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Lucas based many aspects of the Empire on Nazi Germany. From its colors mirroring the blood flag to the assault on the Jedi temple which always seemed a lot like the Reichstag Fire. Hell, he named the elite fighting corp of the Empire "Storm Troopers" and Palpatine was even given emergency powers to make him an autocrat just like Ole Adolph. I also have a theory that the TIE Fighters mirror the Imperial Japanese Navy fighters like the Mitsubishi Zero with its high agility and light armor and armament while the Rebels ships reflected Allied aircraft design such as the P-47 and P-38 with their ruggedness and fire power. Lucas did base the Death Star Trench Run off of a famous WWII mission in which British Lancaster bombers were made to fly low in a valley before dropping a special payload which skipped across the water and impacted into an Axis hydroelectric damn.

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