6 real historical locations · Germany, Poland, United Kingdom
The Apple TV+ continuation of the Spielberg-Hanks WWII series follows the 100th Bomb Group — the Bloody Hundredth — of the US Eighth Air Force flying catastrophically costly daylight bombing missions over occupied Europe. The air war companion to Band of Brothers and The Pacific.
CinemaMapped has mapped 6 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Germany, Poland, United Kingdom.
The 100th Bomb Group — the 'Bloody Hundredth' — fly B-17 bombing missions over Nazi-occupied Europe from East Anglia.
The 100th Bomb Group earned its nickname 'Bloody Hundredth' after suffering catastrophic losses in 1943. On one mission to Münster, 12 of 13 aircraft failed to return. Of all USAAF bomb groups, the 100th suffered the ...
View location →The double-strike raids on Regensburg aircraft factories and Schweinfurt ball-bearing plants — among the bloodiest USAAF missions.
On August 17, 1943, the USAAF sent 376 B-17s on a double-strike mission to Regensburg and Schweinfurt. Sixty aircraft were lost — 600 airmen killed or captured in a single day. The second Schweinfurt raid in October l...
View location →Captured airmen are imprisoned at Stalag Luft III — the same camp depicted in The Great Escape.
Stalag Luft III held Allied airmen in increasingly elaborate compounds as the POW population grew. The camp housed over 10,000 prisoners by 1945. When Soviet forces approached in January 1945, 10,000 prisoners were fo...
View location →October 10, 1943 — the 100th Bomb Group's mission to Münster. Twelve of thirteen aircraft fail to return. It cements their reputation as the 'Bloody Hundredth.'
The Münster mission cost the 100th Bomb Group 12 aircraft and 120 men in a single afternoon. Four days later came Black Thursday — the second Schweinfurt raid that cost the entire 8th Air Force 77 bombers. Unescorted ...
View location →"The Big B" -- Berlin -- is the most feared target in the series, representing maximum range and the heaviest German defences. The missions to Berlin defined...
The US Eighth Air Force began sustained bombing of Berlin in March 1944. The 100th Bomb Group earned its nickname "The Bloody Hundredth" partly through catastrophic losses on long-range missions like these. Berlin air...
View location →One of the Eighth Air Force earliest and most costly targets -- Bremen U-boat yards and aircraft factories drew repeated missions from 1942, with severe loss...
Bremen was attacked by the Eighth Air Force from its earliest operations in 1942. Its Focke-Wulf aircraft factories, U-boat yards, and oil refineries made it a priority target. The missions demonstrated both the poten...
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