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>Avenger, who runs up an ungodly score against Japan,
>is completely oblivious.
>
>At least, she is until the coda, where they're at the finals in Korea
>in the early fifties, when changes to the league rules eliminated
>torpedo bombing as a competitive category. Demonstrations only from
>now in. In thirty years nobody will even remember what her medals are
>for.

Oh hey, I just happened to think - this is true, but (unlike the producers of the TV series, admittedly) we should keep in mind that she went on to have a very long and distinguished career in civilian life. A lot of the bomber girls found success and fulfillment - many of them, including Avenger, as firefighters, which is among the world's noblest professions - after the state-of-the-art of aerial warfare changed and left them behind. I don't think it's fair to call that tragic.

--G.
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