I'm English and had an uncle I never met who died piloting a Mosquito in WW2.
His sister, my mum, was a radar operator during the Battle Of Britain. They were born into a working class family whose father was a miner in the Northumberland coalfields.
The vast majority of the RAF during 1939-1945 were ordinary Middle or Working Class men & women not Lords & Ladies all related to the Royal Family..
So It was offensive to see the RAF portrayed as cowardly toffs who dropped their bombs on helpless civilians whilst the noble USAAF destroyed their targets in a wave of accurate bombing as shown in E2 where they destroyed the Kiel U Boat pens.
The reality was that in over 2000 sorties against U Boat pens in France & Germany the USAAF inflicted next to no damage for the loss of 119 bombers and 1190 men.
Also the famed Norden bombsight was not much different to RAF raids generally scoring about 30% within 300 yards of the target and the other 70 percent blew the crap out of the surrounding area which included German/French civilians.
We adopted area bombing because even with our newest bombsights we could not accurately destroy a target.
This seemed to be frowned upon by our new USAAF friends in Ep2 but shortly after General LeMay did exactly the same thing to Japan.
Of course every American was good looking and a wow with the ladies whilst our lads bumbling idiots.
Why this sort of nonsense was thought of as good TV I don't know.
In reality Brits & Yanks got on well enough with each other although some of our boys (they were mostly kids) resented these 'Johnny Come Lately's after 3 years of fighting Hitler's best in the air. WE destroyed the German's best pilots in the Battle Of Britain and and lets not forget our brave Commonwealth friends who had fought and died with us well before the Americans turned up. AND yes it included some very brave Americans who came here when the war began and joined the RAF some even fighting in the BOB.
So we weren't just a bunch of toffee nosed cowards as we had already experimented with Daylight Raids and been slaughtered so with the tech we had decided Night Bombing helped save our brave bomber crews.
So that scene where US & British pilots had a stupid fist fight after a discussion on Daylight v Night time pretty much summed up this pitiful drama.
We lost 56000 of our bomber crews and 1000s of our ground crews.
This not counting fighter pilots who died.
And so did many a brave lad from the States who lived some place nobody had ever heard of which now has a plaque somewhere commemorating his sacrifice.
So setting the US against the British is shallow and nasty.
The rest isn't up to much either. Cardboard cut out characters nobody remembers once the credits roll. Poor CGI rendered bombing raids. Lazy writing using cliché after cliché.
This maybe tried to be Band of Brothers but it is not BOB. Even as an Englishman, who had many relatives who fought in WW1 & WW2, that series is probably the best WW2 TV drama ever. The real men portrayed in the series were brought to life brilliantly and watching you shared the loss when they lost friends killed or maimed.
This lot ....nothing.
His sister, my mum, was a radar operator during the Battle Of Britain. They were born into a working class family whose father was a miner in the Northumberland coalfields.
The vast majority of the RAF during 1939-1945 were ordinary Middle or Working Class men & women not Lords & Ladies all related to the Royal Family..
So It was offensive to see the RAF portrayed as cowardly toffs who dropped their bombs on helpless civilians whilst the noble USAAF destroyed their targets in a wave of accurate bombing as shown in E2 where they destroyed the Kiel U Boat pens.
The reality was that in over 2000 sorties against U Boat pens in France & Germany the USAAF inflicted next to no damage for the loss of 119 bombers and 1190 men.
Also the famed Norden bombsight was not much different to RAF raids generally scoring about 30% within 300 yards of the target and the other 70 percent blew the crap out of the surrounding area which included German/French civilians.
We adopted area bombing because even with our newest bombsights we could not accurately destroy a target.
This seemed to be frowned upon by our new USAAF friends in Ep2 but shortly after General LeMay did exactly the same thing to Japan.
Of course every American was good looking and a wow with the ladies whilst our lads bumbling idiots.
Why this sort of nonsense was thought of as good TV I don't know.
In reality Brits & Yanks got on well enough with each other although some of our boys (they were mostly kids) resented these 'Johnny Come Lately's after 3 years of fighting Hitler's best in the air. WE destroyed the German's best pilots in the Battle Of Britain and and lets not forget our brave Commonwealth friends who had fought and died with us well before the Americans turned up. AND yes it included some very brave Americans who came here when the war began and joined the RAF some even fighting in the BOB.
So we weren't just a bunch of toffee nosed cowards as we had already experimented with Daylight Raids and been slaughtered so with the tech we had decided Night Bombing helped save our brave bomber crews.
So that scene where US & British pilots had a stupid fist fight after a discussion on Daylight v Night time pretty much summed up this pitiful drama.
We lost 56000 of our bomber crews and 1000s of our ground crews.
This not counting fighter pilots who died.
And so did many a brave lad from the States who lived some place nobody had ever heard of which now has a plaque somewhere commemorating his sacrifice.
So setting the US against the British is shallow and nasty.
The rest isn't up to much either. Cardboard cut out characters nobody remembers once the credits roll. Poor CGI rendered bombing raids. Lazy writing using cliché after cliché.
This maybe tried to be Band of Brothers but it is not BOB. Even as an Englishman, who had many relatives who fought in WW1 & WW2, that series is probably the best WW2 TV drama ever. The real men portrayed in the series were brought to life brilliantly and watching you shared the loss when they lost friends killed or maimed.
This lot ....nothing.