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Dogfights
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Dogfights was an American documentary series that aired on the History Channel from 2006-2008 that usually covered Ace Pilots from World War I to the present and future. On occasion, however, they would cover other, related topics, namely during several episodes that focused on World War II. The show recreated historic battles in CGI, accompanied by interviews with military and history scholars and (with the exception of World War I dogfights) surviving participants of said battles. | |
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Anti-Air | |
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Anti-Air: Several, notably all of the USS Laffey's armament, as well as the German battleship Bismarck's and Japanese battleship Yamato's 20mm and 25mm anti-aircraft guns. | |
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Ace Pilot | |
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Ace Pilot: Most of the pilots featured on this show. | |
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Armor Is Useless | |
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Armor Is Useless: Played straight and averted in different contexts. In the air, there are significant trade-offs to armoring a plane and the applicability of the trope varies in part by time. Particularly during WWI-era dogfights, which predate the introduction of incendiary rounds, the trope is played straight. Since most WWI planes were made of wood or metal skeletons with fabric stretched over them, most bullets that didn't hit the enemy's engine, fuel tank, gun, or pilot would tend to just pass through without doing much real damage, while later planes would tend to be monocoque designs that could more readily suffer structural failure from gunfire (monocoque construction is also known as "structural skin" - basically, the outer frame is also structural, rather than being a skin stretched over a skeleton). This light construction would allow WWI fighters to soak up enormous amounts of enemy fire before going down despite being almost completely unarmored. Especially in WWII, the trope is averted, as armor proves very useful in keeping American bombers, Wildcats, Hellcats, Corsairs, and Thunderbolts in the air after taking huge amounts of punishment that their less-armored adversaries could not withstand, and with powerful engines like the Double Wasp, the armored American fighters (except for the earlier and relatively underpowered Wildcat) were able to keep up with lighter Japanese and German fighters despite the weight of their armor.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); }) | |
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Decisive Battle / int_7f99bd58 | |
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Epic Ship-on-Ship Action / int_7f99bd58 | |
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In Medias Res / int_7f99bd58 | |
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Old-School Dogfight / int_7f99bd58 | |
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Point Defenseless / int_7f99bd58 | |
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Present Tense Narrative / int_7f99bd58 | |
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Sky-Consuming Dogfight / int_7f99bd58 | |
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Sniping the Cockpit / int_7f99bd58 | |
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Super-Detailed Fight Narration / int_48fea978 | |
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Works Set in World War I / int_7f99bd58 | |
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