5 seconds sound clip from the Dead Reckoning (1947) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:03:31.887 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- There's a couple of pretty tough customers back of this, and they'd like to get their mitts on me. Probably grab me as soon as I show on the streets again.
- If I can't work this out, I want somebody to know what happened, for the sake of a friend of mine, to clear his name.
- Well, what is his name?
- Er... Johnny. He's a pal of mine. He was a paratrooper, too.
- You see, it's like this, sir. A few days ago, they flew Johnny and me home from France in a stripped-down bomber.
- Neither one of us had any idea why the Army had suddenly ripped us out of a Paris hospital.
- We'd been under fancy treatment, me for my shoulder, and Johnny for his punctured lung.
- See, only high-priority cargo rides a bomb-rack all by itself, Father, but why we rated it, nobody could, or maybe would, tell us.
- When we climbed out at LaGuardia Field, we find a welcoming committee with a lieutenant colonel from Public Relations, instead of from the Medical Corps.
- He was in a large sweat, because we were two hours late due to headwinds over the Atlantic, and Boiling Field, Washington DC, was fogged in.
- But he hoped maybe they'd hold the Limited more than ten minutes.
- All the way to the Penn Station, I tried to feel out the good desk colonel, but he'd only grin.
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