Part Six
- Episode aired Feb 23, 2024
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- 1h 1m
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Rosie and his crew are sent to rest at a country estate. Crosby meets an intriguing British officer at Oxford. Egan faces the essence of Nazi evil.Rosie and his crew are sent to rest at a country estate. Crosby meets an intriguing British officer at Oxford. Egan faces the essence of Nazi evil.Rosie and his crew are sent to rest at a country estate. Crosby meets an intriguing British officer at Oxford. Egan faces the essence of Nazi evil.
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- TriviaWhile not accurate for John Egan's actual evasion and capture in Germany, the experiences shown by his character in this episode were very strongly based on the actual incident named the Russelsheim Massacre, where six American airmen were executed by an angry mob of German civilians, while their two armed guards stood by idle. One uniformed air warden, armed with a semi-automatic pistol, emptied his magazine while shooting all six in the head to ensure they were dead. The incident started when two German women called the airmen, "terror flyers," and one threw a brick to the head of an airman.
Finally, again as portrayed, those airmen who failed to escape were taken by a cart to a nearby cemetery and buried in a mass grave. One event that happened in reality, but not portrayed in the scene was that an air raid siren sounded off at the height of the violence, causing the mob to stop and flee in fear. This allowed two of the six airmen to escape. Their reports were integral to the post-war investigation.
The American prosecutor was Lt. Col. Leon Jaworski, who was the special prosecutor in the Watergate hearing. He insisted on individual accountability for war crimes and secured eight convictions with one acquittal. Six German civilians and the air warden were sentenced to death. The two others were sentenced to 15 and 25 years in prison. One of the death sentences was later commuted to 30 years of hard labor, and the other five were hanged.
- GoofsWhen Robert Rosenthal comes into the doctor's room at the English estate and comes over to the record player, the photograph is playing 33RPM records that did not exist until 1948, and the tone arm (and likely the whole machine) is a Garrard model dating from the 1950s, likely a Garrard RC-80.
- Quotes
Sandra Westgate: [On surprising a near naked Crosby] Oh, don't worry. I've seen men in much less, Captain. Big family. Small house. Few doors.
- ConnectionsReferences Test Pilot (1938)
Featured review
PART 6
Episode 6 of Masters of the Air showcases the ability to create tension, stakes, dread, and interesting character development without putting its heroes inside a plane. The show's final moments only touch on the air force base, which has been the center of the show. The harrowing storyline begins with Bucky (Callum Turner) landing deep in German territory and being captured by German farmers. He is taken on a series of voyages that show the brutality of war. The scene where Bucky and other unlucky POWs are paraded through a bombed-out German town gives him a new perspective on the war, revealing that Americans are not viewed as the "great liberators" they signed up to be.
From there, Bucky's journey becomes safer, but his fate is essentially sealed. He arrives for interrogation with Lieutenant Haussmann (Louis Hoffman), but refuses to give anything more than his name, rank, and serial number. The scene never rises above "we're not so different, you and I" territory, but it is redeemed by the equally horrific, wordless scene as Bucky is taken to the train. The show has turned a corner and is living up to its potential, demonstrating that it can create tension and stakes without putting its heroes inside a plane. In episode 6, Crosby attends a lecture in Oxford and meets his British counterparts, while Rosenthal (Nate Mann) is sent to a countryside estate to escape recent events. The purpose of this plotline is to give Crosby an outlet for his feelings about the war and the death of his friend Bubbles. He meets Alessandra Subatern Westgate (Bel Powley), an unspecified British member of the RAF who serves as his roommate. Despite her terrible writing skills, Westgate knows the torment soldiers face firsthand and provides a shoulder for Crosby to cry on. Rosie is ordered to take time off at the "flak house," a posh estate in the English countryside, after three missions in three days. He prefers to get back in the cockpit than talk about his feelings. This segment of episode 6 is the most effective, showing the psychological effects of the war in interesting ways. Rosie sees a fellow soldier crying uncontrollably in solitude, a profound moment of introspection for him. The contrast between the endings of Rosie and Bucky's storylines elicits interesting thematic material. Bucky is in a terrible situation in a Nazi POW camp, but he's now reunited with Buck, whom he believed dead. Rosie, in a safer place by the end, is filled with fear and uncertainty. While episode 6 is far from perfect, it's hard to not be excited for the remaining episodes of Masters of the Air.
From there, Bucky's journey becomes safer, but his fate is essentially sealed. He arrives for interrogation with Lieutenant Haussmann (Louis Hoffman), but refuses to give anything more than his name, rank, and serial number. The scene never rises above "we're not so different, you and I" territory, but it is redeemed by the equally horrific, wordless scene as Bucky is taken to the train. The show has turned a corner and is living up to its potential, demonstrating that it can create tension and stakes without putting its heroes inside a plane. In episode 6, Crosby attends a lecture in Oxford and meets his British counterparts, while Rosenthal (Nate Mann) is sent to a countryside estate to escape recent events. The purpose of this plotline is to give Crosby an outlet for his feelings about the war and the death of his friend Bubbles. He meets Alessandra Subatern Westgate (Bel Powley), an unspecified British member of the RAF who serves as his roommate. Despite her terrible writing skills, Westgate knows the torment soldiers face firsthand and provides a shoulder for Crosby to cry on. Rosie is ordered to take time off at the "flak house," a posh estate in the English countryside, after three missions in three days. He prefers to get back in the cockpit than talk about his feelings. This segment of episode 6 is the most effective, showing the psychological effects of the war in interesting ways. Rosie sees a fellow soldier crying uncontrollably in solitude, a profound moment of introspection for him. The contrast between the endings of Rosie and Bucky's storylines elicits interesting thematic material. Bucky is in a terrible situation in a Nazi POW camp, but he's now reunited with Buck, whom he believed dead. Rosie, in a safer place by the end, is filled with fear and uncertainty. While episode 6 is far from perfect, it's hard to not be excited for the remaining episodes of Masters of the Air.
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