This was my father's bombing group. He was actually part of the 350th and he was a navigator. He flew 27 missions. He was 22 years old at the time and given the responsibility of navigating by the stars and through very basic radar, I would assume, to get from England to Germany and back while people were shooting at them, and they were trying to bomb the enemy. He did not talk much about what they did but I learned a lot about it later after he passed. That was an extraordinary generation. Men of honor who fought for what was right.
@TheJames17457 ай бұрын
God bless your father and God bless all those men. And thank you 🙏.
@paulrose38657 ай бұрын
Amazing men and women my friend thank god for people like your dad
@jorisv2077 ай бұрын
@@paulrose3865women?
@maryellenzander22037 ай бұрын
I also did not really understand what my dad did during the War until after he died. He was in the backseat of a Dauntless Dive Bomber. It explains a lot.
@pmccoy89247 ай бұрын
Different breed. Different world. My great uncle was 8th 95th (H) 336th. 19 years old and Nav/Rad. 26 missions over the Rhineland. His father my great grandfather has a Silver Star from his time in the 89th as a Capt. at St. Mihiel, his brother my grandfather was an officer on a tin can in the Pacific. Forever grateful and proud.
@warrenchambers48197 ай бұрын
My best friend was in the 303rd Bg 358th Sq. George Morrison flew with the William Dasheilds crew as tail gunner. On a raid to Bremen Germany he was wounded by a 20mm cannon shell causing him to be grounded. His crew never returned from their next mission. The Dashields crew were all killed on the raid to Oshersleben Germany on January 11 1944. We lost George in 1997 and ever since on Jan 11th I deink a toast to those guys. Glad to see this series coming out people need to know the sacrifices these men made.
@TheZenguitarguy7 ай бұрын
By any chance did you know a navigator with the 350th, Alexander Maruchess? His friends would have called him Alex. A navigator.
@USNveteran7 ай бұрын
I'm reading the book right now and am having a hard time putting it down. We had two WWII vets in our family. My father in law was USN joined on 12/8/41 at 16. By early 1942 he was a torpedo man in the destroyer escort fleet doing convoy duty in the North Atlantic. Made 37 trips through the canal seeing Naval combat in both the Atlantic & Pacific theaters. My brothers father in law was USMC and was on Tarawa & I believe Saipan. Fortunately they both made it home and I got to hear their stories first hand. I will never forget those stories or men, we miss you Brownie & Norm. Thanks to all now serving, those who have, and those who will in the future. FLY NAVY!!!
@GoProRuss6 ай бұрын
My great grandfather was USMC on Tarawa and Saipan too! As well as other areas during the island hopping campaign.
@eturfrey7 ай бұрын
Not far from where I live here in the UK there is a small monument and a flag pole flying the Stars and Stripes erected by local people. The monument is positioned on the corner of a road junction, that junction is named Johnson’s corner after Lieutenant William Johnson. Johnson was the pilot of a B17 on a mission to attack the Messerschmitt factory at Augsburg Bavaria. The aircraft was badly damaged on route so had to turn back to the UK. The B17 started to lose height crossing the English Channel. Johnson ordered his crew to bale out as they crossed the English coast while Johnson flew on trying to find somewhere to put the bomber down. He never made it, the aircraft crashed in a farmers field the monument is on the edge of that field.
@rzr2ffe3257 ай бұрын
I’m not sure many know or can appreciate exactly how catastrophic the losses were for The Mighty 8th. Those aviators who threw themselves against fortress Europe day in and day out are legends in my book.
@maverick86977 ай бұрын
Considering the strength of The Mighty 8 was something like 200000 men, and their losses were something like 44000 casualties (with 26000 killed), the losses were large, but not catastrophic. Nowhere near the infantry (especially the 3rd ID with their casualty rate being four times the unit size). "Those aviators who threw themselves against fortress Europe day in and day out are legends in my book" - this one I won't deny :).
@elizabethbennet47916 ай бұрын
heroes
@sheilacabrera39867 ай бұрын
Since 2020 whenever I watch a war-film that displays the bravery of men & women in the armed forces during WWI & WWII I think two things simultaneously IE: how united, loyal & brave those man & women were & we're toast.
@The_Zilli7 ай бұрын
yeah, they dont make people like that anymore eh... I hear ya. See you in the foxhole tho, even if it's just a handful of us left guarding against the long night.
@Alastair_7 ай бұрын
They weren't any different, they just didn't have a choice.
@susanbarco25797 ай бұрын
They were different … they may not have wanted to do it, but they had honor … we don’t have that any more!
@pedro679997 ай бұрын
@@susanbarco2579quit whining and step up. Enough of the complaining.
@The_Zilli7 ай бұрын
@@susanbarco2579 as a society as a whole, i agree. There are some old school guys left but far and few.
@shepboy967 ай бұрын
RIP to HBO for these types of miniseries. Thank god I have BoB and The Pacific. Timeless classics those two.
@thomasmcgivney45197 ай бұрын
My Father was in the 392 Bomber Group based out of Norwich with the Mighty 8th. Flew 35 missions over Germany in a B-24 Literator and lived to tell the tail. Without the sacrifice of The 8th Airforce D-Day doesn't happen.
@andrewsbbq7 ай бұрын
We brave few, we band of brothers
@AlSiumm7 ай бұрын
hope this will be as good as Band of Brothers.
@Captainval287 ай бұрын
Band of brothers was amazing, wasn’t a fan of there training leader he was a right arse, but that’s what you get when training to be a soldier you get a hell of a yelling at, if you aren’t getting yelled at you aren’t motivated enough to do your best, and being yelled at at such a way you can’t resist interrogations as well, that’s why I love the SAS the training they get is tough they literally train like there already behind enemy territory, I also agree with you I hope this is unaffected by woke fake history garbage like the garbage that slavery was a white phenomenon, and nazis weren’t national socialists
@diegoalves5987 ай бұрын
if tom hanks is involved in this, there is a great chance is gonna be good. He knows how to do this ww2 movies/series.
@kamalbretas64287 ай бұрын
soviet band of brothers
@shahriarmohammadsoukhin64677 ай бұрын
I think it'll be better
@woowah327 ай бұрын
@@Captainval28Yes, that part was brilliantly played by the great David Shcwimmer.
@lisaharris46917 ай бұрын
This gives me chills.
@user-je8kq2cg6u7 ай бұрын
During WWII an American bomber crew were returning to England with a damaged plane. They knew they weren’t going to make it and the plane was coming down right on top of a school. The pilot managed to avoid the school and crashed killing all the crew and saving the lives of those school children. To this day, one of the children whose life they saved, tends to the memorial that was dedicated to their honour. Such brave men, such selfless sacrifice. These young men never made it home together with thousands of other young men. God bless all our veterans we will never forget you and thank you🇺🇸🇬🇧
@susanneschmidt61597 ай бұрын
And in the meantime our kids are all woke
@iwantgoals15667 ай бұрын
Visuals look stunning and I can’t wait to see the Tuskegee airmen in action.
@alexanderleach33657 ай бұрын
The Red-tailed Angels.
@samuelgordino7 ай бұрын
I'm very interested in knowing how they make the 100 bomber group (8 air force) and the Tuskegee (15 air force) in the same show work. If I'm honest, my expectations are very low 😢
@edgelordpriestessofwaifust64347 ай бұрын
yeah, they had to "wokify" this series a lil' bit. Its definitely not 2001 anymore like "Band Of Brothers"@@samuelgordino
@dang33437 ай бұрын
Very thankful to the heroic service of all who served under the 8th Air Force banner; but you rarely hear or learn of the contributions of the 15th Air Force out of North Africa and Italy. We need a second chapter to the “Masters of the Air” story - the contributions of the 15th AF and all who served within it.
@AVSSharky7 ай бұрын
My uncle flew with the 367th out of Thurleigh,England as a radio operator,completed 79 missions,crewed on Four Leaf Clover and on his 80th mission he and crew went down on the Rose of York,Feb 3rd 1945. Had to do a lot of research to find out what he did up there but it was worth it to understand what these men went through, I even found a photo of him with the Four Leaf Clover crew so I made a scrapbook of all I found on him (photos,missions,patches and medals) and plan on giving it to his only daughter soon. Don’t be too hard on the cinematography cuz there’s no way to recreate the hell and terror they went through.🇺🇸
@heygerald6 ай бұрын
My grandfather is an honorary Tuskegee Airman. I'm proud to be his grandson!
@notevenalittle83637 ай бұрын
Apple TV+. We see you. This looks amazing.
@dyanvandino26067 ай бұрын
This looks thrilling! I'll see anything with Austin Butler in it! So gorgeous & what a sexy voice!
@farajiehalifa41307 ай бұрын
austin is killing it lately🔥🔥
@alecv46227 ай бұрын
Been looking forward to this for a long time. I'm sure it will be great, but does look over dramatised from these trailers compared to the real grittiness of band of brothers which made it so believable. Hoping for that authenticism in this too.
@bber457 ай бұрын
Looks good. Looking forward to seeing the 88's in action. Although after the 8th took over the skies and bleed the Luftwaffe dry, the German air defenses were still very deadly all the way up the last hours of the war. 88mm Flak was deadly and the Bombers were sitting ducks in the daytime raids.
@stlrockn7 ай бұрын
This is going to be EPIC!
@alexanderleach33657 ай бұрын
Absolutely!
@Defiant19407 ай бұрын
I'm interested to see how the Tuskegee Airmen are fitted into this, as they were not part of the Eight Air Force but the Fifteenth Air Force, flying out of Italy.
@antartis737 ай бұрын
It’s Hollywood and PC so it has to have the Tuskegee men in it I guess.. not like they don’t deserve mention but there has been at least two movies on them that I know of, which is fair. For the 8th Air Force we have ‘12o’clock high’, Memphis Belle’ and ‘Fortress’ (2012) I believe (not sure if I’m missing any)
@Defiant19407 ай бұрын
@@antartis73 Ah, Hollywood, where WWII was won by the Americans alone! Yes, good point, and I have seen and enjoyed all those films you mentioned.
@ingvarjankowsky93637 ай бұрын
@@Defiant1940 , to say the truth, if not overhelming American power as Arsenal of Democracy and warfighting nation, Soviet Union, with our uncapable leaders and flawed industry became smashed to sh*t in late 1942-early 1943, British islands taken by landings, and Imperial Japan ruled through the Asia&Pacific.
@bellgrand7 ай бұрын
@@Defiant1940 I mean, it's hard to make a feel-good movie about the grinding, mass-raping war in Eastern Europe.
@jayjohnson99967 ай бұрын
It looks like this has the makings of being a really good miniseries
@alexanderleach33657 ай бұрын
Awesome! Can't wait to see this when it comes out.
@muhammadaleem54637 ай бұрын
Not expected this much when I click this trailer!
@hawlikd7 ай бұрын
I can't wait to watch this!!!
@minimalistmaverick7 ай бұрын
That prayer at the end tho..
@gothard57 ай бұрын
Recently finished reading Harry Crosby’s book. Really looking forward to this series. Really hope they release the whole series at one time.
@TXARNGarmy1007 ай бұрын
Same here but, audio version on Chapter 10.
@jessedavid65967 ай бұрын
.am watching this for sure
@antartis737 ай бұрын
I really do hope the series if it portrays any German pilots actually does so as human beings with fear and emotions like they had, not like the mindless automatons and silly taunters portrayed in films like ‘Red Tails’ and ‘Greyhound’. After all some of them did behave with chivalry to those 8th Air Force airmen that they encountered. Frank Stigler (according to legend at least), Adolf Galland and others
@generalsandnapoleon7 ай бұрын
Looks amazing, like a newer "Memphis Belle" - an underrated flick.
@vincentbergman44517 ай бұрын
You got that right, Danny Boy
@Gurkha73able7 ай бұрын
@@vincentbergman4451 I see what you did there. Cheers mate
@JustAnotherArmyVet7 ай бұрын
Great movie!
@kingface7 ай бұрын
Memphis Belle was overrated if anything. Overwrought, heavy-handed acting and directing, loads of errors, and glamorized dreadfully.
@vincentbergman44517 ай бұрын
@@kingface it’s ok though, we still enjoy it. It’s not the best movie ever, still nostalgic to us with its flaws. Besides there’s nothing better than watching Americans do what Americans do best, putting warheads on foreheads
@cardude53237 ай бұрын
Hopefully this gets a Blu-ray release at some point. Im not signing up to yet another streaming service 😅
@JustAnotherArmyVet7 ай бұрын
I will probably just sign up for the month of Feb and then cancel the subscription. 🙂. I’m pretty sure you can sign up on a monthly basis or on a yearly basis.
@orcasin1127 ай бұрын
Can't wait
@mrkumaran7 ай бұрын
i cannot wait for this
@jordancollins12277 ай бұрын
Finally a show about there Army Air core.
@videographers7 ай бұрын
Thank you to your commitment to WW2 Gentleman. Millions out there need to see what the efforts of the men and women of the time and their leaders went through and accomplished.
@anthonyprice83897 ай бұрын
hell yeah
@iqa5i7 ай бұрын
❤❤❤
@utkarshsingh03017 ай бұрын
Looks interesting
@user-ho5no1km5j7 ай бұрын
Good cast
@bricktime_customs61877 ай бұрын
elvis really lived a crazy life
@jakeedmondson52887 ай бұрын
Good set dude. Sad to say but I sometimes miss the "covid" days just because there was so much live online music from great people like yourself.
@Jman45357 ай бұрын
Makes me remember "the man who flew the Memphis Belle" by Robert Morgan.
@Aleksandarbatmansupermen7 ай бұрын
My best war movies list
@BigAntTVMedia7 ай бұрын
this looks good wish I had APPLE TV, I think Austin butler will win another award
@propiggaming9217 ай бұрын
Me and my dad are going to watch this most definitely
@antartis737 ай бұрын
Anything to do with World War Two that has romance in the trailers feels like Pearl Harbor taste to me. Not sure about this series yet..
@blue781747 ай бұрын
Exactly... And Historically Accurate, im not so sure... AS The Red tails were in the 15th Air Force out of Italy.... We will see...
@Sobilak5177 ай бұрын
LOOK's GREAT !💪✈ I like historical accuracy and consistency of sources. I read the book "Masters of the air" and I don't remember there being anything about the 332FG Tuskegee Airman, expect one mention. This is a book primarily about 8AF. So one question. What's about 8AF/FC? FG56, FG357 (Yoxford Boys) and other FG's. They flight as escort 8AF Bombers from 1943 to 1945. Don't they deserve for glorification because of Political Correctness?
@TXARNGarmy1007 ай бұрын
I'm listening to the audio version of A Wing And A Prayer by Harry Crosby navigator. The book mentions the scene as shown in the clip 1:50 to 1:52.
@Eastbridge21007 ай бұрын
He got robbed of an Oscar.
@hanssolos36997 ай бұрын
josh hatnett called, he wants his ww2 movie uniform back 😂
@Midnight-19847 ай бұрын
I'm going to buy the whole DvD/BlueRay of this, For the sake of it. Its going to be Legendary !
@NuwagiraAllan7 ай бұрын
🎉
@sexyman46047 ай бұрын
I get a feeling that this is the 100st Air force Movie, when do we get a Luftwaffe movie?
@sidefx9967 ай бұрын
I really appreciate the next generation keeping this history alive, but it's really hard to watch this stuff when everything these days feels like I'm watching a video game.
@jasondayton15817 ай бұрын
Would love to see...too bad it'll be on AppleTV.
@lingenfeltervee7 ай бұрын
Ill subscribe for a month or two to watch it.
@tutts9997 ай бұрын
Just hope Bomber Command. By that I mean the Brits, Canadian's, Aussies etc all get a mention.
@davidhugheszerobubblemodel18657 ай бұрын
Oh don’t worry, they probably won’t. My wife’s great Uncle was an RAAF Lanc squadron leader.
@paulfri15697 ай бұрын
Sweet as 🧁
@oldie-se7 ай бұрын
Time for a Memphis Belle rewatch
@houseofchinn61127 ай бұрын
1:45 that's def not a time piece side by side. Wonder if it's a old farmers gun
@piero277617 ай бұрын
Very Nice. It's a similar story to Memphis Belle
@jeffreydupreez30527 ай бұрын
I'm no fortune teller.. But I see a blockbuster on the horizon..... 😂😂
@AFoxintheWild7 ай бұрын
Seems like this is partly based on the book “A Wing And A Prayer” by Harry H. Crosby
@richarddaniels27547 ай бұрын
To bad it's on Apple, I'll probably never see it.
@hanssolos36997 ай бұрын
identital to josh hartnett's last movie before his hollywood career ended
@michielleentvaar87577 ай бұрын
Oh yeah 🤟
@vaztex7 ай бұрын
From a time when the free world battled fascism and tyranny, instead of being fascinated by it, and putting it in places of power. Honor to those men and women.
@edgelordpriestessofwaifust64347 ай бұрын
So the White world was the "free world"? Why do you imply non-Whites were unfree from this era?
@MUTANG_Official7 ай бұрын
1:01 Is that German R4M AA rocket?
@dmayres7 ай бұрын
Difficult to tell from the clip, but they did encounter Me262 fighters
@antartis737 ай бұрын
If you pause at the right moment you do see a 262 having fired the said rocket..
@MUTANG_Official7 ай бұрын
@dmayres Maybe it's just a 190. It carries R4M as well
@Aleksandarbatmansupermen7 ай бұрын
Love war movies history words
@michaelpipkin99427 ай бұрын
The Memphis Belle. Watch it. Please.
@woowah327 ай бұрын
Very average movie, imo. Not a patch on BoB.
@ellegee51797 ай бұрын
@@woowah32It was well before Band's time and holds up magnificently to this day still. An absolute classic, hard to compare the two fairly.
@woowah327 ай бұрын
@@ellegee5179 I saw it at the cinemar and yes, it was quite a big movie at the time if I remember correctly. A little too love story focused , possibly. Seems very much of it’s time to me anyway.
@gregoryboverson42927 ай бұрын
Why is this film not going into Theatres?..🤔 That's where it would be seen best. The big screen!
@47imagine7 ай бұрын
Hey look, it's Austin Butler as Elvis as a pilot ...
@Infamous417 ай бұрын
I forgot Elvis was in the Air Force!
@oldcremona7 ай бұрын
Army Air Force
@jkorshak7 ай бұрын
Just the army. Army air force ceased to be in 1947
@ss454nova47 ай бұрын
did they show a missle at the one minute mark. kinda confused
@eclipsehorse86937 ай бұрын
Germans had unguided rockets on some of their fighters- hard to tell of this clip is from earlier in the war or later on.
@ingvarjankowsky93637 ай бұрын
Werfer-Granate_21 air-to-air rocket since mid-1943, and R4M since late 1944
@eclipsehorse86937 ай бұрын
@@ingvarjankowsky9363 thx for the clarification :)
@pattythrower57007 ай бұрын
Geez still looks like Elvis ❤
@Jon.......7 ай бұрын
Sure wish Hollywood would get get military haircuts right!
@edgelordpriestessofwaifust64347 ай бұрын
Or how the (very few) black pilots were based in Italy and not England.....
@liamm99627 ай бұрын
I want to feel excited about this series, but there's something off about it compared to BoB or the Pacific. Both of those series focused on gritty realism over more traditional Hollywood tropes. Masters of the Air feels less like those series and more like Greyhound or Midway. Maybe it's just the way the trailers are cut.
@petercroft46577 ай бұрын
I’d going free for apple
@sluxi7 ай бұрын
I hope it is just the trailer but this really does not look like the type of series Band of Brothers was.
@edgelordpriestessofwaifust64347 ай бұрын
looks wokeified
@Historybluff19867 ай бұрын
I really hope the focus on Austin butler is only for marketing and not the whole show
@dmayres7 ай бұрын
Well he's playing the part of one of the lead characters in the book, so it's likely
@skeaneable7 ай бұрын
Screw Superhero movies make historical movies/series great again!
@michaelmalley42187 ай бұрын
I’m glad apple took this project on 👌 however!! This won’t be make available for those that like to collect the hard copy’s (blu-ray dvd) 🤦♂️ thinks it’s a massive margin to just cut off ? I am annoyed !! lol I’ve the other 2
@susanbarco25797 ай бұрын
So, plan to record it when it’s on … and, who knows, maybe Apple will release it in DVD form at some point!
@michaelmalley42187 ай бұрын
You never know lol but I doubt it 👍
@ricardoleyton49137 ай бұрын
Despues viene la serie de los marinos..
@10_a_see7 ай бұрын
I won't give Apple a penny.
@JoshVaughnPhotography7 ай бұрын
Air to Air missiles/rockets? In WWII? Umm.. (1:01 mark)
@PercivalFakeman7 ай бұрын
Probably will never see this. Unless you want to participate in the streaming wars. It might be a great classic that will remain unseen. Just like Greyhound.
@HarlanShakey7 ай бұрын
Guided rockets in ww2?
@aleddavies7707 ай бұрын
It ain’t a mainstream film 😔
@Jasper1187 ай бұрын
This show seems rife with inaccuracies unfortunately, even just from the trailers. I’m hoping it’s still entertaining at least.
@jonoeschger15527 ай бұрын
Why did Apple get this instead of HBO & Max?
@harrisshaffer51667 ай бұрын
Cost and delays. At close to $300 million to produce, this may be the most expensive mini series ever released.
@gambino37017 ай бұрын
HBO dropped it. Apple picked it up.
@mypl5107 ай бұрын
HBO lost money on "The Pacific" and decided not to move on this one.
@eclipsehorse86937 ай бұрын
@@harrisshaffer5166 just for numbers, Disney spent over 300 mil on 'The Marvels', 'Indiana Jones 5', and 200 mil on 'Wish'. They spent over 200 mil on one ep of 'She Hulk'. For apple to pay 300 mil over what 9 eps of 'master so the air' is quite the bargain! more ppl are gonna want to see, and remember THIS :)
@TheFatAmericans17 ай бұрын
1:00 why are the Germans firing missiles? is this historically accurate?
@markbeaumont32927 ай бұрын
This series represents American bomber squdarons based in England. How are the red tails involved in this as they were based in the Mediterranean theatre??
@edgelordpriestessofwaifust64347 ай бұрын
Woke politics can bend historical realities when its deemed necessary for "muh inclusion".
@brianmcmurdo22957 ай бұрын
The Old Breed.
@makeitsonumberone13587 ай бұрын
Calling it now, the red tails saved the Italy campaign and was the best fighter squadren EVER!!!!
@robertleonhardt12267 ай бұрын
Heroes? No mass murderers!😢
@kapuzinergruft7 ай бұрын
Where is my stuka squad? 😮
@billlombard99117 ай бұрын
Still sounds like Elvis
@aloysiusmaina26257 ай бұрын
I guess Airbenders was taken 😅
@richardryan27697 ай бұрын
In the end, one out of three airmen survived the war.