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* AluminumChristmasTrees: With all the other liberties the movie takes with history, you would be forgiven for thinking Whiskey the lion was made up for the story. Turns out, Whiskey was real, and there was another lion, named Soda, who served as a mascot with him.

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* EnsembleDarkhorse: HolyHitman Porter and CynicalMentor Cassidy are both well-remembered by many fans well after finishing the movie.

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HolyHitman Porter and CynicalMentor Cassidy are both well-remembered secondary characters who are remembered by many fans well years after finishing the movie.movie.
** German TokenGoodTeammate Franz Wolfert is only in three scenes, but his sense of honor and the insignia painted on his plane make him pretty popular.
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* SpiritualAdaptation: A 2009 comic book, ''War Is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle'', appears to have taken inspiration from the movie, but does a total Subversion of it, creating a viciously darker and nastier story. If one watches the film and then looks at the graphic novel, it clearly shows that the comic's creators viewed the film and then are parodying and twisting most everything in the film.

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* SpiritualAdaptation: A 2009 comic book, ''War Is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle'', appears to have has clearly taken inspiration from the movie, ''Flyboys'', but does is a total Subversion of it, creating a viciously darker and nastier story. If one watches the film and then looks at the graphic novel, it clearly shows that the comic's creators viewed the film and then are parodying and twisting most everything in the film.
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* SpiritualAdaptation: A 2009 comic book, ''War Is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle'', appears to have taken inspiration from the movie, but does a total Subversion of it, creating a viciously darker and nastier story.

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* SpiritualAdaptation: A 2009 comic book, ''War Is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle'', appears to have taken inspiration from the movie, but does a total Subversion of it, creating a viciously darker and nastier story. If one watches the film and then looks at the graphic novel, it clearly shows that the comic's creators viewed the film and then are parodying and twisting most everything in the film.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: HolyHitman Porter and CynicalMentor Cassidy are both well-remembered by many fans well after finishing the movie.
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* SpiritualAdaptation: A 2009 comic book, ''War Is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle'', appears to have taken inspiration from the movie, but does a complete subversion of it, creating a viciously darker and nastier story.

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* SpiritualAdaptation: A 2009 comic book, ''War Is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle'', appears to have taken inspiration from the movie, but does a complete subversion total Subversion of it, creating a viciously darker and nastier story.
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* SpiritualAdaptation: A 2009 comic book, ''War Is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle'', appears to have taken inspiration from the movie, but does a complete subversion of it, creating a viciously darker and nastier story.
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* TooCoolToLive: Cassidy.
* UnfortunateImplications : [[AllGermansAreNazis All German fighter pilots were dishonorable merciless killers, who enjoyed not playing fair.]] But given several [[ALighterShadeOfGray morally greyer]] German characters and the GenreThrowback nature of the movie, this can be forgiven.

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* TooCoolToLive: Cassidy.
* UnfortunateImplications : [[AllGermansAreNazis All German fighter pilots were dishonorable merciless killers, who enjoyed not playing fair.]] But given several [[ALighterShadeOfGray morally greyer]] German characters and the GenreThrowback nature of the movie, this can be forgiven.
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* UnfortunateImplications : [[AllGermansAreNazis All German fighter pilots were dishonorable merciless killers, who enjoyed not playing fair.]] But given several [[ALighterShadeOfGray morally greyer]] German characters and the GeorgeLucasThrowback nature of the movie, this can be forgiven.

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* UnfortunateImplications : [[AllGermansAreNazis All German fighter pilots were dishonorable merciless killers, who enjoyed not playing fair.]] But given several [[ALighterShadeOfGray morally greyer]] German characters and the GeorgeLucasThrowback GenreThrowback nature of the movie, this can be forgiven.

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