In our compound, there were about 630 of us, all American airmen.

4 seconds sound clip from the Stalag 17 movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:02:01.230 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- What gets me is that there never was a movie about P.O.W.'s, about prisoners of war.

- Now, my name is Clarence Harvey Cook. They call me Cookie.

- I was shot down over Magdeburg, Germany back in '43. That's why I stammer a little once in a while. Especially when I get excited.

- I spent two-and-a-half years in Stalag 17. Stalag is the German word for prison camp, and number 17 was somewhere on the Danube.

- There were about 40000 P.O.W.'s there if you bothered to count the Russians and the Poles and the Czechs.

- In our compound, there were about 630 of us, all American airmen.

- Radio operators, gunners and engineers, all sergeants.

- Now, you put 630 sergeants together, and, oh, mother, you've got yourself a situation.

- There was more fireworks shooting off around that joint.

- Take, for instance, the story about the spy we had in our barracks.

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