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Masters of the Air | WWII Miniseries by Steven Spielberg & Tom Hanks | First Details
Posted on 10/5/23 at 2:34 pm
Posted on 10/5/23 at 2:34 pm
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Apple TV+ has set Friday, January 26, for the premiere of its World War II drama Masters of the Air. Austin Butler leads the cast of the nine-episode limited series, which hails from Band of Brothers and The Pacific producers Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman. The streamer also released some of the first photos from the series (see above and below).
Masters of the Air will premiere with two episodes on January 26, followed by one new episode every Friday through March 15.
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“Masters of the Air is a salute to the brave men of the 8th Air Force, who, through their courage and brotherhood, helped defeat Nazi Germany in World War II,” said executive producer Goetzman. “Tom and Steven have always wanted to visualize cinematically what our author Don Miller has called this ‘singular event in the history of warfare.’ We’re thrilled that Apple TV+ has given us the opportunity to combine the efforts of so many talented people, on-screen and behind the camera, to tell this important story.”
Per the official logline: Masters of the Air follows the men of the 100th Bomb Group, known as 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. It portrays the psychological and emotional price paid by these young men as they helped destroy the horror of Hitler’s Third Reich. 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.
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Posted on 10/5/23 at 2:36 pm to RollTide1987
Damn you beat me by a minute. Your thread is better/more info if mods want to delete mine
Posted on 10/5/23 at 2:40 pm to RollTide1987
I will get AppleTV just for this.
Posted on 10/5/23 at 4:56 pm to RollTide1987
I want to believe
Posted on 10/5/23 at 5:15 pm to jlovel7
I’ve been wondering about this for a while now. So much so that I half assumed it was abandoned. Glad to see it’s making progress. When is it supposed to air?
Nevermind. January through March.
Nevermind. January through March.
This post was edited on 10/5/23 at 5:16 pm
Posted on 10/5/23 at 5:48 pm to RollTide1987
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8th Air Force
Surprised they chose this topic because they're gonna have to address Dresden.
As the 8th Air Force were the main force that basically dropped 4 kilotons of incindery bombs repeatedly over three days, then came back twice again in two weeks and did it again.
Interesting how they approach this historically very controversial bombing raids.
Posted on 10/5/23 at 6:43 pm to Fun Bunch
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I will get AppleTV just for this.
+1
Posted on 10/5/23 at 7:03 pm to RollTide1987
If you don’t put Masters of the Air in the title we’ll have ongoing duplicate threads.
Posted on 10/5/23 at 7:15 pm to RollTide1987
All this Spielberg, World War II romanticizing needs to stop. It's ancient history and the narratives have become unoriginal and boring. What else is there to tell?
Unless he's going to regale us all with the untold and noble sacrifices of queers and trannies, then what else is there? I think we've covered it all. This is the same shite except now they're flying.
Unless he's going to regale us all with the untold and noble sacrifices of queers and trannies, then what else is there? I think we've covered it all. This is the same shite except now they're flying.
This post was edited on 10/5/23 at 7:18 pm
Posted on 10/5/23 at 8:06 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
They could have surrendered and Dresden would have not had the shite bombed out of it. They didn’t .
Posted on 10/5/23 at 8:52 pm to RollTide1987
Wish a team like this would tell the stories of the Flying Tigers and Claire Lee Chennault.
You would think there would be a huge audience for this in China with it being a story of heroic Chinese resistance.
Of course then they might have to show Chaing Kai-Shek in a positive light and as a defender of his homeland, while showing Mao and his communists sitting in indifference on the sidelines.
In any event hope this comes close to band of brothers and the pacific.
You would think there would be a huge audience for this in China with it being a story of heroic Chinese resistance.
Of course then they might have to show Chaing Kai-Shek in a positive light and as a defender of his homeland, while showing Mao and his communists sitting in indifference on the sidelines.
In any event hope this comes close to band of brothers and the pacific.
Posted on 10/5/23 at 10:07 pm to RollTide1987
For all you who haven’t read the book Masters of the Air, now is a great time to order it and start reading.
Posted on 10/5/23 at 11:24 pm to Pandy Fackler
Good grief, man. It was war. You win at all cost.
Posted on 10/6/23 at 12:26 am to Captain Poopie Pants
Ehh, Dresden was a historic city with no military significance and was filled with civilians.
It was pretty much revenge killing and unnecessary.
And unlike the atomic bombs, which was to show Japan that it was pointless to fight to the last man and deter the Russians, Dresden did not accelerate the end of the war.
It was pretty much revenge killing and unnecessary.
And unlike the atomic bombs, which was to show Japan that it was pointless to fight to the last man and deter the Russians, Dresden did not accelerate the end of the war.
Posted on 10/6/23 at 1:00 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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Dresden
“Two United States Air Force reports, published in 1953 and again in 1954, defended the operation as the justified bombing of a strategic target, which they noted was a major rail transport and communication centre, housing 110 factories and 50,000 workers in support of the German war effort.”
No issue on my end with it.
Posted on 10/6/23 at 5:25 am to UncleLester
You left out the next part of the quote:
"Two United States Air Force reports, published in 1953 and again in 1954, defended the operation as the justified bombing of a strategic target, which they noted was a major rail transport and communication centre, housing 110 factories and 50,000 workers in support of the German war effort. However, several researchers assert that not all of the communications infrastructure, such as the bridges, were targeted, nor were the extensive industrial areas which were located outside the city centre."
"Two United States Air Force reports, published in 1953 and again in 1954, defended the operation as the justified bombing of a strategic target, which they noted was a major rail transport and communication centre, housing 110 factories and 50,000 workers in support of the German war effort. However, several researchers assert that not all of the communications infrastructure, such as the bridges, were targeted, nor were the extensive industrial areas which were located outside the city centre."
Posted on 10/6/23 at 6:13 am to RollTide1987
Awesome, my grandpa was in the 401st bombing group. Can't wait to see this. LINK
Posted on 10/6/23 at 6:20 am to RollTide1987
“An RAF memo issued to airmen on the night of the attack gave some reasoning for the raid:
Dresden, the seventh largest city in Germany and not much smaller than Manchester is also the largest unbombed builtup area the enemy has got. In the midst of winter with refugees pouring westward and troops to be rested, roofs are at a premium, not only to give shelter to workers, refugees, and troops alike, but to house the administrative services displaced from other areas. At one time well known for its china, Dresden has developed into an industrial city of first-class importance ... The intentions of the attack are to hit the enemy where he will feel it most, behind an already partially collapsed front, to prevent the use of the city in the way of further advance, and incidentally to show the Russians when they arrive what Bomber Command can do.”
A nowhere to run, surrender is the only option raid in 1945 seems defensible to me? Come 1945, if the Allies think doing X ends the war faster, then X seems justified.
Dresden, the seventh largest city in Germany and not much smaller than Manchester is also the largest unbombed builtup area the enemy has got. In the midst of winter with refugees pouring westward and troops to be rested, roofs are at a premium, not only to give shelter to workers, refugees, and troops alike, but to house the administrative services displaced from other areas. At one time well known for its china, Dresden has developed into an industrial city of first-class importance ... The intentions of the attack are to hit the enemy where he will feel it most, behind an already partially collapsed front, to prevent the use of the city in the way of further advance, and incidentally to show the Russians when they arrive what Bomber Command can do.”
A nowhere to run, surrender is the only option raid in 1945 seems defensible to me? Come 1945, if the Allies think doing X ends the war faster, then X seems justified.
Posted on 10/6/23 at 6:27 am to ned nederlander
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Come 1945, if the Allies think doing X ends the war faster, then X seems justified.
By 1945 it should have been obvious to most observers, going back to the Battle of Britain in 1940-41, that strategic bombing did very little to hasten an end to the war.
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