One school night, I had stayed up late finishing Wingmen since it is one of my favorite books.

Even though this happened years ago, I thought I would share it since I am noticing that there is more Wingmen content on here now. Other pilots have their wingmen as well.So, after I reread Wingmen for the second time in high school, something a bit spooky happened.

Wing Man: The book revolves around the story of the Skipper and his wingman.

War Is Hell: Great detail is given to the stressful job of a fighter pilot, but special mention goes to the description of the Invasion of Betio Island: Marines and Japanese soldiers fighting in the shores, amidst the smoke and piles of dead bodies, under the falling bombs, with their comrades suddenly dropping dead at their side.

Squad Nickname: the VF-20 is nicknamed Jack's after their skipper, Jack Hardigan.During the course of the war, new pilots are being added. New Meat: Several new pilots are added to the VF-20 squadron at the start of the book, Fred Trusteau being the last to be added.'Woody' for the bomber skipper Heywood.Later on, he gains the callsign 'Killer'. In-Series Nickname: These are usually given by the pilots themselves, and are used as callsigns in battle.From Nobody to Nightmare: Downplayed the VF-20 started as a regular squadron and ended up as one of the deadliest, becoming a major asset in air battles against the Japanese.

Cool Plane: In the American side, the Squadron VF-20 flies Hellcats other planes mentioned are the Dauntless, the Avengers, and the Corsairs.Blood Is Squicker in Water: In a realistic version of this trope, when Fred is badly injured and forced to bail out of his sinking plane, the water around him is noted to be brownish in color.A Father to His Men: Downplayed with Skipper and his squadron: he cares for his men, but he maintains a professional relationship with them.The book has been republished since 2012 by Cheyenne Publishing, and since 2014 by Lethe Press. As another wingman watches - and waits for the beautiful woman who loves Jack - Hardigan and Trusteau cut a fiery swath through the skies from Wake Island to Tarawa to Truk, there to keep a fateful rendezvous with love and death in the blood-clouded waters of the Pacific. But a more subtle kind of hell was brewing in his feelings for rookie pilot Fred Trusteau. Jack Hardigan's Hellcat fighter squadron blew the Japanese Zekes out of the blazing Pacific skies. Wingmen is a M/M romance/military/historical fiction written by Ensan Case, first published in 1979.

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