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Ep 69 – Masters of the Air – Tuskegee Airmen, POW Marches and Closing Thoughts (Part Three)

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In this episode of Rosie the Reviewer, we’re wrapping up our three-part journey through Masters of the Air with a look at episodes 7-9.  We’re once again joined by George! From the marches out of Stalag Luft III to Rosie Rosenthal’s decision to fly more missions and Croz sleeping through D-Day. We get into the show’s depiction of the Tuskegee Airmen and see where everybody ends up. Safe flight, Masters!

If you haven’t yet, check out parts one and two of our Masters of the Air series.

Other mentions episodes are: Red Tails, The Great Escape and our chat with MotA actors Bailey Brook and Kai Alexander.

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Book Rec by Sam

Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman and POW by Alexander Jefferson and Lewis H. Carlson is a war memoir about the experiences of African-American Tuskegee Airmen pilot Alexander Jefferson, who was shot down and spent much of the war in a POW camp. The book contains a delightful multitude of drawings from Jefferson’s time in the camp, and threaded through anecdotes both funny and poignant is the grim but necessary reminder that Jefferson experienced better treatment by the Nazis he encountered than by white Americans. It’s a short book, but you’ll absolutely get a sense for the kind of man he was.

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