Local Historian, UNL archival records reveal deeper history behind Nebraska-based bomb group in Apple TV+’s ‘Masters of the Air’

Local Historian, UNL archival records reveal deeper history behind Nebraska-based bomb group in Apple TV+’s ‘Masters of the Air’
  • The ground crew of the 100th Bomb Group poses in front of a B-17 aircraft at the Kearney Air Force Base around 1943. Photo courtesy of Chandler Lynch, 74, a Kearney resident and historian, and the Buffalo County Historical Society. Lynch’s father, with whom he shares a name, kneels second from the right in the bottom row.
    The ground crew of the 100th Bomb Group poses in front of a B-17 aircraft at the Kearney Air Force Base around 1943. Photo courtesy of Chandler Lynch, 74, a Kearney resident and historian, and the Buffalo County Historical Society. Lynch’s father, with whom he shares a name, kneels second from the right in the bottom row.
KEARNEY--A Kearney historian and archival records from the University of Nebraska-Lincolnrevealed more about the bomb group featured in a new Apple TV+ miniseries.“Masters of the Air” is a miniseries about the 100th Bomb Group in the United States Army Air Force during World War II. The airmen in the group learned to fly B-17 aircraft and trained for aerial combat at Kearney Air Force Base. The…

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