re: "Masters of the Air" | WWII Miniseries | Apple+ Trailer

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So why would you want to send bombers up against fighters with a negative loss rate? That’s a poor use of a limited resource and demonstrates poor generalship by incurring unnecessary casualties.

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Because they had to do something. They couldn't just sit in England. There was pressure to take the war to Germany. Every day they waited was another day for Germany to entrench themselves and exploit the resources of the continent.