Liberation series (1970-71)
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* “Liberation” was the Soviet answer to western films like “The
Longest Day” which did not even mention the Soviet contributions to the
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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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