Pilot, party boy and maverick, Major John C Egan \u2013 widely known as Bucky \u2013 was one of the de facto the leaders of the ‘Bloody Hundredth’ whose exploits in WW2 form the focus of Apple TV+ drama Masters of the Air <\/p>
WW2 drama Masters of the Air<\/a>,<\/em> the much-awaited successor to Band of Brothers<\/em> and The Pacific<\/em>, is the story of the American bomber boys of the \u2018Bloody Hundredth\u2019 who came to England in 1943 to fight Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n One of their most charismatic leaders \u2013 played in the show by Callum Turner, who recently starred in The Boys in the Boat<\/em><\/a> \u2013 was Major John C Egan, an expert pilot whose party-boy antics were tempered by a deep-held sense of responsibility to his fellow airmen.<\/p>\n But how does the real John Egan measure up to his counterpart in Masters of the Air<\/em>?<\/p>\n