>Well, under the influence of the touting here I picked up one of the
>Strike Witches manga (1937 Fuso Sea Incident) from my FLGS which
>happened to have it in the discounted section.
>
>Not bad, although evidently much much earlier in setting in
>chronology.

Indeed - seven years earlier; the first season of the TV show is set in the summer of 1944. (In Japan, that manga series was called Strike Witches Zero.) Mio's younger in Fusō Sea than Yoshika was at the beginning of the TV series.

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