We're not due to launch our first air strike for another 36 hours, sir.

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

You can hear this line at 00:57:37.463 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Yeah, and it's miserable waiting here for an attack on your own people, hoping to hell it happens.

- More pressure from Washington, sir?

- Not a whisper. Frankly, I'd rather have them raising hell.

- What's the count, Red?

- I can put up half a dozen F4Fs and 15 Buffaloes.

- Damned relics.

- We'll let the Japs know we're up there, sir. Maybe we'll get lucky.

- Okay, Red.

- In less than five hours, Hosogaya will attack the Aleutians, and we will still be groping toward Midway in this filthy squall.

- We're not due to launch our first air strike for another 36 hours, sir.

- Our predictions are for clear weather before then, Admiral.

- I keep wondering, Kusaka, what did Operation K uncover at Pearl Harbor? Were the American carriers there?

- We've heard nothing from Admiral Yamamoto. That could only mean the American carriers are still in Hawaiian waters.

- Damned communications blackout!

- Hey, you guys! The Japs are bombing Dutch Harbor!

- Here we go.

[...]

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