The true story of the men who inspired Masters of the Air.
Overview
Meet the real-life airmen who inspired Masters of the Air as they share the harrowing and transformative events of the 100th Bomb Group.
Cast
Tom Hanks
Self - Narrator (voice)
Steven Spielberg
Self - Filmmaker
James Stewart
Self - Pilot, 453rd Bomb Group (archive footage)
John 'Lucky' Luckadoo
Self - Pilot, 100th Bomb Group
Robert 'Rosie' Rosenthal
Self - Pilot, 100th Bomb Group (archive footage)
John A. Clark
Self - Pilot, 100th Bomb Group
Harry Crosby
Self - Navigator, 100th Bomb Group (archive footage)
Joseph Armanini
Self - Bombardier, 100th Bomb Group
Frank Murphy
Self - Navigator, 100th Bomb Group
Owen 'Cowboy' Roane
Self - Pilot, 100th Bomb Group
Donald L. Miller
Self - Author, Masters of the Air
Seth Paridon
Self - Historian, Mississippi Armed Forces Museum
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self - United States President (archive footage)
Bruce Alshouse
Self - Tail Gunner, 100th Bomb Group
Robert Wolff
Self - Pilot, 100th Bomb Group
Gene Bankston
Self - Togglier, 100th Bomb Group (archive footage)
Thomas Jeffrey
Self - Commander, 100th Bomb Group, May 1955-February 1945
Dr. Conrad C. Crane
Self - SSI Senior Historian, US Army War College
Gen. (Ret.) Curtis Lemay
Self - Cmdr., 3rd Bombardment Division (voice) (archive sound)
Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Ira Eaker
Self - Commander., 8th Air Force, 1942-1944 (archive footage)
Randall Hansen
Self - Author, Fire and Fury
Gen. (Ret.) James Doolittle
Self - Cmdr., 8th Air Force, 1994-1954 (voice) (archive sound)
Dr. Tami Davis Biddle
Self - Author, Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self - Supreme Allied Commander (voice) (archive sound)
William 'Bill' Couch
Self - Bombardier, 100th Bomb Group
Dr. Matthew F. Delmont
Self - Author, Half American
Richard Macon
Self - Pilot, 332nd Fighter Group (archive footage)
J. Todd Moye
Self - Author, Freedom Flyers
Alexander Jefferson
Self - Pilot, 332nd Fighter Group (archive footage)
Marilyn Jeffers Walton
Self - Author, From Interrogation to Liberation
Joseph Stalin
Self (archive footage)
Winston Churchill
Self - British Prime Minister (voice) (archive sound)
Adolf Hitler
Self - Leader of the Nazis (archive footage)
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