Ep 108: Donald L. Miller on Masters of the Air

School of War · Jan 30, 2024 · 1h 10m

Donald L. Miller, historian and author of Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany, the book behind Apple TV+’s Masters of the Air, joins the show to talk about the air war over Europe during WWII.

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Times

• 01 :41 Introduction

• 02:12 Growing up “surrounded by the war”

• 15:35 Both sides are losing

• 25:23 Highest percentage of casualties

• 34:36 Mass vs mass

• 37:20 A new battlefield

• 42:49 “Almost nothing held up.”

• 44:46 Robert Rosenthal

• 48:57 Working with Tom Hanks

• 53:51 Recreating air combat

• 56:02 Gil Cohen, Greyhound, and Das Boot

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