 Presenting Marcia Hunt and Marjorie Reynolds in Plightness on the Cavalcade of America sponsored by the DuPont Company, maker of better things for better living through chemistry. Better things that include DuPont nylon, DuPont cellophane, DuPont plastic. Later in this program, we will bring you the DuPont story of the week about the 101 interesting jobs that coated fabrics, products of chemical research are doing in the war. There is a sisterhood of flight nurses. But there is more danger, more hard work, more heart pain in what they do than glamour. Our play tonight has caught the danger and the heartache, the tension. The occasional smile or laugh that sparkles in a flight nurse's memory. Our stars are two of Hollywood's most charming young actresses, Marcia Hunt, who is one of the stars of the Metro Golden Mayor picture Music for Minions, and Marjorie Reynolds, who will soon be seen in the Paramount picture Bring on the Girl. DuPont presents Plightness with Marcia Hunter's hat and Marjorie Reynolds as seen on the DuPont Cavalcade. On a marriage trip near Lingayan Gulf, one of our most costly beach heads in the Philippines, a C-54 transport plane was heavily. It form other idling but ready for the flight crew knows how real is the danger that may bring jet fighters on a sudden raid over the field. Now at this moment, a flight surgeon stands with two flight nurses and a medic by a row of 20 sectors, each laden with its important burden. In each, a wounded American bounding the base hospital. The surgeon is a very tired major. What's your view, Thompson? I am, sir. And yours, Kedavsky? That's right, sir. Well, I'm sorry if I don't make too much sense, I'm tired. Tired? Who isn't? You'll both have your hand fall on this grip near for Guam. Guam, yes, sir. At least you won't have to do too much high altitude stuff, and that's good. There are at least a half a dozen tests, head and eyes, basically, Mr. Lott. I've seen this head. It'll require special care. We know our jobs by now, sir. Well, what's the matter with you? You don't put the edgy, too, aren't you? Well, she's all right, Major. It's just never mind. The justice is her last trip. Well? She got her application in to go back to regular army nursing. Skip it, skip it. We've got work to do. Where's our medic? Right here, Lieutenant. Stuck in hospital. Okay, Sergeant. Get the litter barers working. Okay, Lieutenant. Now, that man there, Sliceman, needs a combat fatigue case. Combat fatigue? Yeah. Our instructions were no nervous cases. We'll have our troubles enough. Those instructions were no... At base hospital in Guam, sir. Oh? Well, that was Guam. This is Lin Guy and Sliceman Gold. But, Major, you don't understand. He goes past. Right. Hey, Sergeant. Yes, sir. That's an abdominal, you've got there. Put him somewhere in the middle where we can get at him. Yes, ma'am. There comes a new flight crew. Hope they're good. Hey, I know that face. Oh, no, not again. What do you know, the fun-loving rover? Maybe. You're up there, Johnny. All the way. Pat, this is Johnny Johansson. Hello, Captain. What? Hey, Captain Johansson. That's right. I waited to lose, and I'm gonna get it. Pat, I haven't seen this guy since I was assured it's your safe. Oh, look at you. From hairlines to aircores. I think I like your bettering, Pat. When old home week is over, maybe your health will get our patients better. If you'll come with me, maybe you can check how we're loaded for the flight. Huh. You put the bug in hurry. For me, I guess. She wants to quit flight nurse service, not in riding her fort. I'll tell you about it later. I've got to get to work. You'll need to. See you when we get upstairs. We need soon, I hope. As soon as we can. Oh, that's my cue now. See you in here. Look here, this is Naby. Taking control, settle? Yup, get aboard. Well, I'll take it. Bye, Thompson. Good luck. Thank you, ma'am. Good luck. Good luck, ma'am. Stick with him, Major. Okay, Sergeant. I got up. Here we go, Pat. Here we go again. Right. Right. Yes, right here, sir. Are we flying yet? Not yet, Captain. You see, this is my first time in a plane. You can't tell me anything else. They can fly. A little fly, sir. Just take my word for it. Is it a military secret where we're going? Not to you. We're going to Glom. A hospital. Glom? Is that all I was there just last November? Well, it's log and going there twice. Yeah, but Glom. For my money, it's a fan smile. Quickly, a fan smile. Yes, Sergeant? How's my pal? Pleasant. Oh, the red-haired boy? Yeah. He ain't got a word for hours. Well, we'll take good care of him. Don't worry. How's it with you? I feel better just watching you. What's that? Your knitting needle? This will make you sleep. There. Thank you. Wake me up when we get home. That's right off of that mountain. Ah, yeah. Everything under control? Why not? I'm going forward for a second. I want to say hello to Johnny. Hello. I thought you said that one. Yes, but you don't know how glad I am to see Johnny. I'll be right back. I hope. There's a lot of work to be done. Hello, Johnny. Oh, hello, Dilligan. There you are. Take off these earphones. I can't stay up here long, Johnny. There'll be sick kids on this trip. Give them my compliments and tell them I think we're going to have a nice, tough ride. Are you kidding? No. Navigator reports there's picky weather up about four hours. Maybe it'll blow over. It's a dream, baby, but this won't blow over. Does that mean we'll have to get out of here? May? Just remember, Johnny, we've got some soldiers back there with head eye and chest room. It's close to say around 8,000. I hope. Hmm, looks like Pat and I'll be busy. See, what's the matter with your sidekick anyway? You gave me another one of those off-the-shoulder cracks a few minutes ago. You got a letter from a boyfriend. Oh. You know, one of those gear pads. I guess it was all a mistake, letter. Oh. Captain. Yeah? What is it, 11 o'clock? Get back your patience, Steve. Those are beddies. Beddies? Yeah. You got a captain back there telling me to start praying. I'll be praying myself. Come on, Johnny. Wow. Over here. What is it? I've got something for you. Jack Plain. Three of them. Oh, fine. How do I look at the corporell up there? We had a head wound. He was calling. Right. Hey, nurse. Right here, sir. You couldn't help hearing what she said about Jack Plain. Well, stupid to yourself, Jack. But I'll read cross markings. Not us. This was a war plane going in. We don't raid hospital markings going out. I don't think that would make any difference, anyway. Uh-oh. Here they come. Cross the thing. What do we do? I wouldn't know, sir. Let's take a picture. I'm up front. But take it easy. Are you ready? Yes. Can I help you? Yeah. About that sand pile? Yes. I take it all back. Sand pile or no sand pile. Right now I'd settle for anything. I see it to me. Whoa. I am missing. Wait a minute. See? See? What happened? I don't know. All of a sudden, they're gone. I'll go ask Johnny. I couldn't see. Here he comes now. Hey, Johnny. The gaff. What about them? Where'd they go? Oh, didn't you see? No. They ran into some friends and decided to stop and talk. They ran into some friends. Yeah, some hell-capped friends are there. About five of them. Oh, boy. Oh, I love those Navy pilots. Any hot coffee back in the tail? Hot coffee and phonetic, if it's true. Okay, thanks. Um, see that storm I told you about? Yes. It's an hour away. Long nights and pretty. The navigator tells me. How do you like that? He takes off those jabs and he's a cool of Christmas. Oh, no fooling past. Isn't Johnny some guy? Sure, I guess so. I guess he'll do. All right, so did. Huh? I said hi. All right, hi. Oh, you want to talk? What are you going to do with that needle? Just thought you'd like a little cocktail before the cabby, huh? Don't bother. I'm not hungry. How's it? How do you feel? Go ahead. Why don't you say it? How's your leg? What are you going to say? How's your leg? What are you going to say? How's your stump? Don't worry about your leg, soldier. They've got ways to pick you up. Well, you'd never know. You're sure. I ain't buying any of that. Oh, tough guy. Come on now. This can make you feel better. I feel fine. Me and my stump leave us alone. After this high school. Is that an order, Lieutenant? But it don't bother. I ain't taking any. You're out of your desk, Paul. Yeah, that pillow doesn't look safe. It'll do. Oh, I'm sorry. I dropped your letter. Oh, what? Would you like me to read it to you? Let me read it to you. It'll kill me. Don't even need to read it. I know it by heart. Would you like to? Dear days, you're welcome. Dear days. This is the hardest letter I've ever had to write. I'd rather die than do these to you. Don't. But the truth is, our engagement's impossible. That's enough. See, you'd better let me... And yet, to the extent of that piece from the knee down, they cut off it. Remember me. Fine. You're talking too much. You're all in with a nice bit of writing. We usually wait weeks for a letter. You'll be able to fix things up. You'll be seeing this soon. Got a letter from a pal of mine in the same mail. He's married already. I guess he's got a right to be so good. He's getting a good ear pie for now. He'll be good for your pain. Not what I needed for. Hold still now. Think I'll get a declaration? The order with a busted heart, please? There. He'll be all right now for a while. Hey. Hey, know something? Hmm? It's a pleasure to be in the same plane with him. We're not only in the same plane, so are we. We're in the same boat. Now, Johnny wants to see you. Captain Hanson. Aren't you company enough for him? Oh, don't be that way. Pat, it's important. Well, what do you want? It's about the weather. If you had his job and the navigators, I'd got my hands full back here. You know he would ask you to come up for nothing. Has he been off the touch lately? Not that I don't understand. Let's get that to your mind. But you still have a job to do until we land in Guam. Well, I'll go talk to you, Hanson. Keep an eye open. I'll be right back. Do you want to see me, Captain? Yeah. You know it's getting heavier every second. Yes, you've got all the patience, Captain. We need to be more than that. The real weather we're flying in. If we weren't already four hours out, I'd say we should go back. Well, we can't do that. Don't get excited, Lieutenant. We're not going. Well, we are going to have to climb upstairs. Try and get above this stuff. Upstairs? How far? We're at 7,800 now. I don't know where the top of this is, but I'd like to try as high as 10 pounds. You can. We've got cases back there. Test and plan. I know. I know that's why I'm talking to you. So? So you've got plenty of oxygen in containers back there, haven't you? Yes. And you better get ready to give a lot of plasma to any guys who go into shock when we start going up. Captain, it's too dangerous. Listen, Lieutenant, if we go up, a couple of your patients may have a very tough time. I know that. But if we stay at this level, all of us will come down. Now, take your choice. And while you're thinking, take a look at that meter, the storm is driving us up right now every minute. Captain, hold it. In a wind like this, Lieutenant, you're lucky if you can hold onto your hat. All right. Get it, Lieutenant. Oh, good. Listen, Sergeant, get out all the oxygen bottles and have them ready for use. Are we going up above 8,000? With these test cases, we're over 8,000 now. When, Sergeant, you better keep those bottles last fast when they're not in use. It's going to get even bumpier. Okay, Lieutenant. Something's going around now. Here. Find out what it is and pass me down. Okay, Lieutenant. Half. Half, yes. The test case here, the Captain Burnham. Yes. I'm afraid he's going into shock. All right. We'll give him plasma. I'll get it. Don't hurry to ask. Oh, I hope he's the only one. True. But there's a point of doubt. Good lord, what was that? That was our medicine set. It's not right out of its place. For just a minute, I'll help you. No, we'll leave it after we leave it now. You've got to get to that truck here. Where's Huston? Right here, Lieutenant. Everything's fastened down. I want you to help me with plasma. Listen, you'll never be able to give plasma when she's bumping like this. Gosh, look at him. But you can't do it. Go for it and find out how long we're going to fly this high. That's just on some strikes. And now, Sergeant, let's start with that plasma. Hey, Johnny. Oh, hello. Do you have nothing to do in your department? He wants to know how long we're going to be this high. Oh, he wants to know. We've got one case of shock now. Well, you can tell her I don't know whether we're going to be able to stay at 100 feet, let alone 10,000. Strike is higher on number two than you can get. Do you hear that? Yes, I hear it. That means on top of everything else, one of our engines may come. So get back to your boys and keep busy when I get time to play for a TV show like you know. We're listening to Marcia Hunt and Marjorie Reynolds in FlightNet on the DuPont Cavalcade, sponsored by the DuPont Company of Wilmington, Delaware, maker of better things for better living through chemistry. Here is Act Two of FlightNet, starring Marcia Hunt as Pat and Marjorie Reynolds as Steve. Four hours away from the bitterly contested ground around Lingaian Gulf on Luzon in the Philippines, the C-54 transport plane is fighting its way to a suddenly whiplash Pacific storm laden with a fragile and cherished cargo. Twenty wounded American soldiers and Marines. But the four motors of the transport at the moment are laboring in vain to keep the plane on an even cost of $1.5 a week. I'm half that plasma getting more ready. I gotta say it, Luda, I wouldn't have believed it. You gotta stop. There's somebody calling back there. Here I go. Stop the plane. Hey, can you see the plasma? I can't. I gotta stop the plane. It's coming. Sit back. Sit back. What's the fight? The plasma. The nervous case. Is this in my hypo? Sure, he's gonna sleep. Put that fly out. Somebody please put that fly out. Tell me, sir. The job's gonna do the fly out. Coming through again. Get another shot ready. Shall I send the medic over? In case he's got it and this one is trying to throw himself around. I'll be okay. Go get the predator. Put that. Put that. What do you want? It's all right. Can't it do okay to poke? Boy, tell me. What happened to tell me? He'll be okay, too. Tell me. Look out, tell me. They're coming down. Look out. Steve, hurry up, will you? I am nice. What's the matter? What happened? Nothing. They're back to sleep. Don't he want to go to Guam, neither? They got me. They got Terry. Back in bed, flysman. Back in bed. Sergeant Hopkins. I knew it. Tell me, tell me. Tell me. I'll tell you. I'll tell you. Let's take it easy. That'll be ready soon. Here you are. What are you doing? Get that needle away. Let me go. Get back in bed. Okay, Sergeant. Let him go. I'll be able to do that. But, Luke, this guy's got to drive all this stuff. Tell me. Believe me. Let him down. Put that. Let go of my arm, will you? Listen, flysman. Terry needs your help. Terry? Sure. For anything for Terry. Yes, sir. Lookin' red. You've got to help him. You've got to help yourself. You know you've got malaria? Malaria? Ken? Yes. You notice how weak your head gets when you sit up? Yeah. That's your funny. Well, that's malaria. If you'll be okay only for you to want Terry to catch your malaria, do you? Terry's my pal. So let me give you some of this medicine, huh? It'll kill those malaria sins. Then Terry won't catch anything from you. Good. Okay. Hold it down, Hudson. Got him. There. No. Malaria, please. Are you optimistic? No, you're right, Pat. I think it's coming down. Well, I can use some of that. What a time we've had. How long it's been? Oh, less than an hour. There. I think I'll go up front and see how things are with John. Oh, not again. I'll be right back. No. Lieutenant. You want something? No. A mouthful dry. Oh, all right. I'll give you some water. Cheers. Next slowly. You've been shaken up a lot, and it might make you sick. I guess we're being scared at the moment, isn't it? Oh, well, the worst is over now. We'll get to Guam in just a little while, and then we'll have to do as best. But don't you get scared, do you? Me? Sure, I do. Pretty. All the time when the damps were coming at us and the weather was so rugged. I kept watching you. And you were fine. I would give you that, so if I had to just lie here like you boys do, I don't know how I'd take it either. And what I mean is, well, ever since I got in the army, even back home in training, I've been scared. I sure wish I could get over it, but I guess there's something wrong with me. Well, I know I'm nervous. You want to know a secret? We're all scared. But how are you in the fighting? Well, I feel some damps all right. Well, that's all that matters, so to say. As long as being afraid doesn't keep you from doing your job. I know. Uh-oh. My problems, Kyle's waking up. Right here, soldier. Oh, like, no kidding. I know. I know you don't want to go to Guam. Well, um, I was thinking. It might not be so bad if you're going to be there for a while. Well, don't worry, soldier. You won't be in Guam long enough to think about that. You mean we won't be staying there? Uh-uh, not long. You'll be sent to the states in the week after this. Well, now that's more like it. That's Johnny. I rode 100,000 miles with him on an airline back in the states. He's all right. See, you got an extra bobby pin, always talking around. Look at my hair. What? Hair? Why are you doing this? Stand this way a little, huh? Well, I'm doing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Being a girl, there's bobby pins in her hair like that. It's been longer than I like to think. What are you doing away, too? You're supposed to be sleeping, soldier. Oh, I've been awake a long time. I, um, I was trying to get a chance to tell you. I'm sorry about cracking the door there with you a couple hours ago. You mean about that letter you got? Yeah. Oh, that's okay. I know how you felt. I got one of those letters, myself, a week ago. Yeah, I think you did. So much is said. You know, you're lucky. Lucky? Sure. You got a way to forget. With me, it was okay. So long as I was busy, you know, with the push of one guy in on the first day's fighting. But the edge of my own trouble. And I got it in the leg. You all right? But it feels funny. Like it's on my leg. I get to think of something about her again. I had it all to get out. I was going to go back home and sit in the front yard and spend the rest of my life feeling sorry for myself. Well, not now. Not now. What made you change your mind? You. Me? I've been lying here for a lifetime and those other guys. You say that guy's what? Well, he has practiced. You could do the same thing yourself. That's why you're lucky. You've had the practice. Now you can do it. You can keep busy all the time. Right here in these planes. And the thing is, you might have let your letter get to down. You've gone right back to your soft civilian life and done something crazy. Like I would do it. What makes you think I wouldn't? Of course, I got to say with me, it's a little tough and still. My leg. Excellent. But even then, I don't figure you for the kind of girl would have left that part. What makes you think it wouldn't? You? The way you've been working? Listen, Lieutenant. You're a legend. Right out of the start. I'm going to have to change the dressing. Seems you can find a new leg too while you're at it. That'll be a little tough these days. Yeah, I know. There's a war on it. Look over there. These are the clouds. Warm. Yeah. Oh, that soldier's sand pile chair looks good to me right now. You better tell your Lieutenant Thompson to see that all our guys have sat down. I can come for you. We're going down. Okay, Johnny. And I'll send you tonight. Yeah. We're landing padded. Everybody's sat down. Austin's just checking it now. How about it, Sergeant? Oh, that's Lieutenant. And nearly down. Oh, boy, feel that. Johnny cuts it down like a feather. Austin. It moves. These two firsts. Him and him. Right at the hospital and fast. Okay, Luke. You can open up now. Right. Well, soldier, this is it. What do you say? A sand pile. Strictly a sand pile. Hello there. Anybody home? All present. Accounted for us, sir. How was the trip? Well, we flew through the air, but I wouldn't say it was the greatest of these. Now, it was a little weather at sea. Well, that's why we killed the sergeant to get those two cases out to hospital first. The test room. Right. By the way, what you two nurses is Thompson? Yes, sir. Oh, well, I've got your orders here to send you along through to Hawaii. You should be able to get a plane within a couple of hours if you want to leave that soon. A couple of hours? It might be a year of this stuff. I guess you can use them later. I've only been on seven months. You see, sir, this is Lieutenant Thompson's last flight with us. To resign. Resign? Oh, I must have things mixed up. I maybe knew you girls did resign. You've got things confused all right, sir. Oh, now, wait, Pat. I know you're tired. We all are, but that's no reason for you to fear. I'm tired. Why not? But we've got work to do. What are we waiting for? Hey, what about that resignation? I was never any good at writing. The whole thing was a typographical error. So I'll be ready to make the next tickling giant fail whenever you want me to go. Glad to hear everything. Sorry, guys. Just remember that I forgot something in Linda. Forgot something? Yeah. I forgot there's a war on. Our thanks to you, Marcia Hunt and Marjorie Reynolds, and to all the other members of tonight's DuPont Cable Cage. When the pilot of the B-29 over Tokyo gives her the gun, he does it with a carburetor a lot bigger and more complex than the carburetor in your car. In the carburetor of the B-29 is a diaphragm that automatically corrects the flow of high octane gas, with air in the right amount. That diaphragm has to flex and change position, just the right amount in just the right way, every time the pilot touches his throttle. What's it made of? Metal? No. Claw. A fabric woven of DuPont nylon coated with DuPont chemical rubber, neoprene. That's typical of the jobs being done by coated fabric. Hidden away where you never see them and never think of them, and still accomplishing things no other materials can do as well. Mankind has been using fabric for centuries. Coating them, however, is a development of modern industrial chemistry. Coating a fabric gives it entirely new quality. Coated fabrics are made which reproduce the appearance of the finest leather for women's handbags and shoes. Or, with, for another example, offer you a better window shade material, like DuPont's Tanteen washable window shade cloth. Coated fabrics are used in 101 ways in war. DuPont nylon ponchos, sheltered tents, are coated white on one side and green on the other. So they'll be hard to see against snow or against the evergreens of the mountains. There are rain proof, mildew proof, termite proof, jungle hammock, and the Army and Navy raincoats and all-weather jackets that stand the cold weather of Greenland without cracking and the hot, damp climate of the tropics without getting sticky or gummy. When soldiers thawed rivers, they button inflated ladders of coated fabric like small air cushions inside their shirts to keep them afloat. Life belts are made of coated fabric, so are life rafts and the chemical containers that change seawater into fresh drinking water. Scientific research has two aims, to create new things and to improve old things, adding new and valuable quality to old materials. Here in the development of wartime coated fabric is a double example of what research does. Fabrics are an old friend. Several coatings developed by DuPont were unheard of, simply didn't exist only a few years ago. Add them together, fabric and coating, and you have an illustration of the value of research. DuPont research that brings you year after year, an ever-growing list of better things for better living through chemistry. During the month of March throughout America, the Red Cross will conduct its 1945 war fund campaign and is a salute to the great work of the Red Cross. We will present on the DuPont Cavalcade a very warm and sincere tribute, a play called Bernadine I Love You, a story of one's little known but tender and human services of the Red Cross. William Bendix will star in this home-away-from-home tale of a paratrooper's inarticulate love for his bride of only two weeks. Listen next week when we will present William Bendix in Bernadine I Love You on the DuPont Cavalcade. The music on tonight's DuPont Cavalcade was composed and conducted by Robert Ambruster. This evening's play was written by Charles Rabiner and Peter Lyon. This is Gain Whitman inviting you soon in next Monday to Bernadine I Love You starring William Bendix on the DuPont Cavalcade. Brought to you by E.I. DuPont Dinemores & Company of Wilmington, Delaware. This is the National Broadcasting Company.