Aviation version of Band of Brothers coming....

[katchthis]

those of us old enough to remember 12 O'clock High should be excited.............

https://www.maxim.com/entertainment/band-of-brothers-follow-up-tom-hanks-steven-spielberg-2019-10

 

[MaconNitt]

Big fan of Band of Brothers. I will have to check it out.

 

[tarponlion]

Read the book it's based on, "Masters of the Air". Tremendous read

 

[Harrisburg Dave]

Big fan of Band of Brothers. I will have to check it out.

I had the wonderful opportunity to take my son to see Dick Winters speak at a local school.

We also visited the Reading Air Show and my son got to shake hands with Babe Heffron and Bill Guarnere.

They are all gone now. They live on in the memories of people like my son.

These men were legends. Band of Brothers was amazing and I am so glad I did not listen to my wife and I let my son watch every minute of it at a young age. He learned so much.

 

[Cletus11]

my grandmother's three brothers were all belly gunners in B-52s as they were short little Italian guys so not many guys could fit in the that little bubble on the bottom of the plane. Two of the three made it home. One got shot down over France and it wasn't until the internet came along in the late 1990s that things started to get computerized and they finally found out that he was buried in a tiny little cemetary in rural france. the surviving brother went over to see it in person and when he told the story at Xmas that following year when the entire family got together, he literally broke down in tears that he finally got to say goodbye to his big brother and new that he had a proper christian burial (very big deal for a devout catholic family). Incredibly emotional moment hearing him tell the story.

 

[acg116]

my grandmother's three brothers were all belly gunners in B-52s as they were short little Italian guys so not many guys could fit in the that little bubble on the bottom of the plane. Two of the three made it home. One got shot down over France and it wasn't until the internet came along in the late 1990s that things started to get computerized and they finally found out that he was buried in a tiny little cemetary in rural france. the surviving brother went over to see it in person and when he told the story at Xmas that following year when the entire family got together, he literally broke down in tears that he finally got to say goodbye to his big brother and new that he had a proper christian burial (very big deal for a devout catholic family). Incredibly emotional moment hearing him tell the story.

b17s? b52s are cold war/current era jet bombers.

 

[interrobang]

Band of Brothers was great. Pacific was solid (though it helped make Rami Malek a household name)

 

[AldenT]

my grandmother's three brothers were all belly gunners in B-52s as they were short little Italian guys so not many guys could fit in the that little bubble on the bottom of the plane. Two of the three made it home. One got shot down over France and it wasn't until the internet came along in the late 1990s that things started to get computerized and they finally found out that he was buried in a tiny little cemetary in rural france. the surviving brother went over to see it in person and when he told the story at Xmas that following year when the entire family got together, he literally broke down in tears that he finally got to say goodbye to his big brother and new that he had a proper christian burial (very big deal for a devout catholic family). Incredibly emotional moment hearing him tell the story.

What a story. Squadrons of those planes never made it back; amazing to think that the survival rate in flight school wasn’t exactly high, let alone over France/Germany when you took off basically flipping a coin if you were coming back.

Amazing (and prevalent) what these towns did for allied servicemen, and what many had to do with/for the occupiers just to survive. WWI was an entirely different animal as well. Just incredible times and not that long ago.

 

[Lyons212]

What a story. Squadrons of those planes never made it back; amazing to think that the survival rate in flight school wasn’t exactly high, let alone over France/Germany when you took off basically flipping a coin if you were coming back.

Amazing (and prevalent) what these towns did for allied servicemen, and what many had to do with/for the occupiers just to survive. WWI was an entirely different animal as well. Just incredible times and not that long ago.

Your right, before the P-51 came on the scene to escort the bombers, you had about a 50% chance of returning from a mission. Average bomber crew made it threw 5 missions, you needed 25 to go home and that was later increased to 30 missions. Even with the P-51, only about 1 in four bomber crews was able to make it to 25 missions. It was literally a suicide mission.

 

[Saquon4President]

Excited for this show! Reminds me of the movie Memphis Belle

 

[niteowlgt]

The Brits had a higher fatality rate us. 40 something %. And Dresden needed to be bombed.