“Masters of the Air” will launch a new episode tomorrow Friday March 8th, with the finale next Friday March 15th on Apple TV+.
Based on Donald L. Miller’s book of the same name, and scripted by John Orloff, “Masters of the Air” follows the men of the 100th Bomb Group (the “Bloody Hundredth”) as they conduct perilous bombing raids over Nazi Germany and grapple with the frigid conditions, lack of oxygen and sheer terror of combat conducted at 25,000 feet in the air.
Portraying the psychological and emotional price paid by these young men as they helped destroy the horror of Hitler’s Third Reich, is at the heart of “Masters of the Air.” Some were shot down and captured; some were wounded or killed. And some were lucky enough to make it home. Regardless of individual fate, a toll was exacted on them all.
Ranging in location from the bucolic fields and villages of southeast England, to the harsh deprivations of a German Prisoner of War Camp, and depicting a unique and crucial time in world history, “Masters of the Air” is enormous in both scale and scope, and a genuine cinematic achievement.
In tomorrow’s episode, “Part Eight,” Crosby prepares for D-Day.
The POWs wonder how the Allied landing will affect their fate, while the Tuskegee pilots attack targets in Southern France.
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UB spoke to the late great Tuskegee Airman, Dr. Roscoe Brown in 2012 and asked him then, what was one of his best memories about that time? “As a fighter pilot I flew 68 missions and you can get shot down on any of them missions. You do it day after day after day, with a few days break. Because you’re young, you know you’re good and you want to be the best you can be! Plus the fact of flying is one of the most exciting activities you can do. Because you’re controlling your plane. When you’re young you feel you can conquer the world and I remember we felt like that.”
The nine-episode series stars Academy Award nominee Austin Butler, Callum Turner, Anthony Boyle, Nate Mann, Rafferty Law, Academy Award nominee Barry Keoghan, Josiah Cross, Branden Cook and Ncuti Gatwa.
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