Masters of the Air, the new Second World War drama from Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks whipping up a storm on Apple TV+, has all the virtues of a great American TV production. It is lush, lavish, and well-scripted with believable characters and gripping storylines and the air battle scenes convey starkly the claustrophobia and corrosive fear inherent in going to war over Germany in a B-17 Flying Fortress.
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On their first mission alone, they lost three planes and 30 men. Sky-high casualties earned them their grim nickname early on, and now their incredible story is being put on screen in an epic war drama on Apple TV+. Annabel Nugent reads up on the young men in the cockpit