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Originally Posted by Skip Fix
For those of you into WWII history -which a lot of us Boomers grew up hearing from our parents- the new Apple series "Masters of the Air" produced by the same folks that brought the Band of Brothers, The Pacific is a really good one. It is based on real people in the 100th Bomber Wing. For any generation, including us Boomers, that think life is tough- just watch what these 20 year olds went through in this one or either series, or Saving Private Ryan-and then say your life is tough! It is followed by a documentary with Spielberg and Tom Hanks about this bomber wing called "Bloody 100th"-because of all the men they lost.
Hats off to the Greatest Generation and what they did to allow freedom in the world and stop genocides by the Germans and Japanese.
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An old friend of mine was a B-17 pilot in Eighth Air Force during WW2. Max ( my friend) was shot down on his seventh mission ( Magdeburg). He managed to get his entire crew out before bailing out himself. Max spent the next eighteen months in a Luft stalag in Germany before being liberated. He never did forgive the Germans for how he and his fellow POWs were treated. Max could go on for hours about turnip soup and sawdust bread.