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exchange between fighter pilots


Can someone help me?

Is this the movie that features a dogfight between US and Japanese fighter pilots and the Japanese pilot says:

"Come upstairs Yankee Boy and see scrap metal you sold us"

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Haven't watched this in some time but pretty sure this is the one. The Japanese jock spent time in the US and spoke "American" english.

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Yup, this is definitely the movie - Excellent!

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I just saw it on TCM and "Come upstairs Yankee Boy and see scrap metal you sold us" was in it.

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I think this movie also had a line spoken by the American as he shot down Tokyo Joe - "There's you six feet of China... go fill it up". A favorite "tough guy line" with me and my friends when we were little kids.

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"...see scrap metal you sold us" probably refers to the old 2nd and 3rd Ave. elevated train lines in NYC that were taken out of service and scrapped. Supposedly, that steel went to Japan during the time when they were arming themselves for war. We sold them a lot of scrap metal and other materials for industry, but I always hear those train lines mentioned whenever anyone mentions our selling the raw materials to Japan that helped build their military might.

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I don't know where you heard that the Second and Third Avenue El structures were sold to the Japanese as scrap, but that just ain't true. As part of a series of actions designed to pressure Japan to curb their aggression, the U.S. stopped selling scrap metal to Japan in 1940, but none of that metal came from the New York Subway system. Service on the Second Avenue El line was terminated in 1942. The Third Avenue El was closed in sections from 1950 to 1973.


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I just watched this movie on TCM, and yes, it is

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