- Capt. Hornby: You mean a grown man can't get a bottle of champagne away from a girl with a simple American name like Margie Dawson?
- Lt. Dudley Briggs: I've tried everything sir, everything short of murder!
- Capt. Hornby: Well, what are you waiting for?
- Lt. Dudley Briggs: You want to give that bottle to the Navy, Lieutenant McNeil, and the Navy is happy to accept.
- Lt. Torchy McNeil: Not so fast, Popeye!
- Lt. Torchy McNeil: Lieutenant Briggs, as much as you have given me a personal pain in the neck, I hereby present you with this magnum. Take it and get out of our lives.
- Lt. Dudley Briggs: Tomorrow we're going to launch the ship that's going to raise the American flag over Tokyo.
- Margie Dawson: I hope so.
- Lt. Dudley Briggs: You really do?