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Quotes
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Tom Earnshaw, Copilot in B for Bertie : Now look here, what are we going to do about our clothes?
Frank Shelley - Observer : Yes, we've got to get into civvies somehow.
John Glyn Haggard - Pilot in B for Bertie : Well, what's George doing?
Sir George Corbett, Rear Gunner in B for Bertie : [Taking off his clothes] I'm swimming.
John Glyn Haggard - Pilot in B for Bertie : Where?
Sir George Corbett, Rear Gunner in B for Bertie : In a canal.
John Glyn Haggard - Pilot in B for Bertie : Well, how do you know there is one?
Sir George Corbett, Rear Gunner in B for Bertie : There's always a canal in Holland. The next best thing to having civilian clothes is to have none. I'm going to be a swimming instructionist and spy off the land.
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Jo de Vries : [to Frank] No Englishman would kiss a woman's hand - except perhaps an actor.
Frank Shelley - Observer : Snub or compliment?
Jo de Vries : Compliment.
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Frank Shelley - Observer : The way you handled those Germans taught me something about acting.
Jo de Vries : It isn't so difficult. They're an unhappy people. I would rather be a Dutchman in Holland than any German soldier. They want to believe that somebody's their friend, and that's the whole trick.