It Can't Last (1944)

[Music] the [Music] [Music] oh mother if you've taken a look at the morning [Music] morning Freddy morning Mr s hey two GRS right up in the church yard flushed them with my bik gee they were pretty gross eh season opens tomorrow always used to say the air smell different on the opening day may be the first Frost at night or dead leaves or someone Bur turning brush off somewhere can I have an apple sure thing say let's see the paper Freddy toss her up here less to this mother another 25,000 prisoners well said the war be over this fall looks like he's right doesn't look like it could last that much longer hey then maybe Quin will be home for Christmas huh Quin well maybe not that soon say have you heard from that brother of yours lately not for a couple of weeks mother's kind of worried you tell your mother not to worry about Quincy Martin he can take care of himself yeah well got to get going so long Mr squ so long Freddy news like this and a morning like this hard to keep your mind on the war makes you think of things like a new car plenty of gas in the tank and tires with real treads on them maybe a bag of charcoal under the seat and a steak in oil paper rof rof you all rasal make your mouth water old boy well won't be long rof can't last much longer War can't she's almost done any way you look at it it's almost over coffee room let's go get [Applause] [Music] it good morning M good morning [Music] radio man to Pilot 10 minutes to objective over Roger out how'd you figure that one Pete with a slide rule you tunnel Gunners live too much alone you lose touch with time radio man a pilot sir request correct time for the L MC Greenhouse over local correct time standby 2139 Mark for the information of the Unseen audience in the turret Gunner seat 2139 makes 939 on that dollar chronometer you count the years by the hell it does 2139 makees 7:39 in the morning my time looks like morning doesn't it well it looks like morning in concut 9 something at night out here make 7 something a.m. in God's country God's half of it East half of it fig it out for yourself I have often smell the morning coffee right this minute clear from K Band of Buffalo hello red leader this is Scarlet base report weather over Scarlet base this is red leader top 22 bottom six Cloud covers 7 over red leader scet base look around under mattress over local oh yep make 7:39 a.m. and October what's eating here it's October here too isn't it uh-uh it's the same month they give you 12 times a year only warmed over and warmer Connecticut is hor frost on the grass and growls in the pine Lots ever seen a lynfield county Hills at half 7 in October no and if you ever expect to see him again you better jeez look at him 5 6 7 Scarlet base this is red leader T hle skunks Heavy Cruiser three destroyers seven transports course 273 request permission to attack over there goes old bloody got Lacy again red leader scet base permission granted out ah we're hit how bad Mr Lacy Mr Lacy hello radio man of pilot [Music] [Music] kind of a lonely spot when they light it up [Applause] is how do you feel kid swell only [Music] here Skipper never came up did he didn't even try to get [Music] out going to be hot you're the guy who called it October okay but I don't tell time by box some ktic I know crazy but it kind of brings it nearer sure it [Music] does makes you think of the cloud they used to use in that biglink trainer before they busted us out as student Pilots but they still thought they could teach us navigation back at school remember that tame Pacific on the screen and the clouds I used to squirt across it to fool you how real they looked realer than these things [Music] only then if you lost yourself in the fog you could talk to the wave on the other end of the wire and tell her to turn the lights on [Music] and she [Music] [Laughter] did and there you were sort of silly but back [Music] home remember that wave she had black curling hair and the nape of her neck you could almost feel in your hands when you looked at it it's a long way back to that law if you think of it 2 years and how many missions 40 50 funny to think of the world going on somewhere else without you and not bothering first time ever felt like that was at Carl C remember yeah I remember where we lost Skipper calling the flat top and no answer I guess we all knew why but it didn't help much and the light about gone and the gas about gone and a skipper cool as a cucumber hello red three this is purple base vctor 22 distance 38 they have that voice all of a sudden strangers voice calling us into a strange ship oh that's when I learned about Navy sailor right then when we hit that deck but jeez before they hurt us take it easy quiz but we need Pete is a wave at the other end of the phone turn that Sky [Music] off boy you and I are alone I'm telling you never were two guys so much alone what do you mean alone haven't we got the Squadron sure but where are they 300 M South Southeast they got home and haven't we got the flat top back of the [Music] Squadron you're a good guy Pete I can't last and you know can't last much longer you don't and back of the flat top the fleet you think they'll forget us back the [Music] flatop back ofle sure sure Quin back of the fleet the whole damn country every man and woman in it every kid in those pine Lots in Connecticut whatever time it is in the afternoon whatever they're doing and what wherever they're going there isn't one that wouldn't be with us they're all part of the same thing Quin the same thing we are the same War hold hard Quint hold tight they're all part of us they're around us they're all around us they're here weather like this mother couldn't get it out of my head all day an open car a tank full of gas and a gun in the boot evening Mr Squire evening Freddy here's your paper good night good night [Music] Freddy a man can't think about war in this kind the weather the war almost finished at [Music] that can't last much longer mother it can't [Music] last you're right Mr Squires the war can't last last much longer part of it can't last much longer not the way it's going not if we keep it going the way it's going but that doesn't mean Mr Squires and you would be one of the first to say so if you thought about it you and thousands of others like you that doesn't mean that the war is any easier to fight is tough to dive in the last Flack to land on the last Beach to Slug It Out in the last as the first if anything it's tougher Mr Squire the hardest blow to hit an a fight is the last one because it is the last it takes everything a people has to hit the last blow in a war and make it last all the heart and all the will and all the purpose your heart your will your purpose you can't forget the war because it's almost over Mr Squires it's because it's almost over that you must think about it think about it as you've never thought before and work for it harder and give to it harder it's as hard Mr Squires to fight in the last battle of a war as in the first it's as hard forgive me to die at the end of the war as it's [Music] beginning maybe it's even harder [Music] w