He took his cracks at Germany in B-17s.
4 seconds sound clip from the The High and the Mighty (1954) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:10:43 in the DVD version of the movie.
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- He flew the airmail in the open-cockpit days.
- I think he learned to fly in the First World War.
- And endurance flights, racing, old-time barnstorming.
- 10 or 15 years with TransWorld.
- In the Second World War, he flew a bomber in the Ploiesti oilfield raid.
- He took his cracks at Germany in B-17s.
- Finally wound up with a B-29 squad in Okinawa.
- Well, I'll just lay you a bet he's got better than 20000 hours.
- Well, well, he's got so much time and all.
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