Bataan (1943)

Robert Walker: Leonard Purckett

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• Sergeant Bill Dane : All right, sound off, Sailor. Name and classification.

  Leonard Purckett : Name's Leonard Purckett. Musician second class United States Navy, sir.

  Sergeant Bill Dane : We don't say ''sir'' to sergeants in the Army, Sailor. How'd you get here?

  Leonard Purckett : I started from Cavite by boat but the Japs laid a few eggs on the boat so what there was left of us swum. I kind of lost the other boys somewheres and then, first thing I knowed, I was here in the Army.

• Leonard Purckett : I joined the Navy to see the world. Reckon this is still part of it.

• Leonard Purckett : Look, I'll be back in a minute. If you see any Japs, save one for baby, will ya?

  Yankee Salazar : Japs, we got plenty of.

• Leonard Purckett : The Sergeant sure is a hard man, ain't he? I'll bet you could strike matches on the back of his neck.

• Sergeant Bill Dane : Malloy, how are the groceries?

  Sam Malloy : The groceries? I'll tell you, there ain't no sugar for the coffee and there ain't no coffee. There's maggots in the meat and the meat is mule.

  Leonard Purckett : Mule?

  Sam Malloy : Yeah, mule.

  Felix Ramirez : If you hold your nose, it's all right.

• Leonard Purckett : Dirty. Dirty. Dirty. Dirty!

• Leonard Purckett : Sarge, have Japs got whites in their eyes?

  Sergeant Bill Dane : We're gonna find out any minute now, Sailor.

• Leonard Purckett : All I want to do is get me a Jap. Just one Jap.

• Leonard Purckett : Shouldn't we open up on 'em? Sergeant said, Fire at will. I want to hit me a Jap and know I hit him. That's what I want.