We Shall Fight - Airborne

[The Spider-Bat]

This is a World War II comic book I am writing about the paratroopers of the 101st Airborne. Here is the first 9 pages.

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[FONT=&quot]WE SHALL FIGHT[/FONT]​

[FONT=&quot]AIRBORNE[/FONT]​

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[FONT=&quot]Close up shot of our main character Hank Collins, he is wearing his paratrooper gear, he is sitting in his squad’s glider, though we can only see his face.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: There’s something strange in realizing you are going to war.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Zoom out a bit to see the two soldiers sitting next to Hank, Scott Aultman and Jonathan Harrper. Scott is looking around him, while Jonathan throws up on the floor.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: When you first sign up to join the army, you don’t really think about what you are getting yourself into. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]CAP: You think that this will be an easy way to earn some money for college, to help your sick mother, to buy a house.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Zoom out even further so you can see everyone lined in the row of seats of the glider. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: Then you land in training, and you realize that maybe joining the army was a bad decision.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: That maybe there was a better way to earn some money.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: You finally realize that maybe that job you turned down at the police academy may have been worthwhile.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: But you aren’t prepared.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Zoom out so you are right outside the glider window looking in.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: You are never truly prepared for it, no matter what the drill sergeants tell you.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: You are never prepared for war until you land in one…[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: You aren’t prepared for the horrors, the sorrow, the fear in your heart.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Zoom out even further to show the many gliders flying through the dark night.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: And you are afraid.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Side view of Collins looking down on the floor.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: All you can do is wait.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP (towards bottom of page): Red light.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]In the front of the glider, SSgt. Lacon rises in front of his men.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: Staff Sergeant Lancon stands up.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: I know what’s coming next.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: And I am not prepared.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Collins looks towards the sergeant.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] LANCON: Stand up![/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]View from behind Lancon’s shoulder as he talks; all the soldiers are hooking themselves in place.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] LANCON: Hook up![/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] LANCON: Check your gear![/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Close up of Lancon.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] LANCON: Now we wait for the green light.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: Why is it that the things that sound the simplest…[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Outside view as the glider gets hit in the wing by an 88 Flack Gun.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: So often turn out to be…[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Chaos inside the glider as the plane spins out, [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] LANCON: WAIT FOR THE GREEN LIGHT![/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: The hardest.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] SULYARD: **** that Sarge, we gotta get the hell outta here![/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]View from the side as Lancon yells at his men, ordering them to jump, the light is now green.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] LANCON: Ok, GO GO GO![/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Same view as more soldiers jumping out, Collins is next in line.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] LANCON: COME ON GO GO![/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]View of the front, as Pvt. Collins looks out, his face in shock.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: That was the first time in my life I thought I was going to die.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] LANCON: DAMMIT COLLINS GO![/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Full-page shot of the battle outside, planes going down, paratroopers in the air, guns on the ground.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: No words of mine can ever describe what I saw that night.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Top view of Collin’s parachute as it glides down. We are far above the ground.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Same view but we get a bit closer to the ground.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Same, but now we are almost near the ground.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Same, getting very close to the ground.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Long spread out shot as the parachute lands finally on the ground.[/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot]Close shot as Collins detaches his parachute.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: As soon as I landed I was desperate. My rifle was in my leg bag, and I had no idea where the hell that was![/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Back shot as Collins runs through the forest he landed in.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: The operation had gone to hell. We were all miss dropped, landed from one side of France to the next.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Mid shot as Collins leans behind a fence and peaks around to the other side.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: None of the training could have prepared me for what I saw next.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Shot of two German pointing their rifles at a paratrooper who’s parachute has been stuck to the tree.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: You have a lot of first times in war.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]PARATROOPER: NO NO NO! DON’T PLEASE![/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]The Germans shoot the paratrooper in the chest and head. Blood splatters. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: This was the first time I had seen anyone killed. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: There is no way to explain the feeling I felt at that moment.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Collins leans back against the fence, his face in horror.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: The felling that you are powerless.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Close up as Collins’ eyes widen up.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: Then I thought I had seen an angel.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Back shot as Collins begins to get up. In front of him is his leg bag.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: My leg bag![/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]A “trunk shot” as Collins opens up his leg bag.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: All my equipment.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Close up of the open leg back that shows all of his equipment.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: My rifle, bayonet, ammo, explosives, water, knives, rations, gas mask, mess kit, compass, rope, bandages, hygiene kit, wire cutters, all of it there. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: I felt like a kid on Christmas. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Shot as Collins starts to attach all the items to himself.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: I most of the items in my pouches, bayonet and water canteen on my belt, knife in my boot, grenades on my shirt. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: And then came my rifle.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Same distance shot as Collins pulls out his M1 Garand and loads a clip into it.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: I took out my M1 Garand and loaded the eight round clip.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: For once, I felt a tiny bit safer.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Close up as again Collins leans out to see the Germans.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: I knew what I had to do.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Far shot. The Germans have now pulled the paratrooper down on the ground and are searching him for items of value.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: I didn’t want to…[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Back shot as Collins leans out with his rifle and takes aim.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: But it was my duty as a soldier…[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Close up front as Collins looks down the iron sights of the Garand.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: I didn’t want to…[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Far away shot as one of the Germans get shot to head! His partner crouches down and tries to take cover behind a tree![/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]We are now looking down the iron sights of the M1, the post right on the second German who is still exposing himself unknowingly.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Side shot of Collins as he fires 2 rounds.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Collins puts his gun down and walks over cautiously.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Back view as Collins passes the first German, completely dead on the ground.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Back view again as Collins approaches the tree. We can see the legs of the German sticking out.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Front face of Collins as he looks down with a shocked face.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: I remember…[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Shot of the German who’s hit badly in the gut, looking at Collins with a horrified expression.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: I remember him screaming something in German…[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Mid shot of the tree, we can see Collins firing a single shot, though we can’t see the German.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] CAP: I couldn’t understand him…[/FONT]
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Comments and criticisms would be appreciated