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Masters of the Air Epi 7 (Patreon)

Published:
2024-03-04 19:13:34
Edited:
2024-03-11 04:24:15
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2026-06
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Another AMAZING episode in this series!!!

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Masters of The Air Epi 7 Watch Along

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John Courtright

I'm trying to wrap my head around Austin Butler as Feyd-Rautha in Dune 2 and Gale "Buck" Cleven in Masters of the Air. It's not working.

Bubba Fett

It's a shame the great escape only got a slight nod in reference, but that was not part of the 100th even though it was at the same Stalag. As a followup after this, the great escape would make a good watch. Huge awesome cast. McQueen, Bronson, Richard Attenborough, James Garner to name a few. I wondered if they would address the idea of the bombers being bait on deep raids to draw up and destroy the Luftwaffe, it's harrowing but when you think of the C47s carrying paratroopers being shot down wholesale and landing craft being strafed on the beach, there was no alternative, Normandy would have failed otherwise.

Frankie H

Well at least with the new p-51s the B-17s have a much better chance of survival. However they still have to worry about ground anti-aircraft fire. With a superior fighter it makes sense that US military would want to bait the germans into a fight now to destroy their airpower. The p-51 was probably the best fighter plane of the war. It was fast, had six large machine guns and could accompany the b-17s to Berlin and back. Also it had a very roomy and comfortable cockpit. It became a favorite fighter for the US and the British. At the end of Saving Private Ryan a p-51 fighter blows up the last german tank that was about to kill Tom Hanks's character. Well it saves him, then he died a minute later anyway. Also bit of trivia, at this point there was no US Airforce. These US bombers and fighters were part of the Army Air Corps. After WWII the US Air force was formed as a separate military branch and essentially removed from the US Army. To this day the US Army is not supposed to operate fighter planes or bombers or cargo planes, that's only the job of the US Air Force. Though the US navy gets to operate planes, as does the US marines. But the US army isn't allowed to oddly enough. Bit of military history there.

Baron Imhoof

This is the section of the series I’ve looked forward to the most, because it was in early 1943 that my great uncle, General William Kepner (who I am writing a book about), took command of the fighters in the 8th Air Force. He was promoted to Major General and got his orders to take over 8th Fighter Group in April, and before he shipped out he visited the manufacturers of the fighters on his own initiative and told them he was going to need longer-range planes to escort these bombers into Germany. After he got to his headquarters in England, he put a sign up in every briefing room for every pilot to see: “We have two scores we are aiming at – first, the number of bombers we bring back safely, and second, the number of German fighters we destroy.” He established an Air Technical Section that immediately went to work on increasing the range of the fighter escorts. He changed the pilot's tactics, allowing them to go after the German fighters and chase them down, not just hang close to the bombers, and dividing them into relay groups, with one group escorting the bombers to Germany, another group escorting them over Germany, and a third escorting them back to England. He also pushed for external fuel tanks for the fighters, so that they could drop them when the dogfights began. His efforts worked. In the first four months of his command, his P-47 Thunderbolt fighters went from a 175 mile range to 450 miles, his P-38 Lightning fighters went from a 260 mile range to almost 600 miles, and his P-51 Mustangs went from 500 miles to 850 miles. As a general, he flew 24 combat missions during the war. His personal fighter was named “Kokomo,” after the town he grew up near in Indiana. When Germany surrendered and the head of the Luftwaffe, Herman Goering, agreed to the terms at Rheims, France, Uncle Bill was in the room. When Goering was asked when he knew Germany had lost the war, he said it was when he saw American fighters shooting down German fighters over Berlin, and realized we could bomb them into submission. Okay, bragging over, back to coffee.

John Courtright

Robert 'Rosie' Rosenthal!! "He's not gonna go home! He's stayin." - You called it Ames! What a badass Rosie was! A true hero! How about that shot when the P-51 Mustangs engaged the Luftwaffe fighters!! That was CRAZY!!!

ITMacPro

You would love an episode or two of "Hogan's Hereos".