Wow. I just finished this one and I am still feeling it. Episode 5 shifts gears again to largely focus on a single mission, with more air combat time again. This time it is Munster, and Bucky Egan is leading it to get revenge for his friend, Buck Cleven.
They really knocked this one out of the park. We feel the tension of this revenge mission, which Crosby wrote about. Crosby, btw, is back after surviving the last mission having crash-landed in a field with Blakely's crew- this shouldn't be a spoiler since it's been written about quite a bit. In any case, he gets this mission off.
And it's a good thing he did, too.
Without spoiling anything, one thing we get a sense of from episodes 3-5 is just how punishing these missions in mid-late 1943 were to the men who flew them. The cast and production here do an excellent job of showing the stress of the unrelenting battle. The difference from Band of Brothers or other such stories is that here the men who return get to sleep in a nice warm bed, have a drink, have a hot meal, etc. They get a reprieve... but they must live with the knowledge that once they get airborne their ticket could get punched at any time.
Here, we really get a glimpse into what that unrelenting lifestyle was like, and the impact it had on them. Tremendously done.
They really knocked this one out of the park. We feel the tension of this revenge mission, which Crosby wrote about. Crosby, btw, is back after surviving the last mission having crash-landed in a field with Blakely's crew- this shouldn't be a spoiler since it's been written about quite a bit. In any case, he gets this mission off.
And it's a good thing he did, too.
Without spoiling anything, one thing we get a sense of from episodes 3-5 is just how punishing these missions in mid-late 1943 were to the men who flew them. The cast and production here do an excellent job of showing the stress of the unrelenting battle. The difference from Band of Brothers or other such stories is that here the men who return get to sleep in a nice warm bed, have a drink, have a hot meal, etc. They get a reprieve... but they must live with the knowledge that once they get airborne their ticket could get punched at any time.
Here, we really get a glimpse into what that unrelenting lifestyle was like, and the impact it had on them. Tremendously done.