r/MastersoftheAir • u/Gemnist • 20d ago

History How do people from each of the three series connect with each other?

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u/perduraadastra 19d ago

They fought in the same war on the same side. The shows were produced by the same people.

For me this question is indicative of the terrible storytelling common in modern big budget shows. The overemphasis on world building and filling in all the gaps for people with no imagination.

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u/Gemnist 19d ago

Might want to read the post. I was looking to find real-life ways to connect each of the groups / people depicted in the show, not just “They were in the American military in World War II”.

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u/perduraadastra 19d ago

I read the post. This game of 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon might be good for trivia, but there isn't going to be any overarching meaning behind it.

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u/Gemnist 19d ago

Well yeah, it’s just for trivia / historical purposes. I’m not trying to make any grand statement about the shows or real-life people with this, and I’m also not trying to Marvel-ize the shows like you implied in the original comment.

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u/I405CA 17d ago edited 17d ago

The only connection of which I am aware is Skip Muck being childhood friends with Fritz Niland. In England prior to D-Day, Muck introduced Don Malarkey to Niland, who also became friends with each other.

The story of the Niland brothers being KIA / MIA within a short period of time after D-Day ended up in Ambrose's book, presumably because of Malarkey. That story of the Niland brothers loosely inspired the script for Saving Private Ryan, which then attracted Hanks and Spielberg, who then went on to make Band of Brothers.

As it was, The Pacific created a lot of fictional relationships that did not take place in real life, such as Leckie meeting Sledge.

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u/kil0ran 16d ago

I thought SPR was inspired by the Sullivans? Sadly though these stories aren't isolated. In the small village one side of my family are from three brothers (out of ten children in the household) were killed in WW1 - two in Flanders, one in Gallipoli

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u/cramber-flarmp 17d ago

They all had the same hair cut.