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Captain Thenault: Any questions?
Eddie Beagle: [raises hand] Yes, sir. Will we be back by lunch.
[boys snicker]
Captain Thenault: I mean any intelligent questions.
Eddie Beagle: Sorry. Just trying to loosen things up.
Captain Thenault: Don't.
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Title Card: By the start of 1916, World War I had wreaked havoc across Europe. Over nine million people would eventually die.
Title Card: Although the airplane had only recently been invented, it was quickly adapted into a war machine.
Title Card: The young men who flew them became the first fighter pilots and a new kind of hero was born.
Barry McGee
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