So Proudly We Hail! (1943)

Mary Treen: Lt. Sadie Schwartz

Quotes 

• Lt. Sadie Schwartz : [voiceover]  Most of us slept in GI underwear, except Joan, who had clung desperately to her black silk nightgown.

• Lt. Sadie Schwartz : [voiceover]  That was the worst pasting we ever got. I think they must have hit every inch of the island that day. Then suddenly, like magic, late in the afternoon, it stopped when they all went off to get drunk to celebrate their god, Hirohito.

• Lt. Sadie Schwartz : High heels. The things we do to trap men.

• Lt. Sadie Schwartz : Thanks for a wonderful time. I don't know when I've had better.

  Georgie Larson : You should have stayed around a little longer. I'd made a real hepcat out of ya.

  Lt. Sadie Schwartz : I don' know about the hep.

• Lt. Sadie Schwartz : [voiceover]  Davy was in charge of the jungle hospital as McGregor had her headquarters at Little Baguio, which was another base about four kilometers away. She had thrown herself into her work, with John constantly on her mind, although one never would have known it. The only contact between them was a little monkey John had sent one day by a wounded soldier. He quickly became the pet of the company. We called him Tojo because they looked so much alike.

• Lt. Sadie Schwartz : [voiceover]  We called ourselves "the battling orphans of Bataan. "No father, no mother, no Uncle Sam. " As we wondered where the reinforcements were. But even so, we continued to hope.

• Lt. Sadie Schwartz : [voiceover]  There were about 25 nurses there when we arrived. With us, the total came to 88 American plus many more Filipino nurses. Here, for the first time in months, we had a chance to wash the Japs out of our hair.