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Masters of the Air Recap: The Hell Over Berlin
With Buck and Bucky captured, a new hero of the Bloody Hundredth emerges.
As Harry Crosby’s narration informs us, the place was bitterly cold and the root-vegetable diet monotonous, but it was run more or less in accordance with the Geneva Convention: The captured Allied airmen interned there slept in bunks, were allowed to attend to personal hygiene, and were even given limited access to books, music, and recreation. Croz’s narration tells us the French Underground managed to smuggle these two airmen out of enemy territory intact and that per USAAF policy, they cannot now return to combat duty in Europe for fear of revealing what they’d learned of the resistance network in the event they were captured again. At the officers club, Croz — no longer narrating from the distant future but still suffering through the gnarly present of 1944 — is asking Rosie, who has only a single mission remaining on his tour, what flight-instructor posting he’ll request upon his return to the States.
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