“- Lt. Joe Rossi: They're taking them kind of young these days, ain't they?
- Ensign Wright: We're getting them young, Mr. Rossi, we're not taking them. Those boys all volunteered for this duty.”

Humphrey Bogart - Lt. Joe Rossi
Kane Richmond - Ensign Wright

“We were soldiers once, and young.”
Barry Pepper - Joe Galloway

“The new kids that come up, that's what gets you. The new ones, some of them have just got a little fuzz on their faces. They don't know what its all about. Scared to death. You know, Ernie, I know it ain't my fault that they get killed, but it makes me feel like a murderer. I hate to look at 'em, the new kids.”
Robert Mitchum - Lt. Walker

“- Catherine Wolff: Dad hates the idea that some day he's going to die, simply can't stand it!
- Michael Shayne: Somebody must have told him the good die young.”
Marjorie Weaver - Catherine Wolff
Lloyd Nolan - Michael Shayne

- Doug Masters: They look about 15, 16-years-old.
- Col. Charles "Chappy" Sinclair: That's right. All of them.
- Doug Masters: So I don't know why you're so upset, Chappy. What makes them different than me?
- Col. Charles "Chappy" Sinclair: Because they're dead, all of them.

Jason Gedrick - Doug Masters
Louis Gossett Jr. - Charles "Chappy" Sinclair