bomber squads are for cowards, who have no issue killing thousands without seeing them. And especially in ww2, when they basically just bombed cities ....
Ofc its cowards. You can't be very brave to go up in the air thousands of meters above the ground trying to attack a ground target while getting shot at by loads of AA cannons and fighterplanes knowing that if you should get shot down you end up at enemy territory.
Edit: I know I would atleast have laughed if I flew into an airspace full of exploding AA shells around me while watching my squad get blown to pieces!
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Nope - in todays warfare I do agree with you...but ww2 - no. Perhaps the ones bombing at the end of the war had a walk in the park, but the ones earlier did not.
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Nope - in todays warfare I do agree with you...but ww2 - no. Perhaps the ones bombing at the end of the war had a walk in the park, but the ones earlier did not.
Exactly, this is WWII we're talking about, not modern warfare with drones where there's no risk for the pilots. WWII is perhaps the only justifiable war of the last century.
And this isn't a show about the bombing on Dresden, it's a bout a band of brothers trying to survive a war, like the first 2 series. Seriously, you don't think someone like cpt Winters is heroic?
There must have been a door there in the wall, when I came in.
Truly gone fishing.
i was soley talking about a bomber squad. I NEVER said ANYTHING about ground troops during ww2.
And allies bombed germany almost unopposed during most of the last 2-3 years, day and night , so no, i don't consider it very heroic to bomb city after city, killing hundred of thousands of civilians ...
I'm about 1/4th into the book and so far it's a good read (listen). Goes into the history of the philosophy behind the bomber tactics used in the war, the psychological damage the crew suffered from risking their lives on a regular basis (and the fact that they would always loose some of their close friends during each mission), different health risks, like freezing to death, suffocating, etc, all due to primitive/faulty equipment and high altitudes, or how perilous it was for downed airmen to sneak back to the allies without being captured, thanks to a widespread network of Belgian and French resistance fighters. Now I'm at the chapter that goes into the publicity stunts they had to pull to keep things going (journalists like Walter Cronkite having to go through gunner training to be able to fly for their reports, or Clark Gable enlisting and how he won his mates over by not being a Hollywood sissy, or how the Memphis Belle was chosen to be the namesake of the movie).
So far I can see a few moments that would be good for the series, like when the brass convinced Churchill not to switch the 8th squadron from daylight bombing to nightly raids. If they get a good scriptwriter, this should be a great series.
The plan was to shoot location scenes in and around Lincolnshire England, which served as the main hub for the Eighth’s Allied Bombing campaign nearly 75 years ago. The last time these fields saw action though was during the filming of Memphis Belle, another good World War II drama released back in 1990.
Now that the HBO production is finally getting underway, there’s bound to be a flurry of activity, with warbirds flying in for static background and other uses, and a veritable invasion of extras dressed in costumes from the era, which hasn’t seen such activity since Operation Overlord and the Normandy operation.
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The biggest challenge, though, is that many of the airfields that once dotted the British countryside are either fully functional airports now, or are no longer in existence, having been developed as other property or fallen into decay and overgrown. But there is talk that HBO mini-series may be filmed at Manston Airport, one of the most historic airfields of the war. Manston is no stranger to Hollywood, as it was used for such filming, and once doubled as a North Korean air base for the James Bond film Die Another Day, back in the early 2000s.
And although there will bound to be its share of classic warbirds in the film, most of the action will take place with CGI and studio mockups, creating virtual flying missions. Witness the video which was commissioned as a pitch and CGI concept for The Mighty Eighth, which HBO liked so much for its stunning realism, that they gave the greenlight to the mini-series with that massive $500 million budget.
After ~8 years and a ton of going back and forth they just started filming this, at last
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The popular Band of Brothers TV show is getting a sequel of sorts with Masters of the Air, and now it has begun production. Cary Joji Fukunaga, who directed True Detective and 007: No Time To Die, made the announcement on Instagram where he confirmed recently that he has completed the first week on Masters of the Air.
Fukunaga is directing multiple episodes of the mini-series, which follows on from HBO's Band of Brothers and The Pacific. The series is headed to Apple TV+ after the iPhone company acquired it from HBO.
Based on the book of the same name by Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air is a World War III mini-series about pilots. Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Gary Goetzman have been reunited for the new series, along with writer John Orloff, who also wrote Band of Brothers.
Irish actor Anthony Boyle (The Cursed Child) plays the lead, Major Crosby, while Once Upon a Time in Hollywood's Austin Butler is set to portray Major Gale Cleven. Callum Turner (Fantastics Beasts) is lined up to play Major John Egan.
Playtone executive and producer Kirk Saduski revealed in a video interview that the upcoming WW2 mini-series “Masters of the Air” will begin streaming “mid-Spring 2023”.
The nine-episode project, currently in post-production, will star Austin Butler, Barry Keoghan & Callum Turner as it chronicles the actions of the Eighth Air Force of the United States Army Air Forces.
Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Cary Joji Fukunaga and Gary Goetzman executive produce the $200-250 million budgeted mini-series, which serves as the third Playtone WW2 mini-series of this type following HBO’s “Band of Brothers” and “The Pacific”.
Apple’s long in the works lavish WW2 mini-series “Masters of the Air” has finally set a release date with the series to premiere on Apple TV+ with two episodes on January 26th. Further episodes will roll out weekly through March 15th.
A follow-up to HBO’s “Band of Brothers” and “The Pacific,” the project hails from executive producers Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman who are producing for Apple Studios, Amblin Entertainment, and Playtone.
Austin Butler, Callum Turner, Barry Keoghan, Anthony Boyle, Nate Mann, Rafferty Law, Josiah Cross, Branden Cook, and Ncuti Gatwa lead the cast of the series based primarily on Donald L. Miller’s nonfiction novel.
The story 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.
It's ok, not as engaging as BoB. But man some shitty low budget CGI here.
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