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Wait for me!
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Franklln Delano Roosevelt
wlll address the Natlon.
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The Presldent,
speaklng from the Whlte House...
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... wlll be dellverlng
one of hls famlllar flreslde chats.
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He's expected to talk to the Amerlcan
people on the year-old war...
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... whlch began wlth the attack
by the Japanese In Hawall...
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... on December 7th of last year.
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Ladles and gentlemen,
the Presldent of the Unlted States.
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My fellow Amerlcans,
thls war Is a new klnd of war.
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It Is dlfferent from
all other wars of the past...
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... not only In It's methods and weapons...
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... but also In It's geography.
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It Is warfare In terms of every contlnent...
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... every Island, every sea...
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... every alr lane In the world.
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Hannlbal,
the nelghbors are waltlng to say goodbye.
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Thanks, Dad.
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Nice of you to come.
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- Come on, you're gonna miss the train.
- Okay.
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- Make it back.
- I promise I will.
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Bye.
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Chlcagol
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Next stop, Chicago!
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Keep your tickets to reboard!
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You see any lipstick on me?
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Lipstick? No.
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No? Frances sure did.
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That girl's got eagle eyes when
it comes to spottin' lipstick on me.
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If I ain't got nothin' on me
she probably slapped it off.
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- Is that seat taken?
- Have a sit down.
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Tickets, please.
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"Stick and Rudder"? You a pilot?
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Me neither.
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But I will when Uncle Sam finishes kickin'
my ass and pinnin' them wings on me.
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- You fellas on your way to Tuskegee?
- Yes.
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- You, too?
- Finally.
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Yes, I am.
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Excuse me?
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A licensed pilot.
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I bet he didn't even have to take the test.
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Billy Roberts.
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On the block they call me, "Train".
As in "A-Train". Quickest way to Harlem.
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- Block?
- Lennox and 125th.
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What block you from?
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I'm from a small town in Iowa. Ottumwa.
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Iowa?
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I didn't know they had colored folk in Iowa.
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But now I got livin' proof
sittin' here next to me.
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What'd you get on that exam there, Iowa?
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Ninety-eight.
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Ninety-eight. That's very good.
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So you did take that test?
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That is very good.
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But it ain't as good as mine,
which is one-zero-zero.
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But congratulations on bein' second best.
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Here we go.
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Getup. Come on, get up.
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- What?
- Move it. That's what.
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Get your stuff and move it up front.
Now. Let's go.
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- Move it, boy!
- All right.
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- I won't ask you to do it again, damnit!
- Excuse me, please.
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- Where are we?
- I don't know.
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But why are we getting off the train?
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See that?
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The car you are in
is now for white folks only.
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That's why you're gettin' off.
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Keep in line now. One behind the other.
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Keep it tight.
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- German prisoners.
- Make way!
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I'll be damned.
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German pro car's in the front, boys.
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Shit.
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We give up seats
for German prisoners?
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This train's leavin, boy.
Either get on or back off.
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All aboard!
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Hold up!
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Where you goin'?
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That's me. Just like a raven.
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Let's go!
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Drill Sergeants, give me two lines of six!
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Get the lead out! You gotta start movin'!
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- Put your bag behind you!
- Behind you!
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Turn to your right!
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Your military right!
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Pick your bag up with your right hand!
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Follow me!
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Left, right, left, right, left, right, left!
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Cadets march!
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Left, left, left. Group, halt!
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Turn to your left.
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Push your man on your left to your left.
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Come on. Come on. Move over.
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Put your bag down on your right.
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Post.
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Gentlemen,
welcome to Tuskegee Army Airfield.
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I'm Colonel Noel Rogers,
the Commanding Officer.
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This is Major Sherman Joy,
Director of Training...
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...and Lieutenant Glenn, Liaison Officer.
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It is the task of myself,
Major Joy, Lieutenant Glenn...
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...and others at this training facility...
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...to train and evaluate you men
as potential combat pilots.
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There have been many obstacles
on the road to getting you here.
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Now that you are here,
the only obstacle you will encounter...
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...will be how quick you learn...
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...how well you obey orders...
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...and how expert you fly.
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If I am the first to tell you...
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...that your being here is an experiment...
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...take time to understand
just what that means.
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There are people in very high places
wonderin' if this will succeed.
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If I and my staff
have anything to say about it, it will.
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However...
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...we will cut no corners.
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We will allow no favors.
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Our business is killin' our enemies
from the air...
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...as efficiently and expeditiously
as we know how.
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Assuming you make it through
this training, that task will be your honor.
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- Lieutenant.
- Major.
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Why did you join the Air Corps?
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Cadet?
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Sir.
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I don't like repeatin' myself, Cadet.
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To serve my country, sir.
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Your country?
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Boy, are you stupid?
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No, sir.
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You people...
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Don't you know how bad
we treat you people?
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Servin' your country...
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This ain't your country.
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Your country's full of apes and gorillas...
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...malaria...
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...missionaries.
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Ain't no gorillas in Harlem.
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Why'd you join the Air Corps, boy?
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This country has enemies and there
are people who need protecting from them.
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What people, nigger?
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All people, sir.
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To my knowledge
the Germans aren't sparing the coloreds.
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To my knowledge, the colored aren't up to
fightin' the Germans, let alone, beatin' 'em.
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Max Schmeling found out differently, sir.
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You know what?
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My job is to see if you Joe Louises can fly.
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In case the Colonel gave you
the wrong impression, let me clear it up.
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You are nothing...
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...special.
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You just heard two
very different speeches...
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...from two very different officers.
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I hope you were paying attention.
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It is my job as Liaison Officer
to ease your transition to military life.
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Reveille's at zero six-hundred
PT's at zero six-thirty...
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...and breakfast is at zero seven-thirty.
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At the top of the military
command structure...
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...is President Roosevelt
as Commander and Chief.
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At the bottom is you, the cadet.
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Everything you need
can and will be found on this base.
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Everything you need to know
has the words "U.S. Army Air Corps"...
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...written on the cover.
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If it doesn't...
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...you don't need it.
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We got weekends.
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I klnd of flgured that would happen.
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Hey, Iowa.
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Yeah?
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You ready for all of this?
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I mean, "We in the Army now, boy."
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Well, it's not Ottumwa, but...
I've been ready for this for a long time.
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What about you, Walter?
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What, Stick?
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Stick was born ready.
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He probably popped out his mama
with a full bomb load.
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Come graduation...
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...none of your names
will be in front of mine.
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Is that right?
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Guaranteed.
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What might that name be, Reverend
Book Worm? "Stick" or "Rudder?"
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Peoples.
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Walter Derrick, the third.
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Aeronautical Engineer.
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Hannibal Lee, Jr. Pre-med.
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Lewis Johns. English Literature.
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William "A-Train" Roberts.
Political Science.
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Roy Jonas Cappy. Art History.
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Andrew Turner. Sociology.
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Charles Tate. Halfback.
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William Pitts. Economics.
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Class. Attention!
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Take your seats.
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Take one and pass 'em back.
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What is this?
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Permission to speak, sir?
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What is it, cadet?
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Sir, I believe we've already taken
this test before.
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And I believe you'll take it again.
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May the cadet ask why, sir?
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You don't have time for an explanation,
cadet.
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You have one hour for this exam.
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Begin and end on my mark.
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Name an element.
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Cadet Lee.
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Water, sir.
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Any others? Cadet Johns?
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Earth, sir.
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Cadet Peoples?
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Air, sir.
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- Cappy?
- Fire, sir.
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Water, air, earth, and fire.
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Of these elements,
I direct your attention to air and fire.
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Although it's your privilege to live
in the air, it's your destiny to die by fire.
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Many of you will wash out
before you ever set foot in an airplane.
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Others will die during primary
flight training. Still others in advanced.
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When you die, we will cross off your name,
close ranks and carry on.
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Now...
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...any of you ever been
up in an airplane before?
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Yes, sir. When I was in college, sir.
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I have a pilot's license, sir.
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Is that right?
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Yes, sir.
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Follow me, Mr. Lindbergh.
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All right, Peoples,
let's see what you're made of.
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He's tryin' to wear Stick out.
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Doin' it on purpose, too.
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Yell when you had enough, "Fly Boy."
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How you doin' back there?
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What about a loop?
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You must read your flight manual
and know it like the Holy Bible.
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Yes, sir.
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That goes for all of you. Is that clear?
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Yes, sir!
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Hey you! Cadet Peoples!
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Why'd you join the Air Corps, boy?
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I ain't thinking about Major Joy.
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He's just another door in the way.
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Another crack in the box.
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Another pecker in the woods.
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"I just want to serve my country, sir."
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"What country?
You don't have a country!"
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Goddamn uppity nigger son of a bitch!
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I'm real sorry, sir. Your country!
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Uppity niggers turn into strange fruit
where I come from.
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Strange what?
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"Nigger hangin' from a tree.
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"Just swingin'
from a hangman's vine is he.
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"Talk Back Joe was his name, all three.
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"Massa shut-his mouth
then he turned to me.
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"Lord, Massa shut his mouth!
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"Then he turned to me."
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Did you learn that in English Lit, Johns?
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My great granddaddy
told me that sittin' on his knee.
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It's a hell of a bedtime story.
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As Director of Training
I assumed I had the authority...
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...to conduct any testing
I thought necessary, sir.
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That assumption was incorrect, Major.
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These men have all previously been tested.
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Why should you test them again?
256
00:21:26,963 --> 00:21:31,297
The previous test scores themselves, sir.
Nineties, one hundreds.
257
00:21:32,335 --> 00:21:34,895
I am suspicious
about the accuracy of those scores.
258
00:21:35,371 --> 00:21:37,236
You think they cheated to get here?
259
00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:42,241
A lot of people dream to be pilots, Colonel.
Many will stop at nothing to become one.
260
00:21:42,945 --> 00:21:47,939
Eliminating dishonest, untrainable cadets
will save my staff time and aggravation.
261
00:21:49,385 --> 00:21:50,409
I see.
262
00:21:52,355 --> 00:21:54,619
Here are the answers to your retest.
263
00:21:56,092 --> 00:22:00,222
I got the results as soon as
they were compiled. I too have curiosity.
264
00:22:00,396 --> 00:22:03,388
Although, I suspect my motives
are somewhat different.
265
00:22:04,667 --> 00:22:07,363
Cadet Lewis Johns, 98.
266
00:22:08,237 --> 00:22:10,102
Cadet Billy Roberts, 100.
267
00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:13,668
Cadet Walter Peoples, 100.
Cadet Hannibal Lee, 100.
268
00:22:13,776 --> 00:22:17,576
I could go on. No one scored less than 95.
269
00:22:21,317 --> 00:22:25,845
These people are taking up training slots
that would be better filled by real pilots.
270
00:22:27,023 --> 00:22:28,490
There's a war on.
271
00:22:28,925 --> 00:22:30,517
Yes, Major, there is.
272
00:22:30,793 --> 00:22:33,990
And I'd prefer that war
was not on this base.
273
00:22:35,164 --> 00:22:36,825
That'll be all, Major.
274
00:22:42,738 --> 00:22:44,035
PT-17.
275
00:22:44,740 --> 00:22:48,506
Fuel capacity and engine? Cadet Johns.
276
00:22:48,678 --> 00:22:52,876
Fuel: 46 gallons.
Engine: 220 horse power, Continental, sir!
277
00:22:56,119 --> 00:23:00,215
Left spin recovery technique?
Cadet Peoples.
278
00:23:00,756 --> 00:23:04,988
Right rudder, stop rotation,
sharp forward stick, pull out from dive, sir!
279
00:23:06,362 --> 00:23:08,296
All right. Let's go up!
280
00:23:15,605 --> 00:23:16,970
Pay attention, cadet!
281
00:23:18,808 --> 00:23:20,400
- Nose down!
- Yes, sir!
282
00:23:20,610 --> 00:23:22,168
Let's do it now!
283
00:23:27,016 --> 00:23:29,712
- Recover, cadet!
- I'm tryin'! I'm tryin'!
284
00:23:30,419 --> 00:23:31,886
Nose up. Nose down.
285
00:23:32,321 --> 00:23:33,686
Watch your air speed.
286
00:23:33,856 --> 00:23:35,653
Pick up, damn it! Pick up!
287
00:23:36,259 --> 00:23:37,851
Let go! I got it!
288
00:23:38,161 --> 00:23:39,526
Step on the ball.
289
00:23:40,296 --> 00:23:42,059
I'd like to step on his balls.
290
00:23:42,165 --> 00:23:43,530
Let go, damn it!
291
00:23:47,670 --> 00:23:48,728
Lewlsl
292
00:23:55,745 --> 00:23:57,235
Cadet Lewls Johns...
293
00:23:57,547 --> 00:24:02,348
...just taught you men the most important
lesson you'll learn here at Tuskegee.
294
00:24:06,322 --> 00:24:10,884
If you don't believe in God,
you better find a damn good substitute.
295
00:24:15,565 --> 00:24:16,827
As you were.
296
00:25:09,218 --> 00:25:10,583
You missed chow.
297
00:25:11,120 --> 00:25:12,485
I wasn't hungry.
298
00:25:22,498 --> 00:25:25,092
- Can I give you a hand?
- I don't need a hand!
299
00:25:25,434 --> 00:25:27,231
What the hell is eatin' you, Cappy?
300
00:25:28,437 --> 00:25:33,136
Three more washed out today:
Bradley, Wade and Patterson.
301
00:25:34,377 --> 00:25:38,438
Wade just broke down
and walked off the base. And Lewis!
302
00:25:39,348 --> 00:25:41,339
I can't get him out of my head.
303
00:25:41,450 --> 00:25:44,647
You'll get your chance to solo.
You'll make it. We'll make it.
304
00:25:44,754 --> 00:25:47,222
That's bullshit, Hannibal! And you know it!
305
00:25:47,823 --> 00:25:49,620
We're not all gonna make it.
306
00:25:50,793 --> 00:25:53,523
When we first got here
this barracks was filled.
307
00:25:54,230 --> 00:25:55,527
Look at it now.
308
00:25:57,233 --> 00:26:00,396
One third of us is gone and
we're halfway through this program.
309
00:26:00,469 --> 00:26:01,458
So what?
310
00:26:02,705 --> 00:26:03,694
Big deal.
311
00:26:06,642 --> 00:26:08,667
I know I'm gonna make it, Leroy.
312
00:26:08,944 --> 00:26:10,639
That's all that matters.
313
00:26:11,180 --> 00:26:12,477
What about you?
314
00:26:13,082 --> 00:26:14,481
You gonna make it?
315
00:26:17,486 --> 00:26:18,680
I don't know.
316
00:26:19,322 --> 00:26:22,291
- What do you mean you don't know?
- I said "I don't know", okay?
317
00:26:22,825 --> 00:26:23,757
No.
318
00:26:27,029 --> 00:26:28,291
It's not okay.
319
00:26:29,532 --> 00:26:31,898
It's the wrong damn answer.
320
00:26:33,869 --> 00:26:36,360
Now, the question is:
"Are you gonna make it?"
321
00:26:36,439 --> 00:26:40,102
'Cause if you don't think you will,
you won't.
322
00:26:41,344 --> 00:26:43,278
And then you will have failed.
323
00:26:43,546 --> 00:26:47,312
You will have failed your family,
you will have failed your friends...
324
00:26:47,383 --> 00:26:51,149
...and most importantly,
you will have failed yourself.
325
00:26:53,589 --> 00:26:54,954
Can you live with that?
326
00:26:55,524 --> 00:26:56,320
No.
327
00:27:06,502 --> 00:27:09,062
Are you going to make it?
328
00:27:11,874 --> 00:27:15,366
- Yeah. I'm gonna make it.
- Say it like you mean it, cadet.
329
00:27:25,588 --> 00:27:27,112
I'm going to make it.
330
00:27:28,891 --> 00:27:32,258
"Flght, flght, flght, flght,
flghtlng 99th
331
00:27:34,797 --> 00:27:36,594
"Down in flames they go
332
00:27:36,766 --> 00:27:39,929
"Fighting men of the 99th
Send them down below
333
00:27:40,002 --> 00:27:44,029
"For we are heroes of the night
To hell with the axer's might
334
00:27:44,673 --> 00:27:48,131
"Fight, fight, fight, fight,
fighting 99th
335
00:27:48,711 --> 00:27:50,611
"Drink up
336
00:27:50,679 --> 00:27:55,343
"Raise those cups to those gallant men
337
00:27:56,752 --> 00:28:00,654
"Fighting cross of flame, oh, God
338
00:28:00,890 --> 00:28:03,120
"Red, white, blue..."
339
00:28:16,105 --> 00:28:18,039
- It's all yours.
- Yes, sir.
340
00:29:07,890 --> 00:29:08,879
Nice turn!
341
00:29:36,652 --> 00:29:39,120
Beg your pardon, sir,
but why are we stopping?
342
00:29:39,188 --> 00:29:41,486
Did the cadet do something wrong, sir?
343
00:29:41,857 --> 00:29:45,759
I'll give you the opportunity of killing
yourself without taking me with you.
344
00:29:45,861 --> 00:29:47,795
You're soloing, cadet!
345
00:29:47,963 --> 00:29:51,694
Give me three circuits around the pattern,
each to a full stop.
346
00:29:54,403 --> 00:29:55,392
Yes, sir!
347
00:31:02,371 --> 00:31:03,360
Damn.
348
00:31:09,511 --> 00:31:11,741
Any questions on the film you just saw?
349
00:31:17,152 --> 00:31:18,346
No questions?
350
00:31:21,390 --> 00:31:26,350
Timidness is a characteristic
that gets fighter pilots killed.
351
00:31:27,563 --> 00:31:28,825
Sir, where's Major Joy?
352
00:31:28,897 --> 00:31:32,389
I was assumed that he was teaching
air combat techniques.
353
00:31:33,969 --> 00:31:35,368
And why is that...
354
00:31:37,072 --> 00:31:38,061
...cadet?
355
00:31:38,907 --> 00:31:41,068
Because he's white and I'm colored?
356
00:31:41,910 --> 00:31:43,673
Come on, spit it out, man.
357
00:31:45,180 --> 00:31:46,442
No disrespect.
358
00:31:47,783 --> 00:31:50,980
It's just a matter of experience, Sir.
359
00:31:56,225 --> 00:31:57,886
Another assumption.
360
00:32:04,266 --> 00:32:06,734
I'm going to give you the facts, cadet.
361
00:32:09,004 --> 00:32:12,371
Out of 150 U.S. Army officers
on this base...
362
00:32:12,841 --> 00:32:17,278
...you are looking at the only one
with actual air combat experience.
363
00:32:20,649 --> 00:32:22,913
I have three 109 kills...
364
00:32:23,552 --> 00:32:27,113
...and I've had a Spitfire and a Hurricane
shot out from under me.
365
00:32:27,389 --> 00:32:29,789
Both times behind enemy lines...
366
00:32:30,359 --> 00:32:32,452
...and both times I escaped.
367
00:32:32,861 --> 00:32:36,592
But the Air Corps didn't allow
colored fliers. How'd you do that?
368
00:32:36,665 --> 00:32:40,931
He went north. Royal Canadian Air Force.
Right, Lieutenant?
369
00:32:41,570 --> 00:32:42,935
Forty-eight missions.
370
00:32:45,107 --> 00:32:48,167
Now, if you don't think I have
anything to teach you...
371
00:32:48,777 --> 00:32:51,302
...you are free to walk out of that door.
372
00:32:54,316 --> 00:32:55,408
My job...
373
00:32:56,919 --> 00:33:00,446
...is to teach you basic air combat tactics.
374
00:33:03,025 --> 00:33:06,552
Your next training machine, the AT-6.
375
00:33:08,497 --> 00:33:10,089
"Bank without a turn."
376
00:33:10,332 --> 00:33:14,325
If you learn nothing else, learn this one.
It will save your life.
377
00:33:15,370 --> 00:33:17,167
It starts with a hard bank.
378
00:33:21,977 --> 00:33:24,810
Peoples,
you're supposed to be tryin' to get away.
379
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:28,772
Yeah? You're lookin' at the man
who put the "dog" in "dogfight."
380
00:33:34,456 --> 00:33:36,219
I got your ass now, Walter.
381
00:33:42,798 --> 00:33:45,062
Walter,
you didn't expect me to fall for that.
382
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:46,662
Fall for this.
383
00:33:52,975 --> 00:33:54,499
Where the hell are you?
384
00:33:54,576 --> 00:33:56,441
Look behind your ass, Iowa.
385
00:34:00,048 --> 00:34:01,538
Bang! You are dead.
386
00:34:02,151 --> 00:34:06,520
- Damn! Where'd you learn that?
- Just made it up, man. Just made it up.
387
00:34:07,356 --> 00:34:10,519
Come on, Peoples.
I don't believe you just made that up.
388
00:34:10,592 --> 00:34:13,891
- Where'd you learn it?
- The same place I learned this.
389
00:34:17,299 --> 00:34:18,459
You're too low!
390
00:34:20,602 --> 00:34:22,297
We can't buzz the field.
391
00:34:22,704 --> 00:34:23,671
Walterl
392
00:34:36,985 --> 00:34:39,579
What's a llttle vlctory roll between frlends?
393
00:34:47,029 --> 00:34:48,758
I don't see we have much choice, Colonel.
394
00:34:49,097 --> 00:34:51,930
I lost one instructor
when Johns crashed and burned.
395
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:54,560
This stunt could have cost us
another plane and pilot.
396
00:34:54,970 --> 00:34:58,064
Besides, I've had my doubts
about cadet Peoples for some time.
397
00:34:58,140 --> 00:35:01,871
He and that boy Hannibal are showboats,
with attitudes that get men killed.
398
00:35:02,778 --> 00:35:04,905
And what do you think, Lieutenant?
399
00:35:08,750 --> 00:35:10,911
It was a damn fool thing to do, sir.
400
00:35:11,820 --> 00:35:14,152
But I've seen the Air Corps overlook worse.
401
00:35:14,756 --> 00:35:17,054
Would you trust him
on your wing in combat?
402
00:35:17,392 --> 00:35:19,257
He's one of the few that I'd trust.
403
00:35:19,661 --> 00:35:23,324
Maybe there's a reason for that,
apart from his flying abilities.
404
00:35:26,235 --> 00:35:29,568
I've flown with white pilots
in actual combat...
405
00:35:30,305 --> 00:35:32,432
...who don't have his skills, sir.
406
00:35:36,578 --> 00:35:40,742
When these men arrived, I told them
no corners would be cut for them.
407
00:35:41,583 --> 00:35:45,075
They're gonna have to be held
to the highest standards of the service.
408
00:35:49,091 --> 00:35:53,619
But is it fair for that standard to be
higher than any other group of men?
409
00:35:55,631 --> 00:35:58,156
It was simple youthful exuberance,
Colonel!
410
00:35:58,367 --> 00:36:00,927
I do a difficult job as well as I can,
Lieutenant.
411
00:36:05,574 --> 00:36:07,303
That'll be all, gentlemen.
412
00:36:14,683 --> 00:36:18,278
- High test scores don't mean everything.
- I said, "That will be all," Major!
413
00:36:23,558 --> 00:36:24,957
Cadets, attention!
414
00:36:38,340 --> 00:36:39,432
I'm sorry.
415
00:36:52,654 --> 00:36:56,488
- Lieutenant...
- I wish there was something I could do.
416
00:37:07,803 --> 00:37:08,599
Walter?
417
00:37:11,707 --> 00:37:12,674
Dismissed.
418
00:37:13,608 --> 00:37:16,076
Walter! Walter!
419
00:37:17,679 --> 00:37:20,477
There's little margin for error here.
420
00:37:21,950 --> 00:37:24,077
I don't see any margin at all, sir.
421
00:37:40,135 --> 00:37:42,433
- Permission to speak, sir.
- What is it?
422
00:37:42,637 --> 00:37:47,301
- I made a mistake. It won't happen again.
- That's right, it won't. You're out.
423
00:37:48,744 --> 00:37:50,974
Colonel, I did something really stupid.
424
00:37:51,079 --> 00:37:54,378
I'll take any punishment, but please
don't put me out of the program.
425
00:37:54,449 --> 00:37:56,076
Son, my hands are tied.
426
00:37:59,955 --> 00:38:01,422
I can't go home like this.
427
00:38:01,957 --> 00:38:02,889
Home?
428
00:38:03,558 --> 00:38:06,550
- I'd send you to the infantry if I could.
- Major!
429
00:38:07,029 --> 00:38:10,487
I got a right to fight
for what I believe in like anybody else.
430
00:38:11,633 --> 00:38:15,831
- I'm the best pilot in this damn place!
- Get a grip! Peoples!
431
00:38:15,904 --> 00:38:17,269
- Peoples!
- Walter!
432
00:38:17,539 --> 00:38:18,528
Peoples!
433
00:38:22,010 --> 00:38:23,637
Peoples, get back here!
434
00:38:25,447 --> 00:38:28,905
Don't do it, Walter! Walter! Come on!
435
00:38:42,397 --> 00:38:45,958
Come graduatlon day,
no name called wlll be hlgher than mlne.
436
00:38:46,068 --> 00:38:47,057
Guaranteed.
437
00:38:59,314 --> 00:39:01,578
Peoples! Get your ass
down here right now!
438
00:39:03,418 --> 00:39:04,385
It's an order!
439
00:39:09,758 --> 00:39:10,656
Peoples!
440
00:39:18,900 --> 00:39:19,889
Peoples!
441
00:39:20,936 --> 00:39:21,994
Pull up, Walter!
442
00:39:33,081 --> 00:39:34,309
Crazy nigger.
443
00:40:24,666 --> 00:40:25,894
You alright?
444
00:40:29,404 --> 00:40:30,632
Look at that.
445
00:40:32,174 --> 00:40:34,074
Took it right after his solo.
446
00:40:35,143 --> 00:40:37,338
I'm gonna send it home to his folks.
447
00:40:39,214 --> 00:40:40,511
Give it a rest.
448
00:40:44,186 --> 00:40:45,983
Let them pack up his things.
449
00:40:47,522 --> 00:40:49,353
- It's not our job!
- No!
450
00:40:49,457 --> 00:40:52,984
Back off, okay?
They'll take care of it. I told you.
451
00:40:55,063 --> 00:40:56,325
They killed him!
452
00:40:56,398 --> 00:40:59,890
Hannibal, they killed him.
Major Joy set out to break him and he did.
453
00:41:00,035 --> 00:41:02,833
Just as clean as if he put
a carbine to his head.
454
00:41:03,505 --> 00:41:05,097
He was my friend, too.
455
00:41:07,342 --> 00:41:08,468
Get off me!
456
00:41:08,843 --> 00:41:10,743
You know he's right, Hannibal.
457
00:41:10,812 --> 00:41:13,713
This shit doesn't make any sense.
Why they even bothering?
458
00:41:13,782 --> 00:41:17,149
- Might as well forget it and send us home.
- You wanna go home, Cappy?
459
00:41:17,252 --> 00:41:18,310
Shove off!
460
00:41:18,687 --> 00:41:20,120
You too, Train, go on!
461
00:41:20,188 --> 00:41:24,522
Tuck your tail between your legs and run
back to Harlem. Make Major Joy happy.
462
00:41:24,826 --> 00:41:26,555
Me too, for that matter!
463
00:41:27,429 --> 00:41:29,522
I'd sooner be here by my Ionesome...
464
00:41:29,831 --> 00:41:33,528
...than to play with a pair of jokers
who can't figure out the game.
465
00:41:34,402 --> 00:41:36,336
Don't you see that's what he wants?
466
00:41:36,404 --> 00:41:39,202
He wants us to quit,
he wants us all to wash out!
467
00:41:40,075 --> 00:41:42,475
I'm not gonna give him the satisfaction.
468
00:41:42,978 --> 00:41:44,707
I came here for one reason.
469
00:41:44,779 --> 00:41:47,543
To do one thing. To learn how to fly!
470
00:41:47,649 --> 00:41:50,277
I'm gonna do that
and I ain't gonna let you stop me.
471
00:41:50,385 --> 00:41:53,013
- I didn't say that.
- Not you, not Major Joy.
472
00:41:53,121 --> 00:41:55,453
Not the goddamn
Commander in Chief himself!
473
00:41:55,523 --> 00:41:56,956
You readin' me, Train?
474
00:41:57,058 --> 00:41:58,150
Attention!
475
00:42:07,669 --> 00:42:08,931
What's going on?
476
00:42:09,037 --> 00:42:11,369
Nothing, sir. Just a little discussion.
477
00:42:12,340 --> 00:42:17,039
While you're cleaning up,
add this to your discussion.
478
00:42:19,681 --> 00:42:21,376
You lost a friend today.
479
00:42:22,384 --> 00:42:24,614
And I understand how you feel.
480
00:42:29,291 --> 00:42:31,225
But you better get over it...
481
00:42:31,393 --> 00:42:32,325
...quick!
482
00:42:34,029 --> 00:42:37,760
Friends die in our business
and for a lot of reasons.
483
00:42:37,999 --> 00:42:42,299
And the only protection you have
against losing one is not to have any.
484
00:42:55,350 --> 00:42:56,476
As you were.
485
00:43:12,634 --> 00:43:15,501
- What's wrong, Cappy?
- I'm losing manifold pressure.
486
00:43:19,341 --> 00:43:21,104
Roberts, break formation.
487
00:43:21,443 --> 00:43:22,467
Yes, sir.
488
00:43:25,413 --> 00:43:27,278
Lieutenant Glenn, it's pretty bad.
489
00:43:30,452 --> 00:43:31,783
I gotta put her down.
490
00:43:32,554 --> 00:43:34,818
We passed a country road
about a mile back.
491
00:43:35,290 --> 00:43:36,450
Stay wlth hlm, Lee.
492
00:43:37,359 --> 00:43:38,348
Yes, slr.
493
00:43:42,564 --> 00:43:44,657
Comin' around on your other wing.
494
00:43:48,036 --> 00:43:49,333
Hang on, Cappy.
495
00:44:06,888 --> 00:44:08,719
Keep workin' at that hill!
496
00:44:47,128 --> 00:44:48,322
Them's our boys.
497
00:44:52,867 --> 00:44:54,357
Get off the road!
498
00:44:55,036 --> 00:44:56,367
Give 'em room.
499
00:44:56,471 --> 00:44:58,530
I said move it, damnit!
500
00:45:25,467 --> 00:45:26,957
Just a little engine trouble.
501
00:45:28,603 --> 00:45:31,766
Son of a bitch, they're niggers.
502
00:45:45,553 --> 00:45:47,384
They's colored fliers.
503
00:45:57,465 --> 00:45:58,932
Lieutenant Roberts.
504
00:45:59,601 --> 00:46:01,125
Congratulations, sir.
505
00:46:10,111 --> 00:46:11,840
Lieutenant Thompson, sir.
506
00:46:14,616 --> 00:46:16,106
Congratulations, Lieutenant.
507
00:46:19,921 --> 00:46:21,286
Lieutenant Cappy.
508
00:46:24,826 --> 00:46:27,454
- Congratulations, Lieutenant.
- Thank you, sir.
509
00:46:33,968 --> 00:46:35,526
Lieutenant Lee.
510
00:46:41,109 --> 00:46:43,577
- Congratulations, Lieutenant.
- Thank you, Colonel.
511
00:46:50,952 --> 00:46:52,510
Thank you, Lieutenant.
512
00:46:55,690 --> 00:46:59,126
What you men have accomplished,
given the odds against it...
513
00:46:59,727 --> 00:47:02,355
...your friends back home
could only dream about.
514
00:47:02,864 --> 00:47:06,459
And your families watchin' today
never imagined.
515
00:47:07,835 --> 00:47:12,829
You are among a select few who will ever
know the honor of serving their country...
516
00:47:13,308 --> 00:47:15,105
...in the realm of flight.
517
00:47:16,344 --> 00:47:20,610
You are now United States Army
Air Corps aviators.
518
00:47:23,785 --> 00:47:26,253
For that achievement, I congratulate you.
519
00:47:37,031 --> 00:47:39,022
"Down In fllght they go
520
00:47:39,133 --> 00:47:40,930
"Gallant men of the 99th
521
00:47:41,069 --> 00:47:44,664
"Send them down belowl
For we are heroes of the nlght
522
00:47:44,973 --> 00:47:46,941
"To hell wlth the axer's mlght
523
00:47:47,108 --> 00:47:48,507
"Flght..."
524
00:47:49,377 --> 00:47:56,681
We Amerlcans wlll contrlbute unlfled
acceptance of sacrlflce and of effort.
525
00:47:56,784 --> 00:48:01,312
That means a natlonal unlty
that can know no llmltatlons...
526
00:48:01,556 --> 00:48:05,083
... of race or creed or selflsh polltlcs.
527
00:48:05,393 --> 00:48:09,295
The Amerlcan people expect that much
from themselves.
528
00:48:10,164 --> 00:48:11,654
Thls meetlng Is adjourned.
529
00:48:24,879 --> 00:48:26,744
I understand your position, Beach.
530
00:48:26,914 --> 00:48:30,873
But it's a very sticky subject.
Particularly in the Negro press.
531
00:48:31,119 --> 00:48:35,078
And I've said this committee should not
be concerned with the Negro press.
532
00:48:35,256 --> 00:48:38,919
However,
I know a dead horse when I beat one.
533
00:48:40,094 --> 00:48:44,929
So I think this might inject a little
courage to our more timid colleagues.
534
00:48:45,900 --> 00:48:46,832
What's that?
535
00:48:46,901 --> 00:48:51,361
It's a scientific study that I commissioned
by the anthropology department...
536
00:48:51,472 --> 00:48:54,168
...of one of our most
prestigious Universities.
537
00:48:54,776 --> 00:48:59,679
The credentials of its authors are as
unimpeachable as its conclusions. Look.
538
00:49:00,048 --> 00:49:03,677
The intellectual capacity of the Negro
to operate complicated machinery...
539
00:49:03,785 --> 00:49:07,983
...i.e. a front line war plane,
is questionable.
540
00:49:08,089 --> 00:49:10,819
Smaller blood vessels
in the Negro translates...
541
00:49:10,892 --> 00:49:14,259
...to restricted blood supply
and problems in severe maneuvers.
542
00:49:14,962 --> 00:49:18,659
There are documented reports of
mysterious training crashes at Tuskegee.
543
00:49:18,733 --> 00:49:21,668
Blacking out and losing control
might very well explain them.
544
00:49:21,769 --> 00:49:23,134
Might very well.
545
00:49:24,605 --> 00:49:27,631
- When does the committee get the report?
- In due time.
546
00:49:28,142 --> 00:49:31,600
Right now it's under lock and key.
I got a few more ducks to line up...
547
00:49:31,713 --> 00:49:33,442
...before I make my move.
548
00:49:33,781 --> 00:49:37,342
And see that this Tuskegee nonsense
is brought to an end.
549
00:49:38,586 --> 00:49:42,181
As God as my witness,
those boys will never see combat.
550
00:49:48,096 --> 00:49:52,032
You know you better get that part looked
at before you're ready to solo!
551
00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:53,424
Yes, sir!
552
00:50:00,408 --> 00:50:03,935
General Stevenson, I wish I had
more time to prepare for this visit, sir.
553
00:50:04,045 --> 00:50:05,945
So in the hell do I, Colonel.
554
00:50:13,321 --> 00:50:14,618
Mrs. Roosevelt.
555
00:50:14,989 --> 00:50:17,617
Colonel Rogers is
the Commanding Officer of Tuskegee.
556
00:50:17,859 --> 00:50:21,488
As I said on the phone, the
First Lady is here to look at the operations.
557
00:50:21,763 --> 00:50:25,460
A little background might help
before we start with a tour of the facilities.
558
00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:28,831
The field sits on 1600 acres,
one of the largest in the country.
559
00:50:28,903 --> 00:50:31,963
How would you gauge
the progress of your colored flyers?
560
00:50:34,108 --> 00:50:37,600
Their progress is commensurate with
the standards of the training command.
561
00:50:37,845 --> 00:50:41,303
Plain English.
Does that mean you are or aren't satisfied?
562
00:50:42,583 --> 00:50:44,642
- I'm very satisfied, ma'am.
- Good.
563
00:50:44,886 --> 00:50:47,320
Then I want a ride in one of your airplanes.
564
00:50:51,459 --> 00:50:54,792
Major, take the First Lady up
in that Stearman over there.
565
00:50:54,896 --> 00:50:57,194
- Take a couple of loops around the field.
- No.
566
00:50:57,265 --> 00:50:58,960
I want to ride with him.
567
00:51:08,309 --> 00:51:12,006
Is there a problem, gentlemen?
I thought you said these men were trained.
568
00:51:12,346 --> 00:51:16,339
The addition of an old lady in the
rear seat won't unravel that confidence.
569
00:51:16,651 --> 00:51:17,709
No, ma'am.
570
00:51:18,152 --> 00:51:19,050
Good.
571
00:51:19,487 --> 00:51:23,048
When I'm finished you can also tell
me why these pilots are still here...
572
00:51:23,424 --> 00:51:27,656
...and not overseas fighting
for their country like the rest of our boys.
573
00:51:47,048 --> 00:51:48,777
Mrs. Roosevelt, Lieutenant Lee.
574
00:51:49,617 --> 00:51:52,085
- Good afternoon, young man.
- Good afternoon, ma'am.
575
00:51:52,987 --> 00:51:55,751
It's turned into a beautiful day
for an airplane ride.
576
00:51:57,792 --> 00:51:58,918
Yes, ma'am.
577
00:52:08,569 --> 00:52:10,730
That isn't who I think it is, is it?
578
00:52:10,805 --> 00:52:14,002
Lieutenant Lee's about to
make all your dreams come true.
579
00:52:14,442 --> 00:52:15,807
What do you mean?
580
00:52:16,844 --> 00:52:19,210
Take a good look around you, gentlemen.
581
00:52:19,881 --> 00:52:23,510
I suspect Alabama will soon become
a fond memory.
582
00:52:24,619 --> 00:52:25,608
Hold it, please.
583
00:52:27,188 --> 00:52:28,155
Smile.
584
00:53:17,838 --> 00:53:21,934
Don't tell me I spelled your name wrong.
I mean, how can you screw up "Lee"?
585
00:53:22,476 --> 00:53:24,205
No, you spelled it right.
586
00:53:25,479 --> 00:53:30,109
- I just never had my own plane before.
- Well, it's not yours, Lieutenant, it's mine.
587
00:53:30,351 --> 00:53:32,945
I put your name on it
so you think it's yours.
588
00:53:33,587 --> 00:53:35,282
Sergeant Toby Wills, sir.
589
00:53:37,024 --> 00:53:39,117
Your Crew Chief. Call me "Tank."
590
00:53:39,293 --> 00:53:41,318
Nice to meet you, Tank. I'm Hannibal.
591
00:53:41,395 --> 00:53:45,229
Don't you worry, I'll take care of
your plane just like it was my own.
592
00:53:57,945 --> 00:54:00,175
I want to welcome you
men to North Africa.
593
00:54:00,514 --> 00:54:04,746
For those of you who don't know me,
I'm Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin O. Davis.
594
00:54:05,286 --> 00:54:07,652
Commander of the 99th Pursuit Squadron.
595
00:54:08,956 --> 00:54:12,915
Tomorrow you'll get an opportunity
to meet the entire 33rd Fighter Group.
596
00:54:14,829 --> 00:54:18,856
Despite the long
and hard road you've traveled...
597
00:54:20,468 --> 00:54:23,767
...and the many obstacles that
have been thrown in your path...
598
00:54:24,605 --> 00:54:26,163
...you have...
599
00:54:27,074 --> 00:54:28,063
...arrived!
600
00:54:31,746 --> 00:54:33,941
I want you to know I'm proud of you.
601
00:54:36,784 --> 00:54:38,376
Welcome to the war, gentlemen.
602
00:54:42,223 --> 00:54:45,454
It's a long day, man.
I'll be glad to get some sleep.
603
00:54:47,194 --> 00:54:48,889
Now there's a class act.
604
00:54:49,130 --> 00:54:50,995
- You said it, brother.
- B.O. Davis.
605
00:54:51,098 --> 00:54:53,658
He's a lot shorter than what I pictured.
606
00:54:53,768 --> 00:54:56,532
- West Point will do that to a colored man.
- What do you mean?
607
00:54:56,604 --> 00:55:00,563
He was silenced the entire time that he
was at West Point. Nobody talked to him.
608
00:55:00,775 --> 00:55:03,608
- But he never gave up, just kept on in.
- That's right.
609
00:55:03,677 --> 00:55:07,875
- Like Walter said, "Just a matter of focus."
- Hey, Train, we're startin' up!
610
00:55:08,182 --> 00:55:10,810
Poker calls, gents. Gotta take the pot.
611
00:55:11,385 --> 00:55:12,750
Good luck, Billy.
612
00:55:19,427 --> 00:55:23,761
You know, it's so beautiful out here.
I shoulda brought my watercolors.
613
00:55:27,535 --> 00:55:29,833
You'd never know
there was a war goin' on.
614
00:55:33,307 --> 00:55:35,935
- You guys stay closer in formation.
- Yes, sir!
615
00:55:36,110 --> 00:55:39,045
- Well, time to pay the dances.
- You got that right.
616
00:55:40,681 --> 00:55:41,909
How you doin?
617
00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:49,546
Lift off time is zero seven-hundred.
Lieutenant?
618
00:55:53,894 --> 00:55:55,327
It's the buffalo soldiers.
619
00:55:57,264 --> 00:55:59,095
A day late and a dollar short.
620
00:56:00,968 --> 00:56:02,128
Take a seat.
621
00:56:03,170 --> 00:56:04,194
Yes, sir.
622
00:56:12,246 --> 00:56:14,146
I guess we can begin our briefing.
623
00:56:14,315 --> 00:56:16,613
Why wasn't I informed
the briefing was earlier?
624
00:56:16,951 --> 00:56:20,387
You and your men are expected to read
the board just like everyone else.
625
00:56:20,821 --> 00:56:22,311
The board said, "0600".
626
00:56:22,957 --> 00:56:24,481
I'd look again, Colonel.
627
00:56:27,194 --> 00:56:28,559
They changed it.
628
00:56:28,996 --> 00:56:31,726
Same-ol', same-ol'.
Might as well be back in Alabama.
629
00:56:31,799 --> 00:56:33,960
- Lee, Roberts, Cappy.
- Sir.
630
00:56:34,068 --> 00:56:36,502
We're flying. You're up.
Follow me for instructions.
631
00:56:36,570 --> 00:56:37,502
Yes, sir.
632
00:57:21,115 --> 00:57:24,209
We've got a rall yard
that has to be taken out.
633
00:57:24,518 --> 00:57:28,386
German target dlvlslons have been
klckln' the shlt out of our ground forces.
634
00:57:28,455 --> 00:57:31,253
But are now low on fuel and munltlons.
635
00:57:31,759 --> 00:57:34,125
G2 thlnks thls yard Is the supply depot.
636
00:57:34,195 --> 00:57:37,028
Our job Is to make
those supplles dlsappear.
637
00:58:21,675 --> 00:58:24,542
Target's comin' up just ahead,
over that ridge.
638
00:58:25,813 --> 00:58:28,782
You gotta knock out
the German supply trains, it's the target.
639
00:58:29,016 --> 00:58:30,540
Five miles to target.
640
00:58:32,386 --> 00:58:34,752
Okay. Let's show him what we're made of.
641
00:58:35,990 --> 00:58:37,480
Go get 'em, Hannlbal.
642
00:58:39,159 --> 00:58:41,753
Easy, Hannibal, easy.
643
00:58:42,429 --> 00:58:44,294
Ready and fire!
644
00:58:46,967 --> 00:58:47,865
Yeah!
645
00:58:51,272 --> 00:58:52,864
Let's hit 'em again!
646
00:59:00,214 --> 00:59:02,114
Beautiful! Look at that!
647
00:59:04,585 --> 00:59:08,521
Yeah! Come on you son of a bitch!
I got your mama!
648
00:59:28,208 --> 00:59:30,836
For your first mission
you guys did damn good.
649
00:59:30,978 --> 00:59:33,538
I see Lieutenant Glenn trained you well.
I like that.
650
00:59:34,348 --> 00:59:38,148
- Thank you, sir.
- Nine months of practice didn't hurt, sir.
651
00:59:40,354 --> 00:59:42,515
I'd check that attitude, Lieutenant.
652
00:59:46,560 --> 00:59:51,122
Go get your sleep.
We have a briefing tomorrow at 0530.
653
01:00:01,508 --> 01:00:03,339
Remember to check your fuel.
654
01:00:03,844 --> 01:00:06,711
This one will stretch our range.
Don't suck your tanks dry.
655
01:00:06,780 --> 01:00:09,044
Or it's a long camel ride back home.
656
01:00:09,516 --> 01:00:12,542
You fellas stay in tight formation.
There's safety in numbers.
657
01:00:12,653 --> 01:00:15,554
Safety from what, sir? A circling buzzard?
658
01:00:15,656 --> 01:00:17,851
I haven't seen a Jerry
since we've been here.
659
01:00:17,958 --> 01:00:20,324
That doesn't mean they're not out there.
660
01:00:20,461 --> 01:00:24,261
Dual targets this morning.
The German airfield and the power station.
661
01:00:24,331 --> 01:00:26,561
- Turn out the lights!
- Excuse me, Colonel Davis.
662
01:00:26,867 --> 01:00:27,561
Yes?
663
01:00:27,634 --> 01:00:30,296
When do you think
we'll be seein' some air combat, sir?
664
01:00:31,205 --> 01:00:34,003
- You in a hurry to die, Lieutenant Lee?
- No, sir.
665
01:00:34,074 --> 01:00:36,542
But we've been doing nothing
but ground runs.
666
01:00:36,610 --> 01:00:39,909
The white units have already rotated
out to France. Why haven't we?
667
01:00:40,314 --> 01:00:44,216
If you're not in a hurry to die,
you must have somethin' to prove.
668
01:00:45,052 --> 01:00:48,351
With all due respect
to the Colonel as a West Point graduate...
669
01:00:48,856 --> 01:00:53,520
...your father being the first Negro
appointed General to the US Military...
670
01:00:54,328 --> 01:00:56,387
...I think we all have something to prove.
671
01:00:56,830 --> 01:01:01,824
Don't you dream of jeopardizing
this mission with your glory seekin'.
672
01:01:04,538 --> 01:01:05,937
Do you understand?
673
01:01:08,308 --> 01:01:09,332
Yes, sir.
674
01:01:19,353 --> 01:01:21,253
Goln' after the flrst target.
675
01:01:24,324 --> 01:01:25,723
We caught 'em on the ground!
676
01:01:25,826 --> 01:01:27,418
Clip his wings, Cappy!
677
01:01:30,764 --> 01:01:32,425
Ready or not, I'm rollin' in.
678
01:01:35,803 --> 01:01:38,772
I have a little somethin'
from Uncle Sam for you, Jerry.
679
01:01:38,906 --> 01:01:41,466
Take that you Nazi bastard!
680
01:01:44,344 --> 01:01:46,574
I'm goin' after the power station!
681
01:01:47,981 --> 01:01:50,506
I got it! I got it!
682
01:01:55,055 --> 01:01:56,750
Alright, let's head for home.
683
01:02:31,358 --> 01:02:32,052
Hey, fellas.
684
01:02:32,993 --> 01:02:34,620
- Colonel wants to see us.
- Us?
685
01:02:34,962 --> 01:02:36,793
Yeah, you guys, me.
686
01:02:37,364 --> 01:02:40,492
Lieutenants Lee, Cappy and Roberts
reporting as ordered, General.
687
01:02:40,801 --> 01:02:42,530
Gentlemen, relax, have a seat.
688
01:02:48,108 --> 01:02:51,009
I'm General Stevenson,
this is Senator Conyers.
689
01:02:53,447 --> 01:02:57,349
General, I believe we've met before.
Back at Tuskegee with Mrs. Roosevelt.
690
01:02:58,385 --> 01:03:00,615
- You're the one who took her up?
- Yes, sir.
691
01:03:00,721 --> 01:03:04,350
- She could barrel roll with the best of 'em.
- And just what would that mean?
692
01:03:05,292 --> 01:03:06,554
It's a maneuver, sir.
693
01:03:07,628 --> 01:03:10,290
Gentlemen, we all have things to do,
so let's move on.
694
01:03:10,797 --> 01:03:15,496
The Senator and I are on a final swing of
a fact-finding tour through the war zone.
695
01:03:16,069 --> 01:03:18,003
We wanna see how you are settling in.
696
01:03:18,105 --> 01:03:22,166
We've been gettin' reports
which require some clarification.
697
01:03:24,144 --> 01:03:26,135
We have critics back in the States.
698
01:03:26,246 --> 01:03:31,206
- I wasn't aware of any criticism, sir.
- Well, let me make you aware.
699
01:03:33,253 --> 01:03:35,118
Inability to locate targets.
700
01:03:35,689 --> 01:03:38,624
Failure to press home attacks
or find secondary targets...
701
01:03:38,759 --> 01:03:42,661
...when the first is obscured.
Attitude problems with fellow officers.
702
01:03:42,963 --> 01:03:44,863
Poor formation discipline counters.
703
01:03:44,932 --> 01:03:46,900
- Excuse me?
- Lieutenant!
704
01:03:51,605 --> 01:03:52,594
Senator, I...
705
01:03:52,706 --> 01:03:54,765
I'm here to have a talk with the pilots.
706
01:03:55,242 --> 01:03:58,643
I'm not interested in practiced excuses.
I thought I made that clear.
707
01:04:03,550 --> 01:04:06,212
Where do you guys thlnk
they'll reasslgn Colonel Davls?
708
01:04:06,853 --> 01:04:10,846
- We don't know he's been reassigned.
- I don't see him out here anywhere.
709
01:04:11,692 --> 01:04:15,128
They're probably gonna punish him
by stickin' him behind a desk.
710
01:04:15,362 --> 01:04:17,455
It's the worst thing you could do to a pilot.
711
01:04:18,065 --> 01:04:20,533
It would sure as shootin' kill me.
712
01:04:24,838 --> 01:04:26,499
Shit! Bandits, two o'clock.
713
01:04:29,643 --> 01:04:30,803
109's!
714
01:04:33,580 --> 01:04:36,140
Finally some action! Let's get 'em boys!
715
01:04:38,585 --> 01:04:39,574
Leroy.
716
01:04:40,954 --> 01:04:42,888
Cappy, get back in formation now!
717
01:04:43,056 --> 01:04:46,492
They're probably just recon,
they won't attack us If we stlck together.
718
01:04:46,560 --> 01:04:48,187
Here's our chance for some kills!
719
01:04:52,866 --> 01:04:55,460
They're gonna isolate him!
They're gonna cut him off!
720
01:05:00,941 --> 01:05:02,932
Damnl Come on, Traln. Let's go.
721
01:05:06,013 --> 01:05:10,040
-Cappy, there's one on your tall.
- Get him off me, Hannibal. I got this one.
722
01:05:15,689 --> 01:05:17,350
Hannibal, help me!
723
01:05:22,929 --> 01:05:25,625
- I'm hit!
- Hang on, Cappy.
724
01:05:28,735 --> 01:05:32,899
Come on, Jerry. You wanna fight?
Fight me. I'll give you a fight!
725
01:05:32,973 --> 01:05:35,339
I got you dead in my sight
you son of a bitch!
726
01:05:39,312 --> 01:05:42,406
- The Jerrles are runnln' homel
- Cappy? Cappy talk to me!
727
01:05:43,083 --> 01:05:47,213
Oh, shit! Now the plane is...
Hannibal, help me!
728
01:05:47,921 --> 01:05:50,947
Leroy, don't panic! Don't panic, Leroy!
729
01:05:53,160 --> 01:05:54,388
Cappy, jump!
730
01:05:56,730 --> 01:05:58,664
Bail, Leroy! Bail!
731
01:06:06,239 --> 01:06:07,467
Cappy!
732
01:06:54,554 --> 01:06:58,547
The Negro has been observed to have
a chlldlsh and lmpulslve character.
733
01:06:58,692 --> 01:07:01,786
Now, gentlemen,
you must agree that this report is...
734
01:07:01,962 --> 01:07:03,486
...highly inflammatory.
735
01:07:03,597 --> 01:07:06,725
I have on my desk
a War Department memo...
736
01:07:07,067 --> 01:07:10,798
...on a colored pilot
recently shot down in North Africa...
737
01:07:10,871 --> 01:07:15,399
...after breaking formation.
As a description, impulsive...
738
01:07:16,476 --> 01:07:19,377
...quite appears
the appropriate terminology.
739
01:07:19,913 --> 01:07:24,577
Maybe, but this report smacks
of a singular point of view.
740
01:07:24,718 --> 01:07:28,210
All points of view are singular
if they're not to your liking, Senator.
741
01:07:28,388 --> 01:07:31,016
Meanwhile,
I've got constituents who wonder why...
742
01:07:31,458 --> 01:07:34,985
...when they're sufferin'
from war rationin' and over taxation...
743
01:07:35,061 --> 01:07:39,623
...why we're spendin' their tax dollars
on a bunch of college educated niggers...
744
01:07:39,699 --> 01:07:43,226
...who've convinced the press
that they can fly expensive war planes.
745
01:07:44,771 --> 01:07:46,136
Gentlemen.
746
01:07:46,673 --> 01:07:51,337
This experiment certainly
had noble beginnings.
747
01:07:52,779 --> 01:07:55,304
But failures are evident and glaring.
748
01:07:58,819 --> 01:08:01,879
Perhaps we should abandon
this project until after the war...
749
01:08:01,988 --> 01:08:05,822
...when calmer conditions will allow
for more thoughtful approach.
750
01:08:08,061 --> 01:08:09,028
Where you goin'?
751
01:08:10,330 --> 01:08:14,733
To give the representative of the accused
an opportunity to defend himself.
752
01:08:40,327 --> 01:08:42,056
General Stevenson you know.
753
01:08:42,495 --> 01:08:45,328
This is Lieutenant
Colonel Benjamin O. Davis...
754
01:08:45,398 --> 01:08:48,231
...the Commanding Officer
of the squadron in question.
755
01:08:49,236 --> 01:08:50,225
Be seated.
756
01:08:56,343 --> 01:08:58,868
Colonel, you are aware of the accusations...
757
01:08:59,346 --> 01:09:04,010
...such as: malaise and fatigue
in the face of little enemy contact?
758
01:09:04,751 --> 01:09:08,778
We've been in continuous combat
for months with no replacements, sir.
759
01:09:09,990 --> 01:09:11,548
My men are tired.
760
01:09:11,892 --> 01:09:14,520
Other units get four fresh bodies a month...
761
01:09:14,794 --> 01:09:18,389
...but something always goes wrong
with our paperwork or movement orders.
762
01:09:18,465 --> 01:09:22,561
- How many missions have your men flown?
- Most have flown well over fifty.
763
01:09:22,636 --> 01:09:25,969
That's the standard cut-off point
for white pilots to be sent home.
764
01:09:26,039 --> 01:09:30,135
- And your men are still flying?
- They don't know what else to do with us.
765
01:09:32,145 --> 01:09:35,603
White pilots rotate back to the States
as instructors.
766
01:09:35,916 --> 01:09:39,818
But since the Army won't allow
colored pilots to train white cadets...
767
01:09:39,886 --> 01:09:41,319
Nine months of training.
768
01:09:42,956 --> 01:09:45,424
Countless missions in Africa...
769
01:09:45,892 --> 01:09:49,384
...and not one air to air kill. Is that right?
770
01:09:49,763 --> 01:09:51,697
We can't fight what we don't see.
771
01:09:52,198 --> 01:09:54,462
We're so far from front line action...
772
01:09:54,534 --> 01:09:56,627
...we rarely encounter an enemy plane...
773
01:09:56,703 --> 01:09:58,796
...let alone the opportunity to engage one.
774
01:09:59,072 --> 01:10:01,870
You recently lost a pilot
who cut and ran from...
775
01:10:02,876 --> 01:10:05,674
...what, an imaginary Messerschmitt?
776
01:10:07,247 --> 01:10:09,875
Those men understand
Lieutenant Cappy's action...
777
01:10:10,383 --> 01:10:13,841
...was a mistake.
- Mistakes are all we see, young man.
778
01:10:14,387 --> 01:10:18,187
Late for mission briefings,
piss poor discipline and leadership...
779
01:10:18,358 --> 01:10:20,326
...and nothin' but excuses.
780
01:10:20,760 --> 01:10:22,887
I see a unit that is an embarrassment...
781
01:10:22,963 --> 01:10:26,364
...to the Air Corps, to the American people
and to themselves!
782
01:10:26,766 --> 01:10:30,827
Might I remind you gentlemen
that this war is by no means won.
783
01:10:30,904 --> 01:10:33,168
And this sad experiment...
784
01:10:33,540 --> 01:10:36,202
...is a drain and a hindrance to that effort.
785
01:10:38,478 --> 01:10:41,879
My vote is that we abandon the project
and move the agenda.
786
01:10:43,650 --> 01:10:46,175
All we asked for was a chance
to prove ourselves.
787
01:10:46,319 --> 01:10:48,219
A fair and impartial opportunity.
788
01:10:48,288 --> 01:10:49,880
We thought we had that chance.
789
01:10:49,990 --> 01:10:52,982
But you invite us to a poker game,
hand us a fixed deck...
790
01:10:53,126 --> 01:10:54,684
...and then wonder why we can't win?
791
01:10:54,761 --> 01:10:57,525
- Young man, we really don't...
- Let him finish, sir.
792
01:11:01,468 --> 01:11:03,629
Every colored pilot in the 99th...
793
01:11:03,703 --> 01:11:06,536
...went through his own private hell
to wear those wings.
794
01:11:07,741 --> 01:11:09,333
Each of those men carry...
795
01:11:09,409 --> 01:11:13,106
...not only the dream
of becoming American Military Aviators...
796
01:11:13,179 --> 01:11:16,376
...but the hopes
of an entire people as well.
797
01:11:17,951 --> 01:11:20,920
Am I the only one here
that understands what that means?
798
01:11:25,091 --> 01:11:28,492
I was brought up to believe
that beneath it all...
799
01:11:29,496 --> 01:11:31,760
...Americans are a decent people...
800
01:11:32,866 --> 01:11:35,391
...with an abiding sense of
integrity and fair play.
801
01:11:35,602 --> 01:11:39,038
The cheers I heard across this country
when Joe Louis and Jesse Owens...
802
01:11:39,105 --> 01:11:41,938
...humiliated Hitler's "Master Race"...
803
01:11:42,642 --> 01:11:45,509
...didn't just come
from proud colored folks.
804
01:11:46,946 --> 01:11:48,675
They came from everyone.
805
01:11:50,083 --> 01:11:52,278
How are we to interpret that?
806
01:11:54,587 --> 01:11:56,384
As a United States Army Officer...
807
01:11:56,489 --> 01:11:59,481
...who gladly puts his life
on the line everyday...
808
01:12:00,226 --> 01:12:02,854
...there's no greater conflict within me.
809
01:12:04,197 --> 01:12:06,665
How do I feel about my country?
810
01:12:07,867 --> 01:12:09,698
And how does my country...
811
01:12:11,471 --> 01:12:13,371
...feel about me?
812
01:12:16,142 --> 01:12:19,805
Are we only to be Americans
when the mood suits you?
813
01:12:22,315 --> 01:12:25,944
A fair and impartial opportunity
is all we ask.
814
01:12:26,519 --> 01:12:31,616
Nothing that you yourselves
wouldn't demand.
815
01:12:48,575 --> 01:12:52,102
THE U.S. 22ND BOMB GROUP
OVER NORTHERN ITALY
816
01:12:54,747 --> 01:12:57,341
Vance, we got another one
comin' in high over here!
817
01:12:59,919 --> 01:13:02,046
He's on your side, pick him off!
818
01:13:04,791 --> 01:13:06,452
I got two of 'em breakln' upl
819
01:13:06,526 --> 01:13:07,720
Son of a bitch!
820
01:13:08,928 --> 01:13:09,792
I lost him!
821
01:13:10,930 --> 01:13:12,227
I got one at nlne o'clockl
822
01:13:12,565 --> 01:13:14,624
Oh, my God! No! No!
823
01:13:15,869 --> 01:13:18,360
Number three's losing MP!
824
01:13:22,509 --> 01:13:24,875
Damnit, I'm feathering!
825
01:13:29,082 --> 01:13:31,482
Look out. There's another one.
826
01:13:36,556 --> 01:13:38,717
Man, he's hit bad!
827
01:13:39,025 --> 01:13:41,892
Kansas,
there's all kinds of hits back at the wing!
828
01:13:42,395 --> 01:13:43,191
Kansas!
829
01:13:44,964 --> 01:13:47,489
I got two Jerries comin' in high!
830
01:13:53,206 --> 01:13:55,834
- Shit! I'm goin' back!
- No, no! I need you up here!
831
01:13:56,075 --> 01:13:57,099
Damnit!
832
01:13:58,378 --> 01:14:01,074
- Where the hell is our escort?
- I never saw them!
833
01:14:01,948 --> 01:14:03,176
Son of a bitch!
834
01:14:08,388 --> 01:14:09,480
Hold on!
835
01:14:09,622 --> 01:14:11,249
Hold on, back there!
836
01:14:11,791 --> 01:14:15,056
Shit! Shit!
Vance, let's get this thing home!
837
01:14:15,828 --> 01:14:17,887
Okay. We're goin' home!
838
01:14:59,305 --> 01:15:01,273
Master switch off.
839
01:15:15,922 --> 01:15:17,389
Shit.
840
01:15:18,258 --> 01:15:20,522
God, Wally. Wally!
841
01:15:25,265 --> 01:15:26,562
Kansas?
842
01:15:27,233 --> 01:15:28,564
Kansas?
843
01:15:40,546 --> 01:15:43,947
If it's any consolation,
the word's in it was a good strike.
844
01:15:45,084 --> 01:15:47,279
I lost half my crew up there, Colonel.
845
01:15:47,487 --> 01:15:49,955
In my book that's the shit end of the stick.
846
01:15:52,692 --> 01:15:55,422
The fighter escort never even made
the rendezvous point.
847
01:15:55,662 --> 01:15:59,621
They ran into some trouble en route,
took some heavy casualties of their own.
848
01:15:59,732 --> 01:16:01,029
Damn!
849
01:16:01,501 --> 01:16:03,799
They always got some sort of excuse.
850
01:16:04,470 --> 01:16:06,665
Me, I got parts of four kids all over...
851
01:16:06,939 --> 01:16:09,908
...the Italian countryside
'cause of their limp dick excuses.
852
01:16:09,976 --> 01:16:12,501
Captain, you're forgettin' yourself.
853
01:16:16,883 --> 01:16:18,874
Attention!
854
01:16:23,990 --> 01:16:25,651
Take your seats, gentlemen.
855
01:16:26,292 --> 01:16:28,988
Son of a bitch, the Colonel's gone full bird.
856
01:16:29,429 --> 01:16:32,296
I have good news,
and I have not so good news.
857
01:16:32,699 --> 01:16:37,432
The good news, we've been reassigned
to the European theatre. We'll go to Italy.
858
01:16:37,904 --> 01:16:40,168
- Finally, we're gonna see some action.
- Yes.
859
01:16:40,273 --> 01:16:43,640
However, there will be some changes.
Once in Italy...
860
01:16:43,943 --> 01:16:48,277
...the 99th pursuit squadron will
join three new squadrons from Tuskegee...
861
01:16:48,381 --> 01:16:51,839
...the 100th, 301st
and 302nd fighter squadrons...
862
01:16:51,918 --> 01:16:55,251
...will now comprise
the 332nd fighter group.
863
01:16:55,355 --> 01:16:58,188
They're all colored units,
we're gonna be segregated again.
864
01:16:58,291 --> 01:17:01,260
In addition our mission has changed.
865
01:17:01,394 --> 01:17:04,192
From dive-bombing to bomber escort.
866
01:17:04,764 --> 01:17:08,860
Why has our mission changed, sir?
Why all of a sudden are we chaperons?
867
01:17:08,968 --> 01:17:12,904
Their flying fortresses are taking
heavy losses and need effective cover.
868
01:17:13,272 --> 01:17:16,139
Sir, why don't they let
the white pilots cover them?
869
01:17:16,209 --> 01:17:20,942
I don't have time to lay it all out for you.
I will say this.
870
01:17:21,714 --> 01:17:25,582
This entire unit came within
a hillbilly's heartbeat of goin' home.
871
01:17:26,753 --> 01:17:30,018
And, if certain people had their way,
coming back carrying rifles...
872
01:17:30,089 --> 01:17:32,887
...if we came back at all.
873
01:17:47,774 --> 01:17:49,742
Say, you fellas with the 99th?
874
01:17:49,842 --> 01:17:50,570
Yeah.
875
01:17:50,676 --> 01:17:52,576
Reggie Miller, 332nd.
876
01:17:52,645 --> 01:17:55,671
Hannibal Lee, nice to meet you.
This is Billy Roberts.
877
01:17:56,682 --> 01:17:58,013
Call me, "Train."
878
01:17:58,151 --> 01:18:02,212
Hey, Train.
Well, fellas, welcome to Ramitelli.
879
01:18:02,355 --> 01:18:04,084
Right this way.
880
01:18:05,591 --> 01:18:07,149
You mean, "Rami damn Telli."
881
01:18:28,381 --> 01:18:30,645
It's about time you showed up, Lieutenant.
882
01:18:30,750 --> 01:18:33,583
- I thought I shook you in North Africa.
- Not a chance, sir.
883
01:18:34,387 --> 01:18:36,947
- It's good to see you, Tank.
- Good to see you, sir.
884
01:18:37,089 --> 01:18:38,818
I've something to show you later.
885
01:18:38,925 --> 01:18:41,860
- Alright. See you out at the flight line.
- Take care, sir.
886
01:18:45,331 --> 01:18:46,525
Lieutenant Lee.
887
01:18:47,366 --> 01:18:48,264
Sir.
888
01:18:48,668 --> 01:18:53,071
I depend on you and the others in the 99th
to show some guidance and leadership.
889
01:18:53,139 --> 01:18:56,870
These kids just came from Tuskegee
and they still say their prayers at night.
890
01:18:56,976 --> 01:18:59,410
So do us all a favor
and give 'em some help.
891
01:18:59,812 --> 01:19:00,710
Roger, sir.
892
01:19:03,850 --> 01:19:05,283
By the way, Colonel.
893
01:19:06,152 --> 01:19:07,119
I still do.
894
01:19:07,720 --> 01:19:11,212
- Still do what, Lieutenant?
- Still say my prayers at night, sir.
895
01:19:24,804 --> 01:19:26,294
You gotta be kiddin' me.
896
01:19:26,672 --> 01:19:28,299
No, sir!
897
01:19:31,377 --> 01:19:34,107
- Brand new Mustangs?
- Yes, sir!
898
01:19:40,386 --> 01:19:43,412
P-51B, 275 gallons with drop tanks.
899
01:19:43,523 --> 01:19:46,185
You can ride these ponies
1,000 miles and back.
900
01:19:46,792 --> 01:19:50,888
Six fifty calibers on her wings,
and hauling two one thousand pounders.
901
01:19:51,330 --> 01:19:53,560
If you don't bring back
swastikas with all this...
902
01:19:53,933 --> 01:19:56,197
...you can keep on flyin' back
to Octopus, Iowa.
903
01:19:56,302 --> 01:19:58,429
Ottumwa. Ottumwa.
904
01:19:59,205 --> 01:20:00,137
What's this?
905
01:20:00,206 --> 01:20:01,798
New signature from the group.
906
01:20:02,942 --> 01:20:04,273
Do you like it?
907
01:20:05,511 --> 01:20:06,944
It ain't loud enough.
908
01:20:07,914 --> 01:20:11,975
- Paint the whole goddamn tail red, Tank.
- Yes, sir.
909
01:20:12,418 --> 01:20:16,252
We're less than 90 minutes from Germany.
And they know we're here.
910
01:20:16,322 --> 01:20:18,790
Those of you
wonderin' about seein' action...
911
01:20:19,258 --> 01:20:20,919
...you got your wish.
912
01:20:21,193 --> 01:20:25,289
The 33rd and 324th
regularly tangle with the Jerries.
913
01:20:26,632 --> 01:20:30,295
- Colonel, they're flying bomber escort.
- Occasionally, Lieutenant, yes.
914
01:20:30,703 --> 01:20:34,161
They're doing it occasionally,
we have the honor of doin' it full time.
915
01:20:34,273 --> 01:20:36,298
That's right. Consider it an honor.
916
01:20:37,243 --> 01:20:40,337
Bomber losses to enemy action
are unacceptably high.
917
01:20:40,413 --> 01:20:45,146
Yesterday's run into Germany cost them
65 of 200 bombers. That's one in three.
918
01:20:47,587 --> 01:20:49,851
Six hundred men killed or missing.
919
01:20:52,158 --> 01:20:53,750
You wanna make your mark...
920
01:20:54,694 --> 01:20:55,991
...here's your chance.
921
01:21:32,832 --> 01:21:35,801
How do you llke thls, glrls?
All dressed up and no dates.
922
01:21:35,968 --> 01:21:38,232
Yeah, I thlnk we've been stood up...
923
01:21:38,337 --> 01:21:39,895
...not a B-17 in sight.
924
01:21:41,807 --> 01:21:43,570
This is the rendezvous point...
925
01:21:43,943 --> 01:21:46,275
... they must have been grounded
by bad weather.
926
01:21:47,780 --> 01:21:49,213
He's comln' back aroundl
927
01:21:49,882 --> 01:21:53,443
Hey, Iowa, turn to Channel 8.
928
01:21:54,720 --> 01:21:57,280
Alrlght, Medlna, come on let's get hlml
Take hlm offl
929
01:21:57,423 --> 01:21:59,152
Sounds like one of ours.
930
01:21:59,625 --> 01:22:00,853
Must be stragglers.
931
01:22:01,694 --> 01:22:02,888
Let's help them.
932
01:22:03,295 --> 01:22:04,421
Roger thatl
933
01:22:12,071 --> 01:22:14,631
Hey, he's comln' up on topl
934
01:22:19,178 --> 01:22:20,907
He's comln' In agalnl
935
01:22:22,448 --> 01:22:23,346
Hang on.
936
01:22:26,152 --> 01:22:27,983
He's above us!
937
01:22:31,023 --> 01:22:33,491
Here we come, fellasl Here we comel
938
01:22:34,026 --> 01:22:36,017
Hang on, Hannibal, I got him!
939
01:22:37,463 --> 01:22:40,899
The "Train" is always on time, that's one.
Let's clean 'em up now!
940
01:22:41,000 --> 01:22:42,092
Let's clean 'em up!
941
01:22:42,968 --> 01:22:46,062
- What the hell? Did you see that?
- Oh, yeah! Who is that?
942
01:22:47,573 --> 01:22:49,268
Get the other one, Hannibal.
943
01:22:49,542 --> 01:22:52,010
Wait! We got another one
comin' in high over here.
944
01:22:52,111 --> 01:22:53,669
Come on, Medina!
945
01:22:57,516 --> 01:23:00,610
Keep your shirt on. I got him. I got him.
946
01:23:04,790 --> 01:23:05,984
Moment of truth, Jerry.
947
01:23:08,060 --> 01:23:09,584
We live in the air.
948
01:23:10,830 --> 01:23:12,798
We die by fire!
949
01:23:15,367 --> 01:23:16,356
Yes!
950
01:23:17,670 --> 01:23:21,128
Say goodbye, Mr. Kraut.
Give my regards to the Fuhrer.
951
01:23:23,209 --> 01:23:27,270
Mustang, starboard side.
Come on, Vance. Who are they?
952
01:23:28,447 --> 01:23:29,778
I don't know.
953
01:23:31,050 --> 01:23:35,646
Red Tall 51 thls Is Fortress 3-2-0.
Come In. Over.
954
01:23:35,821 --> 01:23:36,617
Nothing.
955
01:23:36,689 --> 01:23:40,056
I can't raise 'em, they must be
on a separate frequency or somethin'.
956
01:23:40,159 --> 01:23:42,957
- You get any kind of I.D.?
- Nothing I recognize.
957
01:23:43,662 --> 01:23:46,324
I tell you,
we need to find out who those boys are.
958
01:23:51,504 --> 01:23:52,994
- Red tails, huh?
- Yeah.
959
01:23:54,140 --> 01:23:56,301
No fire group I know
carries those markings.
960
01:23:56,909 --> 01:23:58,433
Well, I gotta find 'em.
961
01:23:58,544 --> 01:24:02,071
I got a bottle of whiskey for both of 'em
for savin' our asses.
962
01:24:02,281 --> 01:24:06,240
Try Ramitelli. We're gettin' new escort
assignments, they might be one of them.
963
01:24:06,352 --> 01:24:07,649
I'll check it out.
964
01:24:08,053 --> 01:24:10,578
Poor slob did everything
but pull the trigger for me!
965
01:24:10,689 --> 01:24:14,819
That last kill, I took that son of a bitch out
from a thousand yards!
966
01:24:14,894 --> 01:24:17,658
Sir, how do you get 'em off you?
Splits? Climbin' turns?
967
01:24:17,763 --> 01:24:20,994
No, no. Walter People's special,
"You make it up as you go along."
968
01:24:23,402 --> 01:24:24,892
Hey, how you guy's doin'?
969
01:24:25,037 --> 01:24:27,062
We're B-17 bomb group based at Foggia...
970
01:24:27,139 --> 01:24:30,575
...and we're lookin' for the pilots
who were up at Pleven yesterday.
971
01:24:31,343 --> 01:24:34,574
We wanna say thanks.
A couple of those guys saved our asses.
972
01:24:35,080 --> 01:24:36,069
Don't mention it.
973
01:24:36,715 --> 01:24:38,410
- So where are they?
- Where's who?
974
01:24:38,517 --> 01:24:40,747
The pilots, boy.
We came up here to see them.
975
01:24:41,754 --> 01:24:43,153
You're lookin' at 'em.
976
01:24:46,926 --> 01:24:48,951
Lieutenant Lee, Lieutenant Roberts.
977
01:24:49,128 --> 01:24:50,095
How are you?
978
01:24:50,830 --> 01:24:55,199
- We appreciate your thanks.
- This whole base is colored?
979
01:24:55,434 --> 01:24:57,994
Colored, yes. Lock, stock and pilot.
980
01:25:05,477 --> 01:25:07,468
Let's get out of here, Lieutenant.
981
01:25:12,985 --> 01:25:14,850
- What?
- This isn't right, let's go.
982
01:25:14,954 --> 01:25:17,718
- What's wrong? He just said...
- I don't care.
983
01:25:17,790 --> 01:25:19,348
Them pilots was niggers.
984
01:25:19,692 --> 01:25:22,820
Niggers weren't flyin' them planes today.
Let's move it out.
985
01:25:24,864 --> 01:25:25,990
Yes, sir.
986
01:25:30,469 --> 01:25:34,303
You saved their asses,
and they got the nerve to be insulted?
987
01:25:35,808 --> 01:25:37,105
Makes you wanna hurt somebody.
988
01:25:40,880 --> 01:25:42,347
What are you writing?
989
01:25:43,315 --> 01:25:44,339
My folks.
990
01:25:45,451 --> 01:25:48,614
This boy mails a letter
to his folks every night.
991
01:25:48,787 --> 01:25:50,618
I won't mail this one, you will.
992
01:25:51,757 --> 01:25:54,885
Oh, no, no, no.
I am not mailing that letter.
993
01:25:55,461 --> 01:25:57,929
If you die, you mail it yourself.
994
01:25:59,865 --> 01:26:01,730
You'll mail it just like I'll mail yours.
995
01:26:02,935 --> 01:26:05,426
You won't have to worry about me askin'.
996
01:26:05,704 --> 01:26:08,537
Writin' 'em one of those letters is
like expecting to die.
997
01:26:08,641 --> 01:26:10,006
No one expects to die.
998
01:26:14,747 --> 01:26:18,342
My father had a friend,
he fought in the First World War.
999
01:26:19,451 --> 01:26:22,420
He was one of the first
colored soldiers in France.
1000
01:26:22,554 --> 01:26:26,786
This man had so many medals he came
home decorated like a Christmas tree.
1001
01:26:30,095 --> 01:26:32,222
He disappeared one night.
1002
01:26:34,233 --> 01:26:37,532
They found him in Georgia,
lynched in his uniform.
1003
01:26:47,012 --> 01:26:50,971
Why would you want to fly for a country
that thanks you by lynching you?
1004
01:26:55,654 --> 01:27:00,057
I like the feeling of respect that we get.
1005
01:27:00,459 --> 01:27:02,154
Especially from colored folks.
1006
01:27:02,761 --> 01:27:03,659
Like...
1007
01:27:04,763 --> 01:27:09,097
...me and Cappy came upon them fellas in
the chain-gang while training in Tuskegee.
1008
01:27:09,401 --> 01:27:12,893
I even got some satisfaction outta the look
on those white fellas today...
1009
01:27:12,972 --> 01:27:15,839
...when they found out it was us
that saved their tails.
1010
01:27:28,220 --> 01:27:29,244
Captain...
1011
01:27:30,022 --> 01:27:33,822
...that colored outfit, the 332nd,
HQ confirmed.
1012
01:27:34,393 --> 01:27:37,294
They were the boys that helped us
at Pleven and...
1013
01:27:37,796 --> 01:27:40,162
...we weren't even their assignment.
1014
01:27:40,366 --> 01:27:43,927
Lieutenant,
let me give you a little Sociology lesson.
1015
01:27:44,036 --> 01:27:47,528
I think bein' from California and all,
you might be a little bit confused.
1016
01:27:48,440 --> 01:27:50,032
Now, I'm a Texas boy.
1017
01:27:50,242 --> 01:27:52,733
I grew up with niggers.
I was around 'em every day.
1018
01:27:52,845 --> 01:27:56,008
Hell, in Lubbock you can't throw a rock
without hittin' one.
1019
01:27:56,215 --> 01:27:57,978
Now, I know how they think.
1020
01:27:58,050 --> 01:28:01,508
And I know how they live and
I can tell you with complete certainty...
1021
01:28:01,620 --> 01:28:04,088
...what they are and are not capable of.
1022
01:28:05,524 --> 01:28:07,924
You don't think they can fly them planes,
sir?
1023
01:28:08,027 --> 01:28:11,519
Lance, if they was flyin' them planes,
and that's a big "if"...
1024
01:28:11,630 --> 01:28:15,430
...then what happened up there
was a fluke. So forget about it.
1025
01:28:20,639 --> 01:28:22,971
I'm gettln' tlred of these long mlsslons...
1026
01:28:23,042 --> 01:28:25,237
... where we get stuck out here
by our lonesome.
1027
01:28:25,644 --> 01:28:28,044
I'm low on fuel,
I say we should head back.
1028
01:28:33,085 --> 01:28:35,679
- Wait a second. What's that?
- Where?
1029
01:28:36,188 --> 01:28:39,157
Down below,
looks like a German destroyer.
1030
01:28:43,462 --> 01:28:45,089
Ain't one of ours.
1031
01:28:47,066 --> 01:28:48,795
You thinkin' what I'm thinkin'?
1032
01:28:49,935 --> 01:28:51,562
Always.
1033
01:28:53,939 --> 01:28:55,201
Straighten up.
1034
01:28:56,575 --> 01:28:58,008
Fly right.
1035
01:29:01,747 --> 01:29:03,647
Alright, here we go.
1036
01:29:05,250 --> 01:29:07,081
Geronimo!
1037
01:29:09,822 --> 01:29:12,689
Go down, Papa. Go down, Papa.
Don't you blow your top!
1038
01:29:15,227 --> 01:29:17,821
That a boy. That a boy. That a boyl
Yesl
1039
01:29:47,793 --> 01:29:49,488
Hey, Iowa.
1040
01:29:50,729 --> 01:29:53,994
You're in the spotlight in there, man.
You sunk a damn destroyer.
1041
01:29:54,066 --> 01:29:56,159
People get medals for doin' that shit.
1042
01:29:57,870 --> 01:30:01,135
You're gonna tell me you think
they'll give you or me...
1043
01:30:01,206 --> 01:30:04,437
...or anybody else on this base
a medal for doin' anything right?
1044
01:30:07,646 --> 01:30:10,809
Okay. Alright, so you won't get a medal.
1045
01:30:11,783 --> 01:30:14,581
The bottom line is, we know what you did.
1046
01:30:15,587 --> 01:30:17,214
And we know it was a lucky shot.
1047
01:30:20,626 --> 01:30:22,821
But it's still one destroyer down.
1048
01:30:39,945 --> 01:30:41,503
Do you see our escort?
1049
01:30:43,348 --> 01:30:46,340
Sure do. And they're right on time.
1050
01:30:54,660 --> 01:30:56,252
They know we're here.
1051
01:30:56,862 --> 01:31:00,696
They'll give us' their best shot but
we gotta get these guys to Biretta Pass.
1052
01:31:02,901 --> 01:31:04,334
Biretta Pass and back.
1053
01:31:08,507 --> 01:31:12,102
Heads up. Seven MB 109s at one o'clock.
1054
01:31:15,280 --> 01:31:16,508
I'll take the leader.
1055
01:31:17,349 --> 01:31:20,375
- Roger that. Straighten up!
- Fly right!
1056
01:31:20,485 --> 01:31:22,680
Starboard wlng now,
I almost got 'em In my slghts.
1057
01:31:22,788 --> 01:31:25,552
Keep your line unengaged!
Twelve miles till target.
1058
01:31:25,624 --> 01:31:28,821
All statlonsl All statlons check Inl
Tall gunner, come upl
1059
01:31:29,328 --> 01:31:32,092
Make it easy for me.
Bring it around. That's it.
1060
01:31:35,300 --> 01:31:38,133
Go get 'em, Traln.
You shake that buzzard down, boy.
1061
01:31:38,503 --> 01:31:39,595
Roger that!
1062
01:31:45,444 --> 01:31:46,433
I got him!
1063
01:31:46,745 --> 01:31:47,939
Bomb door's openl
1064
01:31:48,113 --> 01:31:49,842
Target up! Target up!
1065
01:31:57,155 --> 01:31:59,623
Got another one tryin'
to sneak over the top, Iowa.
1066
01:31:59,725 --> 01:32:01,022
Ground him!
1067
01:32:09,301 --> 01:32:10,393
Come on, baby!
1068
01:32:12,904 --> 01:32:14,371
That's it, I got you!
1069
01:32:19,278 --> 01:32:20,575
That's two, Iowa!
1070
01:32:26,718 --> 01:32:28,276
Two mlles to target.
1071
01:32:31,323 --> 01:32:33,018
On your six, Train!
1072
01:32:40,265 --> 01:32:41,664
Bombs awayl
1073
01:32:41,800 --> 01:32:43,392
- Bombs away.
- Bombs away.
1074
01:32:44,403 --> 01:32:47,167
- Hang on, Traln.
- Get this guy off me, Iowa!
1075
01:32:52,077 --> 01:32:53,374
I'm comin'!
1076
01:33:07,626 --> 01:33:09,025
Billy!
1077
01:33:15,267 --> 01:33:16,734
No, Blllyl Nol
1078
01:33:21,573 --> 01:33:23,165
I'm right behind him, Train!
1079
01:33:25,911 --> 01:33:28,436
You go straight to hell you son of a bitch!
1080
01:33:30,882 --> 01:33:32,713
Good hit! Good hit!
1081
01:33:33,819 --> 01:33:36,219
Train, can you hear me?
Can you hear me, Train?
1082
01:33:39,124 --> 01:33:40,751
I got two more, Iowa.
1083
01:33:41,193 --> 01:33:43,058
I saw you. You dld good, Traln.
1084
01:33:43,528 --> 01:33:46,190
Now, come on.
The bombers went back, come on.
1085
01:33:46,264 --> 01:33:49,165
You climb. No!
You gotta climb to them, Iowa.
1086
01:33:49,935 --> 01:33:51,425
You gotta climb to them!
1087
01:33:52,771 --> 01:33:55,569
Straighten up and fly right, boy.
You can make it!
1088
01:34:05,851 --> 01:34:07,250
Billy?
1089
01:34:09,187 --> 01:34:10,950
Train?
1090
01:34:11,156 --> 01:34:18,460
"Oh, we are heroes of the nlght.
To hell wlth the axer's mlght.
1091
01:34:19,164 --> 01:34:23,601
"Flght, flght, flght flghtlng Nlnety-Nlne.
1092
01:34:26,505 --> 01:34:28,405
"Down in flames they go
1093
01:34:28,974 --> 01:34:32,933
"Fighting men of the Ninety-Nine
Send them
1094
01:34:33,478 --> 01:34:35,605
"Send them down below
1095
01:34:36,081 --> 01:34:41,144
"We are heroes of the nlght.
To hell wlth the axer's mlght"
1096
01:35:38,510 --> 01:35:40,740
Bllly Roberts.
On the block they call me, "Traln."
1097
01:35:40,812 --> 01:35:43,610
As in, "A-Train",
the quickest way to Harlem.
1098
01:35:50,121 --> 01:35:51,884
- I'll take some smokes.
- Alright.
1099
01:35:55,026 --> 01:35:55,822
Peoples...
1100
01:35:56,094 --> 01:35:58,085
...Walter Derrick, the Third.
1101
01:35:58,930 --> 01:36:00,261
Aeronautlcal Englneer.
1102
01:36:03,902 --> 01:36:06,132
Lewis Johns, English Literature.
1103
01:36:09,708 --> 01:36:13,075
Leroy Jonas Cappy, Art History.
1104
01:36:58,390 --> 01:37:01,757
Colonel,
just how bad will the Eighty-Eights be?
1105
01:37:04,362 --> 01:37:07,490
You'll be attacking Berlin, son.
The very heart of Germany.
1106
01:37:07,899 --> 01:37:11,027
Every anti-aircraft gun in the region
will be trying to stop you.
1107
01:37:13,805 --> 01:37:15,363
And there'll be the fighters.
1108
01:37:18,810 --> 01:37:23,042
Now, gentlemen, on this one,
we need every load placed on the target.
1109
01:37:23,348 --> 01:37:25,316
We may not have a second chance.
1110
01:37:25,450 --> 01:37:27,441
Sir, who's flyin' cover?
1111
01:37:27,719 --> 01:37:29,744
The 51st will escort your wing, Lieutenant.
1112
01:37:30,922 --> 01:37:33,254
Now, anymore questions?
1113
01:37:34,326 --> 01:37:35,884
If not, good luck.
1114
01:37:37,128 --> 01:37:37,856
Sir?
1115
01:37:39,931 --> 01:37:41,421
Why the change?
1116
01:37:41,833 --> 01:37:46,133
How come our escort was changed from
the 332nd to the 51st?
1117
01:37:46,605 --> 01:37:48,971
Logistics, Captain. Is that a problem?
1118
01:37:49,808 --> 01:37:52,777
- No, sir. No problem.
- Good. Have a good mission.
1119
01:37:52,978 --> 01:37:54,309
Sir.
1120
01:37:55,280 --> 01:37:58,408
You got a point to make, Captain?
I suggest you get on with it.
1121
01:38:00,051 --> 01:38:02,679
Speak up, Captain,
we got a mission to run here.
1122
01:38:03,021 --> 01:38:04,420
Yes, sir. Well, I...
1123
01:38:05,390 --> 01:38:09,156
...I got men whose lives are
my responsibility up there, sir.
1124
01:38:09,494 --> 01:38:12,395
And I want the 332nd as our escort.
1125
01:38:13,798 --> 01:38:14,924
Colored boys?
1126
01:38:22,273 --> 01:38:23,831
That's right, sir.
1127
01:38:24,242 --> 01:38:26,301
I looked into it, and...
1128
01:38:26,878 --> 01:38:31,008
...since they've been escorting bombers
they haven't lost one to enemy action, sir.
1129
01:38:31,082 --> 01:38:34,813
Not a single ship.
And if it's all the same to you...
1130
01:38:37,055 --> 01:38:40,786
...I want the 332nd
to take me to Berlin and back.
1131
01:38:50,635 --> 01:38:53,661
Alright, Captain.
I'll take it under advisement.
1132
01:39:18,363 --> 01:39:19,421
At ease.
1133
01:39:22,667 --> 01:39:24,225
You're up awfully early today.
1134
01:39:25,036 --> 01:39:26,936
I haven't gotten much sleep, sir.
1135
01:39:31,376 --> 01:39:33,276
We're all gonna miss him, Hannibal.
1136
01:39:36,815 --> 01:39:39,443
The really sad thing is
he's gonna miss this.
1137
01:39:49,461 --> 01:39:52,624
Distinguished flying cross
for taking out the destroyer.
1138
01:39:53,631 --> 01:39:57,067
General Crowell will be here next week
to officially present it to you.
1139
01:39:58,169 --> 01:39:59,693
There's somethin' else.
1140
01:40:13,351 --> 01:40:15,319
- Sir.
- Congratulations.
1141
01:40:17,822 --> 01:40:18,982
Captain Lee.
1142
01:40:20,425 --> 01:40:22,893
The word's in about our next mission.
1143
01:40:27,165 --> 01:40:27,961
Berlin.
1144
01:40:30,935 --> 01:40:32,493
And we weren't assigned.
1145
01:40:35,273 --> 01:40:36,433
We were requested.
89493
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