- God damn it! This is Helen Leader, keep your hands off that damned electric arming switch! Use manual control! Use manual control!
- Too late, Commander. Mine dropped, too, Commander Leslie.
- Mine dropped, too.
15 seconds sound clip from the Midway (1976) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:36:48.811 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- A whole squadron. Fifteen brave crews.
- Torpedo 3 going in at 1500 feet, sir. Bombing 3 and Fighting 3 at 19000, and 15 minutes to target.
- Who's coordinating the attack?
- Max Leslie, sir. He's leading Bombing 3.
(WW2 Airplanes - Bombing Squadron)
- Helen Leader to Helen Group, time to arm our bombs. I say again, arm bombs!
- Too late, Commander. Mine dropped, too, Commander Leslie.
- Rotten gadget! Who the hell invented the electric arming switch?
- Yamamoto, who the hell do you think?
- Now what are we gonna do? Drop spitballs on the Japs?
- All right, knock it off. The rest of you, use manual control! Helen Leader, out.
(WW2 Airplanes - Fighting Squadron)
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