busy weekend but managed to record this today. Enjoy! 😍

Funny thing about Crosby's mariage. In his book he describes his mariage in rather luke warm terms. He was maried just before leaving for the war and didn't really know his wife very well. During his time in Europe she wrote him EVERY SINGLE DAY. Somehow she made arrangements for a letter to get to him every day, despite shipping issues and the war getting in the way. Crosby grew very fond of his wife over time through her correspondance. Eventually he got leave to go back to the United States and then got to really know her and genuinely fall in love with her. They remained devoted to each other and he only wrote his memoirs AFTER her death in the 1990s. She never knew about Landra (not Sandra, as in the series). His children only found out about that indiscretion after he wrote his book. Crosby (in his book) never really found out what Landra did in the war. They broke off their relationship before Crosby went state side.

The documentary The Bloody Hundredth is the equivalent of a tenth episode. The last two episodes are pushed as you suspected. They leave out one of Rosies adventures when he crash landed in France but kept another one of his adventures. I have been waiting to give you information as I feel you enjoy seeing it for yourself. After episode nine I will tell you special video's you could see on KZfaq.

Supposedly Buck Cleven taught the other prisoners calculus in his spare time!!😮😂 He was a very intelligent guy which is why he was able to make the radio!! 🎉❤

John Orloff decribes the difference between Rosie's leadership style and and squadron leaders of Egan and Cleven. Earlier squadron leaders were flyboys. They wore their white silk scarves and flew by the seat of their pants. They drank excessively and defied authority. Rosie was a careful flyer who wouldn't think of buzzing the tower or doing anything flashy (which makes what he does on his 25th mission that much more surprising). He was a by the book military man.

To answer your question in the outro, I think most critics are because they kind of did put too much into the last two episodes, which I guess basically watered down the content and they glossed over things quickly!! They definitely could have went 10 episodes even 11 but without including the bloody 100th doc/ep.! (So basically 12 episodes) I believe it was budget constraints and the fact that they were dragging it on through the covid which is why they finished it the way they did!! I've said this in other threads, I believe they can make an entire 10 episode series out of just the Tuskegee Airmen and their accomplishments!! 1 1/2 episodes of really kind of quickly glossing over what they did was not Justice!!😢

Elie, if I recall, during the 6 March 1944 raid on Berlin, there were three air divisions of bombers. Due to a navigational error however, the divisions became seperated. As it was expected that the Germans would focus on the first division, the majority of the fighter escorts, the P-51s, were attached with them. However, due to the error, I believe the second or third division which included the 100th instead tragically became the primary focus as they arrived first. Somewhere between 75-200 German fighters swarmed them. Major Shoens, depicted here was the only aircraft from the 351st Squadron to return back from the mission

ELIE, I haven't heard you mention it and I don't know if you're aware, but the actor that plays the Master Sergeant mechanic is Jude Law's son!!😮🎉 And the incident where he climbed up into the landing gear and fixed the one engine actually happened! BUT it didn't happen on THAT mission that they showed a couple episodes back!! And I don't believe that he had, in reality, the Hollywood dramatic screw "almost" drop!😅 But he did fix an engine while the plane was taxiing at one point in reality!!! Another of many Legends in this group of ordinary men!!❤

Episodes 7-8 seem to feel like 3 episodes cramed into two. However, episode 9 sticks the landing very nicely.

They could move to the Pacific after the German surrender with some continuity since at least one of the pilots in the show started training to fly B-29s , but the war ended before he saw combat against Japan. I won't name hime because that would be a spoiler on the level of Crosby narrating.

Most of what happens in Stalag Luft III in the series comes from Frank Murphy's book 'The Luck Of The Draw'. Murphy was a musician who was part of a camp swing band and was housed in a seperate part of Stalag Luft III, not with his 100th group buddies. I think some of what Egan and Cleven do is embellished or fabricated for dramatic purposes.

Fresh from the shower hair kinda channels Rosie’s curls so it’s on point!

Another factor in Rosie staying, I'm guessing, is that he would have been aware of Hitler's antisemitism, and probably knew something of the Holocaust, but I don't know how much he would have known. I need to read the book.

Two days without boardwalk reaction, elie you still alive? 😂

Another......usa saves the world again bullxxxx.....yawn