Masters Of The Air (Apple TV+)

[mariomike]

What might be concluded from studying Normandy - and might remain true - is that battlefield air interdiction is a more effective use of airpower than close air support. (My conclusion, anyways.)

One thing that hopefully is remembered is the wonderful assistance given by the average French family to the airmen whose misfortune it was to be shot down.

ACM Sir Basil Embry wrote:

It is perhaps difficult for anyone who has not lived under the oppression of German occupation and witnessed first-hand the frightful evil of Gestapo police methods to appreciate fully what it meant to work in direct opposition to them.
The married man or woman caught harbouring an Allied airman brought reprisals on the whole family - even small children were put to death. This was the price for patriotism, and as the Gestapo held most of the cards, the odds were strongly in their favour.
Their peril was far greater than that of the airman whom they helped, because if the evader was caught, he would merely become a prisoner of war, but if they were found helping or sheltering him they were tortured and shot.