War has played a key role in the history of the United States, from the nation's founding

right down to the present. War made the U.S. independent, kept it together, increased its

size, and established it as a global superpower. Understanding America's wars is essential for understanding American history.

Welcome to Key Battles of American History,

a podcast in which we discuss American history through the lens of the most important battles of America's wars.

Here is your host, James Early.

Thank you. host, James Early. Hello and welcome back to Masters of the Air.

This is Sean McIvers and my episode by episode discussion of the recent Apple TV

Plus miniseries of the same name, Masters of the Air. We are now on the

final episode. We're going to be discussing part nine. And boy, that went by quick, didn't it,

Sean? Yeah. Yeah. As fast as a P-51 Mustang. Yeah. It feels like anyway, but that's just kind of how

life is these days. It's flying by. In our like anyway, but that's just kind of how life is these days.

It's flying by.

In our last episode, we actually were introduced to some new characters.

We met three flyers from the Tuskegee Airmen, Robert Macon, Alexander Jefferson, and Robert Daniels.

And they ended up getting shot down, and they

were put in Stalag 3, sorry, Stahlogluv 3. And there they met Buck Cleven, Bucky Egan,

and a lot of the other guys we've met along the way and did what all prisoners do.

They worked, they ate, they talked about back home, they plotted an escape, and did all kinds of things.

And we also saw Rosie and, of course, Harry Crosby.

I will say David Crosby, wrong Crosby.

So we saw them doing their own things. Crosby, of course, was back at Thorpe Abbottes,

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