- No matter what happens, Joe, I want you to know, you've sure as hell earned your salary this month.
- Well, thank you, sir.

— Admiral Chester W. Nimitz (Henry Fonda)

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

You can hear this line at 01:03:55.802 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- 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.

- Very good. But until our scouts have searched the area we'll hold our most experienced pilots in reserve and half our aircraft.

- But, sir, the American fleet cannot be anywhere near Midway. We shouldn't hold back our best pilots.

- We've been over this ground before, Kusaka.

[...]

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