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Hand grenades are distributed. Charlie asks, "Pardon me, sir, but to work this. . . . ?" He follows instructions in concentrated pantomime, gets the grenade down his sleeve, and in attempts to extricate it, loses it down his pants. It is extracted just in time. In the counterattack, the barber, lost in the smoke and calling out "Cap-itaine! — Woo, woo!" finds himself advancing between two American soldiers. Exclaiming, "Oh, excuse me," he runs back.
In the airplane scene, Schultz, the wounded aviator, has important dispatches to deliver and Charlie loyally steps to the wheel. Flying upside down, he observes that "The sun seems to be shining upwards!" — He takes his watch out, to find it pointing upward too. Conveniently, the water from the canteen also flows up toward his face. But it is not Charlie's piloting but their running out of gas that leads to the inevitable crash. Just before the crash landing the delirious Schultz launches an ode to spring: "Ah, Spring in Tomania! Hilda would be in her garden now with her daffodils — she could never bear to cut the daffodils — it is like taking life to cut them — sweet, gentle Hilda. . . ." and continues, after the crash — "A beautiful soul and she loved animals and little children, too."
As Charlie's head emerges from a mud hole, two soldiers come up to tell them the war is over. Tomania is vanquished.
Montage sequence: Newspaper Armistice extras; celebrations; Charlie being taken to the hospital; soldiers marching home. Headlines: "Peace," "Dempsey beats Willard," "Lindbergh flies the Atlantic," "Depression," "Riots in Tomania," "Hynkel party takes power."
Charlie is then shown as a convalescent in the hospital. The commentator explains that the little barber has suffered amnesia and has no knowledge of the events of the intervening years.