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Together they first get to fight the Japanese in UsefulNotes/WW2, first as regular fighter pilots, and then as part of General Chennault's Flying Tigers in China. They go their separate ways after the end of the war but quickly reunite and become civilian pilots for a shady Middle Eastern company. They decide to re-enlist in the Air Force, become test pilots for the new generations of jet aircraft, and in 1950 are sent on the Korean front. After this they are somehow transfered to the U.S.Navy where they continue to serve ever since and continue to have adventures against the backdrop of the problems of that time: the cold war, the space race, international terrorism and drug running, the fall of the Soviet Union and lately the wars in Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan,
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Together they first get to fight the Japanese in UsefulNotes/WW2, UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, first as regular fighter pilots, and then as part of General Chennault's Flying Tigers in China. They go their separate ways after the end of the war but quickly reunite and become civilian pilots for a shady Middle Eastern company. They decide to re-enlist in the Air Force, become test pilots for the new generations of jet aircraft, and in 1950 are sent on the Korean front. After this they are somehow transfered transferred to the U.S. Navy where they continue to serve ever since and continue to have adventures against the backdrop of the problems of that time: the cold war, the space race, international terrorism and drug running, the fall of the Soviet Union and lately the wars in Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan,
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** In "Patrouille à l'Aube", Buck, Tumbler and Sonny use a UsefulNotes/WW2-vintage Avenger plane found in a scrapyard in order to locate the wreck of a submarine.
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** In "Patrouille à l'Aube", Buck, Tumbler and Sonny use a UsefulNotes/WW2-vintage UsefulNotes/WorldWarII-vintage Avenger plane found in a scrapyard in order to locate the wreck of a submarine.
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* DirtyCommunists: Those make repeated appearances in the adventures taking place in TheFifties, starting with "Pilotes d'essai". Later on, the series dropped overt ideological references for its villains.
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* DirtyCommunists: Those make repeated appearances in the adventures taking place in TheFifties, The50s, starting with "Pilotes d'essai". Later on, the series dropped overt ideological references for its villains.
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* EagleLand: Played completely straight.
** Though as the series progressed, some Type 2s began to show up, like a Klansman pilot from Alabama.
** Though as the series progressed, some Type 2s began to show up, like a Klansman pilot from Alabama.
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* EagleLand: Played A completely straight.
** Thoughstraight example of America the Beautiful most of the time: the USA are presented as an unambiguous force of good for the benefit of the whole world. As the series progressed, some Type 2s elements of 'Murica the Boorish began to show up, like such as a Klansman very racist pilot from Alabama. Alabama.
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* GratuitousEnglish: frequently. Amusingly, the expressions used are often British rather than American (i.e. any expression including the word "bloody"), British English being what most Europeans have had the most exposure to.
** In an interesting variation, the characters also use the Imperial System in all of their conversations (even when not on a plane), with a footnote providing the conversion to metric.
** In an interesting variation, the characters also use the Imperial System in all of their conversations (even when not on a plane), with a footnote providing the conversion to metric.
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* GratuitousEnglish: frequently.Frequently. Amusingly, the expressions used are often British rather than American (i.e. any expression including the word "bloody"), British English being what most Europeans have had the most exposure to.
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** In an interesting variation, the characters also use the Imperial System in all of their conversations (even when not on a plane), with a footnote providing the conversion tometric. metric.
** A noteworthy case is a racist pilot using the N-word, with a footnote explaining what this means and how offensive it is (although it has a French equivalent, the English word was not well-known in Europe at the time the book was published).
** In an interesting variation, the characters also use the Imperial System in all of their conversations (even when not on a plane), with a footnote providing the conversion to
** A noteworthy case is a racist pilot using the N-word, with a footnote explaining what this means and how offensive it is (although it has a French equivalent, the English word was not well-known in Europe at the time the book was published).
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* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: While the characters are assigned to a secret base in Alaska, Sonny spots what he thinks is a group of trespassers. When soldiers are sent to arrest them, they turn out to be penguins. Out of spite for being called out on his stupid mistake, Sonny adopts the one they bring back.
