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Bracker, Lt. Bradley, Ensign Duggin, Lt. (j.g.) Fitzsimmons, Lt. (j.g.) Frank
Hammerstein, Lt. (j.g.) Heckman, Ensign William C. Hill, Ensign Luden Hodges, Ensign Horace, Ensign Hughes, Ensign Dave Jacobs, Ensign Tom Jenkins, Ensign Levi, Ensign Patrick, Ensign Dave Peckerly, Ensign Rogers, Lt. C. T.
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match, Fred and some of his new friends are invited by Jack to play with him in his private room. There, both Jack and Fred have a good time, while the latter finds out they need someone to write the squadron's War Diary and proposes to fill the role, eager to impress the skipper. Jack, on the other
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Hardigan, a man which Fred almost instantly considers more organized and well-mannered than his older commander. Right on his first day in the squadron, Fred breaks into a party held by his new fellow pilots and draws attention thanks to his trick of tying a knot in a cherry stem without using
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Trilogy. Case expected the book to bring him a big feedback, but it went through only one printing, when sales stopped. He originally considered the situation "ultimately disappointing", something he attributes to the novel being "too far ahead of its time." Case published just one more novel,
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and is congratulated by
Admiral Berkey, which raises his reputation in the squadron. Some days after, he and Jack squadron office have a chat in the squadron office, where they discuss their personal upbringings. Their newfound closeness starts to annoy Duane, who takes a dislike to Fred. The
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Reviews writer Sirius rated the novel 5+ out of 5 stars, calling it "highly recommended" and "mesmerizing", but criticizing the
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dead, and is reprimended by the skipper. Duane later gets angry with his demotion in the next strike and Jack's lack of objections over his marriage with
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to explain how the war can blurry the boundary between the homosocial and the homosexual, "and to some degree neutralized the homophobia that usually was ready to police that boundary and suppress the expression of affection and attraction between men." Living together through
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Berkey in a passageway, and the two have a friendly conversation before he goes his way. At that night, he decides to spend some time alone on the deck edge elevator and finds Jack there, in the first of a number of occasional meetings of the two in the place.
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For legal reasons, all three releases have different covers. Case declared his dislike towards the original cover, since he " like to put a detailed face on characters", and also because it's inaccurate to the novel narrative. Furthermore, he praised
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felt the novel is "gratifying to read", stating that he doesn't know "what effect it will have on you, but this is probably how it will affect Case's fellow war novelists: Norman Mailer will clench his fists and swear and refuse to believe it,
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in late 1979. The novel was considered a commercial disappointment, since by June 30, 1983 only 24,694 of these had sold, which earned him a grand total of US$ 3,496.10. The author believes the unsold copies were recalled and destroyed.
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Commander of the Air Group Twenty, Jennings is an eager man known for being harsh towards his subordinates. Though he initially has a rocky relationship with Jack, this starts to change in the face of the latter's accomplishments.
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of Fred
Trusteau, which would be connected to the time he almost shot down an Army general plane during his training cruise. As of 2021, no new information about the novel or its publication date was given.
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his hands, making him win the right to use the services of a female prostitute, to which he unwillingly agrees; after the event, he is given the nickname "Trusty" and is readily recognized among the group.
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presents two gay Navy pilots which "were portrayed as totally irredeemable cowards and slackers", something that pissed him off. Both novels are set aboard fictional
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in the words of Case, " its protagonists a pair of gay pilots who were the exact opposites of
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is hit by a blast and starts to malfunction. For a short time, much to Jack's dismay, Fred is presumed to be dead, but he manages to reach another carrier with his damaged
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protagonism in the genre, which led to its first republication in 2012, by Cheyenne Publishing. It's Case's first and most known of his two published novels.
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declared that “fans of war stories will prefer this tome, whose focus gets very specific with the details of flying planes and crashing them", summarizing
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