"The true story of the men who inspired Masters of the Air."

2024

1h 3m

7.1(34 votes)

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Overview

Meet the real-life airmen who inspired Masters of the Air as they share the harrowing and transformative events of the 100th Bomb Group.

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4 videos

Cast & Crew

33 members

Acting

Tom Hanks

Self - Narrator (voice)

Directing

Steven Spielberg

Self - Filmmaker

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James Stewart

Self - Pilot, 453rd Bomb Group (archive footage)

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John 'Lucky' Luckadoo

Self - Pilot, 100th Bomb Group

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Robert 'Rosie' Rosenthal

Self - Pilot, 100th Bomb Group (archive footage)

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John A. Clark

Self - Pilot, 100th Bomb Group

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Harry Crosby

Self - Navigator, 100th Bomb Group (archive footage)

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Joseph Armanini

Self - Bombardier, 100th Bomb Group

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Frank Murphy

Self - Navigator, 100th Bomb Group

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Owen 'Cowboy' Roane

Self - Pilot, 100th Bomb Group

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Writing

Donald L. Miller

Self - Author, Masters of the Air

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Seth Paridon

Self - Historian, Mississippi Armed Forces Museum

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self - United States President (archive footage)

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Bruce Alshouse

Self - Tail Gunner, 100th Bomb Group

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Robert Wolff

Self - Pilot, 100th Bomb Group

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Gene Bankston

Self - Togglier, 100th Bomb Group (archive footage)

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Thomas Jeffrey

Self - Commander, 100th Bomb Group, May 1955-February 1945

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Dr. Conrad C. Crane

Self - SSI Senior Historian, US Army War College

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Gen. (Ret.) Curtis Lemay

Self - Cmdr., 3rd Bombardment Division (voice) (archive footage)

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Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Ira Eaker

Self - Commander., 8th Air Force, 1942-1944 (archive footage)

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Randall Hansen

Self - Author, Fire and Fury

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Gen. (Ret.) James Doolittle

Self - Cmdr., 8th Air Force, 1994-1954 (voice) (archive footage)

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Dr. Tami Davis Biddle

Self - Author, Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self - Supreme Allied Commander (voice) (archive footage)

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William 'Bill' Couch

Self - Bombardier, 100th Bomb Group

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Dr. Matthew F. Delmont

Self - Author, Half American

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Richard Macon

Self - Pilot, 332nd Fighter Group (archive footage)

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J. Todd Moye

Self - Author, Freedom Flyers

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Alexander Jefferson

Self - Pilot, 332nd Fighter Group (archive footage)

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Marilyn Jeffers Walton

Self - Author, From Interrogation to Liberation

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Иосиф Сталин

Self (archive footage)

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Winston Churchill

Self - British Prime Minister (voice) (archive footage)

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Adolf Hitler

Self - Leader of the Nazis (archive footage)

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