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And so, I had to ask:

Since the Neuroi pretty much prevented WW2, and they're also pretty much trashing all of the world, as it were...are there notable witches who AREN'T essentially expies of famous flyer-aces, or the like? Juanita Q. Pública of what would be Portugal, or something?

Edit to add, not necessarily in-story, just in the universe as it were. Everyone we've seen who aren't part of the 501st seem to be notable people from our history in some way. I was just wondering if there are big aces who aren't that.

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Not sure how I missed this, but...

>Since the Neuroi pretty much prevented WW2, and they're also pretty
>much trashing all of the world, as it were...are there notable witches
>who AREN'T essentially expies of famous flyer-aces, or the like?
>Juanita Q. Pública of what would be Portugal, or something?

I dunno! I can't think of any characters from the actual World Witches setting who aren't references to real people, except for a few odd Fusō witches who are actually based on aircraft rather than pilots.

In OWaW, it's possible, if only because the war has lasted beyond 1945 but hasn't reached the timeframe of the Korean War, with implications for the "historical" candidate pool. There's also, as you imply above, the fact that nations that were noncombatants in WWII are involved in the Second Neuroi War (Baltland, for instance, and probably Iberia as well).

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Since I was reading thing on the vast net(not having a a working computer means you have to pass time SOMEHOW...), I came upon something that reminded me of this post, and so... If you do find that you are want to add a Baltlandic pilot around the periphery as it were, Carl Gustav von Rosen would be a potential candidate.

He was really one of those people that you think was made up. Swedish count, humanitarian pilot in Ethiopia in the 30s,flew Haile Selassie's personal aircraft, bomber-pilot for Finland during the winter war, in his own personal DC-2, founder of the Ethiopian Air force, humanitarian AND combat pilot during the Nigerian Civil War, personal pilot of the secretary-general of the UN...the list goes on and on.

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