“- Cpl. Stringer: We're doing our best, sir.
- Col. Harker: Your best isn't good enough, Corporal Stringer.”

Chet Hood - Cpl. Stringer
David Roger Harris - Col. Harker

“You know how hard they tried to wash us out in flight school? The colored flyers, it was test after test, anything they can come up to turn us into the cooks, the drivers, the shit shovelers, but I refused to wash out, so did Archer, come hell or high water, we hit the books, we were determined not to spend the war being some niggers.”
Terrence Howard - Lt. Lincoln A. Scott

“Maybe if you'd had a horse under you over there in North Africa instead of one of them there tanks, you wouldn't have got shot up the way you was and sent home.”

Robert Homans - Pop - Doorman

“It was during the Great War that we first started mining moss. It was used for putting on soldiers' wounds, because it was ten times more absorbent than cotton wool. So when they were horribly wounded, it was our moss that soaked up their blood and guts and everything.”
Robert Norman - Fraser

“Strange thing about war wound; the older you get, the less proud of them you become.”
Marcel Iures - Col. Werner Visser