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Find out when you can next take to the skies with a new episode of Masters of the Air on Apple TV+

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Dont watch this on your phone. Come to that, your TV screen isnt going to be big enough either.

The successor to big-hitter WW2 dramas Band of Brothers and The Pacific, Masters of the Air centres on the American bomber boys who came to England in 1943 to fight Nazi Germany. How real to life are the triumphs and disasters seen on screen? Historian and author Donald L Miller helps us uncover the true story

The American veterans memoir serves as the inspiration for Apple TV+s star-studded new series

Reserved but well respected, Major Gale Cleven – alias Buck – was at the emotional heart of the 'Bloody Hundredth' whose missions against Nazi Germany in WW2 are dramatised in Apple TV+'s Masters of the Air

On their first mission alone, they lost three planes and 30 men. Sky-high casualties earned them their grim nickname early on, and now their incredible story is being put on screen in an epic war drama on Apple TV+. Annabel Nugent reads up on the young men in the cockpit

On October 10 1943, the 100th Bomb Group – known as the “Bloody Hundredth” – flew as part of the US Eighth Air Force on a mission to Münster, Germany. Stationed at Thorpe Abbotts in Norfolk, the 100th Bomb Group sent 13 of its B-17 “Flying Fortress” bombers to Münster. Twelve were lost in as many minutes. Only one returned.

Apple TV‘s series tells the story of the US Air Force‘s ‘Bloody Hundredth’ Bomber Group. But how does it compare to the truth?

A companion to “Band of Brothers” and “The Pacific,” the nine-part Apple TV+ miniseries effectively conveys the terror and chaos of aerial combat, but it doesn't always tell us enough about the human beings whose lives were at stake.

The team behind Band Of Brothers bring us another epic war drama. Read the Empire review.