Sequel to Band of Brothers and the Pacific - "Master of the Air"

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The series will be much more grounded in the actual realities of WWII and will try to avoid being too much of just a “celebration of America” and/or triumphalism. The mood of the series will mirror that of movies such as Das Boot and show the brutality of WWII like movies such as Schindler’s List. This series will not be shying away from any violence, language, or sensitive topics. The air war was brutal and has some stories of deaths that are unimaginable, and this series will most-definitely feature a couple of those stories. A good example of a story that could be featured briefly during a scene on base would be the Andy Rooney story about a ball turret gunner who was crushed to death.

I have more on this below, but as of right now, it appears the series will focus on both air crew and ground crew of the 100th Bombardment Group who were stationed at Thorpe Abbotts Airfield during the war.

A big part of the series will be dedicated to a storyline about downed airmen who were either killed, captured and became POW’s, or were helped to evade capture by underground movements. This will include scenes at POW camps where they were kept, most likely Stalag Luft III, the POW camp run by the Luftwaffe. The storyline will most-likely show what happened to airmen who were in POW camps as well as follow some downed airman who are helped by the Belgian or French Resistance to make the long and frightful journey to British Gibraltar and eventually back to England.

According to one of the consultants on the project, there will be two major themes explored in Masters of the Air:
Answering the question of how did men of such a young age mentally and physically get themselves into those planes for each mission and how did they deal with and overcome mental challenges before, during, and after missions?

Demonstrating just how unique air combat was, especially in contrast to ground combat, and how a crew of ten men really fought as one unit. Humans simply can’t survive at the altitudes the airmen fought at, and because of this, the men had to gear-up specifically for high-altitude warfare. Much of this equipment had to be connected to the plane’s system in order to work. The electric-heated suits kept them from the deadly cold, the oxygen masks kept them breathing, and their radio headsets allowed them to communicate. In other words, these airmen were tethered to and a part of the plane itself, all ten individuals inside becoming one machine.

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Barksdale’s Museum is maintained by the Air Force, and is now known as the Barksdale Global Power Museum.

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Let me know when they start filming it

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They've been talking about doing something like this for almost 6+ years.

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