Masters of the Air - from the makers of Band of Brothers and The Pacific

I stand by my earlier assessments at the top of this page regarding the storytelling advantages of Band of Brothers, the The Pacific, vs this shows shortcomings due to the nature of the story theyre telling.

Overall its like 7/10 not bad. Read rhe book, they didnt make up much.
 
Overall I liked it. They could have cut out the Tuskeegee Airmen, the Female Spy, and the holocaust porn without losing anything, but those inclusions did not amount to any substantial detraction either.

Read rhe book, they didnt make up much.
Did Crosby admit to having a wartime affair in the book or is that made up for TV? I know war can make people do things they normally wouldnt but it seemed out of character for him to cheat on his wife.
 
Perhaps but modern warfare isn't everyone's cup of tea. What about Generation War? Have you seen it and if so what did you think?
Generation War was a mess. Three episodes was too little time for any story depth. They also tried to make every single German soldier that was young out to be some type of conscripted and reluctant fighter who hated the Nazi Party and were suckered into fighting for Hitler and they were one bad experience away from total mutiny. And once they get into the war they realize that Hitler was a bad guy and that they just need to survive the battles long enough for the war to end so that they can rebuild Germany without the Nazi Party. It's like every character below age 25 that is German hates all Nazis and wants America to takeover their country.

One of the early storylines is a young German girl whoring herself to high ranking Nazis to secure free passage for her jewish friends. Another main character is a deserter from the Germany military. Another storyline has a Polish resistance group get infiltrated by a jew and instead of killing him they just let him go as if he won't alert some Allied authorities. Because they can't show a jew getting killed so instead a spy is just allowed to freely walk despite knowing the real names of a bunch of resistance fighters.

It's basically a modern revisionist tale of WWII that was safe enough to be shown on television to the masses. And even then it wasn't enough because practically every media outlet complained it didn't show the Germans as being evil enough.
 
Did Crosby admit to having a wartime affair in the book or is that made up for TV? I know war can make people do things they normally wouldnt but it seemed out of character for him to cheat on his wife.
Yes he did. Its in Crosby's book Wing and a Prayer, which came out in the 90s. Its perfectly average as a war memoir goes.

The 100th also had a few guys spend some time in the Soviet union similar to the "overfly to africa" mission. The common comment amongst the airmen was that Russian women have huge knockers.

For what its worth, Rosenthal did have a similar experience on his journey back to the 8th after being shot down if I'm remembering correctly. Of if you want to be overly suspicious, he was a jewish lawyer from New York that was an assistant prosecutor at Nuremberg.
 
What about Generation War?
Utter trash. Fictional characters that behave and talk like modern young millennials. Production values of a made for TV movie. Retarded combat scenes. Nazi apologism, as if they weren't voted in power by the people and universally supported throughout the war.

There's nothing redeeming about it, not sure why it's always brought up should be swept in the dust bin. The only thing it has in common to proper WW2 miniseries is that it's set in WW2.
 
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