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And you're arriving with the detail of recruits

at the United States Naval Training Station at

Great Lakes, Illinois.

Yesterday you left your home in Farmville, Illinois,

or Nashville, Tennessee, or Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

You're mighty anxious to know what's ahead of

you.

Yesterday you were a machinist, baker, grocer, tinsmith,

cowboy, broker, painter, clerk.

That was yesterday.

Tomorrow you will be a sailor.

Great Lakes is the most magnificent naval training

establishment in the world.

But more than that, Great Lakes is men,

more than 70,000, eager to fight for

their country and soon to get the chance.

You will learn many things here, valuable on

shipboard and in combat, but whatever else you

may learn, one thing you will never forget,

to fight and live the Navy way.

I get on your square corresponding to your

bullet numbers.

I take your packing slips, shipping tags, medical

history sheets.

Lay these papers right down in the corner

of the square in which you're standing, right

on the deck.

I take and put inside of your ditty

bag all the personal things that you're going

to keep here with you.

There was a list of those things.

I'll get in the other room.

I'll take your clothing, put them inside your

box.

Okay, Mac.

You're holding up the Navy.

This is embarrassing, isn't it?

Eat your spinach.

Oh, Ma.

It's good for you.

What's eating you tonight?

I got a raise today.

Manager of the basement shoe department.

Wow.

It's about time.

The way you slave a client and shoemaker,

I should think they would.

Mother, I...

I've decided it's time Agnes and I got

married.

Frankie, if you had the brains of a

flea.

It ain't that I don't want to see

my boy happily married, mind you.

You're rushing into things.

Well, we've been engaged eight years already.

You've got plenty of time.

It's no use, Mother.

You're not going to talk me out of

it this time.

I'm going right over and tell Agnes.

Frankie!

It's your own mother advising you.

Mother, you've got to realize that I'm a

man.

Agnes!

Agnes!

Frankie, you surprised me.

I surprised you?

What do you mean, smuggling with that private?

Corporal.

Yes, Corporal.

Don't you realize you're engaged to me?

Yes, Frankie.

We've been engaged for eight years.

Well, not anymore, we're not.

You'll never see me again, you...

you she-wolf.

Frankie!

Oh, Frankie!

He might have done something awful.

Why doesn't he come home?

He's just got a pee-von tonight.

There he is now.

Frankie, please, I've got to talk to you.

I was just trying to make you jealous

so you'd finally set a date for our

wedding.

Yes, and you were that Corporal.

That Corporal was my cousin.

Your cousin.

I know all about those...

Your cousin.

Good gracious.

What is it, Frankie?

I went out and joined the Navy.

Oh!

I'll make a good sailor at that.

Who said you wouldn't?

Oh, well, Agnes, that's my girl.

She said I couldn't make the grade.

Why, I'm only 38 and a half and

in good shape, too.

I went to Chicago this afternoon and made

arrangements to be inducted into the Navy.

Good going, Mal, as an ordinary sailor.

Well, not too ordinary, I hope, Mother.

But, Malcolm, why couldn't you have done something

about her?

A commission?

Yes, ma'am, with your background, you...

Look, this is the way I want it.

Just this once, I'd like to do something

in spite of being a randle, not just

because of it.

Well, I'm due in town to drink a

few farewells.

We'll say goodbye in the morning.

Night, everyone.

Good night.

Good night.

Well, I will say the boy has courage.

Well, I must admit, I'm rather proud of

the boy.

Well, spread, I guess this is it.

Love me?

Nope.

Just the freckle-faced kid from next door.

No glamour, huh?

Don't ever sell yourself short, Trudy.

You've got plenty of it.

But, well, I'm going in there and I

don't know what's going to be, so...

You find yourself a nice home-loving guy

and marry him.

As for the head, I will.

Goodbye, Mal.

Bye.

The honour company, Billy.

Mr. Flagg.

Your dad brought that one when he came

home on his boot leave.

The rooster and a diamond ring.

You know, I think he was more excited

about the rooster than the ring.

That's the spirit.

Well, you'd better get going, son.

Well, what is it, Billy?

This will be the first time I'm away

from you.

A telegram for you.

Yeah?

Bad news.

I reckon it's all right to tell you,

Baldy.

It's from the Navy.

Young Steve.

Lost in the big sea battle.

Somewhere's name of Mundy or Munda or something

like that.

That kid was Steve's whole life.

Yeah.

Hey, what's the sense of me sending these

things home when I'm getting out of here

in a couple of days?

Oh, so you're leaving us, huh?

The skipper won't like that.

The way it is, I'm getting deferred, see?

Oh, you got it all fixed up, huh?

Well, just to please the skipper and me,

will you put your clothes in that box

like you were told to?

If you're done like I told you, you're

taking them two rounds sooner.

I gave him the elbow and the thumb

and the eye, didn't I?

I cut him where it hurts, didn't I?

What do you want me to do, hit

him on the referee?

Okay, okay.

You and your hot head.

Grandstander for that blond bimbo, too, wasn't you?

Yeah, pretty nice, too.

I can dig with her later.

Oh, Dames, a dime a dozen.

Gotcha.

Give him a dime on what a dozen.

Come in.

Johnny.

Scram, gotcha.

Oh, my man.

Johnny, my boy.

Mama, what do you think?

Mike Jacobs wants me to come to New

York and meet Kid Atkins.

Is that good?

Very good.

Say, look, Johnny puts him away and we

get a crack at a champ.

Of course, up to now, we ain't netted

much with training expenses and all that.

But from now on...

First thing you're going to do is move

out of that ratty tent and get a

nice house in the country.

You hear that, Papa?

And Papa's going to have a nice yard

full of chickens and stay home all day

and take care of them.

No more climbing up those rickety ladders with

a hot bull of bricks.

From now on, we're on easy streets.

Say, how do you like this?

Telegrams from every big promoter in the country.

Yes, sir.

And how do you like this?

Greetings from the President of the United States.

The President?

Hey, it can't do this to us.

What's the matter, Hammy?

Well, this thing, this ain't from the President.

Here, read it.

Greetings from the President of the United States.

Having submitted yourself to a local board composed

of your neighbors for the purpose of determining

your availability for training and service in the

Armed Forces of the United States, you are

hereby notified that you have now been selected

for training and services in the Armed Forces

of the United States.

John Wright, they can't do this to me.

Not right now, anyways.

They'll have to defer me, they'll have to

make me the champ.

Sure, sure.

Plenty of guys getting deferments.

Maybe they need a man, Johnny.

They can't wait for.

Maybe after the war.

After the war, my eye.

For years, I've been getting my head bashed

in.

Finally, I get a chance to get the

money and be somebody.

I'm afraid I can't.

Wait, I'll be past my prime.

Maybe I'll lose an arm or a leg.

Oh, Sonny.

Oh, I'd afraid, Pop.

You know that.

What kind of a fighter would I be

with one hand?

Oh, look.

What are you nice people worrying about?

What do you got Henry Jerome for a

manager for, huh?

Have I got friends?

Have I got people that count, see?

Now, stop worrying.

I'll take care of everything.

Oh, Lord.

Now, stop worrying.

I'll take care of everything.

Of course, we have to play along for

a while, but I'll have you out of

here in no time.

Just a minute.

Are you a recruit?

Who, me?

No, no, no.

This is Johnny Jersey.

The fighter.

Hey, look, pal.

I'll just go in and talk to the

boss of the joint for a minute.

That won't be necessary.

We'll take care of Johnny for you.

Don't you worry, Johnny.

They can't shove you around.

I'll take care of everything.

Okay.

On your way.

Like I said, I won't be here long.

But while I'm hanging around, maybe you guys

would like for me to put your boxing

thing on the map.

You mean you wouldn't expect to get paid?

No, not if you can arrange it.

Of course, you haven't got many pros of

my standing around this joint, though.

What did you say your name was again?

Johnny Zamano.

But you'll know me better by my ring

name.

Johnny Jersey?

Johnny Jersey?

Gee, I almost missed you.

You're the guy the skipper told me to

look out for.

He did?

Sure.

He says to me, Saxon?

Saxon, that's me.

He says, we got Johnny Jersey, that terrific

fighter, coming in with that new bunch of

recruits.

And I want you to see that he

gets specially taken care of.

You don't say.

Sure.

Take this box for Mr. Jersey.

And I want you to come with me,

because I want to see that you get

a specially good outfit.

Hey, what is this?

This stuff's too little.

Why, you want to look snappy, don't you?

You want to show off them muscles?

Here.

This will kick the sun out of your

eyes.

Bigger.

Bigger.

What's going on here?

Well, this is what we've been coming here

for.

Knock down the both of you.

And come with me.

The rest of you carry on.

It was just a little misunderstanding, Chief.

Misunderstanding my eye.

Your goon here, for no reason at all,

tries to make an egg head out of

me.

He was getting so cocky, I just wanted

to take him down a peg.

You're asking for a mouthful of teeth.

Knock it off.

Where do you think you are?

In a pool room?

Well, tell him to lay off of me.

Saxon, you haven't worn before a lot of

rag in the boots.

I guess the only way to teach you

is get your bust in.

Holy smoke, Chief.

It took me a year to get my

writing.

You got a shot of that before.

That's all, Saxon.

Maybe I should have taken a poke at

him for the leather.

Get off the desk.

Don't do no poking around here.

You'll learn to batten down your temper and

take orders.

Maybe I will or maybe I won't.

You're a pretty tough character, aren't you?

Nobody's shoving me around whether he's got on

a uniform or not.

Now, listen to me, Jersey or Zomano or

whatever your name is.

I didn't ask to have you put in

my company.

But as long as it's up to me

to make a sailor out of you, I'm

going to do it.

And I'm going to do it if I

have to swap the deck with you.

That's all.

For now, I'll go on back to Billinghen

and get an outfit that fits you.

I may as well tell you now while

you're here for your boot training, I'm going

to work the pants off you.

But what you learn here will be the

foundation of your Navy career.

I could stand here all day telling you

about your duty to your country and to

the service.

But it's all summed up in the oath

of allegiance Any of you remember it?

I think I do, sir.

All right, repeat the oath.

And the rest of you listen carefully and

remember exactly what it means.

I, William Jameson, do solemnly swear that I

will bear true faith and allegiance to the

United States of America, that I will serve

them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies,

whomsoever, and that I will observe the orders

of the President of the United States and

the orders of the officers appointed over me

according to the rules and articles for the

government of the Navy.

Yeah, I sure hope we can be on

a company and win the rooster.

You mean if we do our work good,

we get chicken?

No, it's a flag.

The company that's best in cleanliness, efficiency, physical

ability, and studies gets it at the graduation.

That's a lot of Boy Scouts junk.

No, it isn't.

It's a great honor.

My father's company won it when he was

here during the last war.

He took it home to my mother.

I kind of promised her I'd do the

same if I could.

Sure you will.

We'll see to that.

What a bunch of suckers.

You can get yourself kicked out.

You think that'll be bad?

Oh, he's kidding.

I read about him in the papers.

He's dynamite.

Maybe I don't get you, Randall.

What are you doing here, slumming?

With your education in port, you should have

at least a couple of gold braids on

your sleeve.

What makes you think I could?

With a million bucks, you can buy anything

in the world.

Sometimes a million dollars sets up plenty of

handicaps.

Name two.

Uh-oh, now we're in for it.

She's going to talk to the chief.

I'm disappearing like a flying file.

Hey, Mac!

Agnes, I didn't do a thing.

Which one of you whistled at that wave?

I did.

Well, she wants you to take a walk

with her.

Is it all right?

Sure it's all right.

Go ahead.

All right, shove off, shove off, you guys.

Oh, a party.

All right.

Getting tired?

No, it's nice under here.

Where do I put this thing?

Just leave it right there.

When you finish unpacking this carton, that'll be

all for now.

Thank you very much.

Don't mention it.

I won't.

It was nice of your chief to lend

it to me.

The shipments of pills are back-breaking.

What did you do before you got in

the Navy?

Run a slave ship?

Hand like that on a ranch?

Go on, what happened?

What happened?

What would happen?

Boy meets girl?

Very, very nice.

I got her strictly under control.

You know what you guys need is a

little technique.

You've all seen this schedule?

Now that we need all this footwork for,

physical training.

That's what we need.

You'll get it, son.

But you've got to use your brains, too.

You certainly do.

See?

You're a little old to be starting out

in the Navy, ain't you, Pop?

Not too old to teach you squirts and

things.

Say, the chief said they've got a store

over here where you can get toothpaste and

things.

Yeah, a ship service.

No, it's just a store.

I'm going over.

Anybody want to come along?

Sure.

Wait for me.

That's the third time, clumsy.

Maybe that'll teach you to be more careful.

I'm out of soil for a while.

You don't have to

help me.

Why didn't you go with the others?

Oh, I didn't need anything.

Here.

How'd you know?

I had a boy of my own.

I guess I know a little touch of

homesickness.

When I see it, nothing to be ashamed

of.

You had a boy?

Yeah, just about your age.

18 when he joined the Navy.

We got the news about him a couple

of weeks ago.

Thought I had something to worry about.

Well, how about an ice cream soda?

That'll go fine.

I thought so.

Boy, when you get through here, you'll make

somebody a good wife.

Yes, Agnes.

Are you a little drip?

That's all I'm going to take.

Why don't you pick on somebody your own

size?

Oh, no, wait a minute.

Johnny, you should have done that.

I get tired of watching him push the

kid around.

Hey, fella, check it.

It's the chief.

All right, who did it?

I didn't.

Come on, who did it?

Well, what about it, Jocelyn?

I tripped over the brace and hit my

head, sir.

I see.

I thought for a minute somebody slugged you.

No, sir.

All right, get on the ball.

Be with the rifle range in 15 minutes.

Yes, sir.

Still, sir, you shouldn't have slugged him.

If that's the way you feel about it,

why didn't you tell on me?

I'm not even going to answer that.

It wouldn't be Navy, huh?

You got to understand, Johnny, we're shipmates.

We got to pull together.

Not only that, if Riley puts you on

report, it'll go against the whole company.

Might cost us our chances of winning the

rooster.

What's the matter with your hand?

Nothing.

All right, all right.

All hands gather round.

It's going to be a boxing tournament Saturday

between this company and company 104.

There'll be four pounds.

Company 104 is giving us a close run

for the rooster and we've got to beat

them.

I understand we have some real fighters here.

They put me down.

All right.

Now we need a middleweight for the main

event.

It's you, Johnny.

Here's your chance.

He's a one-punch fighter.

He does all his battling with his mouth.

Take it easy.

All right, how about it, Zermatto?

Okay.

I just figured you wouldn't have anybody that

could make the show worthwhile.

Don't worry about that.

You're going to fight Ralph O'Connor.

Never heard of him.

Into a collegiate champion, isn't he?

That's right.

College man, huh?

I like that.

Especially you.

How do you like the fight so far?

In this

corner, the former intercollegiate middleweight champion representing company

104 and 104.

In the middleweight

championship, representing company 101 and 156 pounds, Johnny

Zermatto.

Better known as Johnny Jersey.

No, no, that's not the one we tried

here.

Oh, it ain't, huh?

We did it with a shovel.

How do you like this?

He hurt

his hand, sir.

Get him out of here, sir.

None of you men help me here.

You can finish that yourself, Miss Sayre.

Thank you.

Maybe I'm dumb or something.

Meaning what?

I went for him and he gave me

the raspberry.

It's how you won, Jersey.

That's what they were booing.

Pass me the scissors.

What's the difference how?

As long as you win, that's what they've

always told me.

Well, they told you wrong, Jersey.

You were probably pushed around a lot when

you were a kid, weren't you?

I don't know what you mean.

Since I was seven, I was selling papers,

hustling crates in the markets, anything to earn

a dime.

But nobody ever pushed me around.

I'd like to see them try it.

That's just what I mean.

You were hurt and scared, so you had

to become the toughest guy in the town.

Why don't you ease up and relax?

Take the chip off your shoulders.

You're among friends.

Am I, Professor?

Now I'll tell you something else about me.

I've been dying to see you again.

And to...

I could have you put on report for

that.

Oh, no, you wouldn't do that.

You're beautiful, and you can't blame a guy.

Do you have to be a pharmacist's maid

all the time?

Your hand will be well in a few

days.

Get in touch with pharmacist's maid McCary when

you need redressing.

That frozen face.

Well, let's start all over again.

What do you say?

Ow!

You do need a nurse.

Sure I do.

Can I come back and see you when

I need a new bandage?

All right.

Thanks for everything.

Me, I want nothing more to do with

it.

You just gotta teach him different, that's all.

You can't teach him.

What would you fellas say if I told

you he went in that fight with a

busted hand?

What do you mean?

Before the fight?

For sure.

He hurt his hand when he hit Charlesman.

Why didn't you say something?

He shouldn't go in with a hand like

that.

You'll figure him out.

Here we've been running him down, and he

went in for the company with a bad

hand.

I guess that's the only way he could

win.

Here he comes now.

Go ahead, start fooling.

Oh, gee, Johnny, that didn't mean a thing.

We were just kidding, that's all.

That was a terrific fight you put on

his hand.

What a pack of screwballs.

If you think this obstacle course is tough,

think of the kind of terrain the men

have to cope with in the mountains of

Sicily, and the jungles of New Guinea.

Any recruit who can't finish this obstacle course

in the minimum amount of time will be

considered physically unfit for combat duty.

Now remember, you're on your honor to make

all the obstacles.

All right, on your feet, and over the

course.

Go ahead.

Twenty bucks says I beat you in time.

Okay, Mac, you've got a bet.

Come on, Frankie, you can still make it.

Just under the wire, Gamble.

How do you feel?

Fresh as a daisy.

Good.

I think Lacey's hurt himself.

Take care of him.

Easy, Lacey, take it easy.

I can't make it, Chief.

Guess I'm just too old to make it.

They won't.

What do you think about Pop Lacey?

Fifty-six years old.

Yeah.

He admitted to the Chief he fudged on

his age when he joined up.

Yeah, with six kids.

Two in the Army, one in the Navy,

and a daughter in the Red Cross.

You better fix up your bunk, Johnny.

Inspection's in ten minutes.

So what?

Lacey wants to say goodbye, fellas.

You know how we feel, Lacey.

I sure would have liked to have gone

with you fellas, but I just can't bear

the thought that I might be responsible for

some other guys getting theirs just because I'm

too old to stand the gap.

Oh, now, don't blame yourself.

You've tried.

Sure, sure.

You know, I had a little trouble myself.

Good luck.

So long, Pop.

Come on, Johnny.

You've only got a few minutes left.

Morning, sir.

Morning, Chief.

Company!

Hand salute!

Halt!

Whose bunk is this, Chief?

It's mine.

Sir.

Sir.

Didn't you know there was going to be

an inspection this morning?

Of course he did, sir.

Put him on the report.

Aye, sir.

How many you want?

I'll pay these.

Gee, you better take enough.

I'm only coming around once.

Give me one.

One.

Two?

Two.

Now, let me see.

I want...

It should take six, but I'll only...

I'll open for one.

Well, why don't you see it?

If it wasn't for me, the company would

have a perfect record.

So I'm a heel and a gulping.

Yeah.

What if you'd been battered around for years

so you could get your family out of

a dirty, stinking tenement?

What if you'd always been a nobody?

Then you had a chance to be a

somebody.

Then they'd grab you and shove you into

a uniform.

Tell you to stay put.

No time.

Obey orders.

They'd only give me a couple of months.

Just a measly couple of months.

But no, it doesn't matter what you want.

It's what they want.

If you guys put yourself in my place...

I'll skip it.

I got a couple of days extra duty.

A couple of days.

They should take you out and beat you

over the head with an iron bar.

Now, wait a minute, boys.

Wait a minute.

You expect the Japs and Germans to postpone

what they're doing just so we can wait

for you?

O Trinity of love and power A

brethren shield in danger's hour From rock and

tempest, fire and foe Protect them where so

'er they go Thus ever let there

rise to thee Glad hymns of praise from

land and sea Amen Yes?

You wanted to see me, Chaplain.

I'm Apprentice Seaman Zamano.

Oh, yes, yes.

Bob, take over and make it good.

I'll be listening in my office.

Aye, aye, sir.

They can't escape me.

Sit down.

You're one of Father O'Shea's boys from St.

Paul.

Yes, sir.

He wrote me to look you up.

And where do I find you?

On the reports.

Yes, sir.

I guess I got a little out of

line.

Well, sometimes a lad finds it hard getting

himself adjusted.

But I write Father O'Shea that you're getting

along fine.

We won't mention the reports.

I'd sure appreciate that, sir.

If nothing bothers you, drop in and we'll

talk it over.

Maybe I can tip you off so you

won't step on someone's toes again.

Thank you, sir.

They're really good.

The best.

But then at Great Lakes, we have nothing

but the best.

See you Sunday?

Yes, sir.

Stand by to cross.

Cross.

Let's get them all out.

That's it.

Steady now.

Stand by to let fall.

Let fall.

Ready.

Stand by.

Go.

Mal.

Where's Mal?

When we turned over, an oar hit him.

Don't be a fool.

Go for the breakwater.

You're not much of a swimmer.

Hey, the conquering hero.

Say, what did Chief say?

First he compliments me, see.

Then he lowers the boom on me for

not ordering the boat back.

That guy just can't be right around here.

You're right with me, Johnny.

Thanks.

Sure was a swell thing you did, Johnny.

Couldn't let the guy drown, could I?

Come on, Bill.

Hit it.

One, two.

The ocean waves are home on the rolling

sea For the scattered waters brave and the

winds their revels keep For the scattered waters

brave and the winds their revels keep Hey,

look at that.

Three inches off the belt already.

I never would have believed it, Frankie, if

I hadn't seen it.

Hey, the way Frankie beats his gums about

Agnes, she must be a pinup girl.

And you should have seen me on the

obstacle course.

Under the barbed wire like a lizard.

Sixteen foot mud hole like a deer.

Twelve foot barricade like a...

A kangaroo?

That's right.

Then up the ladder like...

Like a chimpanzee.

Well, isn't that right, fellas?

Yeah, that's right.

That's right.

Frankie's really okay.

Miss Ellen, apprentice Seaman Zermano requests the honor

of the company of pharmacist's mate, Ellen Sayre,

at an informal gathering at the home of

Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Randall, Glencoe, Illinois, on

the evening of recruit graduation.

Signed, Johnny Zermano.

Pharmacist's mate is expected.

Pharmacist's mate, Sayre, will take the matter under

advisement.

♪♪♪ Honor men, company

101.

Seaman second class, Malcolm Randall, Jr. Seaman second

class, William Jameson.

Has been

judged the honor company of this graduating battalion.

Seaman Jameson, approach to receive the rooster emblem

on behalf of your company.

It was sure swell of the company to

let me take this home with me.

I'm gonna hang it right up next to

my dad's.

Ah, you had it coming, Bill.

Sure, you do that.

Well, I'm shoving along.

See you fellas at the house tonight.

♪♪♪ With first day classes, the canteen, and

knitting, I've been keeping pretty busy.

I knitted for you.

What?

I'm sorry, my mind was wandering.

Uh-huh, in a pretty straight line.

She is good looking.

I'm going home to St. Paul tonight.

If you'll just say the word, I won't

go.

Why shouldn't you?

Look, I'm a guy and you're a gal.

And I'm off my beam about you.

Johnny.

Just say the word and we'll go to

Chicago and get married.

Johnny, I like you.

I like you a lot.

You don't give a girl a chance to

think.

What for?

When you get a guy on the ropes,

you press your advantage.

You'd better go back to St. Paul tonight.

You mean you're turning me down?

Johnny, when you get back, you'll be put

in an outgoing unit.

And you'll be assigned a ship.

After that, who knows how long it'll be

before we see each other.

After the war, maybe.

I don't know.

I just don't think this is the time

for people like us to think about getting

married.

Okay, for now.

But I'm warning you, when I get back,

I'm gonna make you change your mind.

Hey, Johnny, come on in.

Frankie's got an announcement to make.

Hurry up.

Well, I did it.

Yes, I finally did it.

Agnes and I are all set.

Next Tuesday, we're gonna have the blessed event.

Frankie!

Wendy!

That's right, Wendy.

I get all mixed up, so you're all

invited.

Oh, Johnny, we want you and Ellen to

stand up with us.

How about it?

I'd like to, but I'll be in St.

Paul.

I already made my reservation.

That's right.

Well, Mal, how about you and Ellen?

Sure, what's wrong with that?

All right.

You're getting a swell guy, Agnes.

Don't try to kid me.

I know him better than you do.

Yes, you may be.

So long, Barbara B.

Hey, a little more over the right eye.

We had such a lovely time.

You have a beautiful home.

Well, you should come back again.

Anytime.

I'd love to.

I'll ask Johnny to bring me.

Oh, thanks, Mal.

Hey, come on, let's go.

We've got to get the girls home, and

I've got to get your train.

Hold on, wait a minute, Bucko.

When you get back, let's all have one

last drink here together before reporting back to

the station.

What do you say?

Swirl!

Okay, 7 o'clock a week from Tuesday.

I'll send Steve and Billy a wire to

come too.

Okay, Mal, we'll be seeing you.

Okay.

We look forward to it.

Swirl.

Good night.

So long, Mal.

See you then.

So long, Mal.

Week from Tuesday, huh?

That's right.

Yeah, but don't forget this Tuesday.

Goodbye.

Good night.

Congratulations.

Thanks, Mal.

Well, I hope I have any luck.

Oh, Frankie, so long.

Agnes!

Oh, no, no, no, Mother.

This is my honeymoon, remember?

Goodbye, boys.

So long.

So long, Mal.

So long, Joslyn.

See you later.

Gee, that Frankie's a swell guy.

Wish I knew what I was going to

do with my leave.

Well, I guess I'd better get back to

the base.

Look, you know, you don't have to report

back till tonight.

I think I'd better go.

Nothing doing.

Chicago's my town and I'm going to show

it to you.

Come on.

Hi, Preacher.

I tripped.

Over a body, I think.

Chocolate?

What's the matter with my chocolates?

You'll eat one or else.

No!

No!

Yes, you will.

It's been a marvelous week.

What about

Johnny?

There's no reason to think about Johnny.

Good night, Rosalie.

Go to bed now.

Go on.

I'll wait for you when you grow up.

I don't forget.

Johnny.

You know, I think the Navy has done

you very good.

Do you think so, Mama?

I know.

You know, at first I didn't like the

Navy.

But then the guys you meet and the

things you learn, well, it kind of does

something to you.

He talks about the Navy like it was

his own game.

You're not so wrong, Pop.

I have got a girl there.

She's beautiful.

Beautiful like you, Mama.

Oh, Johnny.

I am glad.

I know that she's a nice girl, too.

Now, we drink a toast to you girls,

Johnny.

Good.

Yes.

A la salute.

Salute, figlio.

Hello, Johnny.

Hello, Johnny.

What a shipmate.

Darn nice of you to have the pharmacist

maid here to welcome the prodigal son.

And wait till you hear what my mother

said when I told her about you.

Can she cook?

Can she sew?

I told her you were Superman in skirts.

Thanks, Johnny.

Say, we're all here now.

How about that toast, Mal?

I'm thirsty.

Frankie!

Oh, just one, honey.

You say it, Steve.

For all of us.

Let's hope we're all assigned to the same

ship and remain shipmates throughout the war.

And may we all go home safely and

soon in peace.

Ah, swell.

We're going to have to tell Johnny.

Yeah.

I think I'd better do it, darling.

I guess so.

Hey, Mal, come on in.

I...

What's this?

Johnny, we...

we wanted...

Johnny, we were just going to tell you.

Mal and I are going to be married.

My shipmate.

The minute I turn my back, he knifes

me with my girl.

All this bunk about Navy spirit and loyalty.

And me, like a stupid sucker, starting to

believe it.

You got it all wrong, Johnny.

I didn't know I was going to fall

in love with Mal.

What about this not being the right time

to think about marriage?

What about that?

I know now why I said that.

Because I wasn't in love with you.

No.

With me, you wouldn't be getting a million

bucks.

Oh, I had this whole thing pegged right

from the start.

All right, shipmate, go ahead and marry her.

You can have her and the Navy.

Joh...

Johnny.

Lay off her.

Lay off her.

Come here, Johnny.

Come here.

Hey, Johnny.

Want a lift?

I want to go somewhere and get a

drink.

Hop in.

I could use one, too.

Come on, Johnny, let's go.

You've got to get back to the station.

I ain't going back.

Get me another drink.

You go on ahead.

I'll be right out.

Hello?

Yeah?

Oh, yes, Trudy.

Curley's?

Well, that's out of bounds.

We're due right back at the station.

No, no.

Look, I'll be right over.

Yeah, okay.

Come on, Mal.

We'll be late.

Oh, look, I've got to get my car

and go somewhere.

Meet me back at the station.

I'll meet you right there.

All right.

Oh, Mal.

So glad you got here.

Come on, pal, let's go.

Get away from me.

Johnny, you're way over leave now.

Oh, Mal, I didn't know that.

If the SP's got you here, you'll both

be in trouble.

Not a bad idea.

Come on, I'm taking you back to the

base.

Oh, no, you're not.

I ain't going back.

You're not going over the hill.

You can be sore at Ellen and me,

but I'm not going to let you ruin

your whole life.

Get away from me, you double-crossing gullible.

You're going back.

Mal.

Crazy fool.

I'm going to make you go back, even

if you have to beat the life out

of me.

No, Johnny.

Get out of the way.

You'll get hurt.

Johnny, please.

Please.

Stop it, Johnny.

Johnny.

Stop it.

Why can't you stop them?

You bet I'll stop them.

I'll get the cops.

Okay.

You got me licked.

I can't hit you anymore.

All right, you guys.

Let's go.

I see in your record that you're an

honor man of your company.

Doesn't quite make sense, does it?

No, sir.

The punishment for these offenses is severe.

You have a right to defend yourself if

you can.

I have nothing to say, sir.

I'd like to say something, sir.

Your turn will come next, Zamano.

He's trying to protect me.

I don't want him to.

Step forward, Zamano.

He wasn't drunk and disorderly, sir.

He came to that place to get me.

I was drunk.

Was there some particular reason why he had

to get you?

I was going over the hill.

He tried to stop me.

Is that true, Randall?

Yes, sir.

I don't think I should punish you for

trying to save a man for the Navy.

Randall, you may go.

Thank you, sir.

You've caused trouble from the moment you came

here.

You've been on report several times.

Chief Riley reminds me of your rescuing a

shipmate from drowning.

And I'm trying to take that into consideration.

However, you've shown yourself a most undesirable person

to have in the Navy.

The records show that you tried to be

deferred.

And frankly, I have it in my jurisdiction

to send you up for general court-martial.

I've seen some men in my time who

got the yellow ticket.

They were very unhappy human beings.

If I send you up for general court

-martial, the least you will get will be

several months in the brig.

I'm telling you these things so you will

realize how serious your offenses are.

Have you anything further to say?

No, sir.

I'm taking your case under advisement for 24

hours.

During that time, you will be a prisoner

-at-large on the station.

Don't try to leave.

That's all.

Aye, aye, sir.

Sure.

Not much.

Johnny took the entire blame.

Gee, I wonder what's going to happen to

him.

Gee, I wish I knew.

Attention.

Packed and ready to leave in five minutes.

David Anderson.

Edward Block.

Relman James.

Clayton Liverpool.

Ronald X.

Buckle.

That's me!

That's me!

Where are you going, Frankie?

You aren't in Liverpool or Bolton.

I'm going nuts.

Shut that thing off, will you?

What's the matter?

You wouldn't want to ship out without the

rest of us, would you?

No, but waiting around like this, I've eaten

my fingernails off down to the elbows.

I'd sure like to be assigned to that

new flattop at Guadalcanal.

I hope we don't get split up.

Oh, Chief.

Hello, Randall.

Still aboard?

Yes, sir.

You heard anything about Johnny?

No, but the skipper will probably kick him

out.

That'll be awful.

Only a miracle could save him now.

And I'll see you before you shove off.

Yes, sir.

Look, if my numbers call, stow my gear

together, will you?

I've got to send a wire.

Oh, sure, sure.

Gee, that's tough about Johnny, huh?

I've arranged for you to see the captain,

but even that may not do any good.

You're a good friend, Mr. Randall.

Thank you so much.

Oh, now, don't get your hopes up.

It may be too late.

Thank you.

Right.

Come on, Mama.

Everything you say may be true, Mrs. Amano.

But one man like your son can disrupt

an important part of our work.

Johnny...

He made a mistake.

But if you knew him, Mr. Capitan...

Since he was a little boy, he worked

very hard for us.

He will be a broken heart if you

take him off from the Navy.

Yes.

But your son didn't want to be in

the Navy in the first place.

He tried to get out.

That was for us, too.

He thought we needed money.

But he has never once shown that he

cared for the service.

When he was before me, he didn't ask

for a chance.

He didn't say anything.

That's my Johnny.

He cannot talk when he thinks he's forbidden.

He's so proud.

Son of God

and Son of Man

Glory and honor Glory

and honor Now and

forever Glory and honor

That's the sound, guys.

That's the sound, guys.

Johnny Zamano.

Isn't it?

Can I talk to you, Padre?

It's too late to do anything about it

now, but I've got to talk to somebody.

Go right ahead, son.

Maybe if you talk to the priest.

How do you say, Papa?

The chaplain?

He writes us.

He spoke to the chaplain many times.

Oh, I'm sure he can tell you much

better than we can.

If you like.

Let's go into the chaplain's office.

I'm sorry, the Padre is out.

At first I was sore.

One moment.

Wait, please.

I couldn't get it through my thick head

that the war couldn't wait for me to

do things for my folks.

That's my Johnny.

Then the things I learned here.

The fellows have got to be my friends.

I learned what the Navy really meant.

I wanted to be part of it more

than anything in the world.

The guys all think I'm a heel.

But I wanted to do what I did.

I was crazy.

I couldn't tell a skipper, but...

for one crazy minute I smashed everything.

My whole life.

I know it's not a chance, Padre, but...

if I could just go on a ship

with my shipmates.

I'd want to go even if I knew

I was never coming back.

I understand, son.

Come on, Frankie, what do you got?

Agnes.

Agnes.

Queens.

Yeah, Queens.

Gee, I wish I could see Agnes just

once more before we leave.

That's all for me.

This waiting around is giving me the heebie

-jeebies.

One more day like this and I'll go

crazy.

Attention.

Ready to leave in ten minutes.

Dave Appleby.

Hey, that's us.

Frank Gimbel.

Peter Jackson.

Joseph Kincaid.

Malcolm Randall.

Paul Reingold.

James Letting.

Bruce Smith.

Timothy Sullivan.

Hey.

They didn't call Billy.

Turner Metzger.

Henry Walters.

Walter Wallace.

Oh, Billy.

Oh, tough luck, Bill.

Attention.

Add to last detail.

Peter Adams.

Samuel Greenfield.

William Jameson.

William Jameson, that's me.

That's me.

Hey, fellas, I'm going.

I'm with you.

I'm going.

Billy's gone.

Billy's gone.

Well, we doed it.

Yeah, all except Johnny.

Yeah.

Johnny.

Seaman, second pass the man I'm reporting to

do.

I splash you a lot of Captain Barton.

Pull in, Seaman.

Good going, Seaman.

Thanks, man.

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