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02:10Pull your finger out, Smithy.
02:11Look, I'm doing me best.
02:13I've seen you've been sitting here a week.
02:15I wouldn't care if you were paying.
02:16Come on.
02:22All right.
02:23Give her a go now, then.
02:29Success.
02:29Yes.
02:31Who's a clever little lad, then?
02:32No.
02:37What's the program, then?
02:38Seven o'clock outside the mess, as per usual?
02:40Suits me.
02:41Oh, sorry, lads.
02:42You'll have to count me out.
02:43I'm busy tonight.
02:44Doing what?
02:45Well, I've got a date.
02:46You what?
02:47Sort of.
02:48Of course you've got a date.
02:50Down at the Turks' head with us.
02:52Saturday night.
02:53It's traditional.
02:54What is known as an old Air Force custom.
02:58Next week, Aftman.
03:00I'd better go and get cleaned up.
03:01He's sloping off a lot lately.
03:07Oh, on is Jack Jones.
03:19So, who's he fallen in love with all of a sudden?
03:21Haven't a clue.
03:23But I'm going to make it my business to find out.
03:26He took the old passion wagon into town on Monday.
03:29And again on Wednesday.
03:30And we weren't welcome.
03:32I think I'll make a few judicious inquiries.
03:36I take a very poor view, Ken.
03:38Flying crews should stick together.
03:41Besides, if he doesn't come with us tonight,
03:43who's going to play the old Joanna?
03:45One and elevenpence a halfpenny yard for this.
04:02I don't know how they dare.
04:04One and elevenpence a halfpenny.
04:11Still, it's time we did the bedrooms properly.
04:14Shh!
04:14No.
04:15Ah, sorry.
04:17I thought I had baby.
04:23It's such a lovely day.
04:24You ought to be out there with him.
04:26I've almost forgotten what the garden looks like, except at night.
04:29You've been driving yourself too hard lately.
04:32Go on.
04:33Go and get some fresh air.
04:35Your father can help me with this when he comes in.
04:38When?
04:39You know, I don't know what he did with all his spare time before the war.
04:43Two nights fire-watching at the works last week.
04:46A night at the first aid post.
04:48Why doesn't he just join the ARP?
04:51I think he likes to be a little ARP on his own.
04:54Help Mr. Fiddler at the post when he feels able.
04:58Well, we're keeping our end up according to today's paper.
05:02Are we?
05:03The British housewife.
05:06Go on, have a breather and take a look.
05:08Where?
05:09I left it open at the page.
05:11Oh!
05:14Oh, this.
05:14What do I do if my job is that of housewife and mother?
05:21I remember this is a war job too.
05:24Not likely to forget, are we, with butter down to two ounces.
05:27And it gets better.
05:29I shop with special care.
05:32I waste nothing.
05:33I save paper, tins and bones.
05:36I keep myself and my house trim and tidy.
05:39And it's being so cheerful as keeps us going.
05:42In this way I may not be winning any medals,
05:44but I am certainly helping to win the war.
05:49Here.
05:51Did you see how many planes our boys shot down yesterday?
05:56185.
05:57That's the most so far, isn't it?
06:01They're the heroes.
06:02I'd feel a lot more heroic if I could get a good night's sleep.
06:10Or even half a night.
06:13Well, she'll have to ease up a little next weekend anyway.
06:16All of us.
06:18If David manages to get home.
06:20Well, he doesn't seem to have been trying that hard
06:22since the kids have been evacuated.
06:24Oh, now, love, that's not true.
06:28Sheila said she was coming round tonight in case he'd telephoned.
06:31He said he might on the postcard.
06:33Might?
06:36I don't suppose he gets much opportunity these days.
06:39Well, what can't speak can't lie.
07:06Okay.
07:06Oh, good evening.
07:15I'm the warden, won't you come in?
07:18In here, please.
07:19This is my office.
07:24Doesn't deserve you.
07:27I beg your pardon?
07:28Too Dickensian.
07:30Like Mr. Squeers or something.
07:31You're strictly 20th century.
07:33Oh, thank you.
07:34Yes, it is rather oppressive, I suppose, on first sight.
07:37Building used to house an insurance company till they cleared out.
07:40They're up in Yorkshire now at some spa or other.
07:42Run, rabbit, run.
07:43I don't think the directors were too concerned about personnel.
07:47They were keen to preserve the records.
07:50Sorry to crash in on you without warning, Miss...
07:52Reynolds.
07:54This is David Ashton.
07:55I'm Kenneth Beaumont.
07:56We're looking for a stray wireless op called Smith.
07:59It's Saturday night and he's deserted us.
08:01Walter Smith?
08:02Oh, yes.
08:04One of his opposing signals tells me he comes here quite a bit.
08:06What's old Smithy doing attending a study centre?
08:10I should have thought he was past redemption.
08:14I, er, I take it he's a friend of yours?
08:17Right.
08:18He's been with us going on six months.
08:20There's the navigator, Smith's the Sparks.
08:21Well, we're France together, planning...
08:23Oh, no military secrets, please.
08:26Surely if you know him so well, he must have told you.
08:29Doesn't talk much about himself?
08:30No, he's usually too busy when he's out with us playing the old piano.
08:33The one thing he really shines at.
08:34Now, I have a Morton and Davy Kaye all rolled into one.
08:37I think he's got his sights set on something beyond dance music.
08:41Now he's on a settled posting.
08:42He wants to try for school certificate.
08:45If he stays in East Anglia long enough.
08:47School cert?
08:48Doesn't he know it is at war, not?
08:50Well, that needn't prevent us planning for the future, Mr. Ashton.
08:54Isn't that what war is all about?
08:56One up to you, Wharton.
08:59Anyway, we want Smithy with us tonight.
09:01It's Saturday and all work and no play.
09:02I couldn't interrupt him while he's studying.
09:04Well, I could.
09:07What's more, I'm in a position to give him orders.
09:10How very fortunate for you.
09:12He's in the quiet room at the end of the corridor.
09:15Excuse me.
09:17Now, you stay and keep the warden company.
09:19I suppose as pilot, he's the captain of your crew.
09:24That's right.
09:26When Ken says jump, you jump.
09:28If you're in Air Force uniforms.
09:32A cigarette?
09:33No, not for me, thanks.
09:34You go ahead.
09:35So what's Smithy studying?
09:41Oh, he wants to teach eventually art subjects.
09:44He has a great feeling for history.
09:47Did you say your name was Reynolds?
09:49yes Jack Reynolds was my husband yes I was navigator on the same crew yes I
10:00recognized the name we were talking about Smithy
10:08weren't we I was I was on leave that night you know I'd
10:17miss my pencil handoff you know I'd fell off a bike I'm sorry it sounds like an
10:23excuse doesn't it an excuse for being alive when Jack isn't you don't have to
10:29excuse that to me so I don't what you're taking for I'm sorry
10:36have you been here long since a week before I took the job so that I could be
10:43near the bees are you staying I don't know perhaps look we'll use it the Turk said
10:53if you ever well you know Jack was a mate of mine yes I know
11:03what are you up to going out if ever get around to it I'm fixing screens upstairs
11:19yeah I'll be with you in a minute hey come on don't be so independent you get off all the quicker
11:28oh I wish I could go gadding off aunt don't do a lot of gadding off Sheila oh I'm sorry I only spoke in
11:36look tomorrow day of rest I'll be up all night far watching the hotel tonight just for change I'm going to the theater first time in ages
11:43that's your idea of writer's living is it there's no need to bite my head off for as long as we know
11:48hey Frida what have I done look I reckon I make better use of my leisure time than
11:54some I could mention I don't know what you mean don't you oh no come on Frida if you've got
11:59something to say you say hello Sheila love your baby's crying oh do you wonder excuse me no
12:05now come on come on out with it I'm sorry I'm late
12:09hello Sheila nice to see you love hey what's up with Frida
12:15I don't know we're all at six and sevens lately I put it down to lack of sleep
12:21well none of us are getting much sleep there's no need to take it out on me
12:24oh I don't suppose she meant it come on come in and sit down hey I don't suppose David will be ringing yet a while
12:32and it's nice to see a friend you think
12:35come on
12:36to your wet-footed friends
12:38for a duck may be somebody's mother
12:43she lives all alone in a swamp
12:46where the weather is cold and damp
12:50you may think that this is the end
12:54well it is
12:56this pommy beard will be the death of me
12:59binding again always binding I mean it squire griping way down here in the guts
13:04load of flannel he's just trying to get around
13:06that's what it is it's your turn next lofty we'll go on the shots if you like
13:10you wouldn't chuckle
13:11hey look we just dropped in over there by the bar talking to betty
13:13smithy's very godmother
13:15must be slumming
13:16what it's just what this party needs a bit of tone
13:19tone
13:20Dave's going in a bit tonight
13:31yes he was rather smitten by that toppy nosed friend of yours
13:34well the bevy I'm talking about not the skirt
13:36oh must be drowning your sorrows
13:38spot of trouble at home lately with the kids
13:40his wife you mean
13:42last I heard they weren't speaking
13:44let that be a lesson to you never get married
13:46well I don't know
13:47get a lot more compassionate leave
13:49he wanted them evacuated and his wife didn't
13:52funny thing to fall out over
13:54oh they've been falling out for years
13:55you don't tell me all his private life
13:58get some in
13:59Dave reserves his confidences for flight sergeants and above
14:02my poor downtrodden sergeants
14:04only good enough to borrow money from
14:06been tapping you again has he
14:07oh skip it
14:09anyway I don't have to drink to forget my allowances
14:12it helps
14:13besides everybody buys pints for the pianist
14:15I'll never get through this long
14:16on your feet Tyrone
14:20say hello to a real lady for a change
14:22oh no offence I'm sure
14:25hey she didn't want to come at first
14:27in predict
14:27no not at all
14:28uh
14:30this believe it or not is our co-pilot
14:32lofty turner
14:34lofty turner
14:35meet Susan Reynolds
14:36delighted would you care to date
14:38uh thank you no I've only popped in to organize a few refreshments for our social
14:42and I hope you'll all be coming
14:44only on conditioner you'll have a drink with us first
14:46oh I shouldn't really
14:47well my spies tell me there's some secret scotch under the bar
14:50all right just a little
14:51plenty of sun
14:52you've arrived at the psychological moment
14:57lofty is just about to do his turn
15:00oh skip
15:00you've never seen anything like it
15:02oh not tonight I don't feel in the mood
15:04tonight and every night
15:05ladies and gentlemen
15:06your attention if you please
15:08what's a jolly swagman can buy a billabomb
15:25under the shade of a coolabar tree
15:29and he sang as he watched
15:31and waited till his billy boiled
15:34you'll come a-waltzing Matilda
15:37here we go everybody
15:38waltzing Matilda
15:40waltzing Matilda
15:42you'll come a-waltzing Matilda
15:44you'll come a-waltzing Matilda
15:46oh jeez-a-waltzing Matilda
15:51waltzing Matilda
15:53you'll come a-waltzing Matilda
15:55with me
15:56and he sang as he watched
15:58and waited till his billy boiled
16:00scotch is not for a burn I'm afraid
16:03is that all right?
16:04yes of course cheers
16:05well we are a set of bright young things aren't we?
16:16I'm beginning to hate Saturday nights
16:20someone once said
16:22what was it?
16:25silence propagates itself
16:27Sam Johnson
16:28was it?
16:29he always was one of my blind spots
16:31I must have read it somewhere
16:34the longer talk has been suspended the harder it is to find anything to say
16:41you're right about Saturday night though
16:45mind you David loves Saturday night
16:48he always did
16:49Saturday night down the pub
16:52wouldn't miss it for anything in the old days
16:54well if you'll excuse me I'll just take this lot upstairs to air
16:58Sheila
17:03David's got a very dangerous job these days love you
17:08you must bear with him if he seems a bit
17:11well you know a bit forgetful
17:13I know
17:15that's what I keep telling myself
17:16do you know since the kids went away
17:19and now that they've rehoused my mum and dad
17:21I don't know what I'd do if it wasn't for the nothing
17:24yes it's hard for women with families
17:27this for
17:28expecting us to put a brave face on it
17:32you know act like normal
17:34it's asking too much
17:36coming back with us
17:44nope
17:46well Reynolds
17:48thought she'd gone off home
17:49powder in her nose
17:52didn't think blue stockings were much in your line
17:55educated women can be pretty sharp
17:56you know
17:57you know who she is don't you
18:00a warden at the study center
18:02Jack Reynolds wife
18:06two and two make four
18:10sorry I thought you were up to your old tricks
18:12and I call you mate
18:14come on now
18:15time gentlemen please
18:16come on
18:17time gentlemen
18:17now
18:18come along
18:18come along
18:19your appreciation of good music sonful
18:22come on padarooski time for beddy buys
18:24do you know that london england is 12 000 miles from melbourne australia
18:28and your beer tastes as though it crawled you all the way
18:31but flat on its milk
18:33come on
18:34love dealings
18:36come on
18:37good night son
18:37good night
18:38good night
18:39good night mrs raggle
18:40all right
18:44good night
18:47good night
18:48good night
18:48good night
18:48you sure you won't stay and have a bite of supper with us love
18:52no thanks mum
18:53thanks all i say
18:55don't take it to heart love
18:57he's he's probably flying
18:59couldn't help it really
19:01give him the benefit of the darty
19:04what forget it isn't the first time you mean
19:07try
19:08could you
19:10sheila
19:21have night then
19:21mind how you go
19:27you can put the light on now
19:33don't tell me you eat and sleep here as well
19:44i have a little flat on the top floor
19:46well it's more of an attic really
19:48it's simple but it's home eh
19:51they had a house near pearly
19:53sold it when i took this job
19:55at least i won't have to go back there
19:57no thanks i've had more than my ration this evening
20:07you smoke far too much
20:10a short life and a gay one
20:15it's getting me
20:16oh i almost forgot
20:19here's what you came for a copy of our prospectus
20:21oh i've driven it out of my mind
20:24thanks a lot
20:25and here's a list of our more important books
20:28we don't normally cover subjects like shipbuilding and marine engineering
20:32aren't they the same thing by the way
20:34yeah i suppose they are
20:36well i'll make some inquiries
20:39if you're really interested
20:40oh yes i'm interested
20:44my brother phil he went to oxford you know
20:47you told me
20:48yeah i want something better than i had before when this lot's over
20:55jack used to say that
20:58he had a mild sort of thing about me having a degree
21:03anyway perhaps we can help you
21:06that's what we're here for
21:09hey did she only get a phone call
21:10no david didn't ring apparently
21:12weren't you here
21:13no i was kept longer than i thought at the meeting
21:15well they might brighten her ideas after she gets some of her own medicine
21:21what does that mean
21:22oh nothing i spoke too soon
21:24come on
21:27well margaret thinks i'm up the wall
21:29and
21:30i went round there the other day she wasn't in
21:33that funny neighbor the one who wears a man's cap told me she'd gone out with a chap
21:37oh
21:38he calls for every day in a van it seems
21:41well i suppose people have to find somebody to talk about
21:43well this neighbor said they went to the pictures on wednesday afternoon
21:47how'd she know
21:48search me i didn't want to encourage her pretend i knew all about it
21:50well sheila must be lonely the kids going off
21:54yes but she's married dad to our david
21:58well what do you think well you go snooping find these things out and i'm supposed to come up with
22:02the answer i'm not the oracle you know
22:05being david i might have understood it but i i don't see it in sheila somehow
22:10that's a fine way to talk about your own son
22:12i don't mean it like that war does funny things to people love
22:16i saw enough of it in the last slot take a man away from his home
22:20teach him to fight turn all these standards upside down
22:24what can you expect
22:26makes you wonder what
22:29what did you do in the great war daddy you mind your own blinking business and off to bed with you
22:34are you often in trouble not that night but you have been i'm with the best crew on the squadron nobody clobbers bee for
23:04baker oh so it doesn't worry you and even if it did you could put it out of your mind
23:09you'd be able to oh we've had the odd cold sweat you know everybody has
23:15especially in the old days when smithy was shooting wild
23:19smithy yeah we're all right we've got a 100% rare gunner now who concentrates on targets
23:25smithy used to take pot shots at his own shadow i thought he was a wireless operator yeah well we had to double up on
23:32blennins he was wireless op ag but now they've made a specialist trade oh poor smithy did he mind
23:38oh he was tickled pink it means he can keep his mind on his morse key that's the way we like it
23:43i don't think he's cut out to be a killer we spend a lot of time wondering what he is cut out to be
23:48and you do you enjoy the life it's a living a living i did it for the money look the job
24:02i didn't have one at the time oh i'm sorry you wanted me to say it was patriotism or something
24:09didn't you jack believed it was a struggle between the good and the evil like churchill said you know
24:16the end of civilization as we know it i need to believe that too but you don't
24:24i'm not sure i always look for the greys i don't trust black and white there's nothing to be ashamed
24:29of in the call of duty that's what boys like you thought in 1914 and it led straight to gallipoli and
24:35the song well i just think that jack was probably right that's all thank you
24:46let's see what we can do about your post-war career shall we
24:57relax gentlemen carry on smoking where the devil's lofty needs to wait again
25:02you'd applauded six skipper you what well i thought you knew
25:10right chaps it's a bit crowded in here i know but we'll have to put up with it for the time being
25:15the briefing room's still us after that little weekend i know but don't let's knock the ministry
25:20of works too much remember they've probably built the norms of god settle down chaps right now your target
25:26for tonight is the synthetic oil producing plant at magdeburg you disapprove fly sergeant vermont we
25:33had hoped it was our turn for a crack at berlin sir yes especially after their show over london this
25:37past month the recent raids on the german capital were too expensive for our liking well they gave a
25:41damn good boost to public morale our job's not to keep up morale is to hit the enemy concentrate on this
25:47the brown coal and benzene ag our primary objective consists of two atmospheric distillation units
25:57producing petrol from coal with german resources in great demand and his communication lines spread
26:03out now all over europe command decision is to hit jerry where it really hurts in his economy
26:09industrial plant aircraft factories transport systems that's what we're after berlin's term will
26:14come in due course when we've built up our striking force and that's a promise
26:31something on your mind should there be behaving as if you've got some batter's dance all the afternoon
26:38not sefton is it nothing wrong at the works not to my knowledge no it isn't your brother dear
26:49then what is it i've lost my specs is all that's bothering you for the moment yes down the side of the chair
27:08you're absolutely right
27:11i want to know what you and this man down are arguing about
27:14well it's about our farm
27:18it's up to you without a co-pilot you're perfectly entitled to stand off no one will blame you
27:23and beef a baker would never live it down of course there's a war on what if lofty were to get
27:27back in time out of the question suspected you're deanal i couldn't possibly put him in the air in that
27:32state well then let's go under our own steams time of crisis on the spot decision but i'm not sure
27:39a group would wear it well they trusted us all three of us before the squadron was converted
27:43do you remember we've got good rear cover now it doesn't help a lot does it some of the new
27:47intake are a bit wet behind the ears how's your air gunner shaping up spot on we got the bigger the
27:52bunch in davis all right but you better get back every man jack of you and that's an order good luck
28:01i'll inform the crew and thank you sir
28:09right smithy we got the okay we'll be going in 15 minutes oh great
28:17hey don't miss come on we'll be late we're airborne in 15 minutes
28:25i'm in trouble look give us that first love letter you've ever written
28:28what the hell's all this in case i don't get back tonight what the hell do you think you're
28:33playing at why don't you mention goodbye letters before a trip don't you know better than that
28:36i don't believe in all that much never mind you mate what about the rest of us
28:43i'm sorry
28:48look you take my advice and burn it and don't go apologizing to anyone about this they'll go right
28:53up the wall look ken baumont dave they don't believe in all that luck do they no no mate no none of us
29:02we just don't believe in taking chances we've been together for a long while
29:07i don't like being shut out by my own family
29:24i don't like being shut out by my own family not even for your own good especially for my own good
29:41well as well you hear it from me i suppose otherwise it'll only come to you through the
29:45neighbors you know what a nosy lot they are it's sheila
29:51what about her oh they're saying that she's not missing david all that much that maybe she's
29:57found herself a bit of consolation who is well frida picked up some gossip when she was around
30:03there the other day i know i shouldn't listen but you can't help hearing these stories the van driver
30:11at the nappy
30:15you knew all the time
30:19i know he gives her a lift home occasionally i know she's asked him in once for a cup of tea
30:26i know they went to the pictures one night last week
30:29as a matter of fact it was the trocadero to see rebecca you're in the wrong job you know you
30:36should remuster to the secret service very good film according to mrs ironside
30:42i wouldn't mind seeing it myself i enjoyed the book i understand
30:49mrs ironside she was supervisor i called in to see her one day last week remember i see and she told you
31:00yes so that's all right isn't it is it yes of course it is if there was anything going on
31:09she certainly wouldn't have told me and that's why you're happy
31:16that is why i'm not unhappy
31:19well sir we are going to pilot all okay ready when you are skipper
31:39dave hang on
31:41okay now your first course is 06 for magnetic roger
32:06so
32:17ETA in five minutes skipper five minutes flat five minutes everybody stand by hey who's
32:41I pinched my bacon sandwiches shut up you lot intercom check regular to pilot intercom okay
32:49wireless up to pilot intercom okay navigator to pilot strength fiber
32:56pilot to navigator turning on one two oh in three minutes one two oh in three minutes
33:04well I'm grateful for this anyway Sheila oh it's been a nip in the air these last few nights
33:12well it's not as though I'll be needing it christening shawls aren't in my lung nowadays
33:16oh thanks mum wonder if david will phone him we'll not hear it in here anyway will we
33:22here go the guns all right mum feet freezing as usual I wish old Anderson had sent out
33:37rubber flooring with his shelters well it was you that asked philip and dad to bail it out
33:43we were all right under the stairs weren't we
33:46how's the baby eh settling that seems an awful thing to say but I think he's getting used to it
33:55kids they're the ones I'm sorry for you can't even tell them not at that age I did my best with
34:05Peter and Janet but I don't think they understood they couldn't grasp it you'll never persuade a kid
34:12I think it's a good thing to go away from home
34:14I think it's a good thing to go away from home
34:19listen
34:21they're getting earlier
34:26the knights are drawing in
34:31how did looking Doug?
34:35quiet as the grave
34:37clot
34:39perhaps no one told them we were coming
34:42you'll be lucky
34:44right turning in
34:46080 080
34:52115 115
34:56on course
34:58how long have we got?
35:00target up in two minutes
35:02pinpoint in two minutes
35:04check course
35:05check course
35:06120 over
35:07120 correct
35:09over
35:10bang on
35:11do your stuff Dave
35:12it'll be a pleasure Skip
35:13climbing
35:15climbing
35:17climbing
35:185,000
35:315,500
35:326,000
35:33and she looks marvelous
35:35all spread out and waiting
35:37lit up like a Christmas tree
35:39snappers in the rear
35:41three of them
35:42look like ME 109s
35:43see him off Doug
35:44got the busted
35:45shot him down in flames
35:46bomb doors open
35:47prepare to bomb
35:486,600
35:556,600
35:596,400
36:01over to you David
36:036,200
36:056,200
36:076,200
36:096,300
36:11over to you David
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36:39Coming up now
36:43Steady
36:45Bomb's gone
36:49Well, I'd like it cleared up tonight
36:53Otherwise I shan't come round here again
36:55Don't talk like that
36:57No, I mean it
36:58Now please, Mum, you've always been straight with me
37:05People are talking about you
37:08And that man who gives you a lift sometimes
37:11What, Bob O'Connell?
37:15If that's his name, yes
37:17Look
37:20He gives me a lift home from the naffy now and again
37:23Because I get tired
37:24And I like a chat
37:27Particularly with somebody who's
37:29A bit left out and on their own
37:32Like I am
37:33I went to the pictures with him last week
37:35As a matter of fact
37:36Why shouldn't I?
37:38It didn't amount to anything
37:40It certainly meant no harm
37:42It's...
37:44It's what it might lead to, love
37:47That's it
37:47How do I know what David gets up to
37:51When he's away from me?
37:53What about that letter I had?
37:56Letter?
37:58It's funny
37:59You'd think wrong of me
38:01You'd think wrong of me
38:01But never of him, would you?
38:03That's not true
38:04I suppose you think you know him better than anybody does
38:06I used to think I did
38:10I suppose most mothers like to think that about their sons
38:15I hope I'm not stupid enough to believe I couldn't be wrong
38:20You...
38:23You said something about a letter
38:25Oh, it was nothing
38:28Just something a crank wrote
38:31About David?
38:35I wonder if you'd have believed it
38:37What did it say?
38:40No, I'm sorry
38:43I shouldn't have mentioned it
38:45It's all forgotten
38:46It's all in the past
38:48She wore a little jacket of blue
38:56She kept a little jacket of blue
38:59And all the sailors knew
39:02Navigates to pilot
39:04English coast up on port side
39:07Turning in
39:08Wireless opt to pilot
39:10You want to fix from home?
39:12Better have
39:13Keep the windmill happy
39:18I'll help you, chum
39:19Right over the bloody side
39:20If you don't wrap up
39:21Don't be lying, Vance
39:23It was a good trip, wasn't it?
39:25Not over yet
39:26Keep your eyes skinned
39:28Rear gunner to pilot
39:29Message received and understood
39:31Sir
39:32I spy with my little eye
39:35Heritage ahead
39:36QDM 225 at 1500
39:46225
39:481500
39:50QDM 225, check
39:53265
39:54265
39:56255
39:59Where the devil's that coming from?
40:04Must be our own shore batteries
40:06Ours?
40:08Hit the clouds
40:09Up and over
40:09Banking
40:10Banking
40:11260
40:12265
40:14Stabber engine
40:22Look to starboard
40:24Feathering
40:26Feathering
40:28Fire extinguisher button
40:29Everything under control
40:33Crew check
40:34Regular to pilot
40:36Regular to
40:37Pilot to rear gunner
40:41Pilot to rear gunner
40:44Douglas?
40:54His intercom's gone
40:55Maybe he's pulled his plugs
40:57See what's happening, Dave
41:01Smithy's going
41:03I said you
41:05Christ
41:14We're on fire
41:16Christ
41:18We're on fire
41:20We're on fire
41:24We're on fire
41:26I thought you were helping out at the post
41:35I was
41:50Had a good sleep
41:52Goodness
41:54Stiff though
41:56Where is everybody?
41:59In the house
42:00The old cook
42:00Clear's just gone
42:02The girls are putting the kettle on
42:05Oh dear
42:07Frida's not being nasty to Sheila
42:10Oh she wouldn't be like that, love
42:12Well she hasn't been very nice
42:14All the same
42:15Well we've all been a bit
42:16Tired and naughty
42:18These past few weeks
42:19Have we?
42:22Except you of course
42:23I think I'll risk under the stairs
42:29If there's a raid tonight
42:30Bring the rug will you?
42:33Yes I'd better bring the cushions too
42:35Otherwise it'll get damp
42:36Hey
42:38Don't forget your marriage lines
42:41Oh
42:42You sick it
42:42Got it
42:43I wonder what our David was up to last night
42:53225
42:56225
43:01Dead on course
43:03What's the good word Smithy?
43:06Flames are out
43:09Must have started in hydraulics
43:12Smaller in a bit still
43:16But I can muster it
43:17What about Doug?
43:23Bring him forward can you?
43:24It's no good Skip
43:26There's a hole in the flooring back there
43:28And it's a mile wide
43:29Smithy
43:30Can you get him out of the turret?
43:35Waste of time
43:36I can see him now
43:38Half his head's gone
43:41Blown off
43:45Come back
43:53Get back forward
43:55Poor old Douglas
43:56Frog
43:57You know what his trouble was
44:00Don't you?
44:02Eh?
44:03He wrote too many letters
44:05I tried to tell him
44:08He wrote too many bloody letters
44:11He wrote too many bloody letters
44:12Dave
44:15I'm in our tea range now
44:20They can talk me down from here
44:21No Skipper
44:22He's a cake
44:24Get him out
44:25But Ken
44:26Move
44:27Hello Ripper
44:29Hello Ripper
44:29This is B for Baker 2 calling
44:31B for Baker 2
44:32Are you receiving?
44:36Smithy!
44:39Smithy!
44:39Smithy!
44:40Oh, must be the battery
45:04Did you leave it switched on?
45:06Hey
45:08I'm not carting you upstairs
45:10Don't you think you ought to be ashamed of yourself?
45:14Oh, Dad
45:14We've been up half the night
45:16Oh, I mean about Sheila
45:17Why?
45:18Now, don't bring me into this
45:20Well, I think she's acting bloody daft
45:23And that's all there is to it
45:25And don't you use language like that in front of me, my girl
45:28All right, I'm sorry
45:29But how do you know?
45:30Isn't it?
45:33Well, of course it is
45:35I told our David the last time he was home
45:38That she'd never let him down
45:40And I don't think she will
45:42Never's a big word, love
45:43I don't think she will either
45:45But if we start treating it like a fait accompli
45:48Yes, I know
45:49And you're right
45:50All right, well, what about this fellow she went to the pictures with then?
45:54His name is Bob O'Connell
45:55And he gives me a lift to the nappy now and again
45:58He's keen on me
46:00So I let him take me to the pictures last week
46:03Because I'm trying to let him down gently
46:05He's a very nice man
46:06I feel sorry for him
46:07Now, is there anything else you want to know, Freda?
46:11Sorry, Sheila
46:12Well, there's no harm done
46:14Maybe you're right
46:15Maybe you do have to be cruel to be kind
46:17And then, of course, I am married, aren't I?
46:21Except that marriage to me means having a husband and kids
46:23Where's my husband?
46:25Where are my kids?
46:27Sorry
46:28It isn't easy at my age, Freda
46:30I'm not old and past it
46:31And I awake at night
46:33It's aching for my husband and my children
46:36Wondering what's going to become of us all
46:39And how long it's going to go on, all this
46:41Do you know what I said to David the last time he was home?
46:46He's got this cut finger
46:47And I said, suppose it turns septic
46:49And they have to take your hand off
46:50They'll have to let me have you back then
46:52And I meant it
46:54I meant it
46:56I meant it
46:56You can understand, can't you, Margaret?
47:03I think we'd all better have a cup of tea, don't you?
47:06Oh, Dad
47:07Hey
47:09You've hardly had any sleep
47:25You've hardly had any sleep
47:37Bring Alan Mills, tell him you're coming later
47:40What makes you think he's had any more sleep than I've had?
47:47Freda's gone
47:48She seems quiet
47:50Yes
47:51I think she learned a few of the facts of life last night
47:56Is it all right now, Miss Sheila?
48:00As right as it'll ever be, I suppose
48:02She's, uh, had a letter
48:05About David
48:07Oh
48:08In connection with what?
48:12I don't know
48:13I see
48:15I suppose it's natural to try and believe the best of one's own
48:21Yes
48:22I suppose it's natural
48:23There's nothing we can do about it, though, is there?
48:29Nope
48:29There's nothing we can do
48:32Oh, dear
48:33Makes you feel so helpless, though, doesn't it?
48:37Yeah
48:37I know the feeling
48:40Come on
48:42Go and get your breakfast before it gets cold
48:45Right
48:46I got the biggest rocket of all time from group
48:51In fact, I'll be lucky if I don't end up sweeping the guardroom floor after this
48:55We got back, sir
48:56All barring one
48:58We can't afford to lose good air gunners
49:00A co-pilot could have kept his eyes open
49:02Possibly
49:03No one expects their own side to start shooting at them
49:07Yes, rockets all round
49:09Some of these gun crews around the coast are trigger-happy after what they've been through this past month
49:14Especially our Polish allies
49:16If they see or hear anything up there, they'll hit it
49:19Or try to
49:21Yes, I suppose we've got Warsaw to thank for that
49:23Yeah
49:24By the way, I rang the hospital while you were being interrogated
49:28Smitty
49:29I'm afraid his wireless operating days are over
49:46Oh, hello, Susan, it's David Eshton
49:58Oh, hello
49:59Were you expecting Smitty tonight?
50:02Yes
50:02Why?
50:04He's in hospital
50:05Is it something serious?
50:08Well, I'm not quite sure, I'll let you know when I hear something
50:11Oh, please, would you?
50:14I, er...
50:15I'd like to see you anyway
50:17Is there any chance you'll be at the Turks' Head tonight?
50:20Oh, I'm sorry, I'll be working
50:22Oh
50:23Are you still there?
50:26Yeah, yeah
50:26Look, er...
50:28I had a lousy night
50:30I'm not trying to, you know
50:32I just seem to need somebody to talk to
50:35About anything in particular?
50:38Well, the fact is
50:39I just started to wonder what the hell it's all about
50:43I mean
50:44Here I am right in the middle of it all
50:46And I couldn't even tell you what a fascist is
50:48Not in the right words
50:49You'd better come round to the centre then
50:51I'm not sure that I'll be all that much help
50:54But
50:54The least I can do is find you some reading
50:57Thanks
50:57Tonight?
50:59Yeah
51:00Yeah, about eight
51:02Good, I'll see you then
51:03Yeah, thanks
51:04Bye
51:04Bye
51:05What's the panic?
51:07Smitty's come round, he's going to be all right
51:09What about his hands?
51:10I rang the hospital, but they were engaged
51:12Let's get some lunch
51:15Lunch?
51:18Come on, Ken, we've got a job to do
51:20Where are you going?
51:22I'm going to see him
51:23You know, he'll need us now, he's come round
51:26Come on
51:27You'll never get in
51:29They're operating
51:31His left arm's got to come off
51:39He put that bloody fire up with his bare hands
51:42Yes
51:48It's hard lines
51:51Hard lines
52:08There's a war on
52:12That was Smithy
52:16Remember
52:18Smithy!
52:32Smithy!
52:33man
52:40Hard lines
52:46Come on
52:46You
52:47You
52:49You
52:52You
52:54You
52:56You
52:56You
52:56You
52:57You
52:57You
52:58You
52:59You
52:59You
52:59You
53:00You
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