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Callum Turner and Austin Butler MASTERS OF THE AIR, PART FOUR
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MASTERS OF THE AIR PART 2 and PART 4
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MASTERS OF THE AIR — part 4
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If you don't follow the 100th Bomb Group Foundation on Facebook then you are missing out on some great historical information associated with Masters of the Air. The one post of theirs that really hit close for me was this one:
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"Sammy, better known as Sam Hurry, played by Alfie Tempest. Sam Hurry grew up near Thorpe Abbotts and was a frequent visitor to the 351st Bomb Squadron. “On the base, I was unofficially adopted by the American servicemen who welcomed me,” he wrote. “They shared a variety of experiences and insights broader than the small village school could provide.” Sam was also allowed to assist with various jobs on base including washing down dispersal points after an aircraft left for a mission. “The hardstand was covered with 100-octane aviation fuel,” Sam recalled, “and we would be given a lighted rag to throw onto the concrete which immediately burst into flames, burning all the oil and grease off and leaving the area clean and ready for the aircraft to return.” The time after the Hundredth departed in 1945 was hard for Sam. “The silence was unnerving,” he wrote, “the atmosphere was ghostly.” It was the most difficult period of our young lives to adjust to an emptiness that was not of our making.” As an adult, Sam never forgot the veterans that he came to know during the war. “Thorpe Abbotts had etched itself into my heart,” he wrote, and when he found that local people had started an effort to restore the Control Tower as a 100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum, he joined them.
In 1979, the 100th Bomb Group Association elected Sam an honorary member and he attended five reunions in the US. Sam Hurry passed away in 2014, and his story lives on. (Photos courtesy of Apple TV+ and Malcolm Finnis)
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Callum Turner and Austin Butler MASTERS OF THE AIR, PART SIX
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"What took you so long?"
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"Hearing his voice over the radio, that was the first time that I didn't feel scared shitless."
Robert 'Rosie' Rosenthal in Masters of the Air | 1x06
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"Masters of the Air details: Part 1-Graphics
"[...]I had the pleasure of working with the graphics department on many topics from navigation to mission planning, forms, manuals, research and just plain answering questions.
"Dan Burke was the department head but I mostly worked with Megan Jones and her wonderful pup Indy.
"When on set, like in one of the offices that you have seen in the first two episodes or anywhere else in the series, you will see bulletin boards, clip boards, file folders and in/out trays and typewriters filled with paperwork. If you were able to pick up one of these documents you will find actual 100th BG documents faithfully recreated and they are also pertinent to the specific time of the scene. And I am not just talking a page on top but all the way through the stack!
"The mission orders came in to the bomb groups via teletype machines and were printed out on special sized roll paper. Meg found a guy who had working WWII teletypes and then she found the exact paper. She printed up the correct mission reports and they were coming out of the machines and looked great!
"One of the things that Meg asked me about was the navigation paperwork. Crosby had several scenes where he was navigating and just what kind of paperwork would he have had?
"Charts, maps and navigators logs was the answer to begin with and I had brought examples of those with me to teach the actors how to look like they could navigate. I even had some of my Dad's paperwork and nav kit along. Meg recreated his bare nav log to use with Crosby's scenes.
"We then looked in to the mission routes so we could fill out the nav logs and mark the charts and big briefing wall map accurately. I dove in to the archives mission files that they had procured from sources in the US but since this was deep in the middle of COVID the archives were closed down and getting additional research information was problematic. The National Archives in the UK opened up and I was there on the weekend doing research. Instead of the multi generation degraded copies that production received from the US these files were all original and in perfect condition. Incredible stuff for sure with all of the photos complete with Air Ministry water marks on the back of the paper.
"In the mission files were the planned route of the mission and also the actual route flown which were often quite different. I dug in to the files and was able to plot out the planned and actual mission routes on charts that Meg had reproduced. For the pilot types reading this I also plotted all of the routes on ForeFlight to help with quick calculations for the headings as we actually put in the winds that were encountered and reported in the mission file. Meg ended up getting Foreflight so we could share the plots and work out the future missions.
"One of the things that I hadn't realized but was revealed in the reports was just how much time was spent in forming up the whole attacking armada. Each bomb group would all take off and form up over their own air field. Then they would go to specific assembly areas and form up the wings and full task force. It took two, three or more hours of flying just to do this over the UK before they headed toward fortress Europe. Amazing really and it explains why so many aircrew died during this from collisions climbing through the ugly weather. Hundreds and then thousands of aircraft all coming up through the heavy cloud layer on instruments trying not to hit each other. A lot of them did and a near miss sequence is depicted in the series.
"So when you see the paperwork, posters, maps, teletypes and amazing other details you can appreciate the efforts of Megan and the graphics department. And all of the other departments, Some of which I will try to highlight in future posts if this is of interest." - (Taigh Ramey on Facebook)
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Hi! Do you know what movie the men were watching in the latest episode when they get the signal for another mission?
rosie and the gang were watching a scene from the 1943 abbot & costello film Hit the Ice! also, i can't believe how fast i recognized it!
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Buck² talking about Marge (2/2) – MOTA Part Seven
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AUSTIN BUTLER as GALE 'BUCK' CLEVEN MASTERS OF THE AIR · part seven
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Anti Aircraft crew, 1940.
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Joan Fontaine in This Above All (1942) Directed by Anatole Litvak
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“New Military Librarian,” Montreal Star. March 25, 1942. Page 12. —- The country is making heavy demands on Canada’s women to volunteer for service in the Canadian Women’s Army Corps to release fit men from sedentary occupations for more active service in the front line. Picture shows Miss Jean Shum, of Montreal. She recently completed a course of training at Macdonald College CWAC Training Centre and has now been appointed librarian at M.D. 4 Headquarters. She is handing Q.M.Sgt. W. A. Kertland the military manuals he has requested. This picture illustrates only one of the scores of jobs that women are able to do in the Canadian Army. Applicants are interviewed at the Sun Life Building where military headquarters are located.
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MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE eliza & william + height difference
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Audrey Hall + hugs
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