Mister Roberts1955

Lt. 'Doc':
That's mostly what makes physical heroism. Opportunity. It's a reflex. I think that seventy-five out of a hundred young males have that reflex. You take any one of them. Say even Frank Thurlowe Pulver, here. Put him into a B-29 over Japan, and you know what you'd have?

Doug Roberts:
No I don't, Doctor.

Lt. 'Doc':
You'd have Pulver, the Congressional Medal of Honor winner. Pulver, who single-handed shot down twnety-three attacking Zeros. Pulver who, with his bare hands, held together the severed wing struts of his plane, and with his bare feet successfully landed his mortally wounded plane on his home field. Reflex. It's like the knee jerk. Strike the patella tendon in any human being, you produce the knee jerk. Look.

Ensign Pulver:
What's the matter, Doc?

Lt. 'Doc':
Nothing, but stay out of B-29s, Frank, my boy.