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  • This conversation:
    Sir Reginald: Where the hell are we?
    Airman: [points to a hole in the map] Right here sir!
    Reginald: [chuckles, then gets a grip] No really, where are we?
    Airman: Over Calais, sir.
    Reginald: [pleased] Calais?
    [the Eiffel Tower shows up through the clouds]
    Reginald: [mixing disgust and contempt] "Calais"...
  • Bouvet and Lefort mistaking each other for the English aviator they're supposed to meet in the bathhouse, and not yet realizing they're both French despite their obviously bad accents:
    "Are iou?"
    "Iou are?"
  • After a few moments, Bouvet reverts to French because he can't find the right word:
    Bouvet: [frustrated] Merde alors, comment on dit—
    Lefort: [accusingly] Comment ca "Merde alors?" But alors you are French!
    Bouvet: You are not English?
  • Sir Reginald ends up in the care of nuns who work with La Résistance at the Hospices of Beaune. While being transported near French wine bottles in the Hospices' cellar, he happily snatches one.
  • Lefort and Bouvet find themselves invited to the birthday of a German officer along with his staff at the hotel run by a family of resistants who want to help them. Cue everyone dancing with chairs around the tables.
  • The night at the hotel.
    • Lefort, passing as the husband of the Hôtel du Globe's manager, gets hungry in the middle of the night and goes to the kitchen of the hotel, the hotel being requisitioned by a bunch of German officers. After filling a tray with food, he gets spotted by Major Achbach's aide, whom he lied to about there being no more to eat, and the aide snatches the tray from him, thanking him for keeping that food for the Major.
    • At first, Lefort lies to Major Achbach's aide about the cake being the only leftover from the feast. He proceeds to demonstrate the edibility of said cake by eating the (raised) arm of the General's sugar sculpture. The aide is disturbed by the sight, and jokingly calls Lefort a cannibal.
    • Lefort and Major Achbach's aide end up unwittingly switching bedrooms. The moment Bouvet and Lefort realize this occurs the next morning only.
    • Achbach snores too loudly for Lefort to peacefully sleep (believing it's Bouvet), so Lefort tries everything he can to have him stop, including whistling and trying to push him while making weird annoyed Donald Duck-like sounds. Luckily for him, Achbach is a Heavy Sleeper and doesn't wake up. That's some of the best Louis de Funès slapstick expressions you'll ever get to watch.
  • At the end, Major Achbach has the brilliant idea to have the machine gun manned by the one soldier in his squad who has a terrible squint that should have had him revoked from the military a while ago. Cue said guy shooting down the German plane instead of the protagonists' gliders.

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