- Captain Thenault: We don't want you bringing bullets home; we have millions. Leave the bullets up there. Let the Germans take them home.
- Reed Cassidy: Some day it'll just end. Everyone will go home, get on with their lives. Tall grass will cover the battlefields. And all the pilots we've lost won't mean a damn thing.
- Captain Thenault: Reports can be filed. But you want "justice"? *You're* the man in the air. *You're* the man with the *gun*!
- Reed Cassidy: *None* of us knows how much time we have left, and we can't waste *any* of it grieving over things we can't *change*.
- Captain Thenault: Any questions?
- Eddie Beagle: [raises hand] Yes, sir. Will we be back by lunch.
- [boys snicker]
- Captain Thenault: I mean any intelligent questions.
- Eddie Beagle: Sorry. Just trying to loosen things up.
- Captain Thenault: Don't.
- Grant: [walking away from plane crash] Let me guess, you're here because you thought it'd be fun to fly airplanes. Go home while you still can.
- William Jensen: Guy sure knows how to make friends.
- Captain Thenault: All his friends are dead.
- Eugene Skinner: So how many planes do you have to shoot down to get back in father's good books?
- Briggs Lowry: Just mine.
- Blaine Rawlings: [wondering why Cassidy is offering a pistol] What's this for?
- Reed Cassidy: Plane catches fire you got three choices: You can burn with it all the way to the ground; You can jump several thousand feet; or you can take the quick and painless way out.
- [Handing gun to Beagle]
- Reed Cassidy: Good luck, gentlemen.
- Eugene Skinner: This country
- [referring to France]
- Eugene Skinner: has been good to me. Better than my own. I owe them something.
- Captain Thenault: [presents Pilot Rawlings with a medal for heroism] Congratulations, Rawlings... and don't *ever* do that *again*!
- [first lines]
- Title Card: By the start of 1916, World War I had wreaked havoc across Europe. Over nine million people would eventually die.
- Title Card: Although the airplane had only recently been invented, it was quickly adapted into a war machine.
- Title Card: The young men who flew them became the first fighter pilots and a new kind of hero was born.
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