There’s a peaceful, almost austere beauty to the Suffolk countryside that seems a world away from the stories of war and destruction that dominate the news. But as Masters of the Air, the new Apple TV drama about American airmen in the second world war, reminds us, 80 years ago this sleepy corner of England played host to the Anglo-American aerial assault on Nazi-controlled Europe.
The show focuses on the Eighth Air Force’s 100th Bomb Group, stationed at Thorpe Abbotts in Norfolk. But there were more than 50 US bases in East Anglia in the second half of the war, and each had its legends and tragedies.
