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Sergeant Bill Dane: All right, sound off, Sailor. Name and classification.
Leonard Purckett: Name's Leonard Purckett. Musician second class United States Navy, sir.
Sergeant Bill Dane: We don't say ''sir'' to sergeants in the Army, Sailor. How'd you get here?
Leonard Purckett: I started from Cavite by boat but the Japs laid a few eggs on the boat so what there was left of us swum. I kind of lost the other boys somewheres and then, first thing I knowed, I was here in the Army
Leonard Purckett: Name's Leonard Purckett. Musician second class United States Navy, sir.
Sergeant Bill Dane: We don't say ''sir'' to sergeants in the Army, Sailor. How'd you get here?
Leonard Purckett: I started from Cavite by boat but the Japs laid a few eggs on the boat so what there was left of us swum. I kind of lost the other boys somewheres and then, first thing I knowed, I was here in the Army
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Sound off Sailor Name and classification
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Name's Leonard Purckett Musician 2nd Class United States Navy sir
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We don't say ''sir'' to sergeants in the Army Sailor
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How'd you get here
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I started from Cavite by boat but the Japs laid a few eggs on the boat
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so what there was left of us swum
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I kind of lost the other boys somewheres
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and then first thing I knowed I was here in the Army
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I joined the Navy to see the world Reckon this is still part of it
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Fine We want to know all the interesting facts about you
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Well sir before I joined the Navy I was an usher in a movie
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and played in our town band And
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this here's my cornet
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Movie Summary
In 1942, in the Bataan peninsula of the Philippines, a ragtag American unit commanded by Sergeant Bill Dane attempts to blow-up a bridge in order to slow the Japanese advance.
