Part Eight

Episode aired Mar 8, 2024
TV-MA
51m

IMDb RATING

7.4/10

2.1K

YOUR RATING

Action Drama History War

Crosby prepares for D-Day. The POWs wonder how the Allied landing will affect their fate. Tuskegee pilots attack targets in Southern France.Crosby prepares for D-Day. The POWs wonder how the Allied landing will affect their fate. Tuskegee pilots attack targets in Southern France.Crosby prepares for D-Day. The POWs wonder how the Allied landing will affect their fate. Tuskegee pilots attack targets in Southern France.

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IMDb RATING

7.4/10

2.1K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
Harry Crosby really did stay up for 75 hours in the run up to D-Day. He was ordered to rest the night before the operation, and awoke 24 hours later.

Goofs
While it is true that the actual Harry Crosby slept through the D-Day invasion, in reality he only slept for a full single day, not the three the episode depicted. Also, he did not collapse in the main operations room as was also depicted. Instead, he drove back to his barracks in his jeep, and on the way almost hit a tree due to his extreme fatigue.

Quotes
Lt. Alexander Jefferson: Back on that first day, all the guys looked to you. You had the final say, why didn't you gripe about us bunking in 8?
Maj. Gale 'Buck' Cleven: Well, let's just say, I at least knew you weren't spies.
Lt. Alexander Jefferson: Ain't that a bitch.

User reviews10

Featured review

7/10

odd choices

Masters of the Air started strong with some great air action, then entered mid-season doldrums and seems to be improving a little in the final stretch but with some very odd dramatic choices.

The Tuskegee Airmen can't avoid the achilles heel of this series, namely that the writing makes the characters dull and interchangeable. Introducing a bunch of new characters this late in the game is a bad idea.

The actors seem charming enough but I can't believe that a bunch of military guys have vocabularies that are clean enough for church (that goes for the white characters too).

The POW plotline still continues to be interesting but how could they simply gloss over D-Day like that? I believe that the air force was involved in some capacity, right? It's not going to be like the stellar D-Day episode that Band of Brothers did, but they could have done better.