Masters Of The Sky
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01/09/24 08:43 AM
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Suppose to be on AppleTV at the end of the month.
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Re: Masters Of The Sky
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01/10/24 03:41 PM
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Based on the trailer, it sure ain't no documentary.. very cinematic, every actor looks to have been to the Brad Pitt School of Good Looks, very Hollywood.
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Re: Masters Of The Sky
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01/10/24 08:11 PM
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If I can figure out how to watch it - so far, this streaming thing has been a near-nightmare - I still want to see it. Of course there'll be CGI; there aren't a lot of B-17s left.
As a teen, one of our neighbors flew on the B-24 raids on the Ploesti oil fields. From what he would tell me, a TV screen would be filled with flak explosions and only occasional views of the bombers. When I bought this house one of my neighbors was ground crew for the Flying Tigers. He had some interesting stories.
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Re: Masters Of The Sky
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01/11/24 02:01 PM
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I watch a movie titled "Wolf Hound" last night that I had never heard of until yesterday, I saw and bought it for $1.00 at our local Wal Mart dollar video barrel It says it is based on a true story about a B17 pilot and crew in WW2 that get shot down and find out about the Nazi plans on using a different capture B17 to bomb England with a newly develop "super bomb". They take action to stop that mission I do remember seeing many comments about American, British and other allies air crews taking their damaged aircraft to land in Spain, Switzerland and other "neutral nations" in comments from some WW2 combat veterans in written story when I was younger, once they landed they were treated as POW but not in prison camps like the Germans had during WW2. They were not allowed to go back to their combat stations to return to the war. I always wonder how many "damaged" aircraft could have been flown back to their home bases instead of taking a shorter detour to a neutral country airports: work: Lots of simulated aerial combat footage in this movie if you like that
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Re: Masters Of The Sky
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01/14/24 11:44 AM
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commentary https://www.military.com/off-duty/t...bout-highly-anticipated-wwii-series.htmlsample quote 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. end quote from a larger review of coming military related movies and show https://www.military.com/off-duty/m...nd-tv-shows-were-excited-watch-2024.html
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Re: Masters Of The Sky
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01/24/24 01:30 PM
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Re: Masters Of The Sky
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01/26/24 09:36 AM
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Not to change the subject but here’s an interesting vid
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjM_vDelfuDAxUKJUQIHUxjBoQQwqsBegQIDRAG&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Do_Uhx1YInQU&usg=AOvVaw1Sd0woz-rQTe7v3LMSBxUa&opi=89978449
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Re: Masters Of The Sky
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01/27/24 11:08 AM
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Well. I watched the 1st episode last night. My frame of reference is a reverence for my childhood/adolescent elder neighbors and family who fought in WW2, most all in the European Theater. As a consequence, I've been a bit of a student of that war since then. To me, the photography and air sequences were excellent, often as stunning as anything I've seen on a screen, though cut short to fit. (In reality, the pervasive and capricious terror of those runs lasted for hours.) The production apparently went to great lengths in the areas of accuracy. Some of the presentation is a bit "Hollywood", and in places the score is a bit overwrought and unnecessary. I wouldn't yet place it equal to Band Of Brothers, which to me is perhaps the best of the WW2 portrayals, if not among the best.
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Re: Masters Of The Sky
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Re: Masters Of The Sky
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02/07/24 03:24 AM
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What little I've heard, it's going to look like an arcade game, and be goofier than Red Tails. There's so much more to the aerial campaigns than the 100th BG, yet so little coverage. TBQH I wish we could see more about the B-24 story because they are virtually ignored. I bet there will be some DEI factors involved in the show. Players that were not in theaters close to the 100th may show up.
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Re: Masters Of The Sky
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I wish we could see more about the B-24 story because they are virtually ignored. Laminar Flow wing design, PBY, and B-24 all deserve more respect and attention. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_AircraftWagner, William (1976). Reuben Fleet and The Story of Consolidated Aircraft. Aero Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-8168-7950-8.
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