Harold Dixon: A week of nothing. By golly, Aldrich, you are the most patient fisherman I've ever seen.
Gene Aldrich: Where I come from, don't catch, don't eat.
Harold Dixon: A man plots his course but the Lord decides.
Gene Aldrich: It's dead reckoning, all right. 'cause I reckon we're dead dead out here.
News Reel Announcer: 1942, the South Pacific. The New Year finds USS Enterprise and her crew of 2,000 men preparing to deliver greetings to the Japanese, in the form of torpedo bombers and fighter planes. With last month's attack on Pearl Harbor still fresh in the minds of the American aviators, they've decided that revenge is a dish best served piping hot.