Frank Shelley - Observer Quotes in One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942)

Tom Earnshaw, Copilot in B for Bertie: Now look here, what are we going to do about our clothes?

Frank Shelley - Observer: Yes, we've got to get into civvies somehow.

John Glyn Haggard - Pilot in B for Bertie: Well, what's George doing?

Sir George Corbett, Rear Gunner in B for Bertie: [Taking off his clothes] I'm swimming.

John Glyn Haggard - Pilot in B for Bertie: Where?

Sir George Corbett, Rear Gunner in B for Bertie: In a canal.

John Glyn Haggard - Pilot in B for Bertie: Well, how do you know there is one?

Sir George Corbett, Rear Gunner in B for Bertie: There's always a canal in Holland. The next best thing to having civilian clothes is to have none. I'm going to be a swimming instructionist and spy off the land.

Jo de Vries: [to Frank] No Englishman would kiss a woman's hand - except perhaps an actor.

Frank Shelley - Observer: Snub or compliment?

Jo de Vries: Compliment.

Frank Shelley - Observer: The way you handled those Germans taught me something about acting.

Jo de Vries: It isn't so difficult. They're an unhappy people. I would rather be a Dutchman in Holland than any German soldier. They want to believe that somebody's their friend, and that's the whole trick.