Extended Reading
  • Kyleigh 2022-10-03 16:10:34

    The most valuable movie I watched in half a year

    I was really bored before looking for an old movie to watch. World War II movies are an old-fashioned field, but when a man’s adrenal glands are not excited for a long time, my experience is to look at the old World War II movies to get a certain adjustment. With this mentality, I found this movie,...

  • Zelda 2022-10-03 16:36:36

    Without clothes

    The following table shows some of the measures Savage took after arriving in the 918 squadron and the corresponding results:

    No. Incident Outcome
    1 Regulation of checkpoint entry procedures Serious military discipline
    2 Punishment of Gately and Cobb for internal dissatisfaction
    3 Closing the bar...

Twelve O'Clock High quotes

  • General Savage: I take it you don't really care about the part you had in breaking one of the best men you'll ever know. Add to it that as Air Exec you were automatically in command the moment Colonel Davenport left - and you met that responsibility exactly as you met his need: you ran out on it. You left the station to get drunk. Gately, as far as I'm concerned, you're yellow. A traitor to yourself, to this group, to the uniform you wear. It would be the easiest course for me to transfer you out, to saddle some unsuspecting guy with a deadbeat. Maybe you think that's what you're gonna get out of this, a free ride in some combat unit. But I'm not gonna pass the buck. I'm gonna keep you right here. I hate a man like you so much that I'm gonna get your head down in the mud and tramp on it. I'm gonna make you wish you'd never been born.

    Lt. Col. Ben Gately: If that's all, sir...

    General Savage: I'm just getting started. You're gonna stay right here and get a bellyful of flying. You're gonna make every mission. You're not air exec anymore. You're just an airplane commander. And I want you to paint this name on the nose of your ship: Leper Colony. Because in it you're gonna get every deadbeat in the outfit. Every man with a penchant for head colds. If there's a bombardier who can't hit his plate with his fork, you get him. If there's a navigator who can't find the men's room, you get him. Because you rate him.

  • General Pritchard: I guess I don't have to tell you what's coming, Frank. I'm promising you nothing except a job no man should have to do who's already had more than his share of combat. I've gotta ask you to take nice kids and fly them until they can't take any more, and then put 'em back in and fly 'em some more. We've got to try to find out just what a maximum effort is. How much a man can take and get it all.

    [sighs]

    General Pritchard: I don't even know if any man can do it. That's what cracked Keith.

    [pause]

    General Pritchard: What time do you think you can get down there tomorrow?

    General Savage: Early, I guess.

    General Pritchard: No squawks?

    General Savage: Pretty hard to have one the way you put it.