Airborne (1962) – Gritty Paratrooper Training Drama of Courage & Brotherhood - video Dailymotion

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Airborne (1962) is an American military drama written and directed by James Landis, starring Bobby Diamond. The film follows Eddie Slocum, a young Indiana farm boy who enlists in the U.S. Army with dreams of becoming a paratrooper like his uncle. At Fort Bragg, he trains with a diverse group of recruits, facing physical challenges, personal rivalries, and the emotional pressure of proving himself worthy of the elite Airborne Division. The film is known for its realistic depiction of early‑1960s jump‑school training and its focus on teamwork, discipline, and personal growth.   Film Details Year: 1962 Genre: Drama / Military Director: James Landis Writer: James Landis Produced by: Art Diamond Starring: Bobby Diamond, Carolyn Byrd, Robert Christian, Mike Angel Cinematography: Lawrence Raimond Edited by: Rocco Moriano Music: Allyn Ferguson, William Hinshaw Studio: A. Diamond Productions Distributed by: Gillman Film Corp., Parade Releasing Organization Release Date: 30 May 1962 Runtime: 80 minutes Country: United States Language: English   #Airborne1962 #MilitaryDrama #ParatrooperFilm #BobbyDiamond #1960sCinema #USArmy #WarDrama #PublicDomainFilm #FortBragg #VintageMovies

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00:00:50What are you looking for? A violin? Move along. All right already.

00:00:59What if we start jumping out of funds? A gung ho boy. Son, I'll tell you, if you brush up

00:01:06on, say, about eight weeks of basic training, then you can talk to Geronimo. Move!

00:01:19All aboard! I guess maybe my mom made me bring too much stuff, huh?

00:01:23Say, uh, what if we start jumping out of funds?

00:01:24It kind of gets in the way. It is all right to bring my guitar, ain't it?

00:01:30There's always got to be one in every group. Move along, Elvis.

00:01:33No, my name ain't Elvis. It's Eddie. Eddie Slocum. I'm going into the Airborne.

00:01:39That's nice. I bet mommy is real proud of you. Would you mind walking over and getting in the bus?

00:01:44Oh, no. I don't mind.

00:01:46He doesn't mind. Isn't that nice?

00:01:49He's a nice boy. Move!

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00:31:30Would you care to dance?

00:31:32Well, I'm so much taller than you all.

00:31:35How can I talk to you if I can't even see you?

00:31:38Well, you go right ahead and talk, baby.

00:31:40Because I'll be hearing you.

00:32:09I'm so much taller than you all.

00:32:27I'm so much taller than you all.

00:32:57Shucks. Ain't no use to talking across a couple of tables when you can talk at the same one.

00:33:03What's your name?

00:33:05Eddie Slocum. What's yours?

00:33:07Jenny May.

00:33:10Uh, do you come to these dances all the time?

00:33:13This is the first one.

00:33:16Oh.

00:33:18Where are you from, Eddie?

00:33:20I'm from Mill Creek. That's a small town in Indiana, near La Porte.

00:33:23La Porte?

00:33:24Well, that's right near Michigan City.

00:33:27Michigan City?

00:33:28That's not too far from Chicago.

00:33:31Oh, well, I've heard of Chicago.

00:33:33Oh, that's right up front, right near Chicago.

00:33:36Well, I'm from a little farm town.

00:33:38You are?

00:33:39Aberdeen.

00:33:40It's just a few miles from the base.

00:33:42I'll be doggone.

00:33:44You look awful young to be in the service.

00:33:46Oh, I'm 18.

00:33:47So am I.

00:33:48Gee, we're the same age.

00:33:51How does it feel to jump out of an airplane, Eddie?

00:33:55Well, we don't get a jump till the last week.

00:33:58Gosh, I sure would be scared to have to jump out of an airplane way up in the air.

00:34:03You're a girl, Jenny May.

00:34:05You're supposed to be afraid of things like that.

00:34:08Pretty music, isn't it?

00:34:11It sure is.

00:34:12Would you like to dance?

00:34:14I ain't too good at dancing.

00:34:16Oh, I bet you're a real good dancer.

00:34:19Oh, no, I ain't.

00:34:21Oh, no, I ain't.

00:34:43I told you I wasn't very good.

00:34:45You do, I just found.

00:34:48Oh, no.

00:34:50Oh, no.

00:35:03Honey, you've got to let poor little old me breathe.

00:35:08I think you're a real good dancer, Eddie.

00:35:11Oh, you're just seeing that.

00:35:12I'm not that kidding.

00:35:14You're real good.

00:35:18Take a look at the little doll with him, would you?

00:35:21Tough man, tough.

00:35:24Hey, Country, you tell that little girl about your prized bull yet?

00:35:29Yeah, kid, you better go get that guitar.

00:35:32Better make sure that little girl doesn't mistake you for a Boy Scout, Country.

00:35:36Hey, Country, what are you going to do a little hoedown for?

00:35:42Say, Ersie, what kind of a dance is that boy doing out there?

00:35:46The Airborne Shuffle?

00:35:47What else?

00:35:50Don't pay attention to him, Jenny May.

00:35:52They're always like that.

00:36:00How about introducing your old, uh, buddy-buddy-buddy?

00:36:03Jenny May.

00:36:04This is Rocky.

00:36:06Blame it.

00:36:06You don't mind if the rock has one little dance, do you, Sitter?

00:36:09I guess not.

00:36:25Well, now, you're something like, uh, we got back in Chicago, baby.

00:36:29Oh, I bet you're just saying that.

00:36:32How about me and you, uh, cutting out tomorrow night?

00:36:34Mm-hmm.

00:36:43Hey, what's it been?

00:36:47Where's that little chick?

00:36:49I'll see you later, Mouse.

00:37:04Hey, Mouse, where's your elephant?

00:37:07You, uh, can't spend riding country?

00:37:09About that much.

00:37:11There's the Mouse.

00:37:13Barnowski, Ersie, Jenny May.

00:37:16Uh, come here, man.

00:37:17Uh, I want to talk to you.

00:37:20I'll be back in a minute, beautiful.

00:37:23Now, don't you, uh, guys get any ideas?

00:37:26Neither have I.

00:37:28I don't believe I got that name.

00:37:30Jenny May.

00:37:34Look, Mouse, I'm broke.

00:37:38Oh, you're not broke.

00:37:39And I don't want any loot.

00:37:42Well, what gives, man?

00:37:44Kind of cutting in on country, ain't you?

00:37:47Well, I don't see his name on her.

00:37:50Well, you told me in the shower you'd lay off him tonight.

00:37:53Since when have you become Big Brother?

00:37:56Since I think it's about time we, uh, give the kid a break, huh?

00:38:01Go see the chaplain.

00:38:03Listen, Ron.

00:38:05That little chick ain't your speed, man.

00:38:07Get your paws off me, Mouse.

00:38:10Now, get lost before I step on you.

00:38:12Listen.

00:38:13Listen.

00:38:17Let's go take a little walk.

00:38:19Oh.

00:38:22Wait a minute, Rocky.

00:38:25I don't want to fight.

00:38:26Uh, I love, uh, I'm a lover, I'm a fighter.

00:38:33You're a yellow mouse.

00:38:40Right.

00:39:10You awake, ma'am?

00:39:14What'd you wake me up for, Mouse?

00:39:17You don't want to sack out like that.

00:39:22Besides, that's something to tell you.

00:39:25I was talking about that little chick you were dancing with.

00:39:29She digs you, Matt.

00:39:31She was asking all about you.

00:39:33She thinks you the most.

00:39:35Really?

00:39:36Yeah.

00:39:37She gave Rocky the brush right after you got the breeze.

00:39:40Really?

00:39:41Gee, I'll bet that made Rocky, Matt.

00:39:44Oh, yeah, Matt.

00:39:45Big mouthy.

00:39:46All talk.

00:39:47Nothing.

00:39:48You're not kidding me along, are you, Mouse?

00:39:50No, Matt.

00:39:52This is for real.

00:39:55She works at McCrummon's drugstore in some little burg.

00:40:01Aberdeen?

00:40:02Yeah, that's it.

00:40:03That's it.

00:40:04Now, she, uh, only works till noon on Saturdays.

00:40:07That's the only day you can get off the potion of tomorrow.

00:40:10So, uh, get with it, man.

00:40:13And don't you rouse me up now, cause I put you in solid.

00:40:16Gee, thanks, Mouse.

00:40:17Forget it.

00:40:19She really likes me, huh?

00:40:20Oh, now, get off my back, man.

00:40:21Uh, shh.

00:40:22Uh, what can I do with big burgers?

00:40:25Come, come.

00:40:29I don't want to lose you.

00:40:33Honey, honey, honey, honey.

00:40:34I don't want to lose you.

00:40:49Thanks, mister.

00:40:50Glad to do it, neighbor.

00:41:11Howdy, boy.

00:41:12Howdy, neighbor.

00:41:24There, Janice, that'll be ten cents.

00:41:27Eddie!

00:41:29Jenny Mae, fancy finding you here.

00:41:32Goodbye, Jenny.

00:41:36Oh, I was just, uh, passing through and decided to stop for a Sunday.

00:41:40Gee, sure glad I did.

00:41:42Passing through?

00:41:44Where, Eddie?

00:41:46Oh, I was just passing through.

00:41:49What flavor would you like?

00:41:51Chocolate, please.

00:41:54I'm glad you were just, uh, passing through, Eddie.

00:41:57Yeah, so am I.

00:42:00I had a nice talk with a friend of yours last night.

00:42:03After you left so abruptly.

00:42:06Oh, really?

00:42:07About what?

00:42:09Oh, we talked about a lot of things.

00:42:11About you?

00:42:13Me?

00:42:14Gee, I wonder what he told you.

00:42:17Oh, lots of things.

00:42:21There you are.

00:42:22The GMA special.

00:42:23If you'll sit there, I'll serve it to you.

00:42:40Is it good?

00:42:42Mmm, that's real good.

00:42:46Mouse is a good friend of yours.

00:42:48Oh, he's my buddy.

00:42:50Mouse sure is a funny nickname.

00:42:53Sure is.

00:42:54I know how he got the name Mouse, too, but I can't tell why.

00:42:59Oh, it can't be all that bad.

00:43:01Tell me.

00:43:02All right.

00:43:04Mouse, he says there's two kinds of girls in the world.

00:43:07There's them that's looking for a husband, and them that's just looking.

00:43:11And he says if you don't want to get caught in a trap, you've got to learn how to sniff

00:43:16them out.

00:43:17And that's why they call him Mouse, because he's such a good sniffer.

00:43:23Gosh, Jenny-Me, you sure make a fella feel kind of funny.

00:43:28Very well.

00:43:29If I'm going to make you feel funny, I just won't look at you anymore.

00:43:32Oh, shucks, Jenny-Me.

00:43:34I didn't mean it that way.

00:43:36I know you don't.

00:43:38People stare at me sometimes, and, well, I feel funny, too.

00:43:42Gosh, you can hardly blame them for staring at you.

00:43:44You're so darn pretty and all.

00:43:46Do you really think so, Eddie?

00:43:48Oh, I sure do.

00:43:50Gee, you're about the prettiest girl I've ever seen in a farm town.

00:43:54I mean, any town.

00:43:56Gosh, Jenny-Me, you're just out and out pretty.

00:43:59I think you're nice, too, Eddie.

00:44:03Shucks.

00:44:04There I go getting nervous again.

00:44:07Eddie?

00:44:08I, uh, I get off work at 12 o'clock.

00:44:12Would you like to walk me home?

00:44:14Sure.

00:44:25See you over there, Eddie?

00:44:27Yeah?

00:44:28That's my dream world.

00:44:31Dream world?

00:44:32I know it sounds silly, but that's what it is.

00:44:35Would you like to see it?

00:44:36Sure.

00:44:37I've never seen a dream world before.

00:44:51Our farm is just over there.

00:44:53And away out there is my dream world.

00:44:57Boy, it sure is pretty.

00:45:13Whenever I have little problems, and we're sometimes big ones, I just come out here and look over my dream

00:45:20world.

00:45:21I don't know how, but somehow it always answers them.

00:45:25Jenny-Me, you're not trying to tell me something out there talks back to you, are you?

00:45:29Oh, no.

00:45:30Nothing like that, but I just look and think, and, well, pretty soon my problems go away.

00:45:39She, uh, wish I could get rid of my problems that easy.

00:45:45Do you have a girl back home?

00:45:47Oh, not what you'd call steady.

00:45:50Is she pretty?

00:45:52Oh, she's not as pretty as you are.

00:45:54She's a real nice girl.

00:45:56You kind of remind me of her.

00:45:57Do I, Eddie?

00:45:59Yeah, you even talk something like her.

00:46:02You must like her an awful lot.

00:46:04No, we never really got serious or anything.

00:46:07We mostly go to 4-H meetings and stuff.

00:46:11Shucks.

00:46:12Never even did talk about kissing.

00:46:15Kissing is something that doesn't have to be talked about, Eddie.

00:46:18It's something, well, something that just happens.

00:46:22Yeah, I know, but, gosh, a lot of times I'd like to kiss a girl, but they might think I'm

00:46:27getting fresh or something.

00:46:30Eddie?

00:46:32Yeah?

00:46:34Would you like to kiss me?

00:46:38Would you?

00:46:40Sure.

00:46:42Gosh, I was wanting to kiss you the first time I saw you.

00:46:46Well?

00:46:52Well, that darn old fly keeps getting in the way.

00:47:10Shucks, Jenny May.

00:47:11I hope you don't think I was getting fresh.

00:47:14No.

00:47:17See over there, Eddie?

00:47:20That's Fort Bragg.

00:47:24You can see the airplanes from here.

00:47:27Gosh, you'll be able to see me.

00:47:30Soon you'll be flowing gently down and out of sight.

00:47:34Be going new places and meeting new people.

00:47:38Fort Bragg will.

00:47:39Fort Bragg will be a memory.

00:47:42So will I.

00:47:45That's the reason I wanted you to kiss me, Eddie.

00:47:48You'll be a part of my dream world.

00:47:51Part of my memory.

00:47:54Gosh, you make me feel real important, like, you want to remember me in your dream world.

00:48:00Come on, Eddie.

00:48:01I want you to meet my mom and dad.

00:48:03We're having southern fried chicken for supper.

00:48:05Do you like southern fried chicken?

00:48:06Boy, I sure do.

00:48:08Private Slocum, would you like having dinner with a little old North Carolina farm girl?

00:48:12I sure would.

00:48:24Beautiful streamer, open for me.

00:48:29Blue skies above me.

00:48:32No canopy.

00:48:36Counted 10,000.

00:48:39Waited too long.

00:48:42Reached for the ripcord.

00:48:44The damn thing was gone.

00:48:48Put a plug in it, will ya?

00:48:49Hey, country, some girl call up here for ya.

00:48:51Yeah.

00:48:52Yeah, I hear you got a girlfriend, country.

00:48:54Hey, lover.

00:48:55Aw, cut it out, fellas.

00:48:56Hey, man, tell us what happened yesterday.

00:48:58Yeah, come on, tell us.

00:49:00Yeah, man, come on, tell us what happened.

00:49:01Oh, we talked some, and then she invited me up to supper, and I met her ma and pa.

00:49:06The routine, man, routine.

00:49:08Oh, well, then we had about the best southern fried chicken I ever did taste.

00:49:11And then her pa drove me to the bus station.

00:49:13Boy, did I have a good time.

00:49:17Well, what did you do?

00:49:19Oh, I just told you, Mouse.

00:49:21That's all?

00:49:22What do you mean, that's all?

00:49:24That's a lot.

00:49:25Well, did you kiss her goodnight?

00:49:28Of course I kissed her goodnight.

00:49:30And that ain't the only time I kissed her, either.

00:49:33Hoo-wee.

00:49:34You getting to be a real lover, ain't you?

00:49:38Yeah, country, you better give Rocky a few pointers.

00:49:40He tried all night to come on strong with that little chick.

00:49:43Oh, man, is his ego ever going to be deflated?

00:49:47All mouth, man.

00:49:49All mouth.

00:49:53All mouth, huh?

00:49:55Oh, like, man, you know, I didn't mean nothing by it, man.

00:49:57Well, we both know who's all mouth.

00:49:58Now, don't we, spaghetti face.

00:50:01Since when?

00:50:01Since when do you come up with this spaghetti face?

00:50:03Since now.

00:50:04Take it easy, Rocky.

00:50:05You don't have to get steamed up over nothing.

00:50:06Look, you shut up, Barnowski.

00:50:08Why don't you tell the boys what happened over at the service club, Mouse?

00:50:11Like, what are you trying to prove?

00:50:12How tough you are?

00:50:15Tell them.

00:50:16I asked you to give the kid a break.

00:50:21That's right.

00:50:21I was just giving the kid a break.

00:50:23Oh, yeah.

00:50:24Sure you was, Rock.

00:50:26You'd better shut up, Burski.

00:50:27Any time I lose off to a hick like that, that'll be the day.

00:50:30I could have had that broad any time if I wanted her.

00:50:32Don't call Jenny May a broad.

00:50:39So, all of a sudden, country is a tiger.

00:50:42Well, she ain't no broad.

00:50:43Well, how in the hell would you know?

00:50:45About the only thing you know about a broad is they have long hair.

00:50:49Shucks.

00:50:49Sometimes I even hold their hands.

00:50:52Sometimes I even kiss them.

00:50:54Or lay off the kid, Rocky.

00:50:57One more word out of you and I'm going to launch you in the ball.

00:51:00Remember that.

00:51:02Everybody feels sorry for the little cornball, huh?

00:51:05Let them learn about life the hard way like I had to.

00:51:08Nobody ever played big brother to me.

00:51:11I'd have taken what I wanted.

00:51:13And if you didn't have the guts, you got pushed around.

00:51:16And that's the trouble with you, Hayseed.

00:51:18You've got no guts.

00:51:21And as a matter of fact, you are nothing but an idiot.

00:51:26And everybody knows it but you.

00:51:28Runs off and sucks like a little kid.

00:51:30Has to have somebody go get his girls for him.

00:51:33Why don't you go back to the farm in your 4-H club, Hayseed?

00:51:36Knock it off, layman.

00:51:37You calling a boy an idiot just because he comes from a farm?

00:51:40Farmers are stupid.

00:51:41Is that right?

00:51:43Well, I used to be a farmer.

00:51:44You calling me stupid?

00:51:46Just because a boy comes from a rural life doesn't make him stupid, but no means.

00:51:51Do any of you boys know what the 4-Hs stand for?

00:51:54Tell them, Shogum.

00:51:56They stand for head, heart, hands, and health.

00:52:00Now, every farm boy or girl that joins a 4-H club takes a pledge.

00:52:04Tell them, Shogum.

00:52:06My head to clear thinking, my heart to greater loyalty,

00:52:10my hands to better living for my club, my community, and my country.

00:52:14Now, that's one of the things you learn on the farm, layman.

00:52:17Of course, they're just stupid farmers.

00:52:20Now, what do they teach you smart boys in the big city?

00:52:28Rocky, look, I'd like to get along with everybody.

00:52:31I'd like everybody to like me.

00:52:34Gosh, everybody knows I couldn't take a girl away from you.

00:52:37Gee, I ain't a good dancer like you.

00:52:38I ain't good looking like you.

00:52:40Look, I'd like you to be my buddy.

00:52:45Look, you'd better stay away from me, Hayseed.

00:52:46Far away.

00:52:58Hayden!

00:53:01Hayden!

00:53:08Hayden!

00:53:12Hayden!

00:53:15Hayden!

00:53:16Oh, there you go!

00:53:59The quicker you make the way to the release,

00:54:01the two of us will get on the front.

00:54:32The better you make the way to the end of the day.

00:54:36The better you make the way to the end of the day.

00:54:49Complete malfunctions are very rare and even partial malfunctions should not be treated lightly.

00:54:54The most important reaction to most of them is activate your reserve.

00:54:58You've been taught to slip and avoid other jumpers.

00:55:01But when you can't slip away, it's possible to bounce off the suspension lines using the spread eagle.

00:55:07If there's an entanglement, the most important thing is not to panic,

00:55:11but to climb down the suspension lines and ride it out together.

00:55:14The lower canopy may steal air from the higher one.

00:55:16So remember, if one should occur, don't panic.

00:55:20Stay calm or you might end up being embalmed.

00:55:28Keep your parade rest, soldier.

00:55:34Set up!

00:55:37All the way, sir.

00:55:38Airborne.

00:55:39What's the story on these people, Sergeant Metta?

00:55:41Refuse the tower, sir.

00:55:42Captain, I, uh...

00:55:43Just a second.

00:55:44When you walked down out of that tower, you walked out of the Airborne.

00:55:47There's no room in the 82nd for quitters.

00:55:5095, what are you looking at?

00:55:51Keep them eyes front and center.

00:55:53Take charge, Sergeant Bennett.

00:55:54All the way, sir.

00:55:55Airborne.

00:55:56Fridge, rest.

00:55:58All the way, sir.

00:55:59Airborne.

00:56:00All the way, sir.

00:56:01Airborne.

00:56:02All the way, sir.

00:56:04All the way, sir.

00:56:05And then we were over Normandy at less than 1,000 feet.

00:56:08It was pitch black.

00:56:10That jumpmaster said gold.

00:56:13Out that door I went.

00:56:14Down in that deep emptiness.

00:56:17Black emptiness.

00:56:18I pulled down at that big D.

00:56:19What's that, Sergeant White?

00:56:21That's a ripcord handle.

00:56:23Oh.

00:56:25That chute wouldn't open.

00:56:27I said, Whitey boy, it looked like you had it.

00:56:30This is going to be terrible.

00:56:32And it was terrible.

00:56:34Well, what happened?

00:56:35I died.

00:56:38Too bad you boys were born too late to be patriots.

00:56:42Oh, man.

00:56:43That cat's a cloud.

00:56:45Oh, yeah.

00:56:46That's how he got his purple heart.

00:56:47He told us.

00:56:4993 didn't make it.

00:56:51No guts.

00:56:54We'll be on that tower tomorrow.

00:56:57There'll be more quitters.

00:57:00Mail call.

00:57:03Court list.

00:57:04Poole.

00:57:06Here.

00:57:07Barnhart.

00:57:08Here.

00:57:10Teleferro.

00:57:12Teleferro.

00:57:14Slogan.

00:57:15Here.

00:57:16Wells.

00:57:17Here.

00:57:20Smith.

00:57:22Oh, fatal.

00:57:27Man.

00:57:30Don't ever give up.

00:57:43I received a nice letter from your mother yesterday.

00:57:46It was quite a surprise.

00:57:48And a very pleasant one on the end.

00:57:50Your mother Mary's sweet, Eddie.

00:57:53She's so proud of you.

00:57:55And naturally, so am I.

00:57:57Mei is Everything.

00:58:02You get a line.

00:58:04I'll get a pole.

00:58:05Honey.

00:58:06Honey.

00:58:07We go down to the crowded hall.

00:58:09Great, babe.

00:58:10You get a line.

00:58:11I'll get a pole.

00:58:14Honey.

00:58:15Honey.

00:58:16We go down to the crowded hall.

00:58:21Good afternoon, class.

00:58:22Good afternoon, Simon.

00:58:56I'm glad you liked our little goof-jumper men, because I don't want to see any of you

00:58:59making jumps like that.

00:59:01Here is where we separate the men from the boys.

00:59:04When you walk up into that tower, the men will jump out, the boys walk back down.

00:59:11Here you will assume the correct party position while falling through space, and practice

00:59:15a reserve for the use of a malfunction.

00:59:191,000, 2,000, 3,000, 4,000.

00:59:251,000, 2,000, 3,000, 4,000.

00:59:271,000, 2,000, 3,000, 4,000.

00:59:28Uncover.

00:59:29Please spin backstreak, hit nice to the front of the command goalie bumping out.

00:59:33What's the number?

00:59:346 bars.

00:59:35I got it.

00:59:361,000, 3,000, 3,000, 4,000.

00:59:411,000, 2,000, 3,000.

00:59:42What's the number?

00:59:441,000.

00:59:451,000, 2,500.

00:59:501,000!

00:59:50Let the dead be departed.

00:59:521,000.

00:59:53I take the潮.

00:59:541,000.

00:59:561,000!

00:59:571,000, 2,000.

00:59:591,000, 1,000..

01:00:001,000, 3,000!

01:00:031,000, 3,000!

01:00:071,000!

01:00:09chỉą those 3,000!

01:00:121,000, 3,000!

01:00:12Number 1,000, 2,000, 3,000, 4,000.

01:00:19Coming out.

01:00:21Hold that.

01:00:23Jumper, stand at the door.

01:00:26You're number 86, Sergeant.

01:00:29Which door are you supposed to be jumping?

01:00:30The left door, Sergeant.

01:00:31Well, this is the right door.

01:00:33Move to the rear and get 10 sparge out.

01:00:35Clear, Sergeant.

01:00:36On the dopper.

01:00:40Hold that rope, Sergeant.

01:00:42Hold that rope, Sergeant.

01:00:46Jumper, stand at the door.

01:00:47Yes, Sergeant.

01:00:50Get your back straight.

01:00:51Sound off your number.

01:00:53No, 87, Sergeant.

01:00:55You got to know that way, you'll break your neck.

01:00:58How do you report to the great I want 10 squads out?

01:01:02Clear, Sergeant.

01:01:04Jumper, stand at the door.

01:01:06Open those arms.

01:01:07Sound off your number.

01:01:13Sound off your roster number.

01:01:15Your number.

01:01:16Jumper, stand at the door.

01:01:19100,000, 2,000 feet.

01:01:21That's without count the worst pistol I've ever seen.

01:01:24Reach for up on him, Ryder.

01:01:27Hold set in.

01:01:29Hold number 3, Sergeant.

01:01:30Jumper, stand at the door.

01:01:35Sound off your number.

01:01:36The number is 98, Sergeant.

01:01:38Go.

01:01:41Go.

01:01:42All over the floor, Sergeant.

01:01:44I can't.

01:01:45If you're going any further than 98, you've got to jump.

01:01:48Stand at the door.

01:01:51What's the number?

01:01:52The number is 98, Sergeant.

01:01:54Go.

01:01:56All over the floor, Sergeant.

01:02:00All over the floor, Sergeant.

01:02:02All over the floor, Sergeant.

01:02:03To the great of downstairs.

01:02:03Report to the great of downstairs.

01:02:05The great of downstairs.

01:02:09The great of.

01:02:11What's the matter, Guard Blitz?

01:02:12No guts?

01:02:14I will see how much guts you've got, Hayseed.

01:02:19Get back that chopper now.

01:02:23Call number three, Sergeant.

01:02:25Well, what do you think they're doing?

01:02:26We're in the needle.

01:02:27Oh, don't be there too much.

01:02:29Shuffer, start the door.

01:02:37Round off with the roster number.

01:02:40Number 81, Sergeant.

01:02:42Go.

01:02:44Go.

01:02:45Go.

01:02:50Call number three, Sergeant.

01:02:52Don't worry.

01:02:53I'll go.

01:02:54Well, let's go.

01:02:55I want to spend Christmas at home.

01:02:57Stand in the door.

01:03:00Round off your number.

01:03:0381, Sergeant.

01:03:04Go.

01:03:06There's nothing wrong with fear, 81,

01:03:08unless you give in to it.

01:03:10Go.

01:03:11One thousand, one thousand,

01:03:13two thousand, one thousand.

01:03:16Go.

01:03:16One thousand, what's it now?

01:03:20Go.

01:03:21Go.

01:03:22Go.

01:03:23Go.

01:03:24Go.

01:03:26Hey, this ain't too bad.

01:03:32Is that right?

01:03:33Get 10.

01:03:35Go.

01:03:36Go.

01:03:40Hey, just think, Mouse,

01:03:41tomorrow, it's for real.

01:03:43Next weekend, you're gonna see the Mouse heading north

01:03:45with them wings and that three-day pass to the free world.

01:03:47So get the women and the kids off the streets.

01:04:01Now, ain't this sweet?

01:04:03Dear Jenny May, how are you?

01:04:06I am fine.

01:04:08Oh, you've got talent, Casey.

01:04:11Hey, give me my letter back.

01:04:12I read your letter over and over,

01:04:15and I'm going to carry it next to my heart when I jump from the plane.

01:04:19You're not supposed to read other people's mail.

01:04:21Give it back.

01:04:22Sure.

01:04:25What are you going to tell this little Jenny May

01:04:27when you don't jump from the plane tomorrow, Casey?

01:04:30Don't worry. I'll jump.

01:04:31Well, that I've got to see.

01:04:33You'll see it, all right.

01:04:35Don't you think it's about time you lay off the kid?

01:04:37Yeah, man, what is it with you anyhow?

01:04:39Every time you turn around, you're slamming the kid.

01:04:41And if it ain't him, it's somebody else.

01:04:43And we're getting just a little tired of it.

01:04:44He used to be a pretty good cat at one time.

01:04:46Ah, that's before he started holding a grudge against the kid.

01:04:49Anybody holding a grudge over something like you are,

01:04:52well, talk about taking it.

01:04:53You sure can't.

01:04:54Yeah, man.

01:04:54I can take anything, see?

01:04:56This is a way out world when you haven't got any friends, Rocky.

01:05:00I don't need your kind of friends.

01:05:03Mama's boys, all of you.

01:05:05Not one of you has any guts.

01:05:06You talk about guts.

01:05:08There's not one man in this outfit that don't hate yours.

01:05:16Come on.

01:05:17I'll take you all on.

01:05:18What's going on here?

01:05:26I ask a question.

01:05:27I expect an answer.

01:05:32I thought it took guts to be a paratrooper.

01:05:37Why did you volunteer for the airborne, Lehman?

01:05:41You really want to know?

01:05:42Yeah, I really want to know.

01:05:44A punk bet me I didn't have the guts to jump out of a plane.

01:05:47And when I get back to Chicago...

01:05:49You're really sure, Mochi.

01:05:51Yeah.

01:05:52Him and a few others, too.

01:05:55You Barnarski?

01:05:56I thought it would be exciting.

01:06:00You Slocum?

01:06:02Well, I guess I want to be like my Uncle Charlie.

01:06:04He was a paratrooper.

01:06:06Everybody in the family was so proud of him and all.

01:06:08You want to be like your Uncle?

01:06:10Yes, sir.

01:06:13How about you, Teleferro?

01:06:17I was getting drafted anyway, and...

01:06:20They pay extra for jumping, so...

01:06:22So you volunteer for the airborne?

01:06:25Here, ain't I?

01:06:29Now look, there's more to the airborne than just jumping out of planes.

01:06:34Sure, it takes guts.

01:06:36It also takes spirit, teamwork, and courage.

01:06:40Without all four, you're no good to the airborne.

01:06:43What do you think we're training you for?

01:06:45To fight with the street gang?

01:06:47Or maybe you think the training we're giving you is all nonsense.

01:06:50That all you have to do is to make five jumps and you're an airborne soldier.

01:06:54Well, let me tell you, legs.

01:06:56It's one thing to make a drop in ideal weather conditions on a smooth drop zone,

01:07:01with instructors to guide every move you make.

01:07:04And it's another thing to drop 50 miles behind the enemy lines,

01:07:08into hot wires,

01:07:09into the drink,

01:07:11or into machine gun emplacements.

01:07:14There's no instructor there to guide you if you get into any trouble.

01:07:18There's only two kinds of people on that ground.

01:07:21People that's waiting to put a bullet in you,

01:07:22and the men you jump with.

01:07:25And either you work as a team or you don't last long.

01:07:29There's no room for eight balls.

01:07:33Or prima donnas.

01:07:36Or weaklings.

01:07:37When your life depends on your buddy.

01:07:39And your very existence depending on your coordination.

01:07:42An airborne soldier respects his fellow man,

01:07:45with no exceptions.

01:07:47That comradeship must be molded right here,

01:07:50in jump school.

01:07:52Now that's the jump from boy to man.

01:07:55Now either you'll get with it or you'll get out of it.

01:07:58That I promise you.

01:08:01You're being given the best.

01:08:03To benefit from the mistakes the men before you learned the hard way.

01:08:07The men that made the airborne what it is today.

01:08:10An outfit to be proud of.

01:08:13Damn proud of it.

01:08:19And if you people think Sergeant Benner's just blowing smoke up your back.

01:08:23I want everyone of you to walk over to that museum.

01:08:25Take a look at the record of the 82nd.

01:08:28Sicily, Normandy, Holland.

01:08:31And you come back, Lamey, and you tell the boys how much gut you got.

01:08:33Come back.

01:09:14Captain Ivan Senior, living man of honor of the 82nd World War I, he and the small patrol

01:09:20captured 132 presidents.

01:09:31It sure is old, isn't it?

01:09:33This American flag was the first flag that flew as the first liberated town in France in World War II.

01:09:55Would you read that place?

01:09:58American parachutists, devils in baggy pants.

01:10:01This is 100 meters from my outpost. I can't sleep at night.

01:10:06They pop up from nowhere and we never know when or how they will strike next.

01:10:10Seems like the black-hearted devils are everywhere.

01:10:16This is found on the diary of a German officer who opposed the 504 on the Enzio beachhead.

01:10:30Sergeant Leonard A. Funt is the living medal of honor of the 82nd Airborne Division, World War II.

01:10:46We're proud to be a member of the 82nd Airborne Division.

01:10:49We are ready to go anywhere, anytime, anyplace.

01:11:14O.K.

01:11:18O.K.

01:11:19O.K.

01:11:22Okay.

01:11:26Okay.

01:11:35Okay.

01:11:41Okay.

01:11:44Okay.

01:11:49Okay.

01:11:52Okay.

01:12:06Okay.

01:12:08Okay.

01:12:09Okay.

01:12:11Okay.

01:12:12Okay.

01:12:16Okay.

01:13:19Plane number two is four minutes from DZ.

01:13:21Each of you have been assigned drop numbers.

01:13:23When you jump, be alert and listen for ground instruction.

01:13:26Plane number one now over DZ.

01:13:27Let's go.

01:13:30Let's go.

01:14:14Let's go.

01:14:19Let's go.

01:14:21Look at him squirm.

01:14:23There's nothing to it, Rocky boy.

01:14:24He'll show up to these mamas, boys.

01:14:26What have a volunteer for this jazz?

01:14:46Let's go.

01:14:56Let's go.

01:15:05Check your equipment.

01:15:08Check your equipment.

01:15:22We're OK.

01:15:24We're OK.

01:15:25We're OK.

01:15:26We're OK.

01:15:27We're OK.

01:15:28We're OK.

01:15:29We're OK.

01:15:30We're OK.

01:15:31We're OK.

01:15:32We're OK.

01:15:34We're OK.

01:15:48We're OK.

01:15:52Go! Go!

01:16:01Go! Go!

01:16:04Go! Go! Go!

01:16:06Go! Go! Go!

01:16:14Go! Go! Go!

01:16:16Go! Go! Go!

01:16:22Go!

01:16:28Go!

01:16:29Go!

01:16:31Go!

01:16:32Go!

01:16:49Go!

01:16:50Go!

01:17:02Go!

01:17:04Go!

01:17:05Go!

01:17:06Go!

01:17:08Go!

01:17:11Go!

01:17:29Number 12, slip to the rear.

01:17:35Hey, slip away, Rocky.

01:17:43Spread eagle, 12.

01:17:47Spread eagle, Rocky.

01:18:01You're going to get us both killed, Rocky.

01:18:12Rocky, you're going to get us both killed.

01:18:17Don't panic, well.

01:18:19Get out of those suspension lines.

01:18:26It's Lehman.

01:18:28Lehman!

01:18:29Lehman, get out of those suspension lines!

01:18:44I got you, Rocky.

01:18:46Come on down, we'll ride out together.

01:18:50Let go, Rocky.

01:18:51You're going to collapse my shoe.

01:18:53Let go, I got you.

01:18:54Here we go.

01:18:59Atta boy, Slocum.

01:19:00Hold him.

01:19:18Atta boy, Slocum.

01:19:20Hold him.

01:19:21Get out of the way, kid.

01:19:23You can die.

01:19:32Come on, country boy.

01:19:33I got out of the way.

01:19:36Uh, uh, uh.

01:19:47Uh-huh.

01:19:49Uh-huh.

01:19:50Uh-huh.

01:19:51Uh-huh.

01:19:53Uh-huh.

01:19:59Uh-huh.

01:20:00Uh-huh.

01:20:23Rocky, you hurt?

01:20:25How you hurt, Rocky?

01:20:27You okay, Rocky boy?

01:20:28Did you break anything?

01:20:29No.

01:20:31All right.

01:20:31Yes, I'm okay.

01:20:32You should have slipped away, didn't you hear, Ben-Hur?

01:20:35I didn't hear anything.

01:20:40I said you had no guts, country.

01:20:43Go on.

01:20:44Good and hard.

01:20:45Right here.

01:20:51Man, you had us worried.

01:20:54You guys were really worried about me.

01:21:01About me.

01:21:04That's really something.

01:21:07You guys are the greatest.

01:21:10The greatest country.

01:21:29You all right, Layman?

01:21:31Yes, Sergeant.

01:21:31How about you, Malcolm?

01:21:32Yes, Sergeant.

01:21:35Care to have dinner with a little old North Carolina farm girl?

01:21:38Trooper Slocum?

01:21:40Not a North Carolina farm girl.

01:21:42Trooper Slocum's girl.

01:21:52Hey, lads.

01:21:53You'll be sorry.

01:21:56Drop that.

01:21:57Why, you talk, I'll...

01:21:59Is everybody happy?

01:22:02I like happy people.

01:22:04Sergeant.

01:22:05Sergeant.

01:22:05Oh, we're all American and proud to be, for we're the soldiers of liberty, some private

01:22:15blighting through the enemy, others are sky paratroopers.

01:22:22We're all American and fight we will, till all the guns of the fall are still.

01:22:30They're born, skies of blue, we're coming through, make your jumps, make your pumps.

01:22:37Let's go put on your boots, the parachute, the parachute, get all those riders ready to attack today.

01:22:46For we'll be gone, we'll be gone, we'll be gone, we'll be gone, we'll be gone.

01:22:50We'll be gone, we'll be gone, we'll be gone, we'll be gone, we'll be gone to fight and ball the

01:22:51age second way.

01:22:54Hey!

01:22:54We'll be gone, we'll be gone.

Airborne (1962) – Gritty Paratrooper Training Drama of Courage & Brotherhood

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