Produced by Playtone-Amblin and narrated by Tom Hanks, the hour-long documentary spotlights the true stories of the characters and real-life airmen featured in “Masters of the Air” including John Egan, Gale Cleven, Harry Crosby, Robert “Rosie” Rosenthal, Frank Murphy, Alexander Jefferson, Richard Macon, as well as veterans John “Lucky” Luckadoo, Robert Wolf, and many others. From the shock of Pearl Harbor to the joy of VE Day, “The Bloody Hundredth” is a record of what was endured and achieved by a group of young Americans when their country and the world needed them most.
The Bloody Hundredth is directed by Mark Herzog and Laurent Bouzereau, and executive produced by Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Gary Goetzman.
The Bloody Hundredth is directed by Mark Herzog and Laurent Bouzereau, and executive produced by Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Gary Goetzman.
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00:00 Egan was in London on leave, and he got word that Cleveland had been shot down.
00:07 Egan was so incensed that he immediately canceled his leave and returned to the base and said, "I'm leading the next mission."
00:17 The Munster raid was a city-busting operation, a new thing for the Eighth Air Force.
00:22 The target was a strategically essential rail yard in the city center and also a neighborhood of workers' housing that abutted it.
00:31 In the fight against Nazi tyranny, human flesh and bone became a target, an essential part of the Reich's war machine.
00:40 There was tension in the room. A lot of the airmen, for the first time ever, questioned the mission.
00:47 Egan makes a speech that we're going to fly this one for Cleveland, and this is a revenge raid.
00:54 [END]