The new Apple TV+ show shines a light on the US air force’s “flyboys” stationed in Bury St Edmunds during the Second World War. We retrace their footsteps
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.
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.
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