The goose has been flying over the beaches during all the evacuation. It becomes a sort of legend among the men. Some of those I brought back yesterday in the toilet had seen it.
11 seconds sound clip from the The Snow Goose (1954) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:23:24 in the radio play.
Quote context
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- Can you make out what she is? Seems to be a dead man lashed with a mast, sir.
- We'll stop. He may only be wounded.
- What's that bird on a rail for heaven's sake?
- They said if you saw the flying wild goose you'd be saved. It's a sort of good luck omen.
- A wild goose? That one looks tame. Almost like a pet that he'd brought over with him.
- Floating mine on the port bow!
- Aye, it's more than likely, sir.
- Looks as though we were lucky to see the goose.
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