
Meet the real-life airmen who inspired Masters of the Air as they share the harrowing and transformative events of the 100th Bomb Group.
Casts

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
Crew
Mark Herzog · Laurent BouzereauDirected by Mark Herzog
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