Red Tails: Difference between revisions

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: The Red Tails' first front-line engagement results in 8 enemy planes shot down and 63 enemy planes destroyed on the ground for none of their own shot down (although damage is taken).

* [[Dare to Be Badass]]:

* [[Death From Above]]: The Red Tails find themselves doing this a lot. At first, settling for trucks and trains because the higher ups refuse to station them somewhere where they will find any German aircraft to shoot at. Later on, they inflict heavy damage upon a German airfield and a destroyer as targets of opportunity. The P-51s were slower than the German jets, but if they climbed and then dove, they could fly faster. This is shown in the film.

* [[Desk Jockey]]: Major Stance and Colonel Bullard, what with them running the squadron's operations and [[Benevolent Boss|dealing with the higher-ups]].

* [[War Is Hell]]: Played straight in the film's prologue, showing a formation of bombers being torn to shreds by the Luftwaffe fighters.

** And [[Subverted]] in the very next scene, with four of the 332d Fighter Group pilots cruising along on another boring patrol.

* [[We Have Reserves]]: Escort pilots are explicitly encouraged to think of themselves as this in relation to bombers. The commander of the bomber forces comes to Bullard looking for escort pilots who'll put the bombers over themselves, and Bullard tells his men "At all costs, protect the heavies."

* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Easy