James Delingpole James Delingpole

The unique hell of being a wartime bomber pilot

Apple TV+'s Masters of the Air captures the pant-wetting horror of those terrifying missions quite brilliantly

Masters of the Air opens in medias res with the rookie crews on their first mission over Germany: Barry Keoghan and Austin Butler in the Apple TV+ series

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