#pour one out for Alkire though

[clevervonskelli]

Update: Looking like it wasn't Alkire. Someone checked the credits and Lt. Col. Albert Clark & Lt. Col. Bill Aring are listed. Idk who the heck Aring is (unless the real dude's name was George and they're calling him Bill here) but I'm very happy to see Clark included and I think it might be him we saw, since he was head of the escape committee at Stalag Luft III. I didn't figure he'd be in the show bc I don't remember him being mentioned very much in Miller's book but I'm looking forward to hopefully seeing more of him.

I'm trying to focus on what I liked about Episode 7 and my brain is just looping a few things.

-Was that Colonel Alkire at the camp heading up compound staff? I missed if he was named, but if so, I'm quite pleased to see him.

-Frank Murphy getting a letter from his mom ❤️

-The way the show approached the Great Escape. They managed to keep the focus entirely on the tragedy and incredulousness of the situation, and on how it could directly impact the American prisoners in the other compounds. It felt very balanced and very Great Escape in the context of MotA, not Great Escape eclipsing the show.

- MUSTANGS!!!!! MotA is a bomber-centric show and B-17s are incredible in how they can be beat to hell and keep flying, but fighter planes will always be my first love when it comes to WWII.

-Von Lindeiner's removal from his position as commodant being mentioned. He's someone I find very interesting, plus it's nice to have that hint of how there was a whole world of politics going on when it came to the running of the camps and the tension between the Luftwaffe and the Gestapo.

- I loved all the fountain pen shots we got to see this ep when folks were writing.