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* CoolPlane: The movie features the Grumman F8F Bearcat, the Vought F4U-4 Corsair, the Douglas AD Skyraider, a Sikorski HO5S-1, a Douglas DC-3, and a [=MiG-15=], and much of the filming was done with surviving warbirds.
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* CoolPlane: The movie features the Grumman F8F Bearcat, the Vought F4U-4 [=F4U-4=] Corsair, the Douglas AD [=AD=] Skyraider, a Sikorski HO5S-1, [=HO5S-1=], a Douglas DC-3, [=DC-3=], and a [=MiG-15=], and much of the filming was done with surviving warbirds.
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** The pilots of VF-32, were all based on real members of the unit, as was the ''Leyte's'' captain, Captain Sisson.
* HollywoodHistory: Hudner and Brown manage to take down a MiG-15 a few months before they first saw service in Korea. A Corsair would successfully shoot down a MiG-15 a few years later in the war, piloted by USMC Captain Jesse Folmar.
* HollywoodHistory: Hudner and Brown manage to take down a MiG-15 a few months before they first saw service in Korea. A Corsair would successfully shoot down a MiG-15 a few years later in the war, piloted by USMC Captain Jesse Folmar.
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* UsefulNotes/WildWeasel: The Corsairs fill this role during the attack on the bridgehead at the Yalu River, launching rockets to surpress AntiAir positions.
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** The film's climax focuses on the efforts of Hudner and Alabama Ward to [[spoiler: rescue Brown from his wrecked Corsair. Hudner ditches his plane so he can get to Brown, and Ward volunteers to fly in with his rescue chopper despite the nearby enemy troops and coming darkness.]]
* ChekhovsGun: Hudner's wool cap that Brown teased him for in Rhode Island comes in handy when Hudner loans it to him to keep warm with in Korea.
* ChekhovsGunman: Alabama Ward, Jesse Brown's friend from flight school, is introduced midway through the film flying a medevac helicopter. He overhears Cevoli calling for help over the radio after Brown and Hudner go down and volunteers to fly in after them, despite it being almost nightfall.
* ChekhovsGun: Hudner's wool cap that Brown teased him for in Rhode Island comes in handy when Hudner loans it to him to keep warm with in Korea.
* ChekhovsGunman: Alabama Ward, Jesse Brown's friend from flight school, is introduced midway through the film flying a medevac helicopter. He overhears Cevoli calling for help over the radio after Brown and Hudner go down and volunteers to fly in after them, despite it being almost nightfall.
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* {{Wingman}}: Brown is Hudner's wingman in the air, but Hudner takes on this role on the ground.
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* CentralTheme: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Devotion.]] Brown is devoted to his wife Daisy, and devoted to his calling as a naval aviator. Daisy asks Hudner to look after her husband while they're at sea, and Cevoli expounds on the importance of bringing everyone back.
-->'''Daisy''': I can't protect him anymore. So I need you to be there for my Jesse. Okay?"
-->'''Hudner''': [[DeclarationOfProtection Okay.]]
-->'''Daisy''': I can't protect him anymore. So I need you to be there for my Jesse. Okay?"
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* DeclarationOfProtection: Hudner promises Daisy he'll look after Brown for her while they're away. His protectiveness of his wingman actually causes a fair amount of conflict because Brown stands to lose a lot if his well-meaning comrades escalate a confrontation with a racist.
** ReleasingFromThePromise: At the end of the film, Daisy assures Hudner that [[spoiler: he didn't fail to keep his promise because she never asked him to ''protect'' her husband, only to ''be with him,'' which he did far beyond anyone could have asked him to.]]
** ReleasingFromThePromise: At the end of the film, Daisy assures Hudner that [[spoiler: he didn't fail to keep his promise because she never asked him to ''protect'' her husband, only to ''be with him,'' which he did far beyond anyone could have asked him to.]]
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* HonorBeforeReason: Hudner's over-protective instincts cause problems for him and Brown throughout the film, but his decision to crash-land his fighter plane to help his downed wingman definitely takes the cake.
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* TitleDrop: Sort of. Near the end of the film, Brown signs off on a letter to his wife Daisy with "Your Devoted Husband," although the film itself is more about the [[FireForgedFriends professional and personal relationship]] between Hudner and Brown [[spoiler: and Hudner's determined-but-doomed efforts to try and save Brown after he is shot down.]]
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* GeniusBonus: Many of the details of operating aircraft on land and at sea are not commented on by the pilots, this includes the practice of tail-dragger planes taxiing in a zig-zag pattern due to the difficulty of seeing over the plane's nose while on the ground, so instead they zig-zag and get a look ahead by looking left and right. Once the plane gains takeoff speed, the tail lifts up and the nose drops, allowing a clear view forward.
* GreatOffscreenWar: UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, which most of the cast trained for but weren't able to serve in: Tom applied to the Naval Academy after Pearl Harbor and was a month away from graduation when Japan surrendered.
* GreatOffscreenWar: UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, which most of the cast trained for but weren't able to serve in: Tom applied to the Naval Academy after Pearl Harbor and was a month away from graduation when Japan surrendered.
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* CoolPlane: The movie features the Grumman F8F Bearcat, the Vought F4U-4 Corsair, the Douglas AD Skyraider, a Sikorski HO5S-1, a Douglas DC-3, and a [=MiG-15=], and much of the filming was done with surviving warbirds.
* GeniusBonus: Many of the details of operating aircraft on land and at sea are not commented on by the pilots, this includes the practice of tail-dragger planes taxiing in a zig-zag pattern due to the difficulty of seeing over the plane's nose while on the ground, so instead they zig-zag and get a look ahead by looking left and right. Once the plane gains takeoff speed, the tail lifts up and the nose drops, allowing a clear view forward.
* OldMaster: {{Subverted}} example in Commander Cevoli, who is a decorated veteran of World War II and fills the role of an old-school sage, but is in fact only a few years older than the rookie pilots, who were mostly born just a bit too late to be able to serve in the war.
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* WarIsHell: Cevoli makes it abundantly clear to his men that they must train rigorously if they hope to survive in combat, and doesn't downplay the emotional impact of losing friends to combat or crashes. Rather than becoming a grizzled SergeantRough or a ShellShockedVeteran, he seems to make the conscious choice to effect a warm cheerful disposition, as he has seen what happens to men who let war define them.
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* WarIsHell: Cevoli makes it abundantly clear to his men that they must train rigorously if they hope to survive in combat, and doesn't downplay the emotional impact of losing friends to combat or crashes. Rather than becoming a grizzled SergeantRough DrillSergeantNasty or a ShellShockedVeteran, he seems to make the conscious choice to effect a warm cheerful disposition, as he has seen what happens to men who let war define them.
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* CoolOldGuy: Commander Cevoli is a veteran of [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII The Big Show]] and spends most of his time on screen training and mentoring the younger pilots.
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* CoolOldGuy: Commander Cevoli is a veteran of [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII The Big Show]] and spends most of his time on screen training and mentoring the younger pilots.pilots to prepare them for war.
* DueToTheDead: When Mohring dies in a crash, Brown takes it upon himself to write a letter for his family, and packs up Mohring's belongings so they can be shipped home. He also gets in an argument with Hudner when the latter comments on the mistake Mohring made that led to his death. Later, after [[spoiler: Brown]] is killed, the rest of the squadron launches to bomb the crash site both to prevent the plane from being recovered by the enemy, and to give their friend a final send-off.
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* SacrificialLamb: Ensign Mohring, who dies due to pilot error during a routine landing in the notoriously difficult Corsair.
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* DangerDeadpan: During the Yalu River mission, the lead Skyraider pilot speaks in a low growl even while making a bombing run while taking AntiAir fire.
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* InSeriesNickname: "Widowmaker" and "Ensign Eliminator" for the [=F4U=] Corsair, which it earned honestly in real life due to being unusually difficult to land for inexperienced pilots.pilots, due to a combination of poor visibility over the nose and an engine that could put out a tremendous amount of torque if accelerated too quickly, an easy mistake for a pilot to make if aborting a landing at low speed and altitude.
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* HollywoodHistory: Hudner and Brown manage to take down a MiG-15 a few months before they first saw service in Korea. A Corsair would successfully shoot down a MiG-15 a few years later in the war, piloted by USMC Captain Jesse Folmar.
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* CoolOldGuy: Commander Cevoli is a veteran of [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII The Big Show]] and spends most of his time on screen training and mentoring the younger pilots.
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* VeteranInstructor: Cevoli does everything in his power to prepare his men for war, and continues playing the role of the mentor until the end of the film.
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: As an infamously unforgiving aircraft to fly, the Corsair was dubbed the "Ensign Eliminator" and "Widowmaker" by pilots.
* NWordPrivileges: Despite the time period, the black Jesse is the only character to use the N-word in the film, albeit repeating insults he had received from white men.
* NWordPrivileges: Despite the time period, the black Jesse is the only character to use the N-word in the film, albeit repeating insults he had received from white men.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: It's 1950, so the fact that Jesse is black presents him significant problems. He recalls being made to take his swimming test at the Academy ten times, with the instructors deliberately sabotaging him on later attempts to keep him from passing.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: It's 1950, so the fact that Jesse is black presents him significant problems. He recalls being made to take his swimming test at the Academy ten times, with the instructors deliberately sabotaging him on later attempts to keep him from passing. At one point, they put weights in his flight suit and might've even tried to drown him. He also implies that he's experienced severe racism on his journey to becoming a naval aviator.
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* BarBrawl: A racist Marine officer assigned to USS ''Leyte'' takes a dislike to Brown early on, which is compounded when Brown inadvertently embarrasses him in front of actress Creator/ElizabethTaylor at a casino in Cannes. After Hudner and Brown leave to find a bar that will serve the latter, the Marines show up and immediately pick a fight.
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* BarBrawl: A racist Marine officer assigned to USS ''Leyte'' takes a dislike to Brown early on, which is compounded when Brown inadvertently embarrasses him in front of actress Creator/ElizabethTaylor at a casino in Cannes. After Hudner and Brown leave to find a bar that will serve the latter, the Marines show up and immediately pick a fight.
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The movie also stars Christina Jackson, Music/JoeJonas, Thomas Sadowski, Creator/SerindaSwan, Creator/DarenKagasoff, Creator/DeanDenton, Crestor/JosephCross, Joseph Cross, and Spencer Neville.
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* ShownTheirWork: Despite its iconic status as, the [=F4U=] Corsair really was that infamously difficult to land for exactly the reasons depicted in the film: the same overpowered engine that made it one of the fastest naval prop fighters ever built, also made it prone to flipping if you gunned the engine too hard. Coupled with the cockpit being positioned unusually far back and giving it a big blind spot below the nose--dictated by the placement of the main fuel tank in front of the cockpit--it was extremely tricky to land. Jesse has to touch-and-go on his first try at the carrier landing test, and [[spoiler:Mohring spins out and fatally crashes in the water]].
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* ShownTheirWork: Despite its iconic status as, status, the [=F4U=] Corsair really was that infamously difficult to land for exactly the reasons depicted in the film: the same overpowered engine that made it one of the fastest naval prop fighters ever built, also made it prone to flipping if you gunned the engine too hard. Coupled with the cockpit being positioned unusually far back and giving it a big blind spot below the nose--dictated by the placement of the main fuel tank in front of the cockpit--it was extremely tricky to land. Jesse has to touch-and-go on his first try at the carrier landing test, and [[spoiler:Mohring spins out and fatally crashes in the water]].
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** Near the end of the film, Jesse's Corsair is taken out by a hit to his engine from a random potshot from a Chinese infantryman, which causes a severe oil leak.
* ShownTheirWork: The [=F4U=] Corsair really was infamously difficult to land for exactly the reasons depicted in the film: the same overpowered engine that made it one of the fastest naval prop fighters ever built, also made it prone to flipping if you gunned the engine too hard. Coupled with the cockpit being positioned unusually far back and giving it a big blind spot below the nose--dictated by the placement of the main fuel tank in front of the cockpit--it was extremely tricky to land. Jesse has to touch-and-go on his first try at the carrier landing test, and [[spoiler:Mohring spins out and fatally crashes in the water]].
* ShownTheirWork: The [=F4U=] Corsair really was infamously difficult to land for exactly the reasons depicted in the film: the same overpowered engine that made it one of the fastest naval prop fighters ever built, also made it prone to flipping if you gunned the engine too hard. Coupled with the cockpit being positioned unusually far back and giving it a big blind spot below the nose--dictated by the placement of the main fuel tank in front of the cockpit--it was extremely tricky to land. Jesse has to touch-and-go on his first try at the carrier landing test, and [[spoiler:Mohring spins out and fatally crashes in the water]].
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** Near the end of the film, Jesse's Corsair is taken out by a hit to his engine from a random potshot from a Chinese infantryman, sniper, which causes a severe the fatal oil leak.
* ShownTheirWork:The Despite its iconic status as, the [=F4U=] Corsair really was that infamously difficult to land for exactly the reasons depicted in the film: the same overpowered engine that made it one of the fastest naval prop fighters ever built, also made it prone to flipping if you gunned the engine too hard. Coupled with the cockpit being positioned unusually far back and giving it a big blind spot below the nose--dictated by the placement of the main fuel tank in front of the cockpit--it was extremely tricky to land. Jesse has to touch-and-go on his first try at the carrier landing test, and [[spoiler:Mohring spins out and fatally crashes in the water]].
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** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_L._Brown Ensign Jesse Brown]], first African-American naval aviator.
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** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_L._Brown Ensign Jesse Brown]], first African-American naval aviator. Sort of: technically [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Holmes Oscar Holmes]] was the first, having gotten in during WWII due to a bureaucratic mistake, but he never saw combat, and Brown ''was'' the first black man to pass US Navy flight officer training (Holmes was given a bye because he had flight experience as a civilian).
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* YouAreInCommandNow: A non-lethal example: at the start of the Yalu River mission, Commander Cevoli's landing gear refuses to retract after takeoff, so he hands command of the Corsair wing over to Tom and returns to the carrier for the duration.
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* BigDamnHeroes: The 1st Marine Division--including some of the jarheads that Jesse and Tom clashed with earlier in the film--are pinned down by the People's Liberation Army at the Chosin Reservoir and one of them prays for "angels". Not a moment later, they hear the drone of VF-32's engines, and the Corsairs swoop out of the sky and unload rockets and machine guns on the Chinese army, breaking the back of the attack.
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** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Hudner_Jr. Lt. Tom Hudner]], officer and naval aviator.
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** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Hudner_Jr. _Hudner_Jr Lt. Tom Hudner]], officer and naval aviator.
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A 2022 American biographical war drama directed by Creator/JDDillard that follows two fighter pilots (Creator/GlenPowell and Creator/JonathanMajors) during their time in the Korean War.
UsefulNotes/KoreanWar.
In early 1950, as [[UsefulNotes/ColdWar conflict looms]] with the UsefulNotes/SovietUnion, US Navy Lieutenant Tom Hudner (Powell) transfers from piloting AD Skyraider attack planes to Fighter Squadron 32 in Rhode Island. There, he's paired up with Ensign Jesse Brown (Majors), the first black man ever to become a US naval aviator. Brown is standoffish with him at first, but Hudner wins him over as the unit switches from [=F8F Bearcats to F4U-4=] Corsairs and deploys to Europe to saber-rattle against the Warsaw Pact... only for the Reds to pull a BaitAndSwitch when war breaks out even further east in Korea.
In early 1950, as [[UsefulNotes/ColdWar conflict looms]] with the UsefulNotes/SovietUnion, US Navy Lieutenant Tom Hudner (Powell) transfers from piloting AD Skyraider attack planes to Fighter Squadron 32 in Rhode Island. There, he's paired up with Ensign Jesse Brown (Majors), the first black man ever to become a US naval aviator. Brown is standoffish with him at first, but Hudner wins him over as the unit switches from [=F8F Bearcats to F4U-4=] Corsairs and deploys to Europe to saber-rattle against the Warsaw Pact... only for the Reds to pull a BaitAndSwitch when war breaks out even further east in Korea.
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* AirstrikeImpossible: During the
* BarBrawl: A racist Marine officer assigned to USS ''Leyte'' takes a dislike to Brown early on, which is compounded when Brown inadvertently embarrasses him in front of actress Creator/ElizabethTaylor at a casino in Cannes. After Hudner and Brown leave to find a bar that will serve the latter, the Marines show up and immediately pick a fight.
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** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_L._Brown Ensign Jesse Brown, Brown]], first African-American navigator in the navy.
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** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Hudner_Jr. Lt. Tom
* OldSchoolDogfight: Between Tom, Jesse, and a North Korean Air Force [=MiG-15=] that buzzes the strike group hitting the Yalu River bridges. Tom and Jesse break off to go after it, only for the [=MiG=] to hide in the clouds and get behind them, forcing Jesse to lead it on a CanyonChase so that Tom can get in front and shoot it down.
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** VF-32's first mission once they reach Korea is to suppress air defenses so that an AD Skyraider squadron can take out two bridges across the Yalu River and slow the PLA's advance. The all-prop plane strike group is jumped by a [=MiG-15=] jet fighter which Jesse and Tom break off to go after. Jesse leads the [=MiG=] on a merry CanyonChase while Tom sneaks around the outside and lets Jesse lead it into his guns.
** Near the end of the film, Jesse's Corsair is taken out by a hit to his engine from a random potshot from a Chinese infantryman.
** Near the end of the film, Jesse's Corsair is taken out by a hit to his engine from a random potshot from a Chinese infantryman.
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** VF-32's first mission once they reach Korea is to suppress air defenses so that an AD Skyraider squadron can take out two bridges across the Yalu River and slow the PLA's advance. The all-prop plane strike group is jumped by a next-generation [=MiG-15=] jet fighter fighter, which Jesse and Tom break off to go after. Jesse leads the [=MiG=] on a merry CanyonChase while Tom sneaks around the outside and lets Jesse lead it into his guns.
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* TheTeetotaler: Jesse doesn't drink alcohol for the entire runtime of the film, [[spoiler:not even when his squadron-mates are toasting the late Ensign Mohring]]. Lampshaded when his wife Daisy offers Tom a beer at their house: on Tom's question, she clarifies that Jesse doesn't drink, but she does.
* TrailersAlwaysLie: The trailer heavily plays up the air combat scenes and makes it seem much more like a standard gung-ho war movie. The film is actually a rather quiet character drama for the mostpart.part, and they don't even go to Korea until over halfway through.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: It's 1950, so the fact that Jesse is black presents him significant problems. He recalls being made to take his swimming test at the Academy ten times, with the instructors deliberately sabotaging him on later attempts to keep him from passing.
* GreatOffscreenWar: UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, which most of the cast trained for but weren't able to serve in: Tom applied to the Naval Academy after Pearl Harbor and was a month away from graduation when Japan surrendered.
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* NWordPrivileges: Despite the time period, the black Jesse is the only character to use the N-word in the film, albeit repeating insults he had received from white men.
* PeriodPiece: Takes place during the early days of the KoreanWar.War.
* RockBeatsLaser:
** VF-32's first mission once they reach Korea is to suppress air defenses so that an AD Skyraider squadron can take out two bridges across the Yalu River and slow the PLA's advance. The all-prop plane strike group is jumped by a [=MiG-15=] jet fighter which Jesse and Tom break off to go after. Jesse leads the [=MiG=] on a merry CanyonChase while Tom sneaks around the outside and lets Jesse lead it into his guns.
** Near the end of the film, Jesse's Corsair is taken out by a hit to his engine from a random potshot from a Chinese infantryman.
* ShownTheirWork: The [=F4U=] Corsair really was infamously difficult to land for exactly the reasons depicted in the film: the same overpowered engine that made it one of the fastest naval prop fighters ever built, also made it prone to flipping if you gunned the engine too hard. Coupled with the cockpit being positioned unusually far back and giving it a big blind spot below the nose--dictated by the placement of the main fuel tank in front of the cockpit--it was extremely tricky to land. Jesse has to touch-and-go on his first try at the carrier landing test, and [[spoiler:Mohring spins out and fatally crashes in the water]].
* TrailersAlwaysLie: The trailer heavily plays up the air combat scenes and makes it seem much more like a standard gung-ho war movie. The film is actually a rather quiet character drama for the most part.
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* PeriodPiece: Takes place during the early days of the Korean
* RockBeatsLaser:
** VF-32's first mission once they reach Korea is to suppress air defenses so that an AD Skyraider squadron can take out two bridges across the Yalu River and slow the PLA's advance. The all-prop plane strike group is jumped by a [=MiG-15=] jet fighter which Jesse and Tom break off to go after. Jesse leads the [=MiG=] on a merry CanyonChase while Tom sneaks around the outside and lets Jesse lead it into his guns.
** Near the end of the film, Jesse's Corsair is taken out by a hit to his engine from a random potshot from a Chinese infantryman.
* ShownTheirWork: The [=F4U=] Corsair really was infamously difficult to land for exactly the reasons depicted in the film: the same overpowered engine that made it one of the fastest naval prop fighters ever built, also made it prone to flipping if you gunned the engine too hard. Coupled with the cockpit being positioned unusually far back and giving it a big blind spot below the nose--dictated by the placement of the main fuel tank in front of the cockpit--it was extremely tricky to land. Jesse has to touch-and-go on his first try at the carrier landing test, and [[spoiler:Mohring spins out and fatally crashes in the water]].
* TrailersAlwaysLie: The trailer heavily plays up the air combat scenes and makes it seem much more like a standard gung-ho war movie. The film is actually a rather quiet character drama for the most part.
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A 2022 American biographical war drama directed by Creator/JDDillard that follows two fighter pilots (Creator/GlenPowell and Creator/JonathanMajors) during their time in the Korean War.
The movie also stars Creator/ChristinaJackson, Music/JoeJonas, Creator/ThomasSadowski, Creator/SerindaSwan, Creator/DarenKagasoff, Creator/DeanDenton, Crestor/JosephCross, and Creator/SpencerNeville.
It was released on September 12, 2022.
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!Tropes for the film:
* TheFilmOfTheBook: Based on ''Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice'' by Adam Makos.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter:
** Ensign Jesse Brown, first African-American navigator in the navy.
** Lt. Tom Hudner, officer and naval aviator.
** Creator/ElizabethTaylor, American actress that Brown and Hudner run into.
** UsefulNotes/HarrySTruman, President of the United States.
* PeriodPiece: Takes place during the early days of the Korean War.
The movie also stars Creator/ChristinaJackson, Music/JoeJonas, Creator/ThomasSadowski, Creator/SerindaSwan, Creator/DarenKagasoff, Creator/DeanDenton, Crestor/JosephCross, and Creator/SpencerNeville.
It was released on September 12, 2022.
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!Tropes for the film:
* TheFilmOfTheBook: Based on ''Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice'' by Adam Makos.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter:
** Ensign Jesse Brown, first African-American navigator in the navy.
** Lt. Tom Hudner, officer and naval aviator.
** Creator/ElizabethTaylor, American actress that Brown and Hudner run into.
** UsefulNotes/HarrySTruman, President of the United States.
* PeriodPiece: Takes place during the early days of the Korean War.
