0:01:06 > 0:01:08Germans. Let's get 'em!
0:01:11 > 0:01:12Where are the damn fighters going?
0:01:12 > 0:01:14RADIO CHATTER
0:01:16 > 0:01:20They've gone chasing scalps, leaving us unprotected again.
0:01:20 > 0:01:22Damn those glory-grabbing bastards!
0:01:22 > 0:01:24Bandits! Hundreds of them! Six o'clock!
0:02:03 > 0:02:05Is there anything left of our escort?
0:02:05 > 0:02:06Negative, boss.
0:02:06 > 0:02:09Damn it! Why don't they worry about us?
0:02:09 > 0:02:11I can't believe this! It never fails.
0:02:11 > 0:02:12AIRMAN SCREAMS
0:02:13 > 0:02:14THEY SHOUT
0:02:27 > 0:02:28HE SCREAMS
0:02:33 > 0:02:35Oh, no. Stay with me.
0:02:39 > 0:02:41SCREAMING
0:02:43 > 0:02:44FRANTIC RADIO CHATTER
0:03:01 > 0:03:02AIRMAN SCREAMS
0:03:04 > 0:03:06This is Bouncing Betty. Engine three is out.
0:03:06 > 0:03:08We're falling back. Two, you take lead position.
0:03:13 > 0:03:14Need the extinguisher.
0:03:14 > 0:03:16Hank!
0:03:25 > 0:03:27Mayday! Mayday! Prepare to bail out.
0:03:27 > 0:03:28I repeat, prepare to bail...
0:03:28 > 0:03:29HE SCREAMS
0:03:50 > 0:03:52SCREAMING
0:04:10 > 0:04:12ENGINES APPROACH
0:04:24 > 0:04:26Red One to Red Two, come in.
0:04:26 > 0:04:28'Are you awake over there, Lightning?'
0:04:28 > 0:04:29HE YAWNS
0:04:33 > 0:04:37Yeah, yeah, sorry. Boy, I need a nap!
0:04:37 > 0:04:40Well, look alive. Wouldn't want you to miss this war.
0:04:42 > 0:04:46War is hell. What we're doing is just boring as hell.
0:04:49 > 0:04:52Whoever she was, I hope she was worth losing sleep over.
0:04:52 > 0:04:54Oh, trust me, she was worth it!
0:04:55 > 0:04:57'Junior. Junior, you OK?'
0:04:57 > 0:05:02Fine as wine, Red One. The sky is blue and my guns are hot.
0:05:03 > 0:05:05'Joker, you all right?'
0:05:05 > 0:05:08Nope. I feel like I'm flying my grandfather's Buick.
0:05:08 > 0:05:10Coolant indicator's all over the map.
0:05:10 > 0:05:14And to think I was as happy as a church lady when I got this plane.
0:05:15 > 0:05:19All right, Red Four, you're done. Take it on home.
0:05:19 > 0:05:21Come on now, Captain, this gauge over here is a piece of crap.
0:05:22 > 0:05:26Captain, let me give it a looky before you send him back.
0:05:33 > 0:05:35He's not trailing any oil or water.
0:05:35 > 0:05:38Seems to me like he's just got a bad indicator.
0:05:42 > 0:05:45Come on, Easy. Let me fly, sir, please?
0:05:45 > 0:05:48You know it ain't gonna be no fun without me.
0:05:51 > 0:05:55All right. OK. You stay on, Red Four.
0:05:55 > 0:05:57You stay on, but you keep an eye on it, all right?
0:05:57 > 0:06:02Thank you, sweetheart. Just my luck I get stuck with the flying wreck.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05Another P-40 from Uncle Sam's junkyard.
0:06:14 > 0:06:16It looks like we got a truck up there.
0:06:16 > 0:06:17It's got German markings.
0:06:17 > 0:06:20- Junior, it's your turn. - 'Yes, sir!'
0:06:20 > 0:06:23Prepare to feel the wrath of the Ray Gun.
0:06:25 > 0:06:26I'm on your wing, Junior!
0:06:29 > 0:06:30Come on.
0:06:30 > 0:06:31GUNFIRE
0:06:43 > 0:06:45You see that?
0:06:46 > 0:06:49Congratulations, kid. You killed yourself a truck.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51Woohoo! We can go back victorious(!)
0:06:54 > 0:06:57Everybody, form up. We're going home.
0:06:57 > 0:06:58Uh...
0:06:58 > 0:07:01Easy, I see something. It's a train! 11 o'clock.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04I don't think it's German. I don't see any guns.
0:07:04 > 0:07:06Looks like they're moving livestock to me.
0:07:09 > 0:07:11No. It's military.
0:07:11 > 0:07:13It's camouflaged.
0:07:13 > 0:07:14It could just be cows.
0:07:14 > 0:07:16You don't want to shoot up no cows if you don't have to.
0:07:16 > 0:07:19Unless y'all planning on a barbecue.
0:07:19 > 0:07:21Nobody sees any guns?
0:07:21 > 0:07:23I'm telling you, Easy, that's a munitions train.
0:07:23 > 0:07:24And I bet it's armed to the teeth.
0:07:24 > 0:07:27You grown-ups better think fast. It's headed for that tunnel.
0:07:27 > 0:07:30All right. Only one way to find out. Let's go get it.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36Wait. Easy, we've got to take it head-on,
0:07:36 > 0:07:38low, so their guns can't hit us.
0:07:38 > 0:07:41It's my decision, Lightning. Stay in formation.
0:07:50 > 0:07:51SOLDIERS SHOUT
0:07:56 > 0:07:57Schnell! Schnell!
0:08:00 > 0:08:02Looks like these cows are armed.
0:08:11 > 0:08:12Stay in front of it!
0:08:14 > 0:08:15Die, you Nazi dogs!
0:08:20 > 0:08:22Dang! Those cows just shot up my wing!
0:08:26 > 0:08:27No sweat. No sweat.
0:08:32 > 0:08:35If that train makes it into the tunnel, they'll stop in there.
0:08:38 > 0:08:40Where's Lightning?
0:08:40 > 0:08:41'Where the hell are you, Lightning?'
0:08:41 > 0:08:44Taking the train from the front, like you should have done.
0:08:51 > 0:08:52THEY SPEAK GERMAN
0:08:54 > 0:08:55Come on. Come on. Come on.
0:08:58 > 0:08:59Gotcha!
0:08:59 > 0:09:01Oh, oh...
0:09:02 > 0:09:04- Whoa! Shit! - ENGINE STUTTERS
0:09:10 > 0:09:11Whoa!
0:09:14 > 0:09:15Whoo!
0:09:16 > 0:09:18Nothing like a good old Georgia ass-whupping.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20Just trying to keep you boys inspired.
0:09:20 > 0:09:22'How's this headline for inspiration?'
0:09:22 > 0:09:25"Negro Pilot Dies Because He's Too Stupid To Follow Orders."
0:09:25 > 0:09:27LIGHTNING LAUGHS
0:09:29 > 0:09:32Your plane looks like it's been through a shredder.
0:09:34 > 0:09:36How are you going to explain THAT to Coffee?
0:09:36 > 0:09:39By explaining to him that I'm the one who blew up the train.
0:09:57 > 0:10:00You boys go on ahead. I've spotted something.
0:10:09 > 0:10:10HE CHUCKLES
0:10:23 > 0:10:24ENGINE SPUTTERS
0:10:40 > 0:10:42Lightning destroyed another one.
0:10:42 > 0:10:44Look at that mess. Look at that mess.
0:10:44 > 0:10:48I guess we'll be working all night again.
0:10:48 > 0:10:51RADIO: 'It's been a long time since you've seen your sweetheart.
0:10:51 > 0:10:53'Too bad she's dancing with someone new.
0:10:53 > 0:10:58'This is Axis Mary coming to you from Berlin with your favourite music.'
0:10:59 > 0:11:02# Never thought that you would be
0:11:02 > 0:11:05# Standing here so close to me
0:11:05 > 0:11:09# There's so much I feel that I should say
0:11:10 > 0:11:14# But words can wait
0:11:14 > 0:11:19# Until some other day. #
0:11:23 > 0:11:26How about one time you bring my plane home without wrecking it?
0:11:26 > 0:11:27Good morning, Mr Coffee.
0:11:27 > 0:11:29You keep tearing up my planes like this,
0:11:29 > 0:11:31you're gonna be wearing your balls for a necktie.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33See, I can't let you do that, cos I just saw a goddess
0:11:33 > 0:11:35who's gonna bear my beautiful children.
0:11:35 > 0:11:37You're a clown, Lightning. You need to grow up. We can't afford to
0:11:37 > 0:11:40have any more planes taken off the line with your stupid...
0:11:40 > 0:11:41What is this? What did you do?
0:11:41 > 0:11:44Oh, man! Where did that come from?
0:11:44 > 0:11:46- What happened was... - Sticks!
0:11:46 > 0:11:48Come see what this clown did to the plane.
0:11:48 > 0:11:49I can see what you're thinking.
0:11:51 > 0:11:54What the hell is this? Did somebody throw a train at you?
0:11:54 > 0:11:56Coffee, I can see you're upset.
0:11:57 > 0:12:00Maybe we should talk about this another time.
0:12:07 > 0:12:10Oh, we got a new recruit here!
0:12:11 > 0:12:14Hey there. You lost, son?
0:12:14 > 0:12:16I was looking for Jimmy Wayans.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19Uh, Jimmy got shot down must've been, what, two weeks ago?
0:12:19 > 0:12:21I believe so.
0:12:21 > 0:12:22Well, is Uly Douglas here?
0:12:22 > 0:12:24Uh-uh.
0:12:24 > 0:12:26Furball's dead, son. Crashed on takeoff.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28You're just a bad-luck Chuck, aren't you?
0:12:28 > 0:12:32Everybody you know ends up on the wrong side of the dirt.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34Don't pay him no mind, boy. My name's Smokey.
0:12:34 > 0:12:36This here's Neon, this is Joker.
0:12:36 > 0:12:38Flight Officer Maurice Wilson, sir!
0:12:39 > 0:12:42You can leave all that saluting, son. You're home now.
0:12:42 > 0:12:44Seeing as how everybody you know dead,
0:12:44 > 0:12:46- you might as well bunk with us. - Wait. Wait. Wait.
0:12:46 > 0:12:48Just don't bad luck us before you get up in this Jeep now.
0:12:48 > 0:12:50- Yes, sir. - I'm trying to live.
0:12:50 > 0:12:52- Come on, Maurice. - Come on, boy.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54- Come on, boy, get in there! - Hold on.
0:12:54 > 0:12:55Come on, Maurice.
0:12:55 > 0:12:58- Wait, you've got to back up. - THEY LAUGH
0:13:07 > 0:13:09How'd it go up there, Ray?
0:13:12 > 0:13:13I'm telling you, Deacon.
0:13:13 > 0:13:17Lightning almost got himself killed AGAIN today.
0:13:17 > 0:13:19He's one crazy pilot.
0:13:23 > 0:13:26I'm going to pray for him if we ever get to see any real combat.
0:13:27 > 0:13:31Well, hey, I see you here after every mission.
0:13:31 > 0:13:33I'm sure your prayers are helping.
0:13:33 > 0:13:35Thanks, Deke.
0:13:48 > 0:13:49Black Jesus,
0:13:49 > 0:13:53we thank you for bringing Red Squadron back home to us.
0:13:53 > 0:13:55WHOOPING AND CHEERING
0:13:55 > 0:13:56APPLAUSE
0:14:01 > 0:14:03Lightning's usual elegant work.
0:14:04 > 0:14:06Although I understand your plane
0:14:06 > 0:14:08didn't fare any better than the train.
0:14:08 > 0:14:10Sir.
0:14:10 > 0:14:12That old Lightning don't never have his brakes on.
0:14:12 > 0:14:14Questions, gentlemen.
0:14:14 > 0:14:16Does it really matter, sir?
0:14:17 > 0:14:19- Lights up. - Here we go.
0:14:20 > 0:14:23What was your question?
0:14:23 > 0:14:26What we do, how well we do it, does it matter?
0:14:26 > 0:14:27NERVOUS LAUGHTER
0:14:30 > 0:14:32Strafing runs and coastal patrols.
0:14:32 > 0:14:35They got us out here using planes to mop floors, fellas.
0:14:35 > 0:14:37I don't normally go in for loose talk,
0:14:37 > 0:14:41but we won't even be doing that for long.
0:14:41 > 0:14:44Ain't that why Colonel Bullard went stateside?
0:14:44 > 0:14:47The Colonel's business stateside is above your grade.
0:14:47 > 0:14:48All due respect, sir,
0:14:48 > 0:14:50but are they back there deciding if they should shut us down?
0:14:50 > 0:14:53- Just a rumour, Winky. - You know this how?
0:14:55 > 0:14:56Pass it up.
0:15:03 > 0:15:05Read it, Easy. Out loud.
0:15:07 > 0:15:09Go ahead, son.
0:15:11 > 0:15:13EASY CLEARS THROAT
0:15:13 > 0:15:16"The use of Negroes in the Army Air Corps may yet be halted.
0:15:16 > 0:15:20"A report has been forwarded calling the performance by Negro pilots
0:15:20 > 0:15:21"unsatisfactory."
0:15:21 > 0:15:23MURMURS OF DISSENT
0:15:24 > 0:15:26"A plan to assign the Negroes to routine convoy cover may be
0:15:26 > 0:15:30"all that remains for those who seem to have neither the intelligence
0:15:30 > 0:15:33"nor the proper reflexes for such a complicated task
0:15:33 > 0:15:36"as fighter pursuit. The great Tuskegee..."
0:15:36 > 0:15:38"The great Tuskegee experiment
0:15:38 > 0:15:43"to allow the Negro type to fly airplanes has failed."
0:16:06 > 0:16:09And you all thought what?
0:16:09 > 0:16:10You'd sign up,
0:16:10 > 0:16:13you get shiny boots, a uniform,
0:16:13 > 0:16:15and that'd be the end of 100 years of bigotry?
0:16:15 > 0:16:17You're Coloured men in a White man's army.
0:16:17 > 0:16:20It's a miracle you're flying fighters in Italy
0:16:20 > 0:16:23and not mopping latrines in Milwaukee!
0:16:23 > 0:16:25You want it straight?
0:16:25 > 0:16:30Yes, the old man's stateside, fighting the good fight.
0:16:31 > 0:16:32And when he comes through for us,
0:16:32 > 0:16:36we better be damn sure we're ready to do the same for him.
0:16:36 > 0:16:41Any of you feel otherwise, any of you want to wash yourselves out,
0:16:41 > 0:16:43well, Negro, please do so,
0:16:43 > 0:16:45and I'll have you on the next thing smoking back home
0:16:45 > 0:16:48to make room for the men who want to stand and fight.
0:16:51 > 0:16:53Get your head up, son.
0:16:55 > 0:16:57You're fighter pilots.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03Watch the rest of the film.
0:17:03 > 0:17:05Learn something.
0:17:13 > 0:17:15When we came under your command, Colonel,
0:17:15 > 0:17:18you stated very clearly that we would never find Negroes
0:17:18 > 0:17:21who could pass a pilot's exam,
0:17:21 > 0:17:24make it through flight school, survive basic combat.
0:17:24 > 0:17:27A combat record which, to this point...
0:17:27 > 0:17:28We've done all of that.
0:17:28 > 0:17:29To this point,
0:17:29 > 0:17:32I don't believe your boys have scored a single aerial kill.
0:17:32 > 0:17:36Because you have not assigned us a single forward mission.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38It's damn hard to shoot down the enemy
0:17:38 > 0:17:40100 miles behind the front lines.
0:17:40 > 0:17:45As a matter of fact, when will we be assigned to bomber escorts, Colonel?
0:17:45 > 0:17:48There have been any number of reports of poor discipline.
0:17:48 > 0:17:51Which is in every newspaper and magazine in the country.
0:17:51 > 0:17:53We have enough race troubles as it is
0:17:53 > 0:17:56without these sons of bitches in the press throwing fuel on the fire.
0:17:56 > 0:18:00How an unofficial assessment of the Tuskegee programme
0:18:00 > 0:18:02made its way to newspapers and magazines
0:18:02 > 0:18:05may be worthy of its own hearing, sir.
0:18:05 > 0:18:06Colonel Tomlinson,
0:18:06 > 0:18:10you've been supporting this experiment from the beginning,
0:18:10 > 0:18:14but I'm afraid you're just gonna have to suffer its failure.
0:18:14 > 0:18:16We're given hand-me-down planes,
0:18:16 > 0:18:20ordered to attack targets that have already been bypassed,
0:18:20 > 0:18:24fly patrols where the enemy hasn't been seen for months.
0:18:24 > 0:18:28Now we've done every lowdown, dirty job you've handed us,
0:18:28 > 0:18:31hoping that we would just limp along and go away.
0:18:31 > 0:18:33We will not go away.
0:18:34 > 0:18:37We have a right to fight for our country,
0:18:37 > 0:18:39the same as every other American.
0:18:39 > 0:18:41So you shut us down,
0:18:41 > 0:18:44or you let us fly.
0:18:44 > 0:18:46RADIO: # Soldier boy.
0:18:46 > 0:18:51# Oh, do you think about me, soldier boy?
0:18:51 > 0:18:53# How could you ever...? #
0:18:54 > 0:18:56What?
0:18:56 > 0:18:58Don't give me that look.
0:18:58 > 0:19:00What the hell were you doing up there today?
0:19:00 > 0:19:04Beating up on Hitler. Winning the war. I got the train, didn't I?
0:19:06 > 0:19:07I love you like a brother, Joe.
0:19:07 > 0:19:10But you disobey my orders again, I'm gonna have to write you up.
0:19:10 > 0:19:11For what? For being right?
0:19:11 > 0:19:14I told you those guns were there. You almost got yourself killed.
0:19:14 > 0:19:15No, I followed protocol.
0:19:15 > 0:19:18You went for the glory. There's a difference.
0:19:18 > 0:19:20Now you may not need me to get you through this thing alive,
0:19:20 > 0:19:23but Joker, Junior, the rest of the squad just might.
0:19:23 > 0:19:26OK. OK. You're right, I'm wrong. I'm sorry.
0:19:27 > 0:19:30What you in such a hurry for anyway?
0:19:30 > 0:19:33I saw a girl.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36The most beautiful I have ever seen.
0:19:36 > 0:19:39Just can't let them alone, can you?
0:19:39 > 0:19:41No more than you can let that bottle alone.
0:19:43 > 0:19:47You got your way of getting through the war, and I got mine.
0:19:49 > 0:19:52I wonder what your pops'd say to that.
0:19:52 > 0:19:54We can just leave him out of this.
0:19:54 > 0:19:58He's got you in a pressure cooker, man. Graduating college at 20,
0:19:58 > 0:20:004.0, and now a captain?
0:20:00 > 0:20:03Pushing yourself mighty hard to please him.
0:20:03 > 0:20:06- Didn't I just say we can leave him out of this?- All right.
0:20:06 > 0:20:10Besides, I drink cos I got to bunk with your crazy self.
0:20:10 > 0:20:13You bunk with me cos I'm the best pilot in the whole damn Army,
0:20:13 > 0:20:15and you're just hoping you're gonna learn something.
0:20:15 > 0:20:18If I'm not mistaken, I'm the flight leader,
0:20:18 > 0:20:21- which would make you my wingman. - Smarter doesn't make you better.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23Better at what? Busting up Coffee's planes?
0:20:23 > 0:20:26Romancing the ladies, for one. Now if you're done whining,
0:20:26 > 0:20:28I have got a pass to do that very thing right now.
0:20:28 > 0:20:31- Lightning. Can I ask you something? - What?
0:20:31 > 0:20:34What's going to happen when you go home and the women speak English,
0:20:34 > 0:20:37and they understand just how full of bullshit you are?
0:20:39 > 0:20:40What's this?
0:20:40 > 0:20:44Something to celebrate you being old enough to know better.
0:20:51 > 0:20:52Ha!
0:20:52 > 0:20:55Italian for Beginners?
0:20:55 > 0:20:57How many cartons of smokes this set you back?
0:20:57 > 0:20:58A simple "thank you" wouldn't hurt.
0:20:58 > 0:21:00And a "happy birthday" would have been fine.
0:21:00 > 0:21:01Knowing you, you're just tired of me
0:21:01 > 0:21:03embarrassing myself in front of the signorinas.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05Yeah, that might be it.
0:21:07 > 0:21:08How you feel?
0:21:08 > 0:21:11A whole lot more than one year older.
0:21:11 > 0:21:14- Thank you. - Happy birthday.
0:21:14 > 0:21:16INDISTINCT CHATTER
0:21:18 > 0:21:19It's tight.
0:21:22 > 0:21:25Pilots got you all hot and bothered. Come on.
0:21:25 > 0:21:26Coffee!
0:21:26 > 0:21:28Coffee!
0:21:29 > 0:21:33We got three planes, the hydraulic pumps are shot.
0:21:33 > 0:21:34- LOUD SQUELCH - Oh!- Oh!
0:21:34 > 0:21:35Two more got bad governors.
0:21:35 > 0:21:38Grab a piece of that tape and put it over that hose.
0:21:38 > 0:21:39THEY GRUNT
0:21:41 > 0:21:43What are you doing, Lightning?
0:21:43 > 0:21:44What? What did you say?
0:21:44 > 0:21:45Come on, Lightning.
0:21:47 > 0:21:48I need it back by nightfall!
0:21:48 > 0:21:50And ask if she's got a sister!
0:21:50 > 0:21:52Yeah, a blind one!
0:22:04 > 0:22:05HE KNOCKS
0:22:12 > 0:22:14I'm sorry to bother you.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16I flew around your house this morning.
0:22:16 > 0:22:18Io non parlo inglese.
0:22:19 > 0:22:20OK.
0:22:22 > 0:22:23HE IMITATES PLANE ENGINE
0:22:27 > 0:22:28SHE SPEAKS ITALIAN
0:22:31 > 0:22:32Right, you...
0:22:32 > 0:22:34Si.
0:22:34 > 0:22:36That was me. I'm Joe.
0:22:36 > 0:22:37- Joe. - Yeah.
0:22:37 > 0:22:41- D'accordo. Sofia. - Sofia, right. Nice to meet you.
0:22:41 > 0:22:44WOMAN SPEAKS ITALIAN
0:22:46 > 0:22:49SOFIA SPEAKS ITALIAN
0:22:49 > 0:22:51- Thanks. - Mama.
0:22:51 > 0:22:53SOFIA SPEAKS ITALIAN
0:22:59 > 0:23:01Little. Joe Little.
0:23:01 > 0:23:04THEY SPEAK ITALIAN
0:23:04 > 0:23:07I hope I'm not intruding, ma'am.
0:23:07 > 0:23:08MAMA SPEAKS ITALIAN
0:23:11 > 0:23:13Thank you.
0:23:13 > 0:23:14Ah!
0:23:20 > 0:23:22Ah!
0:23:22 > 0:23:23MAMA LAUGHS
0:23:25 > 0:23:26MAMA SPEAKS ITALIAN
0:23:29 > 0:23:33Hold on. I want to ask you something.
0:23:33 > 0:23:36HE ASKS QUESTION IN ITALIAN
0:23:39 > 0:23:40SOFIA SPEAKS ITALIAN
0:23:40 > 0:23:42Yeah? You wanna...?
0:23:42 > 0:23:44How?
0:23:44 > 0:23:48Oh, how? I got a Jeep. You want to come for a drive?
0:23:48 > 0:23:49Dove?
0:23:51 > 0:23:52What's dove?
0:23:52 > 0:23:54Dove.
0:23:54 > 0:23:56Is that a yes?
0:23:56 > 0:23:58SOFIA SPEAKS ITALIAN
0:23:58 > 0:24:00MAMA GASPS
0:24:00 > 0:24:02Si!
0:24:02 > 0:24:04You want to bring your mother?
0:24:06 > 0:24:08It's going to be tougher than I thought.
0:24:08 > 0:24:11MAMA SPEAKS ITALIAN
0:24:23 > 0:24:25SMOKEY SINGS
0:24:25 > 0:24:28What you going with? I got two pair.
0:24:28 > 0:24:30- And three of clubs. - I don't care what you have,
0:24:30 > 0:24:33you'll never be able to beat me, son. You ain't got enough in the head.
0:24:33 > 0:24:36I can't lose. I don't even know why y'all try.
0:24:36 > 0:24:39You just got here, Maurice. I hope you're learning something.
0:24:39 > 0:24:40Hope at least you're learning by now
0:24:40 > 0:24:42not to play poker with people that cheat.
0:24:42 > 0:24:44I ain't cheating.
0:24:44 > 0:24:45You cheat.
0:24:45 > 0:24:47I don't want to learn how to play cards,
0:24:47 > 0:24:49I want to learn about combat flying.
0:24:49 > 0:24:52Dogfights and tricks for switching it up on them Jerries, you know?
0:24:53 > 0:24:56What the hell you think it is we know about dogfighting?
0:24:56 > 0:24:57The White boys are the only ones
0:24:57 > 0:24:59get to tangle it up with the Jerries around here.
0:24:59 > 0:25:01But they don't talk to us much, so...
0:25:01 > 0:25:06Experience is a cruel teacher. Gives the exam first, then the lesson.
0:25:06 > 0:25:07You know what?
0:25:07 > 0:25:10- I decided when I get home... - Yeah.
0:25:10 > 0:25:13...people ask me about the war, I'm going to just make stuff up.
0:25:15 > 0:25:19Hell, I already do! Ask me what I killed - seven trucks, five Jeeps,
0:25:19 > 0:25:23and one of those motorcycles with the sidecar on them.
0:25:23 > 0:25:26My record look like the inventory down at the motor pool.
0:25:26 > 0:25:28How the hell am I gonna go back home and tell my dad
0:25:28 > 0:25:29all I killed were traffic?
0:25:29 > 0:25:32He'll whup my ass!
0:25:32 > 0:25:33What's that?
0:25:33 > 0:25:35It's my Buck Rogers X-38 disintegrator pistol.
0:25:36 > 0:25:40Makes me feel like...you know,
0:25:40 > 0:25:42like I can't lose.
0:25:42 > 0:25:44- Here, try it. - No. No, thanks, Junior.
0:25:44 > 0:25:49I don't really like to fool with other people's good luck charms.
0:25:49 > 0:25:51What's the matter?
0:25:51 > 0:25:52Nothing.
0:25:54 > 0:25:57Look, I don't like being called Junior.
0:25:57 > 0:26:00I want the tag Ray Gun. I'm not a kid.
0:26:00 > 0:26:01I did two years at Howard
0:26:01 > 0:26:05before I even enrolled in the Tuskegee programme.
0:26:05 > 0:26:06HE SIGHS
0:26:06 > 0:26:09I'm going to be an engineer.
0:26:09 > 0:26:10What about you?
0:26:10 > 0:26:14Well, my dad's a judge.
0:26:14 > 0:26:17He wants me to go to law school, so I guess I'm gonna do that.
0:26:17 > 0:26:20You ought to just give it up! Go back to where you came from.
0:26:20 > 0:26:22I'd rather be up there killing Jerries
0:26:22 > 0:26:24than down here playing games with you, Joker.
0:26:24 > 0:26:28Look, don't be in a hurry to get to the killing part, Maurice.
0:26:28 > 0:26:30Tell me something. You scared of dying?
0:26:33 > 0:26:34I don't know.
0:26:36 > 0:26:37I am.
0:26:40 > 0:26:42Every time I close the lid on that canopy,
0:26:42 > 0:26:45I feel like I'm shutting the lid on my own coffin.
0:26:46 > 0:26:47I tell you something else,
0:26:47 > 0:26:51the pilot that tells you otherwise is either a liar
0:26:51 > 0:26:53or too foolish to know any better.
0:26:54 > 0:26:55Amen.
0:26:56 > 0:27:02It's useless. All this talk for another study, another inquiry.
0:27:02 > 0:27:05"Politics is the art of..."
0:27:05 > 0:27:08Major Kessel's political science class, the quote that he used...
0:27:08 > 0:27:11He said, "Politics is the art of postponing a decision
0:27:11 > 0:27:12"until it is..."
0:27:12 > 0:27:14"..no longer relevant."
0:27:17 > 0:27:19Colonel Mortamus stumbled badly.
0:27:19 > 0:27:24If he hadn't embarrassed the brass by leaking that report to the press,
0:27:24 > 0:27:26they probably would have let you wither and die.
0:27:26 > 0:27:29His politicking bought you time.
0:27:30 > 0:27:32For what?
0:27:32 > 0:27:34Operation Shingle.
0:27:34 > 0:27:36Air cover for a beach landing.
0:27:36 > 0:27:40It's your chance to go up against German fighters.
0:27:41 > 0:27:42I'll say this, Jack...
0:27:43 > 0:27:47..even when your hope is false, it sure is grand.
0:27:47 > 0:27:50I'm serious, AJ. I can get that for you.
0:27:52 > 0:27:53If you stick your neck out how far?
0:27:56 > 0:28:00I don't want you to put your career on the line for me, Jack.
0:28:00 > 0:28:04A little less tin on my uniform is the least of it.
0:28:04 > 0:28:06If I get you the mission,
0:28:06 > 0:28:08your men have got to put something on the board.
0:28:08 > 0:28:10They come through or Mortamus and the brass
0:28:10 > 0:28:15will have all they need to shut the whole thing down.
0:28:15 > 0:28:17You get us that mission,
0:28:17 > 0:28:19we will light up the board.
0:28:26 > 0:28:28Has this flight order been verified?
0:28:28 > 0:28:32Yes, sir. It came directly from Colonel Bullard in Washington.
0:28:32 > 0:28:35Check it again. Get the flight leaders together.
0:28:35 > 0:28:36Sir.
0:28:38 > 0:28:42The Colonel got us an opportunity. Gather around, gentlemen.
0:28:42 > 0:28:44Attacking another train, sir?
0:28:44 > 0:28:48Or did we graduate to minding a truck convoy this time?
0:28:48 > 0:28:50Operation Shingle.
0:28:51 > 0:28:52It's an ambitious landing
0:28:52 > 0:28:55off the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea at Nettuno.
0:28:58 > 0:29:01We've been given the frag order to provide air cover for the landing.
0:29:01 > 0:29:02- CHEERING - Yeah!
0:29:02 > 0:29:03Whoo!
0:29:04 > 0:29:07I'm gonna have so many of those little swastikas on my plane,
0:29:07 > 0:29:08they're gonna think it's camouflage.
0:29:08 > 0:29:11We will repay the old man with victory, hear me?
0:29:11 > 0:29:12ALL: Yes, sir!
0:29:12 > 0:29:16Full briefing at 0400. On the flight line at 0530.
0:29:16 > 0:29:17Good luck, gentlemen.
0:29:29 > 0:29:32Junior, where you at, boy? You're gonna miss the flight.
0:29:32 > 0:29:33'I know I'm late. I'm coming.'
0:29:33 > 0:29:36We're a long way from Memphis, but Black Jesus is here with me,
0:29:36 > 0:29:38and he says it's gonna be a successful mission.
0:29:38 > 0:29:41Now does that mean we're gonna shoot down a bunch of Jerries,
0:29:41 > 0:29:42or we gonna come back in one piece,
0:29:42 > 0:29:46or Lightning gonna pick up some girls along the way?
0:29:46 > 0:29:51No more pick-ups for me, boys. I swear to you, I am in love.
0:29:51 > 0:29:54Love? Swearing? Both bad luck in my book.
0:29:57 > 0:30:00- JUNIOR:- 'I can't believe I made it. Don't tell Easy I was late.'
0:30:06 > 0:30:09- They all set? - All ready, sir!
0:30:09 > 0:30:10Send them off.
0:30:26 > 0:30:27Yeah!
0:30:30 > 0:30:33Hallelujah. The saints are marching in!
0:30:33 > 0:30:34SMOKEY CHUCKLES
0:30:51 > 0:30:53Watch me become an ace today, boys.
0:30:53 > 0:30:56Lightning, did you just say you're gonna become an ass today,
0:30:56 > 0:30:58or an ace? I couldn't quite hear what you...
0:30:58 > 0:31:00'Was it ass or ace? I couldn't hear.'
0:31:00 > 0:31:02I think you heard him right, Smokey.
0:31:02 > 0:31:04All right, men, cut the chatter.
0:31:16 > 0:31:20Jesus. Would you look at that!
0:31:20 > 0:31:23DULL THUD OF NAVAL GUNS
0:31:23 > 0:31:26Oh, my goodness. Just like in the newsreels.
0:31:33 > 0:31:35INDISTINCT SHOUTING
0:31:45 > 0:31:47Keep your eyes peeled for the Jerries.
0:32:01 > 0:32:02Bogies inbound, 12 o'clock.
0:32:02 > 0:32:05And they're closing in mighty fast!
0:32:08 > 0:32:10TRANSLATION FROM GERMAN:
0:32:12 > 0:32:14All planes, hold formation.
0:32:22 > 0:32:24Hold on.
0:32:24 > 0:32:25Come on, come on, come on.
0:32:30 > 0:32:31Any time, Red One.
0:32:35 > 0:32:36Drop tanks!
0:32:42 > 0:32:44Oh, shit!
0:32:45 > 0:32:47'I'm shaking them! There's two more!'
0:32:47 > 0:32:49Yes. They're cutting left!
0:32:49 > 0:32:51'Put a little hitch in his giddy-up!'
0:32:51 > 0:32:52'I'm feeling good now!'
0:32:52 > 0:32:54'Remember, keep the beachhead clear.'
0:32:54 > 0:32:56'It's clear'.
0:32:56 > 0:32:58'Straighten up over there, Junior.'
0:32:59 > 0:33:01Let's go, Lightning. I'm on one.
0:33:01 > 0:33:03'I'm behind you. Break right!'
0:33:03 > 0:33:04I got him. I got him.
0:33:04 > 0:33:07Get on the inside, Easy! Get on the inside.
0:33:16 > 0:33:18Come on, slip just a little.
0:33:21 > 0:33:23Come on, tighter, tighter.
0:33:23 > 0:33:24GUNFIRE
0:33:29 > 0:33:31HE LAUGHS
0:33:31 > 0:33:32Congratulations, Captain.
0:33:32 > 0:33:36You are the first Negro to shoot down a Jerry! Whoo!
0:33:36 > 0:33:37Ha-ha!
0:33:39 > 0:33:42Junior! Straight ahead now.
0:33:42 > 0:33:44There's my swastika.
0:33:44 > 0:33:46I'm on your wing.
0:33:50 > 0:33:52Come on, baby, just move a little bit closer.
0:33:52 > 0:33:54All I want is a little bitty kiss.
0:33:54 > 0:33:56Just give me a little peck on the cheek. Yeah!
0:33:56 > 0:33:57Mwah!
0:33:58 > 0:34:00Good shot.
0:34:04 > 0:34:05HE CHUCKLES
0:34:05 > 0:34:06BULLETS CLATTER
0:34:08 > 0:34:09Oh, hell.
0:34:17 > 0:34:18Joker, there's one on my tail!
0:34:18 > 0:34:22OK, listen, Junior. Buttonhook right, and I'm gonna go left.
0:34:22 > 0:34:23Come on.
0:34:23 > 0:34:25GUNFIRE
0:34:33 > 0:34:34No touchdown for you today, Fritz.
0:34:41 > 0:34:43PILOT SCREAMS
0:34:43 > 0:34:45Junior, you're all clear, buddy.
0:34:47 > 0:34:48Deke, on your right!
0:34:48 > 0:34:49I see him.
0:34:55 > 0:34:58Let's give those newspapers something to write about.
0:35:03 > 0:35:04Tennessee says hello!
0:35:15 > 0:35:17There's the squad leader. I'm gonna take him out.
0:35:20 > 0:35:21Careful. He's good.
0:35:21 > 0:35:22GUNFIRE
0:35:24 > 0:35:26You're letting him get away, Lightning!
0:35:26 > 0:35:28I'm just toying with him.
0:35:28 > 0:35:31This is for you, Pretty Boy, with your bright yellow nose!
0:35:31 > 0:35:33Come on, boy. Line it up. One shot.
0:35:41 > 0:35:42Holy crap!
0:35:44 > 0:35:46How'd he do that?
0:35:46 > 0:35:48- 'Get him off me!' - I'm on him.
0:35:48 > 0:35:49- 'Get him off me!' - Get out of the way, Lightning!
0:35:49 > 0:35:51Open your throttle.
0:35:53 > 0:35:56Come on, man! Take him out!
0:35:56 > 0:35:58'I can't get a clear shot. Hold on.'
0:36:00 > 0:36:01Drop to your right.
0:36:05 > 0:36:06All right! I got him.
0:36:06 > 0:36:08Oh! Thank you, Lord.
0:36:10 > 0:36:13And there I was thinking you didn't love me any more.
0:36:13 > 0:36:14He's headed home to mama.
0:36:18 > 0:36:20You thinking what I'm thinking?
0:36:20 > 0:36:21'If you're thinking I should finish him off'
0:36:21 > 0:36:24'so we can get back to the beachhead, yes.'
0:36:24 > 0:36:26Or we could follow him.
0:36:26 > 0:36:27We could go after their airdrome.
0:36:29 > 0:36:32I don't know, Lightning. We got orders. You know that.
0:36:32 > 0:36:34Come on, Easy. I'm talking about a Jerry airbase.
0:36:34 > 0:36:37Dozens of planes! You're saying no?
0:36:37 > 0:36:40All right. I'll trust your instincts this time.
0:36:40 > 0:36:42But we're running low on fuel. We're gonna follow for five minutes.
0:36:42 > 0:36:44You got that? Five minutes.
0:36:44 > 0:36:46HE LAUGHS
0:36:46 > 0:36:48Joker, you back there?
0:36:49 > 0:36:51We're still back here.
0:36:51 > 0:36:53Junior?
0:36:53 > 0:36:54I'm ready for a turkey shoot.
0:37:05 > 0:37:07Achtung! Mayday! Mayday!
0:37:08 > 0:37:10SIRENS WAIL, SHOUTING OVER TANNOY
0:37:13 > 0:37:15OFFICER SHOUTS IN GERMAN
0:37:16 > 0:37:17ENGINES TURN OVER
0:37:19 > 0:37:22There it is, boys. Get your scorecards ready.
0:37:52 > 0:37:54Gotta knock out those fighters before they take off.
0:37:54 > 0:37:56Got to take those guns out first.
0:37:56 > 0:37:57THUD OF FLAK GUNS
0:37:57 > 0:37:59SHOUTING IN GERMAN
0:38:07 > 0:38:08GUNFIRE
0:38:12 > 0:38:13Everybody, form up.
0:38:17 > 0:38:19Here we go!
0:38:19 > 0:38:20Brand-new 109s.
0:38:34 > 0:38:36Not-so-brand-new 109s.
0:38:36 > 0:38:37HE LAUGHS
0:38:37 > 0:38:40Whoo! Like ducks in a row.
0:38:43 > 0:38:44Argh!
0:38:57 > 0:38:59All right. Two at once!
0:39:06 > 0:39:08That's nothing. Watch me get four this time.
0:39:13 > 0:39:14SCREAMING
0:39:39 > 0:39:41Touchdown!
0:39:41 > 0:39:42'We're running low on fuel.'
0:39:42 > 0:39:44No time for celebration.
0:39:50 > 0:39:51Whoo!
0:39:51 > 0:39:53The Ray Gun strikes again.
0:39:53 > 0:39:54Junior, watch out for that flak!
0:39:54 > 0:39:57FLAK GUN THUDS
0:39:57 > 0:39:58Ugh!
0:39:58 > 0:40:00ENGINE SPUTTERS
0:40:01 > 0:40:02HE GROANS
0:40:07 > 0:40:08Good job, Lightning.
0:40:11 > 0:40:14'Washington brass won't be able to ignore this.'
0:40:44 > 0:40:46Hey! What happened to Junior?
0:40:46 > 0:40:47There he is.
0:40:47 > 0:40:50Three o'clock high. He's trailing oil.
0:40:50 > 0:40:52Red One to Red Three. Junior, come in.
0:40:54 > 0:40:56I took something in the leg.
0:40:56 > 0:40:58Something in my head.
0:40:59 > 0:41:03Level off, Junior, or you're gonna stall out.
0:41:03 > 0:41:04All right.
0:41:08 > 0:41:09BIRDS CHIRP
0:41:16 > 0:41:17DISTANT ENGINES
0:41:32 > 0:41:33Oh, yeah!
0:41:35 > 0:41:36CHEERING
0:41:42 > 0:41:44Yeah!
0:41:44 > 0:41:45Yeah!
0:41:48 > 0:41:49Yes!
0:41:54 > 0:41:55HE SIGHS
0:42:08 > 0:42:09Whoa!
0:42:10 > 0:42:13They done shot down the whole Luftwaffe, didn't they?
0:42:13 > 0:42:15Yes, they did, huh? Those hotshots sure did.
0:42:15 > 0:42:17HE WHISTLES
0:42:22 > 0:42:23Never doubted it.
0:42:26 > 0:42:28Did I make it?
0:42:29 > 0:42:31Yeah, you made it, damn knucklehead. Should have let you crash.
0:42:31 > 0:42:33You'll be OK.
0:42:36 > 0:42:38No surprises, Ray Gun. You get healthy, all right?
0:42:38 > 0:42:40Luck is with you, Ray!
0:42:48 > 0:42:52I think we can cautiously declare the landing a victory.
0:42:52 > 0:42:57It's a slog, but the ground troops are holding. Colonel Bullard.
0:42:57 > 0:42:58Sir.
0:42:58 > 0:43:01Your boys chalked eight kills in the air,
0:43:01 > 0:43:0363 aircraft destroyed on the ground.
0:43:03 > 0:43:04No losses in their first wave.
0:43:04 > 0:43:07Outstanding. Pass along my congratulations.
0:43:07 > 0:43:09Thank you, sir.
0:43:09 > 0:43:12Action reports and assessments by 1500.
0:43:17 > 0:43:18Colonel.
0:43:20 > 0:43:21Eight German fighters
0:43:21 > 0:43:23or 80 German fighters,
0:43:23 > 0:43:27it still doesn't change what I think of you and your boys.
0:43:27 > 0:43:28We don't care.
0:43:31 > 0:43:33Respect the uniform.
0:43:36 > 0:43:39Believe me, sir, that is all I have respect for.
0:43:48 > 0:43:50It's not as bad as all this.
0:43:50 > 0:43:54Leg's good, eye's fine. In a week's time,
0:43:54 > 0:43:58I'll be able to see fine out of one eye and mostly out of the other.
0:43:58 > 0:43:59Mostly?
0:44:00 > 0:44:02Is that what you want me to tell Stance?
0:44:02 > 0:44:04"Sir, Ray Gun has one and a half eyes' worth of ability."
0:44:06 > 0:44:10Look, come on. I landed a plane blind.
0:44:10 > 0:44:14- Lightning... - Hey, don't get me in this.
0:44:14 > 0:44:16If the flight surgeon won't clean-bill you,
0:44:16 > 0:44:18what do you expect me to do?
0:44:18 > 0:44:21Just talk to him. He listens to you.
0:44:22 > 0:44:28I mean, you got the same respect on this base as the old man, so...
0:44:38 > 0:44:40I'd rather be dead than on the ground.
0:44:43 > 0:44:45Easy, you're the best friend I got.
0:44:45 > 0:44:47Please don't do this to me.
0:44:50 > 0:44:52General Luntz, Colonel Bullard.
0:44:52 > 0:44:54Thank you, Lieutenant.
0:44:59 > 0:45:01- Colonel, please. - Thank you.
0:45:02 > 0:45:05No, thank you, sir.
0:45:05 > 0:45:07Colonel, I'm in a hell of a fix with our target in Europe.
0:45:07 > 0:45:10Our boys are getting cut to shreds.
0:45:11 > 0:45:14I read the action report from Operation Shingle.
0:45:16 > 0:45:19Eight kills in your first wave.
0:45:19 > 0:45:2013 in all.
0:45:20 > 0:45:23That's a right trick.
0:45:23 > 0:45:26Colonel, I'll give it to you straight.
0:45:26 > 0:45:29I can't afford the kind of losses my bombers have been suffering.
0:45:29 > 0:45:32Do you have film of the air cover your bombers are getting now, sir?
0:45:36 > 0:45:38We need to change the way we fight.
0:45:39 > 0:45:44I need pilots who will fly close and tight to the heavies all the way.
0:45:45 > 0:45:48Not put my men in harm's way by chasing rabbits.
0:45:48 > 0:45:52So you're asking me to tell my men not to shoot down Jerry fighters?
0:45:52 > 0:45:55I'm asking them to put the bombers ahead of themselves.
0:45:55 > 0:45:58I don't care if they never splash another Jerry fighter.
0:45:58 > 0:46:01I need to get my heavies to the target and back.
0:46:01 > 0:46:04The losses from enemy air, I believe my men can get that down, sir.
0:46:05 > 0:46:09If you can bring back one or two more of my planes every mission...
0:46:09 > 0:46:13Sir, I believe we can cut your losses by 70% or 80%.
0:46:14 > 0:46:16Colonel, the word is you're arrogant.
0:46:17 > 0:46:21If "arrogant" is the only word people use to describe me now,
0:46:21 > 0:46:24I would say I think I'm making progress.
0:46:24 > 0:46:25HE CHUCKLES
0:46:37 > 0:46:40Can you help us? I'm asking you man to man.
0:46:40 > 0:46:42Can you help save lives?
0:46:42 > 0:46:45We need new planes.
0:46:45 > 0:46:46No more hand-me-downs.
0:46:47 > 0:46:50If you get us new planes,
0:46:50 > 0:46:52we can help your boys.
0:46:56 > 0:47:00I got a bullet right through my canopy. I ought to be dead, y'all.
0:47:00 > 0:47:03But nothing happened to me though. It's Black Jesus, I'm telling you.
0:47:03 > 0:47:06Oh, go on with that. Let's play.
0:47:06 > 0:47:08Don't sass Black Jesus, now you might need him one day.
0:47:08 > 0:47:11What happened to you is luck. Just luck.
0:47:11 > 0:47:13Lords of Poker,
0:47:13 > 0:47:15Black Jesus, White Jesus,
0:47:15 > 0:47:18Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, all of them!
0:47:18 > 0:47:21I done lost all my damn money. Something is wrong.
0:47:21 > 0:47:22Ain't that right.
0:47:22 > 0:47:25How about you just get wise?
0:47:25 > 0:47:27There is no special mojo running the world.
0:47:27 > 0:47:29Things just are how they are.
0:47:29 > 0:47:31Us getting shot up and the people
0:47:31 > 0:47:33we're protecting not caring a thing for it.
0:47:33 > 0:47:34I hear that.
0:47:34 > 0:47:37You talk real tough, Joe Little. Real cold.
0:47:37 > 0:47:39Well, reality's a little chilly.
0:47:39 > 0:47:40- Is that right? - Let's play!
0:47:40 > 0:47:42Let me tell you about this cold, hard brother.
0:47:42 > 0:47:45While y'all trying to get by with your whiskey and cigarettes,
0:47:45 > 0:47:48- guess what he's doing with his rations?- What's that?- What he doing?
0:47:48 > 0:47:50Trading them all for lingerie to spoil his old lady.
0:47:50 > 0:47:51Oh, really?
0:47:51 > 0:47:52- Perfume, silks.- Aw!
0:47:52 > 0:47:55That tease!
0:47:55 > 0:47:59Yeah, well, lucky in love and lucky at cards.
0:47:59 > 0:48:02Right...like...that. Boom!
0:48:23 > 0:48:27Man, you are so beautiful.
0:48:31 > 0:48:35Of course, you have no idea what I'm saying.
0:48:35 > 0:48:36Sei molto bello.
0:48:39 > 0:48:42Non hai idea di quello che sto dicendo, vero?
0:48:45 > 0:48:46I...
0:49:12 > 0:49:14I love you.
0:49:16 > 0:49:17Oh, uh...
0:49:18 > 0:49:20Wow, that's...
0:49:21 > 0:49:22Uh...
0:49:24 > 0:49:25- Uh...- Sh!
0:49:34 > 0:49:35CHATTER AND MUSIC
0:49:43 > 0:49:44PIANO PLAYS
0:49:47 > 0:49:48MUSIC AND CHAT STOP
0:49:53 > 0:49:56What are you doing here? This is an officers' club.
0:49:56 > 0:49:58I am an officer.
0:49:58 > 0:50:02This is a Whites-only officers' club.
0:50:02 > 0:50:04You're off the reservation, pal.
0:50:06 > 0:50:10Try the Italian dance hall near the main plaza.
0:50:10 > 0:50:13Hey. Go home, nigger.
0:50:14 > 0:50:16I got what I came for. Good night.
0:50:32 > 0:50:34CROWD ERUPTS
0:50:46 > 0:50:48Am I going to be court-martialled?
0:50:50 > 0:50:52I don't know.
0:50:52 > 0:50:54I'm sure you trying to start a race riot won't help you...
0:50:54 > 0:50:56I was finishing what they started!
0:50:56 > 0:50:57Wrong or right, we got regs to live by.
0:50:57 > 0:50:59And you throwing punches, busting them up, gets you what?
0:50:59 > 0:51:02A good feeling, Easy. Right here.
0:51:02 > 0:51:05A throb that says I didn't choke on what they were feeding me.
0:51:05 > 0:51:07- How do your heart feel?- You say "they" like it's all of them.
0:51:07 > 0:51:10Same as always. "Shuffle along, cause no strife.
0:51:10 > 0:51:12"Don't scare the ofays by speaking out."
0:51:16 > 0:51:17Some other time I'd have stood
0:51:17 > 0:51:19- with you, side by side. - Some other time?
0:51:19 > 0:51:21But you put a minute's worth of righteousness ahead of a whole war!
0:51:21 > 0:51:22Ugh!
0:51:22 > 0:51:24Same old Joe Little.
0:51:24 > 0:51:27Still getting into the wrong fights for the wrong reasons.
0:51:27 > 0:51:29Your reasons any better?
0:51:32 > 0:51:36You spent your whole life being one big, lousy Atlanta Compromise.
0:51:36 > 0:51:39Well, go sell that somewhere else. I'm not buying it.
0:52:25 > 0:52:26I've come bearing gifts.
0:52:26 > 0:52:29I'm all ears, sir.
0:52:29 > 0:52:31Bomber escort. New P-51s.
0:52:31 > 0:52:34You did it. You really did it, sir.
0:52:34 > 0:52:36- Come on. Let's get some food. I'm hungry.- Welcome home, Colonel.
0:52:36 > 0:52:38SHOUTING AND CHATTER
0:53:03 > 0:53:06Lieutenant Little. What am I going to do with you?
0:53:09 > 0:53:12Everything's a fight, isn't it?
0:53:12 > 0:53:15It must be so goddamn exhausting being you.
0:53:18 > 0:53:21You know something, Joe Little?
0:53:21 > 0:53:22You're a punk.
0:53:26 > 0:53:28You remind me...
0:53:29 > 0:53:32..of one of those kids from a comic strip.
0:53:33 > 0:53:35Walking around...
0:53:36 > 0:53:39..pushing his sleeve up one arm...
0:53:40 > 0:53:42..hand balled in a tight fist...
0:53:44 > 0:53:47..walking and looking at the world through a squint.
0:53:48 > 0:53:53Always looking to knock something down just because it's standing.
0:53:56 > 0:53:58It's right there.
0:54:02 > 0:54:04It's right there.
0:54:04 > 0:54:07You really want to knock something down?
0:54:09 > 0:54:10Try using that.
0:54:14 > 0:54:19Because I will tell you straight, I don't have anything against you.
0:54:19 > 0:54:23I have the highest expectations for you.
0:54:32 > 0:54:35Lieutenant Little,
0:54:35 > 0:54:37I need everyone on this next mission.
0:54:37 > 0:54:41And you're lucky you're the best damn pilot we've got.
0:54:41 > 0:54:43Report to your unit.
0:54:44 > 0:54:46# Bless you
0:54:46 > 0:54:49# For being an angel
0:54:51 > 0:54:54# Just when it seemed
0:54:54 > 0:54:58# That heaven was not for me
0:54:59 > 0:55:03# Bless you, for building... #
0:55:10 > 0:55:11They let you out, huh?
0:55:13 > 0:55:14Or did you bust out?
0:55:14 > 0:55:15Very funny.
0:55:18 > 0:55:19Look...
0:55:21 > 0:55:22..I said some things.
0:55:22 > 0:55:24Yeah, you did.
0:55:26 > 0:55:28I didn't mean them.
0:55:28 > 0:55:29Yeah, you did.
0:55:31 > 0:55:34You know me. Act first, think later.
0:55:36 > 0:55:38Well, nobody's perfect.
0:55:40 > 0:55:41We good?
0:55:43 > 0:55:44Yeah, we're good.
0:55:50 > 0:55:51HE SIGHS
0:55:54 > 0:55:57I figured it out.
0:55:57 > 0:56:00What? That throwing punches doesn't solve your problems?
0:56:00 > 0:56:01No.
0:56:02 > 0:56:05That manoeuvre Pretty Boy pulled on me, got on my tail,
0:56:05 > 0:56:07I figured out how to do it.
0:56:09 > 0:56:11Fancy trick flying will only get you killed.
0:56:11 > 0:56:13Or make me an ace.
0:56:18 > 0:56:23The American pilots flying escort now go for every kill they can score.
0:56:23 > 0:56:27That's how they were trained. That's how they fight.
0:56:28 > 0:56:31Here's how we change up the strategy. Lights up.
0:56:32 > 0:56:35At all costs, under every circumstance,
0:56:35 > 0:56:37you protect the heavies.
0:56:37 > 0:56:38Colonel.
0:56:40 > 0:56:43We signed up to shoot Germans, not babysit planes.
0:56:43 > 0:56:47You signed up to follow orders.
0:56:47 > 0:56:49One bomber, that's ten men.
0:56:49 > 0:56:54You getting one Jerry so you can put a cross on your plane,
0:56:54 > 0:56:56that doesn't balance that.
0:56:57 > 0:56:58We count our victories
0:56:58 > 0:57:02by the bombers we get to their targets.
0:57:02 > 0:57:05By the husbands we return to their wives.
0:57:06 > 0:57:10By the fathers we get back to their children.
0:57:10 > 0:57:13What has not changed, what will never change,
0:57:13 > 0:57:17from the last plane, to the last bullet, to the last minute,
0:57:17 > 0:57:19to the last man, we fight.
0:57:21 > 0:57:22We fight!
0:57:22 > 0:57:23ALL: Yes, sir!
0:57:31 > 0:57:34We've secured new aircrafts. P-51s.
0:57:34 > 0:57:35EXCITED CHATTER
0:57:35 > 0:57:37The best the AAF's got.
0:57:37 > 0:57:41As soon as we get the A-OK, we'll begin ferrying them in from Bari.
0:57:43 > 0:57:45Dismissed.
0:57:45 > 0:57:46Yahoo!
0:57:59 > 0:58:00Say cheese, say cheese.
0:58:01 > 0:58:04Woohoo! My, my, my!
0:58:04 > 0:58:06Hey, Maurice! How are they flying?
0:58:08 > 0:58:09Like angels.
0:58:09 > 0:58:12I don't know any angels with six .50-calibre machine guns.
0:58:12 > 0:58:15All right, men, get your manuals. Get familiar.
0:58:15 > 0:58:16- Coffee!- Yes, sir.
0:58:16 > 0:58:19We'll need them all marked up and ready to fly.
0:58:19 > 0:58:21It's taken care of.
0:58:21 > 0:58:24The Major says paint their tails bright red, so they stand out.
0:58:24 > 0:58:26Like the Red Baron.
0:58:26 > 0:58:28- Loud and proud.- Appreciate it.
0:58:32 > 0:58:33Beautiful.
0:58:33 > 0:58:34EXCITED CHATTER
0:58:39 > 0:58:43# Blue skies smiling at me
0:58:43 > 0:58:48# Nothing but blue skies do I see. #
0:58:48 > 0:58:51This will definitely make the group distinctive.
0:58:52 > 0:58:55Bright red tails and Black pilots?
0:58:55 > 0:58:58You can't call us nothing else but distinctive.
0:59:00 > 0:59:02# From now on
0:59:04 > 0:59:07# Never saw the sun shining so bright
0:59:07 > 0:59:11# Never saw things going so right... #
0:59:11 > 0:59:12What do you think?
0:59:12 > 0:59:15It's like it's speeding even when it's sitting.
0:59:17 > 0:59:21I never even met a girl as beautiful as this plane.
0:59:21 > 0:59:22Well, take good care of her.
0:59:23 > 0:59:25What do you mean?
0:59:25 > 0:59:27I twisted the flight surgeon's arm.
0:59:27 > 0:59:33Got you back on the roster. You going up with us next mission.
0:59:33 > 0:59:34JUNIOR LAUGHS
0:59:36 > 0:59:37Uh...
0:59:37 > 0:59:39Sorry. Thank you, sir.
0:59:39 > 0:59:41I'm going to tell the guys.
1:00:12 > 1:00:15Heavenly Father, we thank you for this glorious day.
1:00:15 > 1:00:18We ask that you send your angels down to surround us
1:00:18 > 1:00:20as we fly through the sky.
1:00:20 > 1:00:22We know that it's part of your master plan
1:00:22 > 1:00:26that we've made it all the way from Tuskegee here to Ramitelli.
1:00:26 > 1:00:28We are very confident in our abilities,
1:00:28 > 1:00:32but we ask that you give us the vision, the sight,
1:00:32 > 1:00:34and the speed and power to make it through this mission.
1:00:34 > 1:00:38All the airmen say, "In Jesus' name we pray." Amen.
1:00:38 > 1:00:39- ALL:- Amen.
1:00:39 > 1:00:41Nothing's difficult! ALL: Everything's a challenge.
1:00:41 > 1:00:43- Through adversity... ALL:- ..to the stars!
1:00:43 > 1:00:45From the last plane, to the last bullet,
1:00:45 > 1:00:46to the last minute, to the last man, we fight!
1:00:46 > 1:00:49- ALL:- We fight!- We fight! - We fight!- We fight!- We fight!
1:01:55 > 1:01:56GUNSHOT
1:02:44 > 1:02:47Anybody got eyes on the bombers?
1:02:47 > 1:02:48Uh...
1:02:48 > 1:02:52We are all by our lonesome, Red One. Think we screwed up.
1:02:52 > 1:02:56Right on target, and according to my reckoning, 32 seconds early.
1:02:56 > 1:02:58We're here. They're not.
1:02:58 > 1:03:00Maybe the bombers turned back.
1:03:00 > 1:03:02Damn! Maybe they went on without us.
1:03:05 > 1:03:07Red One, there they are.
1:03:07 > 1:03:08Nine o'clock low.
1:03:12 > 1:03:15Junior, head on over to the bomber leader.
1:03:15 > 1:03:18- 'Let him know we're friendlies.' - Roger that.
1:03:23 > 1:03:24Bogies! Three high.
1:03:24 > 1:03:26'Everybody, on your guns.'
1:03:26 > 1:03:29'Counting close to 70 chicks. We got one coming down.'
1:03:32 > 1:03:34Hold your fire. They're ours.
1:03:34 > 1:03:38Red tails? I don't recognise the markings.
1:03:38 > 1:03:39He's Coloured.
1:03:39 > 1:03:41Yeah, right.
1:03:41 > 1:03:43Hell if I'm joking! Look.
1:03:45 > 1:03:47Jesus Christ. They can't all be Coloured.
1:03:47 > 1:03:50One fighter group of all Negro pilots? I don't believe it!
1:03:52 > 1:03:54What the hell do we do?
1:03:54 > 1:03:57Tacoma One to all planes. Everybody's eyes open.
1:03:57 > 1:04:00'I don't think our fighter escort is gonna be much help this trip.'
1:04:22 > 1:04:24Fighters, four o'clock.
1:04:24 > 1:04:26They're not attacking. Let them go.
1:04:26 > 1:04:27Let them go?
1:04:27 > 1:04:30Our orders are to stay with the bombers.
1:04:30 > 1:04:32Uh. What? What? You're breaking up.
1:04:32 > 1:04:36You heard Colonel Bullard. Forget the prize, save the lives.
1:04:36 > 1:04:38God, I hate this war.
1:04:40 > 1:04:43Look at that. Those Red Tails are staying put.
1:04:43 > 1:04:46They're giving up glory to save our asses.
1:04:56 > 1:04:57Here we go, Lightning.
1:04:57 > 1:04:58Right behind you.
1:05:04 > 1:05:06Where did this jackass come from?
1:05:14 > 1:05:17Get out of there, Lightning! Come on, get out of there!
1:05:17 > 1:05:20Don't you worry about me. I'm just playing with him.
1:05:20 > 1:05:23Stop fooling around! Damn it, I'm coming.
1:05:23 > 1:05:24'No, you're not. Stay put.'
1:05:28 > 1:05:30I'm gonna show him a little trick I learned.
1:05:38 > 1:05:40Whoo! Ha-ha!
1:05:40 > 1:05:44Lightning, when are you gonna learn this is not a game?
1:05:47 > 1:05:49Coming up on anti-aircraft guns.
1:06:03 > 1:06:05Those Jerries are hightailing it out of here.
1:06:05 > 1:06:07Flak's getting thick.
1:06:07 > 1:06:10Break off. Circle clear of the flak until the bombers return.
1:06:13 > 1:06:14Good luck, bombardiers!
1:06:24 > 1:06:25BOMBS WHISTLE
1:06:32 > 1:06:35All bombs away! Let's get the hell out of here.
1:06:37 > 1:06:39Here they come. Form up.
1:06:49 > 1:06:52Hey, Junior! You got a bandit on your left! Get out of there.
1:06:52 > 1:06:53I'll take him.
1:06:53 > 1:06:55'Junior, get out of there!'
1:06:55 > 1:06:56Where is he? I can't see him!
1:07:00 > 1:07:01Ah!
1:07:03 > 1:07:05Junior, where are you? Are you all right?
1:07:05 > 1:07:07I'm all right! I'm all right!
1:07:07 > 1:07:09Junior, you're on fire!
1:07:09 > 1:07:11Junior, get out of the plane!
1:07:11 > 1:07:12Junior!
1:07:16 > 1:07:17Come on, Junior, bail!
1:07:23 > 1:07:24Geronimo!
1:07:37 > 1:07:38INDISTINCT SHOUTING
1:07:52 > 1:07:54We didn't lose a single plane.
1:07:54 > 1:07:56Well, that's a first.
1:07:59 > 1:08:01Red One, Deke's trailing fuel!
1:08:01 > 1:08:03Don't look good.
1:08:04 > 1:08:07Deke, talk to me. What's your status?
1:08:07 > 1:08:08I'm all right.
1:08:08 > 1:08:12I got gas spraying everywhere, but I think I'm gonna be OK.
1:08:12 > 1:08:16I'm a little dizzy, but other than that, I'm fine.
1:08:16 > 1:08:19All right, listen up.
1:08:19 > 1:08:22I'll give escort to Deke. Everybody else head back to base.
1:08:22 > 1:08:24No, I'll stay. I'm his wingman. I'll stay.
1:08:24 > 1:08:27Let me take him, Easy. God, I hate this mask!
1:08:27 > 1:08:29It's my call, Lightning.
1:08:29 > 1:08:31Your calls have been a little off lately.
1:08:31 > 1:08:33What? What are you talking about?
1:08:33 > 1:08:36Junior shouldn't have been up here.
1:08:36 > 1:08:38You got a problem with the way I'm running this squad,
1:08:38 > 1:08:40you talk to Bullard about it, all right?
1:08:40 > 1:08:42Until then, I'm in control.
1:08:42 > 1:08:44And my order for you right now is to head back to base.
1:08:46 > 1:08:48Damn!
1:08:48 > 1:08:50All right, Deke, you'll be all right.
1:08:50 > 1:08:53I'll see you back at the ranch. You got Black Jesus with you, boy!
1:08:53 > 1:08:55Thanks, Smokey.
1:09:02 > 1:09:05Well, get me home, Easy.
1:09:05 > 1:09:07No, sir. You're going to get yourself home.
1:09:11 > 1:09:13What the hell put the Captain in such a bad mood?
1:09:13 > 1:09:15He gets like that sometimes.
1:09:15 > 1:09:18He knows good and well he shouldn't have let Junior fly.
1:09:18 > 1:09:19That boy was half blind.
1:09:21 > 1:09:23We're almost home.
1:09:23 > 1:09:25I hope we meet up with those Red Tails next time.
1:09:25 > 1:09:28Listen, boys, the bombers have passed their safe point.
1:09:28 > 1:09:31Our mission is over. Let's head back to base.
1:09:43 > 1:09:44You guys are taking the long way.
1:09:44 > 1:09:47I'm going to take a short cut down the coast.
1:09:47 > 1:09:50Come on now, Lightning. Ain't no need to get all crazy.
1:09:50 > 1:09:51You know you got to stay with your squadron.
1:09:51 > 1:09:54You stay with the slow-ass squadron. I'm running low on fuel.
1:09:54 > 1:09:56And what if you turn up missing?
1:09:56 > 1:09:58Then I'll have to break it to Major Stance.
1:09:58 > 1:10:02- Well, break it to him gently. - 'Great, great, great!'
1:10:02 > 1:10:05One's a drunk and the other one does whatever the hell he wants to do.
1:10:05 > 1:10:07Smokey, stay with him.
1:10:07 > 1:10:09'And keep him out of trouble.'
1:10:09 > 1:10:11Don't worry. I'll stick with him.
1:10:16 > 1:10:19My head, it hurts.
1:10:19 > 1:10:21We're almost there, Deke.
1:10:21 > 1:10:22Stay with me.
1:10:25 > 1:10:29Easy, I got blood all over me, but I'm not bleeding.
1:10:29 > 1:10:33You're gonna be OK. I'm right above you.
1:10:33 > 1:10:36Captain, I'm getting real dizzy.
1:10:36 > 1:10:38I need to rest a minute.
1:10:39 > 1:10:42No, no. Stay alert, Deke. I'm here with you.
1:10:42 > 1:10:45I can't really see anything!
1:10:45 > 1:10:49Everything's all blurred! I got double vision.
1:10:49 > 1:10:53You're slipping, Deke! Deke, you're slipping! Steady up!
1:10:54 > 1:10:56All right.
1:10:57 > 1:10:58All right.
1:11:09 > 1:11:11You're diving, Deke. You need to pull back on your stick.
1:11:14 > 1:11:16Pull up, Deke, pull up!
1:11:18 > 1:11:20Deke, listen to me! Pull back on your stick now!
1:11:20 > 1:11:22'Pull up, Deke, pull up!'
1:11:22 > 1:11:24Pull up?
1:11:24 > 1:11:29Oh, I'm pulling up! I'm pulling up!
1:11:29 > 1:11:30Come on!
1:11:35 > 1:11:36I must have passed out!
1:11:40 > 1:11:43I need you to stay with me, OK? Stay with me.
1:11:43 > 1:11:46- 'Just keep talking.' - All right.
1:11:58 > 1:12:02Lightning, look! German destroyer, moving to the north!
1:12:06 > 1:12:08I still got ammo. How about you?
1:12:08 > 1:12:13Nah. You need about a 500-pound bomb to put a dent in that thing.
1:12:13 > 1:12:16Plus, that baby got very, very big guns.
1:12:16 > 1:12:18Just watch me.
1:12:18 > 1:12:21Lightning, no, all right? Don't be crazy.
1:12:21 > 1:12:24If the big guns don't kill you, your plane will get messed up,
1:12:24 > 1:12:26'and Coffee is gonna kill you.'
1:12:26 > 1:12:29Relax, Smokey. Worrying too much will kill you.
1:12:34 > 1:12:36Flugzeug!
1:12:36 > 1:12:37SIRENS WAIL, SHOUTING
1:12:55 > 1:12:58All right! That was fun! OK, come on now, time to go home.
1:12:58 > 1:13:00Just one more pass.
1:13:11 > 1:13:13How do you like that, Mr Hitler?
1:13:13 > 1:13:16Lightning, you a damn fool! But I love you! Come on.
1:13:26 > 1:13:29Ramitelli to Subsoil Red One. Do you read?
1:13:29 > 1:13:31'I got Red Four with me, he's busted up pretty bed.'
1:13:34 > 1:13:36Stay alert, Deke. Stay alert.
1:13:36 > 1:13:39Ramitelli, have a fire truck standing by. He's leaking fuel.
1:13:39 > 1:13:41I repeat, he's leaking fuel.
1:13:43 > 1:13:45This is Major Stance.
1:13:45 > 1:13:48Circle a half-mile out and have Red Four bail.
1:13:48 > 1:13:50Flight surgeons will be there waiting.
1:13:50 > 1:13:51'Copy that.'
1:13:53 > 1:13:56You're gonna put it into a left bank, and you're up and out. All right?
1:13:59 > 1:14:01I can't get the canopy open!
1:14:04 > 1:14:05Easy!
1:14:05 > 1:14:08Listen, Deke, the only thing between you living and dying is that canopy.
1:14:08 > 1:14:09Now, get it open!
1:14:10 > 1:14:12I can't open it!
1:14:13 > 1:14:15I can't open it!
1:14:15 > 1:14:19Red Four cannot open his canopy. I repeat, he cannot open his canopy.
1:14:19 > 1:14:21I'm gonna have to bring him in.
1:14:21 > 1:14:22Roger that.
1:14:26 > 1:14:28Sweet Jesus,
1:14:28 > 1:14:29don't let this happen to me.
1:14:32 > 1:14:34OK. OK.
1:14:34 > 1:14:37'All right, Deke. Flaps down.'
1:14:37 > 1:14:38Flaps down.
1:14:42 > 1:14:43There you go.
1:14:48 > 1:14:50Level off, level off!
1:14:51 > 1:14:53I'm levelling.
1:14:54 > 1:14:56Help me, sir. I'm covered in fuel!
1:14:56 > 1:14:58I'm coming around behind you, Deke.
1:15:02 > 1:15:04All right, now get your gear down.
1:15:13 > 1:15:16Easy! I think I'm coming in too hot!
1:15:16 > 1:15:19I don't want to die! I'm not ready!
1:15:19 > 1:15:22Just relax. Just relax. Level off, Deke.
1:15:25 > 1:15:27Too fast. I'm going too fast!
1:15:29 > 1:15:31Nose up! Nose up!
1:15:32 > 1:15:33Come on!
1:15:37 > 1:15:39Drop your throttle! Nose down!
1:15:39 > 1:15:41'Nose down!'
1:15:41 > 1:15:43No! No!
1:16:02 > 1:16:03Shit!
1:16:06 > 1:16:08SIRENS WAIL
1:16:17 > 1:16:18Deke!
1:16:28 > 1:16:30INDISTINCT SHOUTING
1:16:42 > 1:16:44Smoke cloud on the left.
1:16:49 > 1:16:51You don't think that's Deke, do you?
1:17:21 > 1:17:22- Who was it?- Deke.
1:17:24 > 1:17:25It was Deke.
1:17:25 > 1:17:27- Oh, shit.- An engine fire.
1:17:27 > 1:17:30Gas leak must have caught on the landing.
1:17:30 > 1:17:32But I talked to the medics, they said he's gonna be all right.
1:17:32 > 1:17:35- Must have been a spark.- What?
1:17:36 > 1:17:38You've been drinking.
1:17:38 > 1:17:41- You're going to blame this on me? - Tell me you haven't been drinking.
1:17:41 > 1:17:42- I got him down!- Say it!
1:17:42 > 1:17:46I got him down alive! You don't blame this on me!
1:17:46 > 1:17:48I did everything I could do!
1:17:48 > 1:17:50Joe! Joe!
1:18:42 > 1:18:44All back, Colonel.
1:18:44 > 1:18:47The good news is Lieutenant Watkins survived the fireball landing.
1:18:47 > 1:18:48He's in critical.
1:18:48 > 1:18:50Do they think he's gonna make it?
1:18:50 > 1:18:51Yes, sir.
1:18:51 > 1:18:5460% third-degree burns.
1:18:54 > 1:18:55We're sending him back home.
1:18:57 > 1:19:00I brought the background on the captured flyer,
1:19:00 > 1:19:02Lieutenant Ray Gannon.
1:19:02 > 1:19:05His mother's name is Dorothy. Father is Thomas.
1:19:05 > 1:19:09His wife's name is Thelma. They have a little girl, Adele.
1:19:09 > 1:19:12In particular, Ray loved to fly.
1:19:12 > 1:19:16More than any pilot we have, he loved to be in the air.
1:19:16 > 1:19:17TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS
1:20:04 > 1:20:07Here is the new prisoner your captain requested,
1:20:07 > 1:20:10Lieutenant Ray Gannon.
1:20:10 > 1:20:13A pilot with the 332nd.
1:20:15 > 1:20:17Where the hell did you come from?
1:20:20 > 1:20:21Lieutenant!
1:20:27 > 1:20:29Sit down.
1:20:34 > 1:20:37So, I bet you're wondering why I picked you to bunk with us.
1:20:37 > 1:20:40It's not something I care to think about.
1:20:41 > 1:20:43Don't worry.
1:20:43 > 1:20:46It's not so we can hang you or anything.
1:20:46 > 1:20:49I chose you because I know you can't be a German spy,
1:20:49 > 1:20:51being Coloured and all.
1:20:51 > 1:20:54We're in the middle of a rather delicate operation,
1:20:54 > 1:20:56and we don't need any new white faces.
1:20:56 > 1:20:59You'll be treated no differently than any other man here.
1:20:59 > 1:21:00Any problems, you tell me.
1:21:05 > 1:21:09Come on! Let's go! Move, move, move!
1:21:09 > 1:21:12Line it up! Let's go!
1:21:14 > 1:21:18I welcome you to the 332nd Fighter Group. You're a long way from home.
1:21:18 > 1:21:20CHEERING
1:21:22 > 1:21:23Jerry's going down!
1:21:23 > 1:21:25I'm telling you, Lightning sunk it.
1:21:25 > 1:21:27- That is a destroyer. - Shit, Lightning's crazy!
1:21:32 > 1:21:34Here it comes!
1:21:34 > 1:21:35Whoo!
1:21:35 > 1:21:38I came around for a second pass. Watch this.
1:21:38 > 1:21:40CHEERING
1:21:45 > 1:21:48ALL: We fight! We fight! We fight! We fight! We fight!
1:22:24 > 1:22:25DOG BARKS
1:22:46 > 1:22:47Mm.
1:22:51 > 1:22:52SHE SPEAKS ITALIAN
1:22:57 > 1:22:59My best friend.
1:23:00 > 1:23:01He...
1:23:02 > 1:23:05He almost caused the death of one of our pilots.
1:23:09 > 1:23:11I don't know what to do.
1:23:25 > 1:23:27I am so glad I found you.
1:23:55 > 1:23:57I want you to stop, Easy.
1:23:57 > 1:23:59Stop what?
1:23:59 > 1:24:00You can't drink on duty.
1:24:00 > 1:24:02I told you, what happened to Deke wasn't my fault, all right?
1:24:02 > 1:24:04No-one cares what you do when you're in town.
1:24:04 > 1:24:05How you relax is your business.
1:24:05 > 1:24:09This coming from a guy who flies like he's got some kind of death wish.
1:24:09 > 1:24:11You're a piece of work, Joe.
1:24:11 > 1:24:13You ignore me up there then all of a sudden you expect me
1:24:13 > 1:24:17- to listen to you down here. - All right, all right, all right.
1:24:19 > 1:24:21Tell you what. I'll make you a deal.
1:24:23 > 1:24:26You promise to ditch the bottle...
1:24:27 > 1:24:29..I'll promise to fly right.
1:24:31 > 1:24:33And follow my orders.
1:24:38 > 1:24:40And follow your orders.
1:24:42 > 1:24:44Happy?
1:24:44 > 1:24:46Very happy.
1:25:01 > 1:25:03I can't wait to hear her sweet singing!
1:25:03 > 1:25:06You guys can go chase skirt. I'm going to Sofia's.
1:25:08 > 1:25:10What did you say, about three miles?
1:25:10 > 1:25:13- Odds of us getting pinched? - I won't even take that action.
1:25:13 > 1:25:15MAN: Hey, flyboys!
1:25:15 > 1:25:18That trouble. Keep walking. Come on.
1:25:18 > 1:25:19Don't just walk away from me.
1:25:19 > 1:25:22- He picked the wrong day. - Let's go.
1:25:22 > 1:25:24Hey, come over here!
1:25:28 > 1:25:29What?
1:25:30 > 1:25:32You guys.
1:25:33 > 1:25:35You're the Red Tails, right?
1:25:38 > 1:25:39You know, Red Tails?
1:25:39 > 1:25:41Coloured boy flyers?
1:25:41 > 1:25:46Well, I wouldn't necessarily say it like that, but who's asking?
1:25:46 > 1:25:49Chester Barnes, 98th Bomb Group.
1:25:49 > 1:25:52You guys flew a little top cover for us about a month ago.
1:25:52 > 1:25:54A little run over Ploiesti?
1:25:54 > 1:25:57It was the best goddamn flying I've ever seen, gentlemen.
1:25:57 > 1:26:00And we guys, well, we feel that we owe all you boys a drink.
1:26:02 > 1:26:04Why don't you come and join us? Come on.
1:26:08 > 1:26:10Come and join them?
1:26:10 > 1:26:11What's he saying?
1:26:12 > 1:26:15Come on. Drinks are on us.
1:26:15 > 1:26:17Well, I'll be damned.
1:26:17 > 1:26:20I guess the dance hall will have to wait.
1:26:21 > 1:26:23- How you doing? - Much obliged.
1:26:29 > 1:26:32# He was a famous trumpet man from out Chicago way
1:26:32 > 1:26:35# He had a boogie style that no-one else could play
1:26:35 > 1:26:37# He was the top man at his craft
1:26:37 > 1:26:40# But then his number came up and he was gone with the draft
1:26:40 > 1:26:43# He's in the army now a-blowin' reveille
1:26:43 > 1:26:46# He's the boogie woogie bugle boy of Company B
1:26:46 > 1:26:49# They made him blow a bugle for his Uncle Sam
1:26:49 > 1:26:51# It really brought him down because he couldn't jam
1:26:51 > 1:26:54# The captain seemed to understand... #
1:26:54 > 1:26:56All right, boys, listen up!
1:26:56 > 1:26:59These fellas are the Red Tails.
1:26:59 > 1:27:02They're the guys who have been giving us an escort.
1:27:02 > 1:27:05First drink is on me, fellas. Whatever you'd like.
1:27:09 > 1:27:12Hanson, Travis J.
1:27:12 > 1:27:13Samuel George.
1:27:13 > 1:27:17Me and the boys over here are with the 463rd Bomb Group.
1:27:17 > 1:27:18Glad to meet you, man.
1:27:18 > 1:27:21You flew with us over Brux. Appreciate you getting us home.
1:27:25 > 1:27:29Hey, have you guys run into any of those new jet pursuit fighters?
1:27:29 > 1:27:31We haven't been that lucky.
1:27:31 > 1:27:33Well, we've been that unlucky.
1:27:33 > 1:27:36Those babies go so fast you can't even see them.
1:27:40 > 1:27:44I got one spare one, sir. I got one...
1:27:44 > 1:27:46INDISTINCT
1:27:46 > 1:27:48You know,
1:27:48 > 1:27:50we say "Coloured."
1:27:50 > 1:27:54But that's not what you prefer?
1:27:54 > 1:27:56No, no. The word is...
1:27:56 > 1:27:57ALL: "Negro."
1:28:00 > 1:28:04When you get upset, when you get mad, you turn red, right?
1:28:04 > 1:28:08When you get envious or sick, you turn green.
1:28:08 > 1:28:10When you become cowardly, you turn yellow.
1:28:10 > 1:28:12And y'all got the nerve to call us Coloured.
1:28:12 > 1:28:13LAUGHTER
1:28:20 > 1:28:22INDISTINCT ITALIAN CHATTER
1:28:47 > 1:28:50I want to ask you an important question.
1:28:50 > 1:28:51Um...
1:28:51 > 1:28:53HE SPEAKS ITALIAN
1:28:53 > 1:28:55OK.
1:28:55 > 1:28:56SHE SPEAKS ITALIAN
1:29:07 > 1:29:10Vuoi sposarmi?
1:29:15 > 1:29:17Um...
1:29:17 > 1:29:18Vuoi sposarmi?
1:29:21 > 1:29:23Will you marry me?
1:29:24 > 1:29:26SHE SPEAKS ITALIAN
1:29:31 > 1:29:33SHE SIGHS
1:29:33 > 1:29:34Uh...
1:29:37 > 1:29:40Time to think.
1:29:42 > 1:29:44Oh.
1:29:47 > 1:29:48OK.
1:29:57 > 1:29:59When you get to the other side, don't wait.
1:29:59 > 1:30:01Just run for the woods, OK? Go!
1:30:01 > 1:30:04Remember, run for the woods!
1:30:04 > 1:30:06It's Ray Gun, he's back with the batteries.
1:30:06 > 1:30:07Any problems?
1:30:07 > 1:30:09They won't even know they're missing.
1:30:09 > 1:30:12Divide the batteries among those who have flashlights.
1:30:12 > 1:30:13You've been a great help, Ray Gun.
1:30:13 > 1:30:17I guess there's a lot more to you Coloureds than I thought.
1:30:17 > 1:30:19We...
1:30:19 > 1:30:21We want you to travel with us.
1:30:21 > 1:30:25Oh, I can't. I'll stick out like a pig in a poultry shop.
1:30:25 > 1:30:28I'll draw attention to you guys.
1:30:28 > 1:30:29Thank you.
1:30:29 > 1:30:31I'll go alone. But...
1:30:33 > 1:30:35..here, take my dog tags.
1:30:35 > 1:30:38Get them back to my unit.
1:30:38 > 1:30:42You're a wily sucker, Ray. At least they won't see you in the dark.
1:30:42 > 1:30:45Good luck, Lieutenant.
1:30:45 > 1:30:47- Safe journey, Captain. - Good luck, Ray.
1:30:47 > 1:30:48Good luck.
1:30:50 > 1:30:52Remember, run for the woods.
1:30:52 > 1:30:54OK, let's go.
1:31:01 > 1:31:02DOGS BARK
1:31:37 > 1:31:39Was ist das!
1:31:39 > 1:31:41- Run, Miller, run!- Halt!
1:31:41 > 1:31:43HE SHOUTS IN GERMAN
1:31:43 > 1:31:45Halt!
1:31:45 > 1:31:46Halt! Halt!
1:31:50 > 1:31:55# Hot tamales, and they're red hot Yes, she got them for sale
1:31:55 > 1:31:58# Hot tamales, and they're red hot Yes, she got them for sale
1:31:58 > 1:32:00# I got a girl, she's long and tall
1:32:00 > 1:32:03# Sleeps in the kitchen with her feets in the hall... #
1:32:03 > 1:32:06Sticks on metal ain't music. It ain't.
1:32:06 > 1:32:07I like music.
1:32:07 > 1:32:10Aww! Coffee, were you always mean as hell,
1:32:10 > 1:32:12or you just get like that with old age?
1:32:12 > 1:32:16I once was a happy man. Never did not have a smile on my face.
1:32:16 > 1:32:19That was before you guys started tearing up my beautiful planes.
1:32:19 > 1:32:21I could tolerate the P-40s.
1:32:21 > 1:32:24But these new babies getting beat up? It breaks my heart.
1:32:24 > 1:32:27Come on, Coffee. I only came back with two holes this time.
1:32:29 > 1:32:31Uh. Six. Six holes.
1:32:31 > 1:32:33Well, that ain't nothing compared to what's gonna happen to you
1:32:33 > 1:32:37when you run into those jets those bomber jockeys was talking about.
1:32:37 > 1:32:39I ain't afraid of no jets.
1:32:39 > 1:32:41Don't go trying your old tricks, Lightning.
1:32:41 > 1:32:43If you end up too close behind one of those jets,
1:32:43 > 1:32:46the turbulence alone will blow your Black ass right out of the sky.
1:32:46 > 1:32:49Trust me, I'm gonna be the first one to shoot one of those things down.
1:32:49 > 1:32:50And I'll be the second.
1:32:50 > 1:32:53My advice is, you see one, you run like hell.
1:32:53 > 1:32:56The only thing in life that makes me want to run like hell
1:32:56 > 1:32:57- is you, Coffee. - LAUGHTER
1:32:59 > 1:33:04That's gonna get you killed out there. I'm not dancing with you.
1:33:04 > 1:33:08The target is a tank factory on the outskirts of Berlin.
1:33:08 > 1:33:12Shut that down, you shut down Jerry's ability
1:33:12 > 1:33:14to shore up a Berlin defence.
1:33:14 > 1:33:17General Campbell's wing will be leading the bombardment.
1:33:17 > 1:33:19You have recon on the area?
1:33:19 > 1:33:22In the air, we're expecting everything the Luftwaffe's got,
1:33:22 > 1:33:24100s, 109s, 190s.
1:33:25 > 1:33:28A possibility of 262s, German jet fighters.
1:33:28 > 1:33:30- Jet fighters? - The boys are gonna love this one!
1:33:32 > 1:33:35The target area isn't your concern.
1:33:36 > 1:33:39The 52nd will escort the General's planes into Berlin.
1:33:41 > 1:33:43Is there a reason, sir?
1:33:43 > 1:33:471,600 miles to Berlin and back. The fighters need to take it in stages.
1:33:47 > 1:33:50With external fuel tanks, the 51s can make it.
1:33:50 > 1:33:52I guarantee our pilots can.
1:33:52 > 1:33:55I'd prefer the Red Tails take the leg where we need protecting.
1:33:55 > 1:33:58Our first major air offensive over Berlin.
1:33:59 > 1:34:02From a propaganda point of view,
1:34:02 > 1:34:05a lot of attention gonna be paid to this and a lot of ink spilled.
1:34:05 > 1:34:08And Negro pilots aren't part of that story.
1:34:10 > 1:34:12Colonel, AJ.
1:34:14 > 1:34:17This is coming from way above me.
1:34:17 > 1:34:18If you didn't have my respect,
1:34:18 > 1:34:21I wouldn't be talking to you face-to-face.
1:34:21 > 1:34:25But we don't win this war, all my regard,
1:34:25 > 1:34:28everything that you and your men have done...
1:34:30 > 1:34:32..none of it means a thing.
1:34:40 > 1:34:42Colonel.
1:34:42 > 1:34:45Please see to it that the General gets to his plane.
1:34:45 > 1:34:47Sir.
1:34:56 > 1:34:58You like it?
1:35:03 > 1:35:09I want you
1:35:09 > 1:35:11stay in Italia.
1:35:14 > 1:35:16You want me to stay?
1:35:19 > 1:35:22Does that mean...
1:35:22 > 1:35:24Does that mean you'll marry me?
1:35:25 > 1:35:27Yes. Marriage.
1:35:30 > 1:35:31SHE GIGGLES
1:35:34 > 1:35:36I love you.
1:35:40 > 1:35:42I can't believe it.
1:35:43 > 1:35:44SHE GIGGLES
1:35:46 > 1:35:48I'm getting married.
1:35:54 > 1:35:57OK, we're going to throw it, all right? There you go.
1:35:59 > 1:36:01There you go. All right. Throw!
1:36:21 > 1:36:24I'm looking for Captain Julian.
1:36:24 > 1:36:25Right here.
1:36:28 > 1:36:30You the one they call Easy?
1:36:30 > 1:36:34I guess some people do. What can I help you with?
1:36:34 > 1:36:38I'm Captain Miller. I was in prison with Lieutenant Gannon.
1:36:38 > 1:36:40He asked me to give his tags to you.
1:36:44 > 1:36:46Four of us got out.
1:36:46 > 1:36:48The deal was, if we made it and he didn't,
1:36:48 > 1:36:50I'd get his dog tags back to his unit.
1:36:52 > 1:36:53Ray was a good man.
1:36:54 > 1:36:58To whoever it matters, you tell them from me -
1:36:58 > 1:37:00Ray was the best soldier I ever met.
1:37:02 > 1:37:03Thank you.
1:37:20 > 1:37:22A moment, Colonel.
1:37:24 > 1:37:26What is it, Captain?
1:37:30 > 1:37:32Ray Gannon's dog tags, sir.
1:37:34 > 1:37:39A soldier brought it by today. He and Ray were prisoners together.
1:37:40 > 1:37:42They got out from under the Germans but...
1:37:43 > 1:37:45..Ray didn't make it.
1:37:50 > 1:37:54Sir, Ray Gun wasn't fit when I put him back in rotation.
1:37:54 > 1:37:56The flight surgeon wouldn't clean-bill him,
1:37:56 > 1:37:58so I talked my way right past him.
1:38:03 > 1:38:06I just don't feel like I'm fit to lead the squad any more.
1:38:10 > 1:38:12I've made so many mistakes.
1:38:12 > 1:38:14No, you've made one big mistake.
1:38:14 > 1:38:18That self-pity of yours, that's your weakness.
1:38:18 > 1:38:21But it ends right here, right now.
1:38:21 > 1:38:23You man up, you lead your squad.
1:38:24 > 1:38:28Every decision that you make isn't gonna always be the right one.
1:38:37 > 1:38:40All right, this is it.
1:38:40 > 1:38:43For the first time, the bombers are going all the way to Berlin.
1:38:43 > 1:38:49They'll be up against 109s and 262s the new jet fighters.
1:38:49 > 1:38:52LAUGHTER AND WHOOPING
1:38:52 > 1:38:53Whoo!
1:38:55 > 1:38:57Unfortunately, we're only going to escort them
1:38:57 > 1:38:59on the first leg of their mission,
1:38:59 > 1:39:02so I don't expect you'll see much action.
1:39:02 > 1:39:05You will rendezvous with the relief escorts at 0830.
1:39:05 > 1:39:09I know this is disappointing to you. It's not the job you wanted.
1:39:09 > 1:39:11But those are your orders.
1:39:11 > 1:39:13- Understood? - ALL: Yes, sir!
1:39:13 > 1:39:16Full briefing at 0400. On the flight line at 0530.
1:39:16 > 1:39:18Spread the word, gentlemen.
1:39:18 > 1:39:20Julian. A moment.
1:39:27 > 1:39:29Captain, if your relief doesn't arrive,
1:39:29 > 1:39:31as squadron leader, it's your call.
1:39:31 > 1:39:34If you think you can make it.
1:39:34 > 1:39:35Sir.
1:39:35 > 1:39:37That is all, son.
1:40:21 > 1:40:22We're past the rendezvous point.
1:40:22 > 1:40:24Tail gunner, has the 52nd squadron arrived?
1:40:24 > 1:40:27No, sir. No sign of them.
1:40:27 > 1:40:29Anybody got eyes on our relief fighters?
1:40:29 > 1:40:32Not a dang thing, Red One.
1:40:32 > 1:40:34Are we going all the way, sir?
1:40:34 > 1:40:36Fuel-wise, we're looking good.
1:40:36 > 1:40:38But I'm guessing the hours there and back,
1:40:38 > 1:40:41it'll definitely be one for the record books.
1:40:41 > 1:40:44Come on, Easy. It's Berlin.
1:40:46 > 1:40:49Let's go. We can make it.
1:40:51 > 1:40:54All right, gentlemen. Brace yourselves.
1:40:54 > 1:40:56We're going the distance.
1:40:56 > 1:40:58Yeah! We fight!
1:40:58 > 1:41:01Ha-ha! Watch out, Hitler, here we come!
1:41:01 > 1:41:04Just remember, we're here to protect the bombers.
1:41:04 > 1:41:07Under all circumstances, we stay on mission.
1:41:09 > 1:41:11What's that about?
1:41:11 > 1:41:14I think we've got the Red Tails for the duration.
1:41:21 > 1:41:24By my reckoning, we're deep into Germany.
1:41:24 > 1:41:26It's a little creepy we haven't seen any fighters yet.
1:41:27 > 1:41:30Maybe they found out we were flying escort
1:41:30 > 1:41:32and decided not to show up.
1:41:32 > 1:41:34That'd be nice.
1:41:34 > 1:41:36Wouldn't mind that, would you, baby?
1:41:44 > 1:41:47Colonel! It's from Mission Control.
1:41:47 > 1:41:50The 52nd didn't make the rendezvous. They didn't join up with the 5th.
1:41:51 > 1:41:53Did our boys turn back?
1:41:53 > 1:41:55No, sir. They're headed on to Berlin.
1:41:55 > 1:41:58I gave Captain Julian the option.
1:41:58 > 1:42:02Headquarters wants to know if we're gonna call them back.
1:42:02 > 1:42:04Yes, sir!
1:42:33 > 1:42:35Oh, shit! Jets! We got jets!
1:42:39 > 1:42:40What the hell?
1:42:41 > 1:42:42What? Oh, no!
1:42:48 > 1:42:50Maurice!
1:42:50 > 1:42:51Mama!
1:42:52 > 1:42:53Break! Break! Break!
1:42:53 > 1:42:55Here we go.
1:43:03 > 1:43:06Nine o'clock low! Nine o'clock low!
1:43:06 > 1:43:07I see them.
1:43:11 > 1:43:13We're losing them!
1:43:13 > 1:43:16I got the throttle wide open! They're too damn fast!
1:43:18 > 1:43:21Son of a bitch! Those babies are gone.
1:43:28 > 1:43:29I'm losing power!
1:43:29 > 1:43:32Stay left! I'll get him! I'll get him!
1:43:35 > 1:43:37This is for Maurice!
1:43:41 > 1:43:42Yeah!
1:43:44 > 1:43:47Brilliant! Smokey, brilliant!
1:43:56 > 1:43:58Easy, we got one crossing in front of us.
1:43:58 > 1:44:00Start firing, he'll fly right into it.
1:44:00 > 1:44:01I know. I got him.
1:44:08 > 1:44:11- These jets ain't nothing. - 'We need more speed.'
1:44:11 > 1:44:12Let's get some altitude.
1:44:23 > 1:44:25Easy, right there! Ten o'clock!
1:44:27 > 1:44:29I got him! I got him!
1:44:36 > 1:44:38Now that's how it's done!
1:44:43 > 1:44:45Argh! Ugh!
1:44:47 > 1:44:49Smokey! Smokey!
1:44:50 > 1:44:52I'm all right. I'm all right!
1:44:52 > 1:44:54HE LAUGHS
1:44:54 > 1:44:56I'll be damned! They missed me!
1:44:56 > 1:44:59No holes in me, baby! Whoo! Come on.
1:45:05 > 1:45:07Now we're losing power on engine four.
1:45:07 > 1:45:09That's it for us, guys. We're turning around.
1:45:16 > 1:45:18We got a straggler. Two o'clock.
1:45:18 > 1:45:20Oh, I see him!
1:45:21 > 1:45:24I'm on it, Red One. We'll get down there and cover him.
1:45:31 > 1:45:35Lightning, form up. I'm going back. We got a crippled bomber to protect.
1:45:37 > 1:45:40Easy, you got Pretty Boy on your tail. I'm coming around.
1:45:40 > 1:45:42Where? I don't see him!
1:45:46 > 1:45:47Argh! Damn it!
1:45:53 > 1:45:55I'm headed right for you!
1:45:57 > 1:45:59I've got him! I've got him!
1:45:59 > 1:46:00Get out of my way!
1:46:00 > 1:46:02What the hell are you doing?
1:46:02 > 1:46:03Dive right now! Dive.
1:46:17 > 1:46:18Whoo!
1:46:20 > 1:46:23That's the end of Pretty Boy!
1:46:23 > 1:46:24Urgh.
1:46:28 > 1:46:29HE GROANS
1:46:33 > 1:46:35Sure got him good!
1:46:35 > 1:46:38Ha! You did it!
1:46:38 > 1:46:39You got that son of a bitch.
1:46:41 > 1:46:43Did you say Lightning shot down Pretty Boy?
1:46:43 > 1:46:44Woohoo!
1:46:44 > 1:46:46Give 'em hell, Lightning!
1:46:46 > 1:46:48You just might be the best pilot that ever lived!
1:46:48 > 1:46:51'Now get your ass back here and help us with this bomber.'
1:46:51 > 1:46:53'We're an our way back to you, Joker.'
1:47:00 > 1:47:03It was a crazy move. You almost got yourself killed.
1:47:04 > 1:47:08I think I did get myself killed.
1:47:08 > 1:47:09What are you talking about?
1:47:09 > 1:47:14I...I don't think I'm going to make it, Easy.
1:47:15 > 1:47:18What do you mean, you're not going to make it?
1:47:18 > 1:47:20'Don't talk like that!'
1:47:20 > 1:47:23There's a lot... There's a lot of blood.
1:47:25 > 1:47:28Listen to me. Just hang in there. I'm gonna get you back, all right?
1:47:28 > 1:47:30'Just stay focused. I'm gonna help you.'
1:47:32 > 1:47:35I can't breathe. I can't breathe.
1:47:35 > 1:47:40'Come on now. We've gotten out of worse scrapes than this.'
1:47:40 > 1:47:41I screwed up.
1:47:41 > 1:47:43I screwed up.
1:47:43 > 1:47:45I don't care about that. I'm right here with you.
1:47:45 > 1:47:47We can do this together. Come on.
1:47:47 > 1:47:48Easy.
1:47:51 > 1:47:53Gruesome Twosome.
1:47:53 > 1:47:56Lightning! Lightning, talk to me!
1:47:56 > 1:47:58Lightning, don't you do this to me!
1:47:58 > 1:48:02'Lightning? Lightning, look at me!'
1:48:02 > 1:48:03I love you.
1:48:03 > 1:48:05I'm sorry, Sofia.
1:48:22 > 1:48:25Lightning, pull up! Pull back on your stick!
1:48:29 > 1:48:32Lightning, pop the canopy! Pop the goddamn canopy!
1:48:35 > 1:48:38Get out of the plane, Lightning, that's an order!
1:48:38 > 1:48:39Get out of the plane!
1:48:49 > 1:48:51Damn you, Lightning!
1:48:58 > 1:48:59Easy.
1:49:01 > 1:49:02Easy.
1:49:06 > 1:49:08'Easy, do you read me?'
1:49:10 > 1:49:11Easy!
1:49:13 > 1:49:14Stay on mission!
1:49:17 > 1:49:18Do you copy?
1:49:21 > 1:49:23We need you back here.
1:49:27 > 1:49:28We need you.
1:49:29 > 1:49:32'For God's sake, tell me you still out there.'
1:49:32 > 1:49:35I'm OK. I'm on my way down.
1:49:40 > 1:49:42Red One.
1:49:42 > 1:49:44Lightning's with you, right?
1:49:51 > 1:49:53Lieutenant Little is dead.
1:50:40 > 1:50:41Lightning?
1:51:48 > 1:51:50Marty?
1:51:58 > 1:51:59HE SIGHS
1:52:18 > 1:52:22The expectations placed upon you men are high.
1:52:22 > 1:52:24Lieutenant Little
1:52:24 > 1:52:27exceeded those expectations.
1:52:27 > 1:52:30We should not be discouraged by his death,
1:52:30 > 1:52:33but be all the more encouraged by his life.
1:52:33 > 1:52:36The acts of bravery by him
1:52:36 > 1:52:38will make us stronger.
1:52:38 > 1:52:41It will inspire us to fight harder,
1:52:41 > 1:52:43to make this world free.
1:52:43 > 1:52:46Because we are on the side of God Almighty!
1:52:47 > 1:52:49Let us pray.
1:52:50 > 1:52:52Hey! Hey, guys!
1:52:56 > 1:52:59Hey! Guys!
1:53:01 > 1:53:04I know you didn't forget about me already!
1:53:04 > 1:53:05I've been to hell and back...
1:53:07 > 1:53:10..so you will no longer call me Junior.
1:53:10 > 1:53:15From now on you will address me as the fabulous Ray Gun.
1:53:16 > 1:53:18How'd you do it, man?
1:53:18 > 1:53:19- SMOKEY:- I'll be damned!
1:53:24 > 1:53:26Ray! Ray Gun!
1:53:26 > 1:53:27Boy, you look good.
1:53:27 > 1:53:29CHEERING
1:53:46 > 1:53:49In the name of the President of the United States,
1:53:49 > 1:53:52a Distinguished Unit Citation has been conferred upon
1:53:52 > 1:53:55the all-Negro 332nd Fighter Group
1:53:55 > 1:53:59for outstanding performance of duty in conflict with the enemy.
1:53:59 > 1:54:01By the conspicuous gallantry,
1:54:01 > 1:54:04professional skill and determination of the pilots,
1:54:04 > 1:54:07together with the outstanding technical skill
1:54:07 > 1:54:09and devotion to duty of the ground personnel,
1:54:09 > 1:54:13the 332nd has reflected great credit on itself
1:54:13 > 1:54:16and on the Armed Forces of the United States.
1:54:16 > 1:54:17We salute you.