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Masters of the Air Recap: Literally the Fog of War
The Bloody Hundredth’s numbers are further reduced.
The episode opens in the briefing room, where James Murray’s immaculately mustached Colonel Neil “Chick” Harding lays it out: Today’s adventure will be a “maximum effort” raid by three task forces totaling more than 600 airplanes — “the largest air armada in the history of mankind!” he crows, probably because he knows the flyers of the Bloody Hundredth will need all the confidence they can get. In that briefing, Harding mentions that Major John “Bucky” Egan (Callum Turner) will be assigned to Captain Charles “Crank” Cruikshank ’s bomber as a “reserve command pilot.” He hesitates before speaking that phrase because he’s just invented it. On another plane, Alice From Dallas, a babyfaced gunner explains to two impatient others why they must wait to take off: Even an obstacle as ordinary as a cow in the runway could “accordion” the thin aluminum skin of their perhaps misnamed Flying Fortress, a war machine as vulnerable on the ground as it was formidable in the air.
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