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Genre: War drama, Created by John Shiban, and John Orloff, and Based on "Masters of the Air" by Donald L. Miller, and Developed by John Orloff, and Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, Dee Rees, Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck, and Tim Van Patten, Starring: Austin Butler, Callum Turner, Anthony Boyle, Barry Keoghan, Nikolai Kinski, Stephen Campbell Moore, Sawyer Spielberg, Isabel May, James Murray, Nate Mann, Kai Alexander, Laurie Davidson, Joanna Kulig, Louis Hofmann, Jamie Parker, Bel Powley, Sam Hazeldine, Josiah Cross, Branden Cook, Ncuti Gatwa, Jerry MacKinnon, Josh Dylan, and Narrated by Anthony Boyle, with Theme music composer: Blake Neely, and Country of origin: United States, and Original language: English, with No. of episodes: 9, and Executive producers: Gary Goetzman, Tom Hanks, and Steven Spielberg, with Cinematography by Adam Arkapaw, Jac Fitzgerald, Richard Rutkowski, and David Franco, and Editors: Mark Czyzewski, Carmen Morrow, Mark Sanger, Spencer Averick, and Billy Rich, with Running time: 48–77 minutes, and Production companies: Playtone, Amblin Television, and Apple Studios, and Original Network: Apple TV+ (2024)
The inspiration for the major Apple TV+ series, streaming now! The riveting history of the American Eighth Air Force in World War II and the young men who flew the bombers that helped beat the Nazis and liberate Europe, brilliantly told by historian and World War II expert Donald L. Miller. The Masters of the Air streaming series stars Austin Butler and Callum Turner, and is produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, the legendary duo behind Band of Brothers and The Pacific. Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who brought the war to Hitler’s doorstep. With the narrative power of fiction, Donald Miller takes you on a harrowing ride through the fire-filled skies over Berlin, Hanover, and Dresden and describes the terrible cost of bombing for the German people. Fighting at 25,000 feet in thin, freezing air that no warriors had ever encountered before, bomber crews battled new kinds of assaults on body and mind. Air combat was deadly but intermittent: periods of inactivity and anxiety were followed by short bursts of fire and fear. Unlike infantrymen, bomber boys slept on clean sheets, drank beer in local pubs, and danced to the swing music of Glenn Miller’s Air Force band, which toured US air bases in England. But they had a much greater chance of dying than ground soldiers. The bomber crews were an elite group of warriors who were a microcosm of America—white America, anyway. The actor Jimmy Stewart was a bomber boy, and so was the “King of Hollywood,” Clark Gable. And the air war was filmed by Oscar-winning director William Wyler and covered by reporters like Andy Rooney and Walter Cronkite, all of whom flew combat missions with the men. The Anglo-American bombing campaign against Nazi Germany was the longest military campaign of World War II, a war within a war. Until Allied soldiers crossed into Germany in the final months of the war, it was the only battle fought inside the German homeland. Masters of the Air is a story of life in wartime England and in the German prison camps, where tens of thousands of airmen spent part of the war. It ends with a vivid description of the grisly hunger marches captured airmen were forced to make near the end of the war through the country their bombs destroyed. Drawn from recent interviews, oral histories, and American, British, German, and other archives, Masters of the Air is an authoritative, deeply moving account of the world’s first and only bomber war.
The 100th Air Refueling Wing (100th ARW), nicknamed the Bloody Hundredth, is a United States Air Force unit assigned to the Third Air Force, United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa. It is stationed at RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk, United Kingdom. It is also the host wing at RAF Mildenhall. The 100th ARW is the only permanent U.S. air refueling wing in the European theater, operating the Boeing KC-135R/T Stratotanker. During World War II, its predecessor unit, the 100th Bombardment Group (Heavy), was an Eighth Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress unit in England, stationed at RAF Thorpe Abbotts. Flying over 300 combat missions, the group earned two Distinguished Unit Citations (Regensburg, 17 August 1943; Berlin, 4/6/8 March 1944). The group suffered tremendous losses in combat, with 177 aircraft missing in action (MIA), flying its last mission on 20 April 1945. One of the wing's honors is that it is the only modern USAF operational wing allowed to display on its assigned aircraft the tail code (Square-D) of its World War II predecessor. The 379th Bomb Wing used its Triangle-K tail code until deactivated in 1993, but when reactivated as the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing was assigned a rotating mix of flying squadrons who used their parent unit's tail code. The Triangle-K is retained as an unofficial unit insignia.
Badger's Beauty V, a Boeing B-17 Fortress of 350th BS crash landed in Normandy near Villers, France 4 October 1943. All crew survived. Photo Credit: Wikipedia Commons
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Austin Butler as Major Gale "Buck" Cleven in "Masters of the Air" (2024) Photo Credit: © Apple TV+
Callum Turner as Major John "Bucky" Egan in "Masters of the Air" (2024) Photo Credit: © Apple TV+
Anthony Boyle as Lt. Harry Crosby in "Masters of the Air" (2024) Photo Credit: © Apple TV+
Darragh Cowley, Callum Turner, Anthony Boyle, Edward Ashley, and Matt Gavan in in "Masters of the Air" (2024) Photo Credit: © Apple TV+
Genre: War drama, Created by John Shiban, and John Orloff, and Based on "Masters of the Air" by Donald L. Miller, and Developed by John Orloff, and Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, Dee Rees, Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck, and Tim Van Patten, Starring: Austin Butler, Callum Turner, Anthony Boyle, Barry Keoghan, Nikolai Kinski, Stephen Campbell Moore, Sawyer Spielberg, Isabel May, James Murray, Nate Mann, Kai Alexander, Laurie Davidson, Joanna Kulig, Louis Hofmann, Jamie Parker, Bel Powley, Sam Hazeldine, Josiah Cross, Branden Cook, Ncuti Gatwa, Jerry MacKinnon, Josh Dylan, and Narrated by Anthony Boyle, with Theme music composer: Blake Neely, and Country of origin: United States, and Original language: English, with No. of episodes: 9, and Executive producers: Gary Goetzman, Tom Hanks, and Steven Spielberg, with Cinematography by Adam Arkapaw, Jac Fitzgerald, Richard Rutkowski, and David Franco, and Editors: Mark Czyzewski, Carmen Morrow, Mark Sanger, Spencer Averick, and Billy Rich, with Running time: 48–77 minutes, and Production companies: Playtone, Amblin Television, and Apple Studios, and Original Network: Apple TV+ (2024)
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