you know about it? You carpenters got sawdust for brains!

  Chips Abrams : Listen, I was shippin' out when your buttons was safety pins. I was in a tanker in the last war. I got torpedoed so much, I got water on the knee.

• Whitey Lara : [at Parker, who is about to close the door to the galley]  Leave it open, sweetheart. When I got it off Hatteras, six guys was caught in the fo'c'sle 'cause the door buckled, and they couldn't bust her loose.

  Cadet Robert Parker : Sorry.