I launched high-level bombers, dropped everything they can carry.
4 seconds sound clip from the The War of the Worlds (1953) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:39:58 in the DVD version of the movie.
Quote context
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- The crisis will come if they move toward the metropolitan area.
- Washington is on the line, sir.
- I'd say our effective losses were nearly 60 percent men, 90 percent materiel.
- Well, the jets went in, but not one of them came out.
- I launched high-level bombers, dropped everything they can carry.
- They were knocked out of the sky and their bombs did nothing. Nothing was effective against them.
- Yes, they have some sort of electronic umbrella. It's quite impenetrable.
- Dr. Forrester believes they generate atomic force without the heavy screening we use.
- That's where they get the power for their rays.
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