Flight Lieutenant Terrence Forbes Quotes in Desperate Journey (1942)

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Flight Lieutenant Terrence Forbes Quotes:

  • Flight Lieutenant Terrence Forbes: [Last lines] Now for Australia and a crack at those Japs!

  • Flight Lieutenant Terrence Forbes: Well, this is the first time I ran out of gas with a couple of guys.

  • Flight Lieutenant Terrence Forbes: We're going to be the first invasion to hit Germany since Napoleon.

  • Flight Lieutenant Terrence Forbes: Any luck?

    Flight Sergeant Kirk Edwards: There is no food left in Germany! I went through three farmhouses. Nobody lived there. They hadn't left a crumb. I even met a rat in a closet eating its heart out.

    Flight Lieutenant Terrence Forbes: Who was it? Goebbels?

    Flight Sergeant Kirk Edwards: It couldn't have been if it had a heart.

  • [Major Otto Baumeister has told the captured crew that, since they know the location of an underground Messerschmitt underground factory, they will feel his iron fist. Now he separates Flying Officer Johnny Hammond from the rest, questioning him for intelligence]

    Maj. Otto Baumeister: That plane you were flying, American-built, wasn't it? One of the new ones. We have heard a good deal about them. We know that they are capable of operating at amazing altitudes. How do you manage to supercharge the engines at the extreme cold of those high altitudes?

    Flying Officer Johnny Hammond: If I told you, the others wouldn't find out?

    Maj. Otto Baumeister: Certainly not.

    Flying Officer Johnny Hammond: They can't hear us out there?

    Maj. Otto Baumeister: Quite sure. Now, about the supercharger.

    Flying Officer Johnny Hammond: It's done with a thermotrockle.

    Maj. Otto Baumeister: A what?

    Flying Officer Johnny Hammond: Thermotrockle amfilated through a daligonitor. Of course, this is made possible because the dernadyne has a franicoupling.

    Maj. Otto Baumeister: I do not understand you.

    Flying Officer Johnny Hammond: I knew you wouldn't. The amsometer on the side prenulates the kinutaspel hepulace. That's the entire secret. There you have it.

    Maj. Otto Baumeister: I do not follow you.

    Flying Officer Johnny Hammond: Well, maybe I could make it more clear if I drew a diagram.

    Maj. Otto Baumeister: Certainly.

    Flying Officer Johnny Hammond: [Bending over as though to draw] There's three things you gotta understand. As I said before, the daligonitor is amfilated by the thermotrockle. It's made by its connection with the franicoupling of dernadyne. Even at cruising speed the kinutaspel hepulace is prenulated by the amsometer. Makes no difference. Could be taking off. Snowing or raining, any pilot will tell you that the altitude, 10, 20, 30, 40,000 feet...

    [flexing his arm to strike]

    Flying Officer Johnny Hammond: [appearing casually in Baumeister's doorway] Oh, Terry. He wants to talk to you.

    Flight Lieutenant Terrence Forbes: Oh. The major wants to see me.

    [Forbes enters Baumeister's office and sees him under the desk, unconscious. he looks incredulously at Hammond]

    Flying Officer Johnny Hammond: The iron fist has a glass jaw.

  • Flying Officer Johnny Hammond: [upon discovering a Nazi plan to use an English plane to bomb the Battersea Waterworks] If I only had a pistol.

    Flight Lieutenant Terrence Forbes: Ha, how 'bout a tank?

    Flying Officer Johnny Hammond: Nah, a pistol would do. I could put a slug in that bomb before those Krauts knew what was going on.

    Flight Lieutenant Terrence Forbes: Maybe we'll get a chance to do something if they break off for lunch.

    Flying Officer Johnny Hammond: Well, why wait? There's only twelve of them!

  • Hermann Brahms: We think it is necessary to invade. To smash these men, right on their own soil.

    Flight Sergeant Kirk Edwards: Oh, well we're going to get around to that.

    Hermann Brahms: Yes, sure, but when?

    Flight Lieutenant Terrence Forbes: Well, so far, Winston and Franklin haven't taken us in to their confidence.

    Flying Officer Johnny Hammond: And, you know, the funny thing is, they seem to be doing alright without our help.

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