I wrote Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Donald L. Miller but unfortunately never heard from you. My guess is that they will not show the internment of American bomber crews and fighter pilots in Switzerland and instead opt for a few episodes about bomber crews and fighter pilots imprisoned in a German air stalag, possibly showing their escape or liberation. Alternatively, they may show crews flying missions until the end of the war. But I could be wrong and it is possible that they show both, but it would require separate episodes dedicated to Switzerland.
The crew photo of the B-17 G "Dottie G" is the cover photo on the book by Donald L. Miller and it serves as the basic basis for the film series Masters of the Air. America's bomber boys who fought the air war against Nazi Germany. Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who brought the war to Hitler's doorstep. With the narrative power of fiction, Donald Miller takes readers on a harrowing ride through the fire-filled skies over Berlin, Hanover, and Dresden, describing the terrible cost of bombing to the German people.
The B-17G "Dottie G" was the first B-17G to make an emergency landing in Switzerland. B-17 G-10-DL, Serial No. 42-37755, Nik Name: Dottie G, 8th Air Force, 92nd Bomb Group, 325th Squadron. During the attack on 25 February 1944 on the Dornier factory airfield at Oberpfaffenhofen, two engines and the hydraulics of the B-17G "Dottie G" were severely hit by a Messerschmitt Bf 110, whereupon the crew under pilot 2Lt Clifford P. Beach left the unit for Switzerland and made an emergency landing at Dübendorf at about 15.20 hours. This was not only the first landing of a "Flying Fortress" in 1944 in Switzerland, it was also the first time that a new B-17G fell into the hands of the Air Force, which naturally attracted the interest of the Technical Department at Dübendorf. Subsequently, the B-17G was scrapped in Switzerland.
