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The successor to big-hitter WW2 dramas Band of Brothers and The Pacific, Masters of the Air centres on the American bomber boys who came to England in 1943 to fight Nazi Germany. How real to life are the triumphs and disasters seen on screen? Historian and author Donald L Miller helps us uncover the true story
On October 10 1943, the 100th Bomb Group – known as the “Bloody Hundredth” – flew as part of the US Eighth Air Force on a mission to Münster, Germany. Stationed at Thorpe Abbotts in Norfolk, the 100th Bomb Group sent 13 of its B-17 “Flying Fortress” bombers to Münster. Twelve were lost in as many minutes. Only one returned.