In this episode, we tell the story of the Night of the Intruders, when Luftwaffe fighters followed a stream of American B-24 Liberator bombers back to England and shot them out of the sky as they tried to land. Listen now
S1:E9: First over Berlin – poking the ants nest
In this episode, we tell the story of the first American daylight bombing raid over Berlin on March 4, 1944. The mission was led by the 95th Bomb Group – the only Eighth Air Force Bomb Group to receive the Distinguished Unit Citation three times. Listen now
S1:E8: Battle of the Bombers – Flying Fortress v Liberator
In this episode, we visit the American Air Museum at Duxford for a hotly contested debate: which was the best WW2 heavy bomber? Listen now
S1:E7 Masters of the Air – the legendary Bloody Hundredth
The 100th Bomb Group is probably the most famous bomb group of them all – and the focus of the Stephen Spielberg / Tom Hanks TV mini-series Masters of the Air. Listen now
S1:E6 ‘Everything that will fly’ – Christmas Eve 1944
The 'maximum effort' mission on Christmas Eve 1944 was the biggest ever by the Eighth Air Force. This was the Mighty Eighth's 760th mission – with 2,046 heavy bombers and 853 fighters taking to the sky. Listen now
S1:E5 The Mystery of Pathfinder 42-5793
In this episode, we visit the crash site and recently unveiled memorial to a top-secret B-17 Flying Fortress which crashed soon after take-off in November 1943. Listen now
S1:E4 Schweinfurt-Regensburg #1
It was the Mighty Eighth's most ambitious mission yet: a twin-strike into the heart of Nazi Germany. This dual-pronged raid on August 17, 1943, saw more than 350 B-17 bombers despatched to bomb the cities of Schweinfurt and Regensburg. Listen now
S1:E3 – The Ultimate Sacrifice
In this episode, we pay tribute to the thousands of Americans who made the ultimate sacrifice during World War Two while fighting for freedom. Listen now
S1:E2 – How to build a bomber raid
Just how do you put hundreds of B17 Flying Fortresses into the sky, send them on a bombing mission over occupied Europe – and then bring them home again? Listen now
S1:E1 – The Bomb Run
In this first episode, we visit Grafton Underwood – where B-17 bombers took to the skies for the very first America-led mission over occupied Europe. Listen now