- Welcome home, Admiral. How was your flight?
- Long and strewn with potholes.

5 seconds sound clip from the Midway (1976) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:17:18.963 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- I have traveled widely in America, my friends. Their industrial might is awesome.

- I'm convinced our only hope for victory is one massive strike at Midway.

- Say, Joe, what about this hot information of yours? You sure it can't wait? I already got one headache for the boss.

- I consider this urgent.

- And you were right about Coral Sea. That's where the Japs were, all right. Every ship on your list was there.

- Did we get hurt?

- We got hurt.

- Welcome home, Admiral. How was your flight?

- Long and strewn with potholes.

- Got Fletcher's Coral Sea report?

- Right here, sir.

- Right.

- Get in the back, Joe. But wait till I cue you in.

- Here's Admiral Fletcher's preliminary report, sir. We lost the Lexington.

- What did we do to the enemy?

- We sank one of their light carriers, one of their big first-line jobs and some of their smaller ships.

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