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- What'd you do, mostly?
- We went in before the landings and cleared the mines and underwater obstructions. And when they'd taken enough ground for an airstrip, we'd build it.

10 seconds sound clip from the The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:36:05.002 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- What have we here? The Bretton Woods agreement?

- That's a Mr. Novak waiting over there. I've filled out the basic form. He's applying for a GI loan.

- Oh, good. I'll see him.

- Mr. Novak.

- Sit down, Mr. Novak.

- Thank you, sir.

- Don't sir me, Mr. Novak. I'm a sergeant.

- I see you were in the Navy.

- Yes, sir.

- I mean, yes, I was in the Seabees.

- Where'd you operate?

- All over the Pacific. One little after island after another.

- What'd you do, mostly?

- We went in before the landings and cleared the mines and underwater obstructions. And when they'd taken enough ground for an airstrip, we'd build it.

- Fairly interesting work, eh?

- No, it got monotonous.

- Those islands all look alike. Until Iwo Jima. That was different.

- So I've heard.

- I see you have quite a family. A wife and four children.

- Yes, there'd have been more if I hadn't been away three years.

- And now you wanna buy a farm.

- Yes, sir. Got my eye on a fine piece of property. Forty acres, out near Anton Corners.

- What about collateral?

- Collateral? What's that?

- Security for your loan. What can you put up in the way of property? Have you any stocks and bonds, real estate, valuables of any kind?

[...]

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Memorable quotes from the 1946 film The Best Years of Our Lives, with sound clips in WAV and MP3 formats.

Actors: Myrna Loy (Milly Stephenson), Fredric March (Al Stephenson), Dana Andrews (Fred Derry), Teresa Wright (Peggy Stephenson), Virginia Mayo (Marie Derry), Cathy O'Donnell (Wilma Cameron), Harold Russell (Homer Parrish)

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