The Bloody Hundredth

The true story of the men who inspired Masters of the Air.

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

War Documentary History

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)

Gen. (Ret.) Curtis Lemay

(Self - Cmdr., 3rd Bombardment Division (voice) (archive footage))

Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Ira Eaker

(Self - Commander., 8th Air Force, 1942-1944 (archive footage))

Randall Hansen

(Self - Author, Fire and Fury)

Gen. (Ret.) James Doolittle

(Self - Cmdr., 8th Air Force, 1994-1954 (voice) (archive footage))

Dr. Tami Davis Biddle

(Self - Author, Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

(Self - Supreme Allied Commander (voice) (archive footage))

William 'Bill' Couch

(Self - Bombardier, 100th Bomb Group)

Dr. Matthew F. Delmont

(Self - Author, Half American)

Richard Macon

(Self - Pilot, 332nd Fighter Group (archive footage))

J. Todd Moye

(Self - Author, Freedom Flyers)

Alexander Jefferson

(Self - Pilot, 332nd Fighter Group (archive footage))

Marilyn Jeffers Walton

(Self - Author, From Interrogation to Liberation)

Tom Hanks

(Self - Narrator (voice))

Joseph Stalin

(Self (archive footage))

Winston Churchill

(Self - British Prime Minister (voice) (archive footage))

Adolf Hitler

(Self - Leader of the Nazis (archive footage))