#fred trusteau

[renaultphile]

Wingmen Ensan Case

Fred Trusteau quietly seething when the new guy takes over his beloved war diary and messes it up is the sweetest thing ever. Don't worry he's back writing the diary again in the next chapter.

#Fred Trusteau #Wingmen #Ensan Case #WW2 #70s gay literature

[shadows-on-the-sky]

*Mild epilogue spoilers*

This passage intrigues me. Is Duane lying about being divorced? It seems so. But why would he do such a thing?

#wingmen #ensan case #duane higgins #fred trusteau

[glassonlyrecycle]

excerpt from wingmen by ensan case

refs below cut ✌️

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[bi4bihankking]

Wingmen Summary:

Jack Hardigan's Hellcat fighter squadron blew the Japanese Zekes out of the blazing Pacific skies. But a more subtle kind of hell was brewing in his feelings for rookie pilot Fred Trusteau. While a beautiful widow pursues Jack, and another pilot becomes suspicious of Jack and Fred's close friendship, the two heroes cut a fiery swath through the skies from Wake Island to Tarawa to Truk, there to keep a fateful rendezvous with love and death in the blood-clouded waters of the Pacific.

The Song of Achilles Summary:

Retelling of the Illiad, focusing on the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus

#wingmen #ensan case #the song of achilles #song of achilles #madeline miller #lgbt books #lgbt literature #queer books #queer literature #lgbtqia #poll

[alovelywaytospendanevening]

Hello! I just wanted to thank you again for your thoughts on Wingmen and also for the essay by Eric Patterson which was very interesting, especially on the literary context in terms of war novels, which I am not familiar with! Although I definitely prefer your more nuanced reading re Duane Higgins, which makes sense of Case's style. But anyway, my inevitable ask is about echoes of 'The Charioteer' - I assume Case was aware of it and perhaps wanted to do something similar and cover ground that Renault couldn't, using his own experiences. I wondered if you had any thoughts on that? I thought I spotted one very deliberate reference apart from the hand injury in the form of that eyebrow scar. And it if this question doesn't resonate, please feel free to answer a different one!

Hello again!

I don't know if you had the opportunity to read it, but Case wrote a letter responding to Patterson's essay. He talks a little about his writing journey and The Last Tallyho, the novel that (contrastingly) inspired him to create Wingmen. Some Wingmen reviews also compared it to From Here to Eternity. I think what he wanted to do was insert worthy gay characters into the “traditional” war novel model; or, as a literary critic succinctly wrote: "the book reads like postwar fiction of the 1950s, but with a discreet gay affair that does eventually inspire a late dramatic turn of events." So Case wrote military fiction (his only other published novel follows a similar pattern), and I think The Charioteer — despite being set in the same period and also featuring gay military officers — deliberately aims to offer another kind of literary perspective.

But then again, Mary Renault was a known name among gay readers in the 1970s, and you know TC and its subtleties better than me. It's entirely possible Case knew some of her works. Unfortunately, information about Case is scarce, and I have failed in trying to discover his whereabouts (I do know "Ensan Case" is a pen name).

Anyway, I enjoy drawing parallels between Laurie Odell and Fred Trusteau. Both are bright young men who are very loyal to those close to them. I think that, unlike Laurie, Fred is willing to keep up appearances to assure social acceptance; he's more ambitious. Even when Jack becomes his absolute priority, this personality trait never completely disappears. At some point in the 1950s/60s, I can see Laurie being partially open about his sexuality, while Fred is still "waiting for the right lady." And I can imagine them being friends!

#ask #wingmen #the charioteer #ensan case #mary renault

[voughtcorsair]

fred trusteau & the jack of hearts

fanart for ensan case's wingmen, a gay romance novel about two naval aviators in the pacific theatre of wwii. published 1979. it can be downloaded here

#radiowaves #constellations #wingmen #wingmen ensan case #ensan case #jack hardigan #fred/jack #fred trusteau #hellcat #uniforms may not be 100% accurate but theyre close ish and i didnt have much to go off of #well im sure its out there i just didnt get reference books ghfdjfghjfd. #anyways this is after freds final mission and uhhhh idk some weird point in time circa naval hospital or on the way back to pearl. #alternate universe where they can be openly gay etc etc etc #id in alt #ww2 #wwii

[man-reading]

WINGMEN by Ensan Case

Wingmen (382 pages), a work of historical fiction, is again available after a long gap since its first publication by Avon Books in 1979. This World War II novel, written when the author, Ensan Case (a pseudonym), was 28 years old, was a precursor to today’s gay romance genre, yet there is next to no actual sex in the book. Once m/m sex between the protagonists is implied. Another time it’s given just a few paragraphs, but there is page after page of repression, yearning and unrequited love between two Navy men who could not express their feelings for one another while serving in the military. From Amazon’s description page: Jack Hardigan's Hellcat fighter squadron blew the Japanese planes out of the blazing Pacific skies. But a more subtle kind of hell was brewing in his feelings for rookie pilot Fred Trusteau. While a beautiful widow pursues Jack, and another pilot becomes suspicious of Jack and Fred's close friendship, the heroes cut a fiery swath through the skies to keep a fateful rendezvous with love and death in the blood-clouded waters of the Pacific. Frankly, I’m not sure I would have bought this book from that rather slick and flip description. This novel is so much more than that, and it had an emotional impact on me seldom elicited from m/m fiction. The tedium, fear, excitement and period details of the lives of aircraft carrier pilots are related with truth and honesty. It’s obvious that the author was himself a naval officer. Buy it while it’s again available, because copies of the original 1979 edition now sell for hundreds of dollars each. In paperback and e-reader formats: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590215745/ref=assoc_qcb_im?ie=UTF8&tag=thegayaffiboo-20 To determine if this novel might be to your liking, read the customer reviews. Ensan Case comments on his book (May 8, 2015): http://www.glbtqarchive.com/essays/case_letter.pdf Note: Sadly, the GLBTQ on-line encyclopedia website, which launched in 2003, closed on August 1, 2015 because of the collapse of the online advertising business model that had supported it. It has all been archived, however, at www.glbtqarchive.com

#Ensan Case #writer #author #lgbtq #wingmen #books worth reading #gay interest

[shadows-on-the-sky]

December 24, 1943: Fred Trusteau and Jack Hardigan spent their first night together.

#merry christmas! #wingmen #ensan case #fred trusteau #jack hardigan

[shadows-on-the-sky]

Dilbert Groundloop (a.k.a. "Dumb Dilbert") is a clumsy comic character used in Navy training manuals during World War II. He was supposed to be an example of what pilots shouldn't do.

Dilbert has a brief mention in Wingmen, when Fred Trusteau sees one of his posters hanging over an urinal.

#dilbert groundloop #military history #world war 2 #world war ii #ww2 #wwii #wingmen #ensan case

[glassonlyrecycle]

#more wingmen hehe #ive had this in drafts for a bit idk why i didnt post it but here #wingmen #wingmen novel #wingmen by ensan case #ensan case #gay literature #lgbt literature #fanart #book fanart #glassonlyrecycle #pencil drawing #alt in id #alt text #ensign trusteau #frederick trusteau #fred trusteau