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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 5312092, member: 44"] i'm watching Masters of the Air. It's made by the same producers of Band of Brothers and The Pacific. I'll spare any significant of write up since I'm sure most people on the board have already seen it. It's mostly about the B-17 (Flying Fortress) bombers in their daylight raids over Germany. Their losses were astounding. Interestingly, the B-17's actually did take down a significant number of German fighters. If you ask the gun Kruse, that number would be over 1000, but realistically, it's probably 3 to 400 planes that the bombers shot down. I just saw a scene with B-17's flying to bomb Berlin. German fighters were swarming around them trying to shoot them down, American P 51s were flying around, trying to shoot the German fighters down, and the B-17 gun crew are all firing. It looked like someone kicked a hornets nest. It's interesting and I'm enjoying it, but it doesn't compare to Band of Brothers, which was an amazing series. [/QUOTE]