- Ted Lawson: Goodbye.
- Young Dr. Chung: I have one sorrow, Lieutenant. that we did not have the medicine to ease your pain.
- Ted Lawson: You saved my life, Doc.
- Young Dr. Chung: I hope that someday you'll come back to us.
- Ted Lawson: We'll be back. Maybe not us ourselves but a lotta guys like us, and I'd like to be with them. You're our kind of people.
- Young Dr. Chung: Thank you, sir.
- Bob Gray: [pensively] When I was a kid, I used to dream about going someplace on a ship. Well, here I am!
- Ted Lawson: And out there is Japan. My mother had a Jap gardener once. He seemed like a nice little guy.
- Bob Gray: You know I don't hate Japs yet. It's a funny thing. I don't like them, but I don't hate them.
- Ted Lawson: I guess, I don't either. You get kind of mixed up.
- Bob Gray: Yeah.
- Ted Lawson: It's hard to figure, yet here we are.
- Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle: [addressing the flight crews assembled in the USS Hornet's briefing room] Lieut. Jurika has detailed maps and pictures of cities and specified targets. Mr. Jurika spent a great many years in Japan. I think it might be a good idea if he gave you some idea of what kind of people you're going to run up against in case you're forced down. Mr. Jurika.
- Lieut. Jurika: [Lieut. Jurika gets up and addresses the men] I was assistant Naval attaché at our embassy in Japan, long enough to learn a few things about the Orient.
- Bob Gray: Just what should we do, Mr. Jurika? How should we conduct ourselves, in case we are forced down over Japan?
- Lieut. Jurika: My advice is, see that you're *not* forced down over Japan.
- Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle: [on the phone] Hello, hello, York? Dolittle. I want you to get twenty-four B-25's and volunteer crews down to Eglin Field as soon as you can. The job'll take 'em out of the country for about three months. Tell 'em it's a secret mission. They won't know where they're going until they get there. Thats's right, volunteers. tell them they're not to talk to anybody. That's an order!
- Ellen Lawson: Oh, Ted, I'm going to write you a letter every day you're gone. I know they won't deliver them. I won't even mail them, but I'm going to write them anyway. That way we'll kind of be in touch. That way we'll feel close.
- [repeated lines]
- Ted Lawson: Tell me, Honey, how come you're so cute?
- Ellen Lawson: I had to be if I was going to get such a good looking fella.
- Ted Lawson: When Lieut. Ted Lawson sees the Ruptured Duck's fuselage sticking up out of the ocean after crashing he says; "I lost my ship. I lost my ship."