I spent two-and-a-half years in Stalag 17. Stalag is the German word for prison camp, and number 17 was somewhere on the Danube.
9 seconds sound clip from the Stalag 17 movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:01:45.714 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- What gets me is that there never was a movie about P.O.W.'s, about prisoners of war.
- Now, my name is Clarence Harvey Cook. They call me Cookie.
- In our compound, there were about 630 of us, all American airmen.
- Radio operators, gunners and engineers, all sergeants.
- Now, you put 630 sergeants together, and, oh, mother, you've got yourself a situation.
- There was more fireworks shooting off around that joint.
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