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Eighth Air Force's famed 100th Bombardment Group. The unit was known as the "Bloody Hundredth," for the high number of killed, wounded and missing in action it took during the war. Over the course of 22 months, the 100th lost 732 airmen and 923 taken prisoner aboard 177 aircraft shot down on bombing runs.
The historical setting for the series was a dark time for Allied airmen. In January 1943, the Soviet Red Army was still fighting the Nazis near Stalingrad while the British and Americans were deadlocked against the German Army in North Africa. This was when the Eighth Air Force began hitting targets inside Germany. Until the introduction of the P-51 Mustang later that year, the unit's B-17s would have to fly over occupied Europe without fighter escorts, an estimated 40,000 anti-aircraft guns and experienced Luftwaffe fighters waiting for them.
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