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* [[Red Alert]]: The Luftwaffe airfield when Pretty Boy reports that he is [[Coming in Hot]], pursued by four American fighter planes.

** The [[Fighter Launching Sequence]] barely has a chance to get started before the American pilots lay waste to the place. Two planes [[Sitting Duck|barely make it into the air]] before getting shot down.

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Easy is Blue to Lightning's Red

** Interestingly, while Easy is much more level-headed (and higher-ranking), Lightning is much more often ''right'' about what tactics they should use, which is the cause of much of their tension.

* [[Shown Their Work]]: The filmmakers went through great pains to make the movie accurate, going as far as interviewing the surviving members of the squadron, and even getting access to their journals. That over-the-top bit with one pilot disabling an Italian destroyer? [[Reality Is Unrealistic|It happened.]]

* [[Sitting Duck]]: The German aircraft at the airfield that is treated to an impromptu air raid by Easy, Lightning, Joker, and Junior.

* [[Standard Hollywood Strafing Procedure]]: Used to attack a German train at the start of the film. [[Subverted Trope|Lightning protests that it would be smarter (and safer) to attack the train head-on instead]], due to the presence of [[Anti-Air]] gunners on the train.

* [[Stereotype Flip]]: In an [[Ironic Echo]] to a previous scene, some of the black pilots are walking past the Officers' Club, where Lightning had previously gotten into a brawl with a large group of racist white officers. A very redneck sounding pilot walks out and shouts at them, seemingly trying to taunt them. He's a grateful bomber pilot wanting to share a drink with the men who saved his crew.

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