Black Sheep Squadron

Boyington: You know all that talk back there about you being a coward? Hooper: Clearing his throat I wonder if we could forget about that. Maybe? There's no use for something like that getting around, is there? Boyington: What's wrong with being a coward? It's guy who are afraid of being a coward that turn out to be heroes. They think they have something to prove. I'll tell ya. Guys like that make this war very dangerous. Hooper: Ha.

Boyington and Hooper are standing on the Japanese airplane, which is floating in the ocean. They are looking into the sky, while Boyington points into the sky. Boyington: That's my unit up there. Hooper: Ha! Small war, isn't it?

Capt. Gutterman: All right, only got one thing to say to you guys. Any man doesn't follow orders in the air, I'll flame him personally and that is a promise. I want every member of this squadron to come back with a kill or not come back at all.

Turning over the table where Capt. Gutterman has feet up, while asleep General Moore: I said on your feet! You are the sorriest bunch of jerks I've ever seen in the Marine Corps. How Boyington every made a squadron out of you I'll never know.

Boyington: How far is the air strip from here? Hooper: Oh, mile and an half. Boyington: Last night you carried me a mile and an half through this jungle? Hooper: chuckles Didn't have much choice, did I? You're not that big of a bundle, mate.

Gutterman: Pappy isn't around to keep those rear area commanders off our backs. Now that he's gone, well, old Lard is going to chew us like a piece of fried chicken.