Masters of the Air ep 3
Added 2024-02-03 16:06:57 +0000 UTCComments
That was not necessarily always the case. My great uncle was a navigator and a bombardier that flew in those bombing runs in his B-17 called 'Flak Happy' on the ball bearing factory in Schweinfurt. He and his crew made a successful drop but were shot down at 33,000 feet in October of '43. My great uncle specifically survived 2 weeks on the ground and killed 3 Nazis before he was ultimately forced to surrender and put into a Stalag Luft and subsequent work camps. He spent the next 2 years as a POW until the war ended but never was considered a spy and never gave any info out. The Nazis looked differently upon air crew as a different more honorable sort and treated them fairly well. I know all of this because he adopted me from his niece (my mother) in 1970 and raised me as his son. I call him my father; though he passed in 2002.
Warrior Pitbull
2024-04-06 02:03:30 +0000 UTCFrom the German point of view, you; a bomber crew……. currently raining down destruction on this city….. and my grandma’s house…… with her in it have already committed a capital offense. If you landed and, essentially run screaming “Arrest me, I’ll talk!” you got mercy: rest of war in ‘cozy’ stalag. Any other course of action, firing g your personal weapon, speaking surreptitiously to locals, you were a spy. The penalties for spies throughout history are fairly consistent.
Lamar Smith
2024-03-08 03:15:08 +0000 UTC‘IP’ = Initial Point. No matter how you got there, alone, whatever, your ship had to be at that point in space for the Norden bomb site to work. It’s the beginning of your bomb run when you turn control over to bombardier.
Lamar Smith
2024-03-08 03:05:19 +0000 UTCI'm enjoying MotA much more than Pacific
ManneFazez
2024-02-07 18:52:49 +0000 UTCI'm hoping they explore the two paths of a downed air crew. Some escaped with help of resistance groups, others captured and become POWs for the rest of the war. Would be nice to see those stories told in depth.
Bubba Fett
2024-02-04 23:10:12 +0000 UTCThe answer to the Goblin riddle is to ask a goblin what the OTHER goblin would say was the door to hell. This way both will point to the door to Valhalla because the lying goblin would lie and say the truthful goblin would point to the wrong door and the truthful goblin would tell the truth and tell you the lying goblin would point to the wrong door. So you go through the door that the goblin points to.
Essero Eson
2024-02-03 19:37:41 +0000 UTCThis is a great series. I hope that Hanks/Spielberg don’t stop with this series and do one about the Navy during WWII.
Tom Hartley
2024-02-03 19:09:04 +0000 UTCI loved this chapter, watched it yesterday. With this historical series, I always have mixed feeling. From one side, you know that this happend (if not exactly, more or less the same) to real people and that most of them died. And from the other side you have the purely entertaining part of the fighting, which I enjoy a lot, specially in content about planes. Being the Ace Combat videogame saga one of my favourites (an arcade combat fight simulator, if you don't know it), I've enjoyed today's episode maybe too much and I look forward to the action increase even more in the next ones.
Wiwo
2024-02-03 17:25:33 +0000 UTCYes a CHUTE is a PARACHUTE. Unfortunately parachuting out of a plane doesn’t mean they are out of danger. Quite often German fighter pilots would take pleasure in gunning down defenseless pilots while parachuting to the ground and even after they made it to the ground. Their actions were cowardly at best.
Michael Aalgaard
2024-02-03 16:55:10 +0000 UTC
