- What about the Hornet?
- Scraping the bottom of the barrel.
3 seconds sound clip from the Midway (1976) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 02:03:10.183 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Delaney, what's the situation below?
- No good, sir. All boilers are out. There's no hope of relighting them.
- Get your people topside, and on the double!
- Larry, radio Enterprise, we'll land there after we make our bomb run.
- Blue Leader to Home Plate! Blue Leader to Home Plate!
- How many are we sending out?
- 24 dive-bombers, sir. We'll have to try it without fighter protection.
- Scraping the bottom of the barrel.
- Sixteen dive-bombers left, plus the three that Matt Garth is bringing over from the Yorktown.
- Signal the Hornet, we attack immediately.
- Kobayashi said he left the carrier on fire. Did you see any smoke?
- No, sir, it must have sunk. We didn't see a third carrier, either.
[...]