Radio operators, gunners, and engineers. All sergeants. Now you put 630 sergeants...
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Cookie:
I don't know about you, but it always makes me sore when I see those war pictures... all about flying leathernecks and submarine patrols and frogmen and guerillas in the Philippines. What gets me is that there never w-was a movie about POWs - about prisoners of war. Now, my name is Clarence Harvey Cook: they call me Cookie. I was shot down over Magdeburg, Germany, back in '43; that's why I stammer a little once in a while, 'specially when I get excited. I spent two and a half years in Stalag 17. "Stalag" is the German word for prison camp, and number 17 was somewhere on the Danube. There were about 40,000 POWs there, if you bothered to count the Russians, and the Poles, and the Czechs. In our compound there were about 630 of us, all American airmen: radio operators, gunners, and engineers. All sergeants. Now you put 630 sergeants together and, oh mother, you've got yourself a situation. There was more fireworks shooting off around that joint... take for instance the story about the spy we had in our barracks...
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but it always makes me sore when I see those war pictures
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all about flying leathernecks and submarine patrols
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and frogmen and guerrillas in the Philippines
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What gets me is that there never was a movie about P O W 's
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about prisoners of war
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Now my name is Clarence Harvey Cook
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They call me Cookie
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I was shot down over Magdeburg Germany back in '43
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That's why I stammer once in a while
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Especially when I get excited
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I spent two and a half years in Stalag 17
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Stalag is the German word for prison camp
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and number 17 was somewhere on the Danube
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There were about 40 000 P O W 's there
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if you bothered to count the Russians and the Poles and the Czechs
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In our compound there were about 630 of us all American airmen
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Radio operators gunners and engineers all sergeants
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Now you put 630 sergeants together
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and oh mother you've got yourself a situation
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There was more fireworks shooting off around that joint
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Take for instance the story about the spy we had in our barracks
Clip duration: 68 seconds
Views: 344
Timestamp in movie: 00h 01m 18s
Uploaded: 22 November, 2022
Genres: comedy, drama, war
Summary: After two Americans are killed while escaping from a German P.O.W. camp in World War II, the barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.
Comments
00:05 Give that man a Kewpie doll
00:08 If I ever run into any of you bums on a street corner
00:16 What happened to you
00:10 Curtains would do wonders for this barracks
00:26 They ought to be under the barbed wire soon
00:15 So we heard some shots
00:34 What do all those broads say
00:15 The Germans know where Dunbar is
00:30 Are the doors covered
00:11 Must you two always be last
00:19 We are all friends again
00:09 Nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 17
00:26 Tea is being served on the veranda
00:56 Let's hear it
00:04 All right
00:07 Were we all wet about you
00:32 Good morning
00:23 You guys have some machine gun practice last night
00:19 Droppen sie dead
00:46 Who did this