![]() ![]() ![]() The American bomber force based in England lost more men than the entire Marine Corps lost in the savagely contested Pacific theater. ![]() They were flying what amounted to suicide missions. ![]() But the young bomber boys suffer horribly as well. The bombers not only hit military installations, but kill thousands of civilians when the bombs stray from their targets in tightly packed cities. “It’s blunt and highly realistic, and deals with war in a hard, pitiless manner. Miller notes that the dramatic, character-based series follows his book closely and that everything in the film actually happened, and every character is based on a real-life airman. Others deal with life on base in rural England, survival inside German prison camps, airmen on leave in heavily bombed London, and Germans under the bombs in factories and cities inside the Reich.” “Some of the episodes in the film take place entirely inside the plane during furious air battles. The plane is called a ‘flying fortress,’ because it’s a heavily armed war machine but once you get inside it you quickly realize you’re in a tight, thin-skinned aluminum tube-almost like a submarine-that’s highly vulnerable,” explains Miller. “We’re filming a lot inside the plane, because a good part of the story is about men under fire, and how they hold up emotionally and physically. To hear Miller tell it, the series will bring viewers right into the interior of the famed B-17-the plane known during WWII as the “flying fortress.” CBB9D8 Trainee pilots rush to their aircraft prior to a flight. ![]()
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