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See Double Dynamite fly.
She likes to go zoom zoom zoom. She likes to fire her guns blam blam blam.
The bad men don't like her and they shoot rat-a-tat-tat rat-a-tat-tat. Double Dynamite thinks the bad men are silly and she flies over their heads zoom zoom zoom. This makes the bad men angry and they use their big guns boom boom boom and hurt Double Dynamite by blowing off one of her engines.
Even though she is hurt she doesn't care. She can still go zoom zoom zoom and her guns can still go blam blam blam. The bad men start to say mean things and that annoys Double Dynamite. She knows it's wrong to hurt anybody - even bad mean angry people.
She is happy to fly around and shoot her guns but the bad men start to say cruel things. Double Dynamite is quite cross with them and tells them to stop. The bad men stop being cruel, mean and angry and promise not to do it again.
Double Dynamite is happy now and she flys home to get her engine fixed and get some new ammunition. She can't wait for the new day to start so she can fly back out and play.
This is a big story, with big planes, big action, big talk, big egos, big mistakes and a big apology. It also follows with all that "big" flying around that this story must include Americans. Of course Americans can only appear in a pocket war story if they appear under the steadying hand of a Brit.
The story is pretty straight forward - a perfectionist and expert British night fighter pilot is transferred to train a squadron of scruffy yet enthusiastic Americans in night fighting techniques. And of course the two sides even though they are on the same side don't get on from the very beginning.
There's a bit of depth to the writing as the Brit even does something impulsive which leads to a disaster - which in turn leads to his American crew hating him even more - which of course gives the author the platform to launch the redemption and team building sequence to finalise the story.
Even though it is a good story it can't get away from the usual use of stereotypes. This time it's the Americans' turn as they are portrayed as being scruffy multicultural, poker playing, life and death betting and egalitarian. However in a total avoidance of stereotyping we never get to see the face of the enemy.
This is also a landmark story as it is the 1st British war picture library that I've come across that mentions German atrocities in Europe.
Finally any story that features a Northrop Black Widow is going to good by default.
Dornier go bang!
A poker game. They must be Americans.
That sounds like a great job to have in a bar.
Atrocities! Surely not in war comics!!
A flock of Black Widows.
"...such gallantry." No wonder they think he's a nonce.
A man sized plane!
Peggy about to go boom too.
Double Dynamite is about to get into a whole lot of trouble.
A full pager.
And another full pager!
I believe that is meant to be a compliment.
Yet another full pager. This is a big story!
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