Spielberg/Hanks 'Masters of the Air' sequel is 'Band of Brothers' With Planes

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Originally Posted by DCTwister

I watched through the finale tonight. It was a satisfying end. Spoiler alert - in the end USA are back to back World War champs. Seriously though, it always brings a tear to my eye when you get to the end and they show the bios of the real men that they portrayed in the series.

Yeah, this series doesn’t hold up to BOB or the Pacific. But it grew on me. In the end I really enjoyed it. There is also a companion 1-hour documentary, which seems good so far. I’ve read and watched so many things about WW2, been to the Normandy beaches, etc. and I never knew much about the 100th. I’m glad their story was told.

Couldn’t agree more. Always makes me emotional me when they show their life stories at the end. These guys were men and had incredible fortitude compared to society today.

It doesn’t hold up to BOB but it was really good. Would’ve preferred more aerial scenes. I am a collector of AAF POW uniforms, medals, etc so I thoroughly enjoyed the POW scenes. My favorite grouping belongs to a Luft III POW which was where these 100th guys were. So those scenes are always made me picture what he was doing. I’m lucky enough to have a 25 minute oral interview the library of congress had with him.