 Marjorie Reynolds and Bob Bailey in The Lieutenant's Come Home on the Cavalcade of America sponsored by the DuPont Company, maker of better things for better living through chemistry. We'd like to remind you of the necessity of taking care of your automobile. Only a thin film of paint protects the vital metal of your car and for years the standards of beauty and durability in automobile finishes have been DuPont Duco and Dulux. If you have an accident, a crumpled fender, a dented trunk and the car finish is broken, the metal beneath becomes vulnerable to rust. To protect the irreplaceable metal of your car, DuPont Duco is still available. Look for the DuPont of authorized re-finisher in your community and let him give your car the protection it needs. The DuPont Cavalcade presents The Lieutenant's Come Home starring Marjorie Reynolds as Army nurse Phyllis Rowan and Bob Bailey as Carlton Rue of the United States Marine Corps. I'm Phyllis Rowan, Lieutenant United States Army Nurse Corps. I've seen a lot of life and much of death and if I've learned anything I've learned that each man and woman lives for a purpose and that all else takes second place until that purpose is accomplished. For proof, I offer our story Carlton Rue and mine. We'll start in the year 1942, a few weeks after Pearl Harbor. Some of the events that take place will sound as if they came from a well-plotted movie but try not to think of that for this is a true story. Well by January of 1942, I was already a Lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps. In January also, I was able to come home to Lindenburg, New Jersey and home meant, above all else, going to a dance with Carlton. Fellows have made up my mind. I've been wanting to tell you something for months and now I'm going to tell it. Yes, Carlton? Well, this may be a shock but Phil, I'd rather go dancing with you than any girl I know. Hmm, not at all. Yeah, I saw. Well then you admit dating other girls who I've been away. No, no, not exactly dating them but I've been thinking about it. After all, when a girl goes marching off to war she can't expect a boy she leaves behind to just sit. He has to have some fun. I never got passed the thinking stage, Phil. Didn't seem like a good idea. Just me, huh? Yep. And now when we do have a chance to go dancing, we spend the whole evening at a soda fountain drinking pop. Oh, hey, what a jaw guy. She's a girl on throttle out of her fun. Come on, we can talk tomorrow or the next day. All right. I'm afraid we can't, Phil, Carlton. No? I'm not on leave. Just a 24-hour pass. Oh, well, stay over for a couple of days and tell the army you know me. Tell them I said it was okay. The army isn't easily impressed. What if you told them you knew me? Well, I'd probably be shot at sunrise. They're pretty strict about such things as passes, huh? Very. Oh, where do they get their high-handed stuff? Why, even I wouldn't have the affronterita order you around. I wouldn't dare. And yet the army, perfect strangers, step in and tells you when you can and can't see the guy. Oh, okay. We, um, we haven't much time for kidding. Yeah, no, we haven't. I'm to be shipped out when I get back. Shipped out? Overseas? Yes. You know, Phil, this is the dynast world a man ever saw. I've spent years trying to get up enough nerve to ask you to marry me. Years. Now I finally reached the point where I'm sure my voice won't crack in the middle of the proposal of what happened. You're leaving for overseas. Oh, but you can... I head for the Marines. What did you say, Carlton? I said you were leaving for overseas. No, what did you say before that? Oh, I'm heading for the Marines. Then I heard right. Yeah, they accepted me. I report to after tomorrow at Curris Island. You and the Marines. Oh, but Carl, you could have at least hinted... Phil, do you think I want to be just the boy you left behind? Carlton, huh? Is it a breach of etiquette for a girl to ask a man to kiss her while she's sitting at a soda fountain? It is not a breach of etiquette. It's a pleasure. Turn her up here, Phil. I'll let her for you, Ro. Oh, thanks, Sergeant. And button that car out. This is the Marine Corps. Not a night of swore-ree. Not a night of swat, Sergeant. Swore-ree. I'm not so dumb. I know what a swore-ree is. Guys go to them with long hair and dange it. They're back shorn here. Hey, who's the letter from the frill? Does the Marine have to tell that to his sergeant, too? No, I was just wondering. Why don't you go read your own mail? After 17 years in the service, it'll be a disgrace if somebody's still right to me. And don't talk so important to a sergeant, but show me some respect. Hey, hey, hey, hey, what's this? By observing the looks of them four pages you dragged out of that envelope, I suspect somebody's been too gabby. Four pages cut the shreds. Darling, it says I'm aboard a transport. And by adding one clue to another, I found out where we're going. Our destination is censored, censored, censored, censored. Hope your ship there, too, and very soon love fill us. How do you like that? I hope so, too. But where? Well, maybe you can find out if you was a little observant. Observant? What do you mean, observant? Postmark, Mac, observed to postmark. Postmark? Postmark. Hey, this one says canal zone. Say, that means she's in the Pacific. Yeah, see what I've been getting at? For a guy to be a real marine, he's got to observe and keep observing. Women talk a lot, but there's more real information observing a postmark. Yeah, hey, uh, serge, could you tell me, I mean, well, you know how close-minded I am, so if you know where we're heading and could slip just a hint at it, it'd never go any further. I don't know nothing, son. Not any more than you do. But by observing these air-sat jungles we've been practicing in, I should figure we ain't heading for Europe. Oh, brother, I hope not. I hope we're headed for the Pacific. It's big, but it's not big enough so two people who know each other don't have at least a small chance of meeting. We both hope with all our hearts that we would be together in the Pacific. And later I discovered, Carlton had done the same as I had. Thoughts of smallest map he could find so the distances in the Pacific would look less great and our chances of meeting more real. My destination was Melbourne, Australia, the fourth general hospital. None of the big Pacific battles had been fought up to that time so our patients were mostly accident cases. Aviators had cracked up. Malaria, dysentery. And one day the 13 nurses arrived from Corregidor, the same 13 about whom so much has been written and said and I know all of it is true because I saw those 13. Their hunger, their raggedness, their pathetic expressions. That same night as we were trying to help them, I got a phone call and went into the chief nurses office to answer it. Oh boy does your voice sound good. Where are you? Well no Marine has enough money to call from the United States. I'm here in Australia. We just arrived Phil and I got a 24 hour pass for tomorrow and boy now we can be together and alone. Oh but Carlton how did you know where to find me? Well I've got a sergeant who observes things, addresses and so forth. Hey where's your hospital? Oh you can't come here. It's against regulations. Who says I can't? You're engaged to me. Oh you're darling I'm an officer. The second lieutenant. What's your rank? Private first class. Put in the Marines. Oh Carlton we still can't be seen together. There's trick here. Now listen to me Carlton. Oh wait'll I tell the Marines about the Army's attitude. Oh Carlton listen you know as well as I do officers aren't allowed to associate with a listed man. Oh wait'll I tell the Marines that's all. Oh look darling I've got an idea. Oh I knew that escape. Well we won't be alone exactly but we will be together. I'm sorry sir your time is up. Oh one moment operator. Carl we'll go to a picture show. We can sit next to each other. Well that's something. Oh listen to me so we don't miss on this. It's a railroad station before 730. I'll be there too but don't come near me. Take the same cars I do but don't sit next to me and don't even talk to me. Don't even look at me. And when I get off you get off. I'm sorry sir your time is up. Oh maybe it is operator but we're going to try just once more. Just once more to be alone with each other. Right behind you. Well remember me Carl. Can't you even turn around. Oh you second lieutenant. They said you know something. This is the first time I ever sat behind you so I never observed what funny little ears you got. Quiet if anyone finds out what he got at both of us are in trouble. Your next kind of skinny too Phil. Old science is right. You got to serve women from the front and back. They fill with the back of your head always been square. Hey Phil come back here don't change your seat. Well how do you like that. Just another second lieutenant after all. We went to the movie all right. Carl followed me down the aisle and managed to get a seat next to mine. We well I don't quite know how to describe the feeling we had and being together that way. Maybe you'll understand if I if I say it was like going into a store and trying on a fur coat you haven't the money to buy. It was the luxury of being together and the gloom of knowing we weren't really together at all. The picture was over the lights went up suddenly. Look a PFC out with a little tenant that nurse has got a lot of nerve out with a private old boy look at them to an MP a show patrol catches them good night. The whole audience seemed to be directing their attention upon us and we were glad to speak out separately. A few days later I got in touch with the girl in the sub of the Sandingham and she allowed Carl and me to meet at her home. That was much more satisfactory. It's something else not just you it's one of your friends who have gone meeting. This is the 12th time four weeks three times a week 12 all again. You've been keeping track of them too. Not only that Carl but it's going to be a warm spot in my heart for the sub of the Sandingham as long as I live no matter what happens or anything or war don't talk that way Carl don't even think don't tell me something. You believe I'm good enough you think I've got what it takes for sure you have said yourself the Marines are the best trained fighting force in the world I don't mean to fight. I mean if I got what it takes to die. Oh I'm not afraid of dying. Well I think I'm afraid of. As a matter of fact I'm thinking more about you and me yeah you and I ought to get married when I come back to this time that's better. I'd ask you if I had the least idea how a man should act toward a wife who's a superior officer. Does he dare say. Get me my slippers ma'am. The Super's lousy ma'am. Hey that's kind of nice you know it ma'am how about leaning over and putting your head on the old boy's shoulder for just a minute. If we ever ought to get a call I have a feeling you know how to cope with the superior officers. The day after our final meeting at Sandringham the first Marine Division sailed away Carlton with them. They landed on a little island I'd never heard of. It was called Guadalcanal. Short days later the quiet empty hospital wasn't quiet anymore nor was it empty. The wounded were coming in they came by boat and by plane we were busy breathlessly busy night and day and as I walked from bed to bed through the long rows and awards I kept looking for someone I hoped wasn't there. Yes when you were you turn around towards the light a little more face of I mean face the light yeah so I can observe something well sure you know I I've been trying to observe your looks for the two days I've been here but I didn't get much of a chance I don't get it well I am I observed your picture once yeah a buddy of mine on Guadalcanal. How did you know that Carlton told me about the first sergeant how he influences his men to observe. He's going to be all right don't you worry well I know what going to be sure he stopped the machine gun flood with his leg you know that I didn't see I'm sorry to bust the news. Now now don't go all right nurse he wouldn't like that no he wouldn't. Well he went in under a heavy machine gun fire and brought out pre-wounded men and then he went back for the fort and that's when he picked up the slug but he brought the guy back anyhow this kind of man wouldn't want a thrill to go why just tell him about something. No I I guess he wouldn't. Your friend's got plenty of marxie lady. That means he's got what it takes. It means not only has he got it but he's using it. You are listening to Marjorie Reynolds as Phyllis Rowan and Bob Bailey as Carlton Roo in the Lieutenant's Come Home on the Cavalcade of America sponsored by the DuPont Company maker of better things for better living through chemistry. Now with the second part of our play Lieutenant Phyllis Rowan continues with a story of Carlton Roo. Most of our story so far as told how Carl and I were constantly kept apart by things beyond our control. The rest of the story is why the purposes we had to accomplish with our lives before anything else could be more than secondary. When Carlton came back to Australia a few months later he wore not only the purple heart but also the silver star given for gallantry in action and two stripes on his sleeve. He was a corporal but even a corporal isn't a proper escort for a second Lieutenant according to the best rules of military etiquette. So it wasn't any easier for us to meet. One night though we did risk having dinner in public and the next morning I wish we hadn't at least for a moment because he was called to the office of Italian command. I've got a report on you on me seems you did a good job on Guadalcanal. Is that what the report is about major do you expect this office to get a report on some other of your activities Oh no not to cover you how do you think you'd like being an officer in the Marine Corps. An officer second lieutenant think it over don't answer right away no sir I won't answer I mean yes sir I'll think it over being an officer as it's drawbacks and responsibility is one of them as an officer you'll be taking care of your men they'll come first yes thank you though but major sir well I thought it over sir already yes sir and I accept I accept with pleasure sir I swear we have the worst luck of any two people I've ever known we do well look at this street not a single MP or short patrol in sight the day I become an officer the first time at all these ones I can be seen we are legitimately and there's not a single oh what are you grinning at I don't see anything funny now lieutenant and don't call me lieutenant hey Phil let's get married. Well now what why did you call us a sudden sub no no you were you were gremlin about the MPs and short patrols and then without the least change of expression you said let's get married well that's how much you're in my mind they'll stuffed in and around every thought I have but we have to have permission from our commanding officers before we can marry Carl. Well mine's willing to give his permission I talked to him this morning. Mine won't. How do you know. I asked. You asked when I didn't even suggest getting married until just this minute. I knew you would though Carl. Well. Hey you awfully hungry Phil. Little. Well if you're not we'll go get married before dinner it won't take long we can eat after it. Oh but where how what about the room we'll have the ceremony at your friend's house and we'll both get a seventy two hour pass and go somewhere on the honeymoon on one thing more darling if you start giggling on the honeymoon I swear to help me out check out the window of a movie. We went to battle it for our honeymoon was interrupted by a telegram one of those disturbing telegrams that are so common to people in the service Lieutenant Carlton Rue report the headquarters at eight hundred tomorrow Tuesday urgent we went back to Melbourne my husband and I. We kissed goodbye in the presence of my chief nurse who didn't that and I. Then Carlton went away from September nineteen forty four when the first Marine Division Invaded Peleleu Carlton was in command of a platoon of heavy mortars by mid afternoon he and his men had almost reached an enemy cave were pinned down by Jack artillery. It was time to look around the cover for the night that was his job. We've been here an hour and a half and hasn't been a pizza out of it like the plane passing the tenant I remember once on the legs shut up Wally. So no any chance you're there I'm going up and find out wait a minute maybe you ought to do that sir give me a cover somebody to take my attention OK now head for cover Wally you're a duck without your car I'll be OK let's say that I said take cover yes sir hey. The shoulder stop. Brother looking how quiet it is happens like that all the time kid but all of a sudden it's so quiet you think your eardrums will split and it opens up again begin to feel better how about you shut up Frankie yeah I'm talking too much OK now Frankie you and pigeon keep me covered from here while you stay where you are undercover you leave it a little bit yeah watch yourself good luck good luck. Frankie where do you know I can't be behind this role the entrance to the cave. Just going in on that poor guy. I got a little time for 30 30 years he's coming out they got him they got him good look at him. Here we are lieutenant take it easy where they get you and the belly cut range but I don't get it loose. Wally where's Wally. Yeah I'm going to take it yeah how many of them in the cave. Four of them are coming out look. Grenade when he was already wounded. In with one hand. Grenade lands and he's lost right down on it no one all the time. The second lieutenant. What's wrong with the second lieutenant. Well everybody makes fun of them don't they was everybody civilians don't know nothing about the service want to make up they know seven guys have never been near to come up in a good boot training camp are they everybody know I only said you never heard of a man has been on a fire making fun of the second lieutenant have you never have and you never will. Wonderfully live. You heard what the Medicare said. Nobody ever lived up to getting four or five slugs in the belly and. Dropping on a hand grenade not long after all this happened I was sent home on rotation. With hard going home alone. Without him. I'd like to talk. Hey Phil fellas that you. Can't. Man doesn't want any tears when he comes home. I can't help you know I was all right I had a right. I thought you were just making them say that I thought I don't know what I thought people said you weren't the first man to fall on a hand grenade to save his body but. I can't say none of the others at least. I'll tell you about everything when I get home I'm almost there. Almost here. You're my wife and we want to go up sorry your time is up you know I'll be there in a couple of hours. I don't make any plans that we make them for the night and tomorrow and the next day in the night sorry your time is up you know it isn't operator this time just begin. My well there it is Carl story in my story of why we believe life has a purpose regardless of our own desires everything will take second place until that purpose is achieved even love. I've been recommended for the highest award our country can bestow upon a fighting man spending some of his time in London all these days I'm on duty at the general hospital at Fort Dick's we're able to see each other once in a while now but still only on a twenty four hour time. Our thanks to you Marjorie Reynolds and Bob Bailey and wall members of tonight's department cavalcade cast James Whitman Dr. Cole Coolidge assistant chemical director of the department company recently had this to say about jobs after the war I quote there can be no victory in this war if it's and brings widespread unemployment and want near the top of everyone's list is the hope for a higher level of productive employment example ground for entertaining such hopes fifteen of our country's major manufacturing industries have been developed since 1870 and they have created about fifteen million jobs that were never dreamed of before on the basis of these figures about one out of every four persons gainfully employed today owes his job in whole or in part to developments based on scientific research in 1900 the horse and buggy business gave work to around a million persons in a typical pre-war year the automobile industry furnished employment directly and indirectly to more than six million persons in 1942 nearly half of the department company's gross sales 46 percent to be exact consisted of products that either did not exist in 1928 or were not then manufactured in large commercial quantities possibly the best known of these new materials is nylon which in 1928 was not a name nor even a remote idea three years before that the font had initiated research resulting in neoprene today's outstanding synthetic rubber moisture proof cellophane synthetic resin enamels high tenacity rayon for tires new plastics polyvinyl alcohol synthetic camphor and synthetic urea for fertilizers are other notable products of this period of research unquote with the e-day past all of us still have DJ day to think of it goes without saying that every facility of DuPont will continue to serve the Army and Navy until the unconditional surrender of Japan brings full victory but when the war ends and it becomes possible to move ahead DuPont is ready to spend many millions of dollars a year building and improving plants and our post war production will contribute in an important way to employment certainly to an all-time peace time high in DuPont employment so far as DuPont is concerned there will be more jobs after the war because there will be more DuPont better things for better living through chemistry next week the DuPont cavalcade looks back into the colorful days of the expanding American frontier into the days when justice was reached at the end of the sixth gun and wit and courage were more important than law books and brings you the story of Roy Bean who appointed himself judge and became the law west of the pay codes Walter Brennan will be on hand with our star in the story of the man who was to become a legend the law west of the pay codes the music for tonight's DuPont cavalcade was composed and conducted by Robert Ambruster Marjorie Reynolds is currently being seen in Paramount Technicolor production bring on the girls our cavalcade play was written by Arthur Aaron this is Frank Graham inviting you to listen next week to Walter Brennan in the law west of the pay codes on the cavalcade of America brought to you by the DuPont company of Wilmington Delaware the national broadcasting company