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00:00Coastal Air Patrol, report enemy minesweeper and escort.
00:09Contacts like that every day?
00:10Routine.
00:11Just routine.
00:12Air diversion not available.
00:17Cancel mad dog and return.
00:20The bow of this vessel is packed with high explosives.
00:26Our intention is to plow head first into the dry dock gates.
00:29From the moment of impact, we will have five minutes to get ashore and get clear.
00:35There's a call for an identification signal, sir.
00:39Whitehall 1212.
00:40Whitehall 1212.
00:41Well, you won't find it in there.
00:44Then it doesn't exist.
00:45Of course it exists.
00:46It's the telephone number of Scotland Yard.
00:47Red Creole aircraft.
00:48Close in fast.
00:50All guns independent open fire.
01:06I think that Major Wilson's idea of packing the bow of a destroyer with tons of high explosive
01:12and then ramming the dock of Leclerc is, well, it's imaginative.
01:15To go into Leclerc, to launch mad dog is madness.
01:19Not to go into Leclerc would be a mistake.
01:22Captain, I want this operation.
01:24In exactly 60 minutes from now, this ship explodes, whether we're aborted or not.
01:40Stand by for ramming.
01:46Stand by for ramming.
02:09Stand by for ramming.
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