“Masters of the Air” Author Donald L. Miller

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We are proud to welcome author Donald L. Miller to VBC Happy Hour with Glenn Flickinger hosting. Donald’s book, Masters of the Air, is the inspiration for the major Apple TV+ series, premiering January 26, 2024!
The riveting history of the American Eighth Air Force in World War II and the young men who flew the bombers that helped beat the Nazis and liberate Europe, brilliantly told by historian and World War II expert Donald L. Miller. The Masters of the Air streaming series stars Austin Butler and Callum Turner, and is produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, the legendary duo behind Band of Brothers and The Pacific.
Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who brought the war to Hitler’s doorstep. With the narrative power of fiction, Donald Miller takes you on a harrowing ride through the fire-filled skies over Berlin, Hanover, and Dresden and describes the terrible cost of bombing for the German people.
Fighting at 25,000 feet in thin, freezing air that no warriors had ever encountered before, bomber crews battled new kinds of assaults on body and mind. Air combat was deadly but intermittent: periods of inactivity and anxiety were followed by short bursts of fire and fear. Unlike infantrymen, bomber boys slept on clean sheets, drank beer in local pubs, and danced to the swing music of Glenn Miller’s Air Force band, which toured US air bases in England. But they had a much greater chance of dying than ground soldiers.
The bomber crews were an elite group of warriors who were a microcosm of America-white America, anyway. The actor Jimmy Stewart was a bomber boy, and so was the “King of Hollywood,” Clark Gable. And the air war was filmed by Oscar-winning director William Wyler and covered by reporters like Andy Rooney and Walter Cronkite, all of whom flew combat missions with the men. The Anglo-American bombing campaign against Nazi Germany was the longest military campaign of World War II, a war within a war. Until Allied soldiers crossed into Germany in the final months of the war, it was the only battle fought inside the German homeland.
Masters of the Air is a story of life in wartime England and in the German prison camps, where tens of thousands of airmen spent part of the war. It ends with a vivid description of the grisly hunger marches captured airmen were forced to make near the end of the war through the country their bombs destroyed.
Drawn from recent interviews, oral histories, and American, British, German, and other archives, Masters of the Air is an authoritative, deeply moving account of the world’s first and only bomber war.
Thank you to Tobacco Free Adagio Health for sponsoring this event!
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  • @joefried6604
    @joefried66045 ай бұрын

    55 year old Arm Chair Historian Raised by 22 year old decorated Army Vet as a proud Army Brat Sidney Eli Friedman Passed 10-28-2022 at 88 .. My Pops 🙏❤️ My Dad wanted me to have a better financial life and convinced me not To join military .I have had a good life but I have this hole on my heart that I should have joined . Not Pops Fault Anyway LOVE this Show . Not many out there with the breadth and depth of this show . Gem for you folks ; Panzer Commander Book/ Audiobook absolute best book ever written from the German POV . ( Stephen Ambrose wrote the Book ) The man narrating is An American 🇺🇸 going into German Panzer Commander character . if you will ..... absolute GOLD 🏆🏆 WW2 will be spoken and written about 5000 years from now .

  • @garyarmitage9359
    @garyarmitage93595 ай бұрын

    I was a History Major and graduated from Lafayette College in 1969. Read a bomber squadron diary written by Jim Hazen's Dad. At 1st just mentioning losses in the diary until they saw their1st jet. Didn't know what it was at first and then the notes were either No jets today or jets hit us. Amazing.

  • @HITPHOMES
    @HITPHOMES7 ай бұрын

    My dad was in the 100th and never discussed the war. I’m a member of the 100th Foundation and this series will serve as a way for many of us to learn about the experiences our dads never shared. Thank you, Don, for your time and dedication to the heroes we all grew up with.

  • @deh4848

    @deh4848

    6 ай бұрын

    Have you been to the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth? It is located near the birthplace of the 8th Air Force in Savannah, GA

  • @barbaramosley8123
    @barbaramosley81237 ай бұрын

    🤔😳😁I’M TRULY LEARNING A LOT THAT I DIDNOT KNOW!

  • @barbaramosley8123
    @barbaramosley81237 ай бұрын

    😳WOW ‘Thank You For Sharing Your STORY MEMORIES

  • @barbaramosley8123
    @barbaramosley81237 ай бұрын

    My Beloved Father Was In WAR-WAR-2 AND HAD NIGHTMARES DREAMS!

  • @russellsmith8444
    @russellsmith84447 ай бұрын

    Wow. What an incredible interview. More people should see this! RG

  • @barbaramosley8123
    @barbaramosley81237 ай бұрын

    Respectfully I Started Writing My Book 📕 And I Said To Myself ‘ BE MY BOOK AMEN 🙏🏾

  • @barbaramosley8123
    @barbaramosley81237 ай бұрын

    MY QUESTION. ‘DO YOU HAVE NIGHTMARE DREAMS?

  • @barbaramosley8123
    @barbaramosley81237 ай бұрын

    Respectfully My Beloved Father Was In War-War-2 On The Ground Sniper

  • @barbaramosley8123
    @barbaramosley81237 ай бұрын

    📬 YESSSSSS I BELONGED TO THE VETERAN BREAKFAST CLUB AND ABSOLUTELY BLESSED TO DONATED EVERY WEEK!!!!!!😁

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