HBO series about the 8th AF

[Pat Carry]

Anyone know when its supposed to air?

[Thomas Reilly]

In 2015, here is a link with more information: http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-art ... llars.html

-Thomas Reilly

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http://warbirdwatcher.blog.com

[jtramo]

I was hoping for some updated info as well. All news seems to stop after last Spring.

[Jerry O'Neill]

I haven't heard much lately, except that my friend was hired to build three replica ball turret mounts for the series and they are about to be shipped out.

[B25PBYGUY]

From what I have learned, it's supposed to run 10hrs. It will center on 3 'characters' within the 100th BG with everything/everyone revolving around them throughout the campaign. Not unlike The Pacific. I have flown the head scriptwriter, the head of production, and Don Miller, (author of Masters of the Air) in the B-17.
Read 'Master's of the Air'.

[Pat Carry]

From what I have learned, it's supposed to run 10hrs. It will center on 3 'characters' within the 100th BG with everything/everyone revolving around them throughout the campaign. Not unlike The Pacific. I have flown the head scriptwriter, the head of production, and Don Miller, (author of Masters of the Air) in the B-17.
Read 'Master's of the Air'.

A very good book!

[Dan Johnson II]

From what I have learned, it's supposed to run 10hrs. It will center on 3 'characters' within the 100th BG with everything/everyone revolving around them throughout the campaign. Not unlike The Pacific. I have flown the head scriptwriter, the head of production, and Don Miller, (author of Masters of the Air) in the B-17.
Read 'Master's of the Air'.

Hmmm. Who would you speculate on? Harry Crosby, Robert Rosenthall and...

The first two were around for a long time with the 100th, if memory serves from the early days until the end of the war. Crosby's book is a good one too, and anyone who ever read about Flying Forts as a kid like I did, had to have read Joblonski's book "Flying Fortress" and the section devoted to the 100th sure includes those two guys. "Just a Snappin", "Rosies Riveters" and "Hang the Expense" come to mind with the 17s. Wasn't the real "Piccadilly Lily" that Bernie Lay went to Regensberg in, also a 100th 17? 12 O'Clock High, isn't the same book without Lay's use of his description of that mission almost word for word in the book.

I'm a bit more hopeful on that series now.

[6trn4brn]

Just a little side note...when I was a volunteer at the Grissom Air Museum near Kokomo, Indiana a number of years ago, there was a wonderful gentleman there name Rollie Douglas who was a former ball turret gunner with the 100th. When his ball turret was replaced with a Mickey radar, he was transferred to a gunners pool. On December 31, 1944, he was a fill-in tail gunner on a B-17. He told me that as they were over the target, he looked up and remembers seeing a plane that he had been a gunner on in the past. At almost the same moment, the plane above him took a direct hit of flak in her bomb bay. A large section of it's wing came down and cut his plane in half. The tail section which he was trapped in, went into a spiral and the centrifugal force would not allow him to unbuckle and get out. Somehow, he managed to finally claw his way out, pulled his rip cord and almost immediately his feet hit the surface of a small frozen pond. He became a guest of the Luftwaffe shortly afterwards (his words). Said he got all the sawdust bread he could eat and black water he could drink for the remainder of the war.

Rollie was always there on Saturdays and loved to talk about fishing and girls. He would talk to everybody about his time with the 100th...all the friends he had and all the friends he lost during the war. A spectacular human being. If he is still a volunteer there and you have the time on a Saturday, stop in and visit with Rollie, you will not regret it. Oh yeah, they have a very nice collection of planes at Grissom as well.

Sorry if I got this thread side tracked. The mention of ball turret gunners with the 100th immediately reminded me of so many wonderful hours spent listening to SSgt Douglas

[PbyCat-Guy]

If it will be anything like Band Of Brothers or Pacific, this one will be excellent as well.