FORGOTTEN GEM? The Real Glory (1939)
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*“The Real Glory” is a curio from the 1930’s set in the forgotten Moro
Rebellion of 1906. It was dedicated to the Philippine C...
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The planes in the strip are Blakburn SKUAS, a dive bomber operated by the Royal Navy during WW2. I suppose the intended implication is that 'Johnny Kraut' assumes that all dive bombers are Stukas & hence refers to them as such.... the similarity between the names doesn't help much tho, admittedly.
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackburn_Skua
I'm fighting the urge to look this up...but isn't the Skua a seabird? Hence the nice tie in with the name and the Royal Navy.
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