4 seconds sound clip from the Midway (1976) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:03:28.144 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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[...]
- Well, whatever doubts we may have had...
- Are still with me, Kusaka.
- We have no definitive intelligence reports, only opinions and estimates. And continued silence from Yamamoto does not make them a fact.
- My apologies. I've been away from my duties much too long.
- How are you?
- I'm well enough now to take charge of air operations.
- And so you shall, my friend. And so you shall.
- I want you to prepare an air search plan immediately.
- For what area, Admiral?
- Where I would deploy my aircraft carriers if I were the American commander. There, northeast of Midway.
- Times like this, Joe, I miss the flatlands.
- It's a big body of water out there.
- I'm just a fellow who came out of a Texas prairie town. The nearest lake was 120 miles away. You could wade across it at the height of the rainy season. During the summer we made clay pots out of its bottom.
- No matter what happens, Joe, I want you to know, you've sure as hell earned your salary this month.
- Well, thank you, sir.
- To cover the area in question, we will launch scout planes from the Akagi and the Kaga, and our cruiser escorts will launch five seaplanes.
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