Cmdr. Carl Jessop Quotes in Midway (1976)

Captain Garth: Listen, Carl; I understand my boy, Tom, is in your squadron. How's he doing?

Cmdr. Carl Jessop: Good, he's doing good. Good pilot. Good all around. I think his only problem would be... enemy identification. The boy's got to learn man: you do not win a war by kissing the enemy

Cmdr. Carl Jessop: "Wait and see." We waited. December 7th, we saw... The "Wait and see"-ers will bust your ass *every time*!

Cmdr. Carl Jessop: "Wait and see." 1919, the Marines were practicing dive-bombing off of Hati, right? "Well, premature, better wait and see." Well, we waited and the Germans showed us in '37 in Madrid.

Navy Pilot: You mean like at Pearl Harbor, Commander?

Cmdr. Carl Jessop: Pearl Harbor? Shit, in '32 and '33, Jack O'Clark's squadrons proved that Pearl Harbor could be attacked successfully from the air, and Admiral Logan Ramsey said, predicted, it would happen, in detail.

Navy Pilot: And when was that?

Cmdr. Carl Jessop: 1937, pal. "Wait and see." We waited. December 7, we saw.