Pilots in WWII, still mentally and emotionally engaged
They spent a lot of time together, now, the Skipper and Trusteau. Duane Higgins had kept an eye on them for quite a while now. They were indeed very close. Just last night at the crew's movie on the hangar deck they sat in the front row, on the very end. Duane had sat behind them and noticed that as soon as the movie was underway, Jack leaned over against Trusteau, and they watched the whole movie (a Basil Rathbone-Nigel Bruce affair with Sherlock Holmes pursuing a runaway matchbook containing secret information) with their shoulders touching.
There was plenty of room; they weren't crowded together. The hangar deck was so big that on the other side of the screen, a half-dozen mechanics and a crew chief were lowering a spare Dauntless from the overheard. It made Duane wonder.
Wingmen, by Ensan Case
I still can't get that book out of my mind, so last night I spent several hours re-reading my favorite bits, and today I have re-watched Memphis Belle, full of handsome and endearing pilots portrayed, among others, by Matthew Modine, Sean Astin and Eric Stolz. I always cry with them when the rookie plane "Mother and Country" goes down, it is so sad, so painfully well done...
A hot readhead who starred in 80's teen movies like Some Kind of Wonderful, Eric Stolz was also the screenwriter of one of the best episodes of Glee S2, Duets. Pity the beautiful relationship born on that episode didn't survive even half of the season. But the best character in the affair DID survive unspoiled by leaving the show before S3. Nice bailout!
Back to WWII, funny how this circle of good m/m books started back on the day I posted about The Charioteer, a book that focuses on British soldiers recovering in hospitals during that time. But nothing compares to the excitement of pilots, particularly when they fly together, suffer together and triumph -or ditch- together.
There was plenty of room; they weren't crowded together. The hangar deck was so big that on the other side of the screen, a half-dozen mechanics and a crew chief were lowering a spare Dauntless from the overheard. It made Duane wonder.
Wingmen, by Ensan Case
I still can't get that book out of my mind, so last night I spent several hours re-reading my favorite bits, and today I have re-watched Memphis Belle, full of handsome and endearing pilots portrayed, among others, by Matthew Modine, Sean Astin and Eric Stolz. I always cry with them when the rookie plane "Mother and Country" goes down, it is so sad, so painfully well done...
A hot readhead who starred in 80's teen movies like Some Kind of Wonderful, Eric Stolz was also the screenwriter of one of the best episodes of Glee S2, Duets. Pity the beautiful relationship born on that episode didn't survive even half of the season. But the best character in the affair DID survive unspoiled by leaving the show before S3. Nice bailout!
Back to WWII, funny how this circle of good m/m books started back on the day I posted about The Charioteer, a book that focuses on British soldiers recovering in hospitals during that time. But nothing compares to the excitement of pilots, particularly when they fly together, suffer together and triumph -or ditch- together.